New media for the new electorate? Congressional outreach to Latinos on Twitter

Gervais, Bryan T.; Wilson, Walter Clark

doi:10.1080/21565503.2017.1358186

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“…For instance, exposure to negative messaging may ultimately demobilize voters (Ansolabehere and Iyengar 1995; Fridkin and Kenney 2011; Krupnikov 2011). Attacks on social media can also negatively affect voters’ attitudes and behaviors toward members of Congress and the institution itself (Frimer and Skitka 2018, 2020; Gervais 2015; Gervais and Wilson 2017; Massaro and Stryker 2012; Mutz 2016; Capella and Jamieson 1997). Further, these dynamics may be exacerbated on Twitter even relative to other social media platforms.…”

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Dynamics of Polarizing Rhetoric in Congressional Tweets

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Dorsey³

et al. 2022

Legislative Studies Qtrly

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Dynamics of Polarizing Rhetoric in Congressional Tweetsaffective polarization is pervasive in modern us politics, and can be intensified by strategic messaging from members of Congress. But there are gaps in our knowledge of the dynamics of polarizing appeals from elected representatives on social media. We explore the usage of polarizing rhetoric by members of Congress on twitter using the 4.9 million tweets sent by members of Congress from 2009 to 2020, coded for the presence of polarizing rhetoric via a novel and highly accurate application of supervised machine learning methods. Fitting with our expectations, we find that more ideologically extreme members, those from safer districts, and those who are not in the president's party are more likely to send polarizing tweets, and that polarizing tweets garner more engagement, increasing campaign funding for more polarizing members.

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Section: Background and Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Dynamics of Polarizing Rhetoric in Congressional Tweets

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Dorsey³

et al. 2022

Legislative Studies Qtrly

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“…The latter seem particularly relevant for groups whose interests are more likely to be advocated through non-institutionalised forms of political action or whose descriptive representation in parliament is very low, such as those of young people and lower-educated groups. Our data set features several interesting examples of acting in the non-governmental sphere that can serve as inspiration for future research: Gwiazda (2019) studies protest activities as venues for feminist substantive representation in Central and Eastern Europe; Gervais and Wilson (2019) analyse substantive representation as expressed in the use of Twitter for Latino constituency outreach; Mendelberg, Karpowitz and Goedert (2014) examine the substantive representation of women in citizen deliberation; and Rocha and Wrinkle (2011) analyse SRSG on education policies across school boards.…”

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The substantive representation of social groups: towards a new comparative research agenda

Erzeel

Rashkova

2023

European Journal of Politics and Gender

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This article maps the field of substantive representation of social groups and carves out a new research agenda. Examining a database of 313 publications, we identify patterns in what is studied in the field and how it is studied. Our findings suggest that while scholarship on the substantive representation of social groups has expanded over the years, many studies still predominantly (1) analyse the representation of women in (2) the governmental sphere, while adopting a focus on (3) a single country, (4) a single group and (5) a single axis. Comparative work across countries and groups is more scarce. We therefore argue in favour of a comparative research agenda that prioritises more cross-country and cross-group research on the substantive representation of social groups using pluralistic research methods. This direction offers distinct advantages for answering new research questions, exploring diversity in how the substantive representation of social groups takes place, identifying broader patterns across different contexts and groups, and formulating new explanations on the occurrence and quality of the substantive representation of social groups.

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“…While sending disrespectful, uncivil messages may have negative effects for members of Congress (e.g., Theocharis et al, 2020Theocharis et al, , 2016Tromble, 2018;Gervais & Wilson, 2017), political incivility can also be used for strategic political advantage (Herbst, 2010). Uncivil communications are more memorable and generate both enthusiasm and greater engagement (Mutz, 2016;Sydnor, 2019).…”

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Incivility in Congressional Tweets

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American Politics Research

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Civility in political discourse is often thought to be necessary for deliberation and a healthy democracy. However, incivility is on the rise in political discourse in the United States—even from members of Congress—suggesting that political incivility may in fact be a tool to be used strategically. When and why, then, do members of Congress use incivility in their rhetoric? We develop and test expectations for the usage of political incivility by members of Congress on Twitter, using every tweet sent by a member of Congress from 2009–2020 coded for the presence of uncivil rhetoric via a novel application of transformer models for natural language processing. We find that more ideologically extreme members, those in safer electoral situations, and those who are in a position of political opposition are more likely to use incivility in their tweets, and that uncivil tweets increase engagement with members’ messages.

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New media for the new electorate? Congressional outreach to Latinos on Twitter

Cited by 11 publications

References 43 publications

Dynamics of Polarizing Rhetoric in Congressional Tweets

Dynamics of Polarizing Rhetoric in Congressional Tweets

The substantive representation of social groups: towards a new comparative research agenda

Incivility in Congressional Tweets

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