Dynamic social media affiliations among UK politicians

Weaver, Iain S.; Williams, Hywel T. P.; Cioroianu, Iulia; Williams, Matthew; Coan, Travis; Banducci, Susan

doi:10.1016/j.socnet.2018.01.008

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“…For example, Twitter use has been shown to be effective at generating press reaction (Murthy, 2015), which may allow campaigns to gain local media coverage (Knoll, Matthes, & Heiss, 2020). There is also evidence that Twitter is useful in reaching political partisans (Bright, 2018; Weaver et al, 2018), who may then go on to influence their own friends and social connections (Barnidge, Ardèvol-Abreu, & Gil de Zúñiga, 2018; Borge Bravo & Esteve del Valle, 2017; Gil de Zúñiga, Barnidge, & Diehl, 2018; Weeks, Ardèvol-Abreu, & Gil de Zúñiga, 2017). Hence Twitter may be useful in activating networks of core supporters.…”

Section: Local Campaigning On Global Media: Theorizing the Relationshmentioning

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Does Campaigning on Social Media Make a Difference? Evidence From Candidate Use of Twitter During the 2015 and 2017 U.K. Elections

Bright

Hale

Ganesh

et al. 2019

Communication Research

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Social media are now a routine part of political campaigns all over the world. However, studies of the impact of campaigning on social platform have thus far been limited to cross-section datasets from one election period which are vulnerable to unobserved variable bias. Hence empirical evidence on the effectiveness of political social media activity is thin. We address this deficit by analysing a novel panel dataset of political Twitter activity in the 2015 and 2017 elections in the United Kingdom. We find that Twitter based campaigning does seem to help win votes, a finding which is consistent across a variety of different model specifications including a first difference regression. The impact of Twitter use is small in absolute terms, though comparable with that of campaign spending. Our data also support the idea that effects are mediated through other communication channels, hence challenging the relevance of engaging in an interactive fashion.

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Section: Local Campaigning On Global Media: Theorizing the Relationshmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does Campaigning on Social Media Make a Difference? Evidence From Candidate Use of Twitter During the 2015 and 2017 U.K. Elections

Bright

Hale

Ganesh

et al. 2019

Communication Research

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“…With the internet all relationships can be built in the community of business, politics, and also Romance (Weaver et al, 2018). It can be said that Internet development has a considerable impact on community interpersonal relationships.…”

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“…Social Media is a place to go for many people in establishing relationships such as business and romantic relationships (Ouytsel, Gool, Walrave, Ponnet, & Peeters, 2016). The experiment study conducted by (Weaver et al, 2018) listed its findings that the feeling of staying close to others becomes a determinant of the survival of community members in social networks.…”

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Together all the bad things will disappear, I find my partner: Phenomenology study of online dating

Afdilla

2021

ajcd

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The use of online dating applications has become a phenomenal social norm that is popular among the community of active social media users. Online dating activities are supported by the advancement of technology which resulted in an abundance of affordable smartphones, hence everybody can easily find and meet locals as well as foreigners, which eventually might establish a more serious relationship. This research aims to explore how an individual who is online dating addresses all the constraints and barriers the users experience and the motivation underlying the user in online dating to establish a relationship with the partner, which is certainly different from offline (classic) relationships. The research method used is a qualitative approach to the type of descriptive phenomenology. The number of subjects in this study was 8 people (3 men and 5 women), who had an online dating relationship with someone from abroad. The results showed that some couples chose to learn to understand the culture and their limitations in establishing the relationship. Besides, some subjects chose to learn the language of their partner and spending more time with their partner who had a regional time difference. The subjects had almost the same motivation in deciding to go for online dating. The fundamental thing that becomes a driver of an online dating relationship comes from the individual's owns’ desire to fulfill the needs of establishing a relationship with others to gain much-needed attention, love, care, and compassion.

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“…Since these data are dynamic networks, this approach can enhance our understanding of dynamic social processes. While much modelling work has been done [25–29], the next step is to bring these models to data such as that presented in this work [30–33].…”

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Underlying socio-political processes behind the 2016 US election

Bryden

Silverman

2019

PLoS ONE

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Recently we have witnessed a number of rapid shifts toward populism in the rhetoric and policies of major political parties, as exemplified in the 2016 Brexit Referendum, 2016 US Election, and 2017 UK General Election. Our perspective here is to focus on understanding the underlying societal processes behind these recent political shifts. We use novel methods to study social dynamics behind the 2016 Presidential election. This is done by using network science methods to identify key groups associated with the US right-wing during the election. We investigate how the groups grew on Twitter, and how their associated accounts changed their following behaviour over time. We find a new external faction of Trump supporters took a strong influence over the traditional Republican Party (GOP) base during the election campaign. The new group dominated the GOP group in terms of new members and endorsement via Twitter follows. Growth of new accounts for the GOP party all but collapsed during the campaign. While the Alt-right group was growing exponentially, it has remained relatively isolated. Counter to the mainstream view, we detected an unexpectedly low number of automated ‘bot’ accounts and accounts associated with foreign intervention in the Trump-supporting group. Our work demonstrates a powerful method for tracking the evolution of societal groups and reveals complex social processes behind political changes.

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Dynamic social media affiliations among UK politicians

Cited by 31 publications

References 29 publications

Does Campaigning on Social Media Make a Difference? Evidence From Candidate Use of Twitter During the 2015 and 2017 U.K. Elections

Does Campaigning on Social Media Make a Difference? Evidence From Candidate Use of Twitter During the 2015 and 2017 U.K. Elections

Together all the bad things will disappear, I find my partner: Phenomenology study of online dating

Underlying socio-political processes behind the 2016 US election

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