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Social networking sites (SNS), such as Facebook and Twitter, are important spaces for political engagement. SNS have become common elements in political participation, campaigns, and elections. However, little is known about the dynamics between candidate posts and commentator sentiment in response to those posts on SNS. This study enriches computational political science by studying the 2016 U.S...
The large amount of user generated data that Online Social Networks produce has remarkably drawn the attention for researchers on human behavior in the recent years. In this work, we use temporal series and complex network analysis to unveil the users' behavioral patterns during the Spanish presidential electoral campaigns in Twitter. We introduce a new measure to study political sentiment in Twitter,...
The role of issues in electoral preference formation has long been an established key factor and what voters consider the most important problem i.e. issue salience is essential for party choice. Political issues (and their salience to the electorate) also play an important role in parties' tactical campaign strategies. This study examines to what extent social media possibly can contribute in shaping...
Today, a considerable proportion of the public political discourse that proceeds nationwide elections is happening through Online Social Networks. Through analyzing this content, we can discover the major themes that prevailed during the discussion, investigate the temporal variation of positive and negative sentiment and examine the semantic proximity of these themes. According to existing studies,...
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