Government Formation and Political Discussions in Twitter: An Extended Model for Quantifying Political Distances in Multiparty Democracies

Guerrero-Solé, Frederic; López-González, Hibai

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“…A final complementary approach to users’ interactive behavior was done by building the RONs. RON is a method that has been proven efficient to estimate political homophily and polarization in Twitter (Guerrero-Solé, 2017; Guerrero-Solé & López-González, 2017). RON draws on the measurement of the overlaps between the communities of retweeters of the most influential (retweeted) users in a network.…”

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Interactive Behavior in Political Discussions on Twitter: Politicians, Media, and Citizens’ Patterns of Interaction in the 2015 and 2016 Electoral Campaigns in Spain

Guerrero-Solé

2018

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Twitter has become a privileged data source for analyzing the behavior of users when interacting online. This research aims to explore the interactive behavior of users in political discussions and the changes in their behavior over time. Understanding the interactive functions of Twitter (retweeting, mentioning, and replying) as digital traces of users’ behavior, we analyze the patterns of interaction of politicians, media, and citizens in two political discussions in Spain during the 2015 and 2016 general elections. Our results confirm previous studies that prove the homophilic behavior of politicians and citizens in political discussions. The networks of interaction, in particular, the retweet network, resemble echo chambers. It also shows that media play the role of weak ties of the networks. The analysis also shows that the patterns of interaction remained stable after the repetition of the election, and only a meager part of the users participating in both discussions changed their behavior. This article aims to contribute to the use of Twitter as a source for understanding people’s interactions is political discussions in social media and their dynamics across time.

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Interactive Behavior in Political Discussions on Twitter: Politicians, Media, and Citizens’ Patterns of Interaction in the 2015 and 2016 Electoral Campaigns in Spain

Guerrero-Solé

2018

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“…On the one hand, when looking at news consumption, several articles showed that social media and search engines diversify people's news diets [64,[139][140][141][142]. On the other hand, when considering social networks and the impact of digital media on homophilic structures, the literature contains consistent reports of ideologically homogeneous social clusters [143][144][145][146][147]. This underscores an important point: Some seemingly paradoxical results can potentially be resolved by looking more closely at context and specific outcome measurement.…”

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A Systematic Review of Worldwide Causal and Correlational Evidence on Digital Media and Democracy

Lorenz-Spreen¹,

Oswald²,

Lewandowsky³

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One of today's most controversial and consequential questions is whether the rapid, worldwide uptake of digital media is causally related to a decline in democracy. We conducted a systematic review of causal and correlational evidence (N=498 articles) on the link between digital media and different political variables, such as trust, polarization or news consumption. We further focused on the subset of articles that employed causal inference methods. Across methods, the articles report associations between digital media use and most political variables. Some associations, such as increases in political participation and information consumption, are likely to be beneficial for democracy and were often observed in the Global South and emerging democracies. Other consistently reported associations, such as declining political trust, advantages for populists, and growing polarization, are likely to be detrimental to democracy and were more pronounced in established democracies. We conclude that while the impact of digital media on democracy depends on the specific political variable and the political system in question, several variables show clear directions of associations. We believe that the evidence calls for further research efforts and vigilance by governments and civil societies to better understand and actively design the intimate interplay of digital media and democracy.

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“…Para responder a la segunda pregunta de investigación, sobre las distancias ideológicas entre partidos en las elecciones de abril y noviembre de 2019 y las diferencias observadas entre estas distancias y las de las elecciones de 2015 y 2016, calculamos los valores de las intersecciones entre los principales partidos, agrupando las comunidades de retuiteadores de los miembros de cada partido. Esto permite aproximarse mejor a la distancia entre partidos, si asumimos que las intersecciones entre comunidades pueden ser un buen indicador de estas distancias (Guerrero-Solé & López-González, 2019). En las tablas 2 y 3 se muestran las intersecciones entre las comunidades de retuiteadores de los partidos para las elecciones del 28 de abril y de 10 de noviembre de 2019, respectivamente.…”

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“…Esta técnica es análoga a la de cocitación, y permite descubrir la estructura de comunidades, así como de algunos de los atributos latentes de los usuarios que participan en la discusión (Guerrero-Solé, 2018). Además de ser un método eficaz para la identificación de comunidades, también ha sido utilizado para calcular las distancias entre partidos políticos que se han relacionado con la distancia ideológica y con las preferencias de los votantes para formar pactos después de las elecciones (Guerrero-Solé et al, 2014;Guerrero-Solé, 2018;Guerrero-Solé & López-González, 2019). Para una explicación en detalle del método, que utiliza el coeficiente de Jaccard para el cálculo de distancias, veáse Guerrero-Solé y López-González (2019).…”

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El impacto de la ultraderecha en Twitter durante las elecciones españolas de 2019

Guerrero-Solé¹,

Manchón²,

Aira³

2022

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Las dos elecciones españolas de 2019, celebradas el 28 de abril (28A) y el 10 de noviembre (10N), estuvieron marcadas por la irrupción del partido Vox, populista de extrema derecha, que pasó de 23 a 52 diputados. El objetivo de esta investigación es analizar el impacto de su irrupción en la estructura de las comunidades (Smith et al., 2014) de las redes de debate político durante estas dos elecciones en Twitter. El estudio compara además las estructuras de las dos elecciones de 2019 con las de 2015 y 2016, así como las distancias políticas entre los principales partidos españoles. Las muestras analizadas se componen de más de 1,5 millones de tuits publicados durante las campañas electorales del 28A y el 10N. Aunque las investigaciones anteriores muestran que, en general, los patrones de interacción y las estructuras de las redes tienden a permanecer estables después de la repetición de unas elecciones, esta investigación muestra un cambio sustancial en la estructura de las redes de intersección de comunidades de retuiteadores RON (Guerrero-Solé, 2017) y en las distancias entre partidos. Específicamente, la investigación evidencia un incremento de la distancia entre los dos principales bloques políticos españoles –el formado por la triple derecha (PP, Cs y Vox) y el constituido por partidos de izquierda y nacionalistas– y (2) la ubicación de Vox en el centro del clúster de las opciones de derecha.

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Government Formation and Political Discussions in Twitter: An Extended Model for Quantifying Political Distances in Multiparty Democracies

Cited by 22 publications

References 83 publications

Interactive Behavior in Political Discussions on Twitter: Politicians, Media, and Citizens’ Patterns of Interaction in the 2015 and 2016 Electoral Campaigns in Spain

Interactive Behavior in Political Discussions on Twitter: Politicians, Media, and Citizens’ Patterns of Interaction in the 2015 and 2016 Electoral Campaigns in Spain

A Systematic Review of Worldwide Causal and Correlational Evidence on Digital Media and Democracy

El impacto de la ultraderecha en Twitter durante las elecciones españolas de 2019

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