Tweet for Democracy: Examining the Monitorial Citizen

Leung, Sook Yee; Corral, Raul; Smith, Gerald; Pink, Ryan; Roper, Gregory

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Title

Tweet for Democracy: Examining the Monitorial Citizen

Author(s)

• Leung, Sook Yee
• Corral, Raul
• Smith, Gerald
• Pink, Ryan
• Roper, Gregory

Issue Date

2014-03-01

Keyword(s)

• presidential election 2012
• political engagement
• Twitter
• sentiment analysis
• monitorial citizen

Abstract

In the 2012 US presidential election, there was concern about voter turnout. Since Obama for America's use of social media during 2008 Presidential elections, there has been growing speculation of social media becoming a medium for re-engaging citizens in politics. Hence, social media's role in political engagement and the nature of political engagement were examined via three analyses of Twitter data (i.e. network posting frequency, sentiment analysis, and social network analysis) and one survey study. The results showed that Twitter's impact on political engagement is simply about spreading awareness -- it still depends on whether open-minded, and politically and civically interested users see the politically relevant tweets.

Publisher

iSchools

Series/Report Name or Number

iConference 2014 Proceedings

Type of Resource

text

Language

english

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.9776/14407

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