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When politicians talk: assessing online conversational practices of political parties on Twitter
Konversationspraktiken politischer Parteien in Twitter
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Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
Abstract "Assessing political conversations in social media requires a deeper understanding of the underlying practices and styles that drive these conversations. In this paper, we present a computational approach for assessing online conversational practices of political parties. Following a deductive appro... view more
"Assessing political conversations in social media requires a deeper understanding of the underlying practices and styles that drive these conversations. In this paper, we present a computational approach for assessing online conversational practices of political parties. Following a deductive approach, we devise a number of quantitative measures from a discussion of theoretical constructs in sociological theory. The resulting measures make different - mostly qualitative - aspects of online conversational practices amenable to computation. We evaluate our computational approach by applying it in a case study. In particular, we study online conversational practices of German politicians on Twitter during the German federal election 2013. We find that political parties share some interesting patterns of behavior, but also exhibit some unique and interesting idiosyncrasies. Our work sheds light on (i) how complex cultural phenomena such as online conversational practices are amenable to quantification and (ii) the way social media such as Twitter are utilized by political parties." (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
party; network; election to the Bundestag; computer-mediated communication; political communication; utilization; ; Federal Republic of Germany; social media; twitter; communication behavior; politician; media
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Interactive, electronic Media
Sociology of Communication, Sociology of Language, Sociolinguistics
Free Keywords
conversational practice; culture; homophily; reproduction; punctuation
Collection Title
Proceedings of the 8th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media
Conference
8. International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-14). Ann Arbor, MI, 2014
Document language
English
Publication Year
2014
City
Palo Alto, CA
Page/Pages
p. 285-294
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications