Abstract
We present preliminary results from analysis of what topics presidential candidates tweeted about and the public’s response to those tweets in the form of retweets. Using exploratory data analysis and simple correlations to explore the 4,754 tweets posted by U.S. presidential candidates over the last 3 months of the 2016 Election, we find a mismatch between the topics that candidates tweet about the most and the topics that the public retweets the most. We discuss the possible reasons for the mismatch and outline future work that will include a similar analysis with Facebook data and a breakdown by party.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Media and Society, SMSociety 2018 |
Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
Pages | 305-309 |
Number of pages | 5 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781450363341 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jul 18 2018 |
Event | 9th International Conference on Social Media and Society, SMSociety 2018 - Copenhagen, Denmark Duration: Jul 18 2018 → Jul 20 2018 |
Other
Other | 9th International Conference on Social Media and Society, SMSociety 2018 |
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Country/Territory | Denmark |
City | Copenhagen |
Period | 7/18/18 → 7/20/18 |
Keywords
- Elections
- Political Issues
- Social Media
- Virality
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Computer Networks and Communications
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
- Software