Twits, Twats and Twaddle: Trends in Online Abuse towards UK Politicians
Twits, Twats and Twaddle: Trends in Online Abuse towards UK Politicians
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傻话、傻话和废话：针对英国政客的在线辱骂趋势
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2018
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Kalina Bontcheva
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G. Gorrell;M. Greenwood;Ian Roberts;D. Maynard;Kalina Bontcheva
关于社交媒体如何影响政治结果的担忧已成为主流。造成这种情况的一个轨迹是政客们遭受网络虐待。在本文中，我们使用 2015 年和 2017 年英国大选前几个月的 140 万条推文来探讨针对政客的滥用行为。结果显示，与 2015 年相比，2017 年的辱骂行为大幅增加。辱骂推文与收到的推文总数有很强的相关性，这表明大部分内容是非个性化的，但第二条途径针对的是不太知名的个人，表明存在不同类型的辱骂行为。发送辱骂信息的帐户更有可能被丢弃。经济和移民是 2015 年滥用推文的主要焦点，而恐怖主义则在 2017 年成为焦点。
Concerns have reached the mainstream about how social media are affecting political outcomes. One trajectory for this is the exposure of politicians to online abuse. In this paper we use 1.4 million tweets from the months before the 2015 and 2017 UK general elections to explore the abuse directed at politicians. Results show that abuse increased substantially in 2017 compared with 2015. Abusive tweets show a strong relationship with total tweets received, indicating for the most part impersonality, but a second pathway targets less prominent individuals, suggesting different kinds of abuse. Accounts that send abuse are more likely to be throwaway. Economy and immigration were major foci of abusive tweets in 2015, whereas terrorism came to the fore in 2017.