University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Looking @ position: examining the location of Twitter handles in a political event

Mascaro, Christopher; McDonald, Nora; Black, Alan; Goggins, Sean P.

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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/42072

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Title
Looking @ position: examining the location of Twitter handles in a political event
Author(s)
  • Mascaro, Christopher
  • McDonald, Nora
  • Black, Alan
  • Goggins, Sean P.
Issue Date
2013-02
Keyword(s)
  • twitter
  • political discourse
  • social media
  • social computing
  • quantitative data analysis
Abstract
In the following poster we examine how differences in location of @--‐mentions constitute both differences in meaning and social signaling in the context of the 2012 United States Presidential election. Through our analysis we establish that the Twitter handles of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have distinctly different positions in tweets where they are mentioned. We expand on this finding by exploring how these positions change over time and how different syntactical features affect this position.
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iSchools
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/42072
DOI
https://doi.org/10.9776/13414
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Copyright © 2013 is held by the authors. Copyright permissions, when appropriate, must be obtained directly from the authors.

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