Divided They Tweet: The Network Structure of Political Microbloggers and Discussion Topics
Divided They Tweet: The Network Structure of Political Microbloggers and Discussion Topics
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他们的推文分裂：政治微博的网络结构和讨论主题
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2011
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I. Welpe
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Albert Feller;M. Kuhnert;T. Sprenger;I. Welpe
在全国大选的背景下，本研究研究了超过69000条包含政党提及的Twitter消息和大约2500个相关用户档案，以调查政治微博博主的网络结构，首先，他们的政党偏好，其次，他们讨论的话题。我们发现，政治微博用户倾向于追随志同道合的人。在一个有凝聚力的群体中，微博用户往往有相同的政治偏好。此外，我们对Twitter上的政治辩论进行了内容分析，以探讨讨论了哪些话题和政治家，以及这场辩论是否反映了参与用户之间的意识形态分歧。虽然有一些讨论话题是由政治志同道合的微博主主导的，但大多数话题是由具有不同政治偏好的微博主组成的多元化群体讨论的。
In the context of a national election, this study explores more than 69,000 Twitter messages containing mentions of political parties and about 2,500 related user profiles to investigate the network structure of political microbloggers with respect to, first, their party preference and, second, the topics they discuss. We find that political microbloggers tend to follow like-minded peers. Microbloggers in a cohesive group tend to have the same political preferences. In addition, we conduct a content analysis of the political debate on Twitter to explore which topics and politicians are discussed and whether this debate reflects an ideological divide among participating users. While there are some discussion topics that are dominated by politically like-minded microbloggers, the majority of topics is discussed by a diverse group of microbloggers with various political preferences.