AN INVESTIGATION OF INFLUENTIALS AND THE ROLE OF SENTIMENT IN POLITICAL COMMUNICATION ON TWITTER DURING ELECTION PERIODS
AN INVESTIGATION OF INFLUENTIALS AND THE ROLE OF SENTIMENT IN POLITICAL COMMUNICATION ON TWITTER DURING ELECTION PERIODS
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DOI：
10.1080/1369118x.2013.783608
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发表时间：
2013-06-01
影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Neuberger, Christoph
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作者：
Dang-Xuan, Linh;Stieglitz, Stefan;Neuberger, Christoph
在本文中，作者研究了在选举期间如何使用Twitter进行政治沟通，特别关注有影响力的账户的特征和沟通行为。我们的分析集中于2011年9月18日在柏林（德国）举行的州议会选举。对转发量最高的前30名用户的推文进行内容相关特征分析，如情绪、对政党或政治家的评价、话题等。此外，作者还测试了关于tweet中出现的情绪和评价及其传播数量和速度之间关系的假设。我们的工作有助于研究人员和政治家更好地理解政治传播中影响者的本质，以及情绪在Twitter上信息传播中的作用。
In this paper, the authors investigate how Twitter is used for political communication during election periods with a specific focus on characteristics and communication behavior of influential accounts. Our analysis focuses on the state parliament election in Berlin (Germany) on 18 September 2011. Tweets of the top-30 most retweeted users are analyzed with respect to content-related features such as emotionality, appraisal of political parties or politicians, and topics. Furthermore, the authors test hypotheses regarding the relationship between sentiment in terms of emotionality and appraisals occurring in tweets and their quantity and speed of dissemination. Our work helps both researchers and politicians to better understand the nature of influentials in political communication and the role of sentiment in information diffusion on Twitter.