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Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-03-2017
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 22-12-2015
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 13-08-2012
Publisher: ACM
Date: 22-05-2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 20-12-2022
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 31-01-2013
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-10-2019
Publisher: University of Illinois Libraries
Date: 23-03-2014
Abstract: The analysis of content and meta–data has long been the subject of most Twitter studies, however such research only tells part of the story of the development of Twitter as a platform. In this work, we introduce a methodology to determine the growth patterns of in idual users of the platform, a technique we refer to as follower accession, and through a number of case studies consider the factors which lead to follower growth, and the identification of non–authentic followers. Finally, we consider what such an approach tells us about the history of the platform itself, and the way in which changes to the new user signup process have impacted upon users..
Publisher: University of Illinois Libraries
Date: 03-10-2013
Abstract: The promise of ‘big data’ has generated a significant deal of interest in the development of new approaches to research in the humanities and social sciences, as well as a range of important critical interventions which warn of an unquestioned rush to ‘big data’. Drawing on the experiences made in developing innovative ‘big data’ approaches to social media research, this paper examines some of the repercussions for the scholarly research and publication practices of those researchers who do pursue the path of ‘big data’–centric investigation in their work. As researchers import the tools and methods of highly quantitative, statistical analysis from the ‘hard’ sciences into computational, digital humanities research, must they also subscribe to the language and assumptions underlying such ‘scientificity’? If so, how does this affect the choices made in gathering, processing, analysing, and disseminating the outcomes of digital humanities research? In particular, is there a need to rethink the forms and formats of publishing scholarly work in order to enable the rigorous scrutiny and replicability of research outcomes?
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 16-04-2014
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2014
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Date: 2016
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-2012
DOI: 10.1177/1329878X1214300111
Abstract: Even early on, political blogging in Australia was not an entirely alternative endeavour – the blogosphere has seen early and continued involvement from representatives of the mainstream media. However, the acceptance of the blogging concept by the mainstream media has been accompanied by a comparative lack of acceptance of in idual bloggers. Analyses and commentary published by bloggers have been attacked by journalists, creating an at times antagonistic relationship. In this article, we examine the historical development of blogging in Australia, focusing primarily on political and news blogs. We track the evolution of in idual and group blogs, and independent and mainstream media-hosted opinion sites, and the gradual convergence of these platforms and their associated contributing authors. We conclude by examining the current state of the Australian blogosphere and its likely future development, taking into account the rise of social media, particularly Twitter, as additional spaces for public commentary.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 26-02-2013
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-04-2018
Abstract: Against a backdrop of substantial and persistent disruption in Australian federal politics, this article examines the uses of Twitter in c aigning in the 2013 and 2016 federal elections. We comprehensively tracked the tweets posted by, and directed at, all candidates during the final 2 weeks of these c aigns, and compare patterns in candidate and audience activity across the two elections. This documents considerable shifts in c aigning strategies, electorate responses, and central themes of the debate from 2013 to 2016 we show that these shifts are in line with the changing electoral fortunes of Australia’s major party blocs during an exceptionally tumultuous period in federal politics.
Publisher: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
Date: 2009
Publisher: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
Date: 08-09-2015
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date: 2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2012
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-2023
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 22-09-2016
DOI: 10.1111/DISA.12218
Abstract: A lack of trust in the information exchanged via social media may significantly hinder decisionmaking by community members and emergency services during disasters. The need for timely information at such times, though, challenges traditional ways of establishing trust. This paper, building on a multi-year research project that combined social media data analysis and participant observation within an emergency management organisation and in-depth engagement with stakeholders across the sector, pinpoints and examines assumptions governing trust and trusting relationships in social media disaster management. It assesses three models for using social media in disaster management-information gathering, quasi-journalistic verification, and crowdsourcing-in relation to the guardianship of trust to highlight the verification process for content and source and to identify the role of power and responsibilities. The conclusions contain important implications for emergency management organisations seeking to enhance their mechanisms for incorporating user-generated information from social media sources in their disaster response efforts.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-2017
Abstract: Twitter is now a key platform for public communication between a erse range of participants, but the overall shape of the communication network it provides remains largely unknown. This article provides a detailed overview of the network structure of the Australian Twittersphere and identifies the thematic drivers of the key clusters within the network. We identify some 3.72 million Australian Twitter accounts and map the follower/followee connections between the 255,000 most connected accounts we utilize community detection algorithms to identify the major clusters within this network and examine their account populations to identify their constitutive themes we examine account creation dates and reconstruct a timeline for the Twitter adoption process among different communities and we examine lifetime and recent tweeting patterns to determine the historically and currently most active clusters in the network. In combination, this offers the first rigorous and comprehensive study of the network structure of an entire national Twittersphere.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 13-10-2020
Abstract: The proliferation of data journalism has enabled newsrooms to deploy technologies for both mundane and more sophisticated workplace tasks. To bypass long-term investment in developing data skills, out-of-the-box software solutions are commonly used. Newsrooms today are partially dependent on third-party platforms to build interactive and visual stories – but the business models of platforms are predisposed to changes, frequently inducing losses of stories. This article combines in-depth interviews and an ancillary survey to study the status quo and identify future challenges in embracing out-of-the-box and in-house tools, and their impact on Australian data journalism. Results indicate a dichotomy between commercial and public service media organisations. Commercial outlets are heavily reliant on out-of-the-box solutions to develop stories, due to a lack of skillsets and a shortage of skilled labour. By contrast, public service media are developing their own in-house solutions, which reflects their desire for the continuous digital preservation of data stories despite the challenges identified.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2014
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 21-09-2011
Abstract: This article reports on a research program that has developed new methodologies for mapping the Australian blogosphere and tracking how information is disseminated across it. The authors improve on conventional web crawling methodologies in a number of significant ways: First, the authors track blogging activity as it occurs, by scraping new blog posts when such posts are announced through Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds. Second, the authors use custom-made tools that distinguish between the different types of content and thus allow us to analyze only the salient discursive content provided by bloggers. Finally, the authors are able to examine these better quality data using both link network mapping and textual analysis tools, to produce both cumulative longer term maps of interlinkages and themes, and specific shorter term snapshots of current activity that indicate current clusters of heavy interlinkage and highlight their key themes. In this article, the authors discuss findings from a yearlong observation of the Australian political blogosphere, suggesting that Australian political bloggers consistently address current affairs, but interpret them differently from mainstream news outlets. The article also discusses the next stage of the project, which extends this approach to an examination of other social networks used by Australians, including Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr. This adaptation of our methodology moves away from narrow models of political communication, and toward an investigation of everyday and popular communication, providing a more inclusive and detailed picture of the Australian networked public sphere.
Publisher: Cogitatio
Date: 21-03-2019
Abstract: Social media use is now commonplace across journalism, in spite of lingering unease about the impact the networked, real-time logic of leading social media platforms may have on the quality of journalistic coverage. As a result, distinct journalistic voices are forced to compete more directly with experts, commentators, sources, and other stakeholders within the same space. Such shifting power relations may be observed also in the interactions between political journalists and their audiences on major social media platforms. This article therefore pursues a cross-national comparison of interactions between political journalists and their audiences on Twitter in Germany and Australia, documenting how the differences in the status of Twitter in each country’s media environment manifest in activities and network interactions. In each country, we observed Twitter interactions around the national parliamentary press corps (the Bundespressekonferenz and the Federal Press Gallery), gathering all public tweets by and directed at the journalists’ accounts during 2017. We examine overall activity and engagement patterns and highlight significant differences between the two national groups and we conduct further network analysis to examine the prevalent connections and engagement between press corps journalists themselves, and between journalists, their audiences, and other interlocutors on Twitter. New structures of information flows, of influence, and thus ultimately of power relations become evident in this analysis.
Publisher: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
Date: 2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-04-2021
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 26-06-2022
Abstract: Social media in general, and Facebook in particular, have been clearly identified as important platforms for the dissemination of mis- and disinformation and related problematic content. However, the patterns and processes of such dissemination are still not sufficiently understood. This is in part because existing studies often focus only on the dissemination of such content in the context of major events (national elections, the COVID-19 pandemic, etc.) or restrict their attention to content that has been explicitly identified as incorrect. Vosoughi et al.’s influential study (2018) on “the spread of true and false news online”, for instance, defines ‘false news’ narrowly as news that had been debunked by one of six independent fact-checking organisations. This produces valuable results, but its observations cannot easily be generalised, for ex le, to hyperpartisan news that is not explicitly false, but instead presents facts selectively and out of context, or to biased news commentary that makes its claims without providing a factual basis and is therefore more difficult to debunk effectively. There is a pressing need, therefore, to further extend our analysis of the dynamics of news dissemination on social media platforms by considering a broader range of problematic news, and by developing a more longitudinal perspective that covers periods of heightened attention as well as everyday posting and sharing activities outside of such periods. This paper presents a progress report on a major research project that pursues these aims
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2007
Publisher: Atlantis Press
Date: 2013
Publisher: IGI Global
Date: 2010
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-933-0.CH020
Abstract: Citizen engagement and e-government initiatives in Australia remain somewhat underdeveloped, not least for a number of fundamental structural reasons. Fledgling initiatives can be ided into a number of broad categories, including top-down government consultation through blogs and similar experimental online sites operated by government departments bottom-up NGO-driven watchdog initiatives such as GetUp!’s Project Democracy site, modelled on projects established in the UK and a variety of more or less successful attempts by politicians (and their media handlers) to utilise social networking tools to connect with constituents while bypassing the mainstream media. This chapter explores these initiatives, and discusses the varying levels of success which they have found to date.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 29-05-2015
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 20-12-2020
Abstract: In this article, we examine two interrelated hashtag c aigns that formed in response to the Victorian State Government’s handling of Australia’s most significant COVID-19 second wave of mid-to-late 2020. Through a mixed-methods approach that includes descriptive statistical analysis, qualitative content analysis, network analysis, computational sentiment analysis and social bot detection, we reveal how a small number of hyper-partisan pro- and anti-government c aigners were able to mobilise ad hoc communities on Twitter, and – in the case of the anti-government hashtag c aign – co-opt journalists and politicians through a multi-step flow process to lify their message. Our comprehensive analysis of Twitter data from these c aigns offers insights into the evolution of political hashtag c aigns, how actors involved in these specific c aigns were able to exploit specific dynamics of Twitter and the broader media and political establishment to progress their hyper-partisan agendas, and the utility of mixed-method approaches in helping render the dynamics of such c aigns visible.
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Date: 2009
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 2021
Abstract: Twitter continuously tightens the access to its data via the publicly accessible, cost-free standard APIs. This especially applies to the follow network. In light of this, we successfully modified a network s ling method to work efficiently with the Twitter standard API in order to retrieve the most central and influential accounts of a language-based Twitter follow network: the German Twittersphere. We provide evidence that the method is able to approximate a set of the top 1% to 10% of influential accounts in the German Twittersphere in terms of activity, follower numbers, coverage, and reach. Furthermore, we demonstrate the usefulness of these data by presenting the first overview of topical communities within the German Twittersphere and their network structure. The presented data mining method opens up further avenues of enquiry, such as the collection and comparison of language-based Twitterspheres other than the German one, its further development for the collection of follow networks around certain topics or accounts of interest, and its application to other online social networks and platforms in conjunction with concepts such as agenda setting and opinion leadership.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2003
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 15-02-2014
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-2008
DOI: 10.1177/1329878X0812600110
Abstract: The rise of user-led content creation and distribution, or produsage, is by now well recognised. User-produced content is providing a well-needed corrective to industrial journalism user-produced creative work has become a regular component of the standard media diet for many users and user-led distribution of content through file-sharing networks is now an important means of accessing content, and is cautiously being explored as a means of distribution by mainstream media producers. Such phenomena are beginning to affect the television industry. On the one hand, the user-led distribution of television programming now enables producers to bypass traditional distribution channels altogether on the other, traditional television channels are already anticipating such moves through an increase in live content and event television. There is also a contrary movement of user-produced material further into the mainstream of the mediasphere. This article outlines a number of the operational models now available to players in the television industry: enlisting file-sharers in the direct distribution of TV shows to audiences moving further towards a focus on live event television and embracing user creativity in pursuit of produsage-based television models. It examines these options against a context of continuing convergence and change in the content industries.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 16-10-2008
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 27-12-2013
Publisher: University of Illinois Libraries
Date: 07-12-2009
Abstract: This paper investigates self-Googling through the monitoring of search engine activities of users and adds to the few quantitative studies on this topic already in existence. We explore this phenomenon by answering the following questions: To what extent is the self-Googling visible in the usage of search engines is any significant difference measurable between queries related to self-Googling and generic search queries to what extent do self-Googling search requests match the selected personalised Web pages? To address these questions we explore the theory of narcissism in order to help define self-Googling and present the results from a 14-month online experiment using Google search engine usage data.
Publisher: ACM
Date: 21-10-2007
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-2012
DOI: 10.1177/1329878X1214400114
Abstract: Twitter has developed an increasingly visible presence in Australian journalism, and in the discussion of news. This article examines the positioning of journalists as ‘personal brands’ on Twitter by documenting the visibility of leading personal and institutional accounts during two major political events in Australia: the Rudd/Gillard leadership spill on 23 June 2010, and the day of the subsequent federal election on 21 August 2010. It highlights the fact that in third-party networks such as Twitter, journalists and news organisations no longer operate solely on their own terms, as they do on their own websites, but gain and maintain prominence in the network and reach for their messages only in concert with other users. It places these observations in a wider context of journalist–audience relations a decade after the emergence of the first citizen journalism websites.
Publisher: No publisher found
Date: 2013
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 23-10-2016
Publisher: University of Illinois Libraries
Date: 07-05-2007
Abstract: This paper explores methodologies for using the IssueCrawler research tool to map the interconnections of in idual blogs in sections of the blogosphere. It uses the case of Australian–born Guantanamo detainee David Hicks as a case study, mapping the distributed discussions of this case in that part of the Australian blogosphere which is concerned with debating news and politics. Its findings indicate the presence of a strong and sustained engagement with this case by Australian political bloggers, and point to a tendency for discussions to cluster around a handful of sites which are defined by their political orientation. The network maps also suggest a lack of sustained coverage of the case by bloggers outside of Australia, and indicate only limited engagement between bloggers and the mainstream media.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-2011
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-2015
Abstract: All media are social—they are after all media, in between, intermediating between producers and consumers of content, information, conversation, between the actors in the media and the audiences who read, listen, and watch. And the sociality of the media does not stop there: the processes of media production are social processes just as much as the activities of media audiencing. So strictly speaking, all media are social media. But only a particular subset of all media are fundamentally defined by their sociality, and thus distinguished from the mainstream media of print, radio, and television. It is the actual uses which are made of any medium which determine whether it is indeed a social medium—so let us investigate their roles in and interplay with the societies in which they operate.
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 19-05-2014
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-2014
DOI: 10.1177/1329878X1415200103
Abstract: This article uses the ex le of the mediatisation of Season 2 of the Australian documentary-cum-reality TV series Go Back to Where You Came From, and the associated #GoBackSBS Twitter feed, to investigate how public opinions are shaped, reshaped and expressed in new hybrid media ecologies. We explore how social media tools like Twitter can support the efforts of a TV production provide spaces through which the public can engage ad hoc with a public event, be informed, shape their opinions and share them with others and thus open up new possibilities for public discourse to occur. We suggest that new online public sphericules are emerging that provide spaces within which publics can engage with the cultural social and political realities with which they are confronted. In this way, we highlight the importance of mundane communication to the shaping and constant reshaping of public opinion.
Publisher: University of Oslo Library
Date: 28-02-2014
DOI: 10.5617/JMI.V1I1.827
Abstract: As the Journal of Media Innovations comes into existence, this article reflects on the first and most obvious question: just what do we mean by “media innovations”? Drawing on the ex les of a range of recent innovations in media technologies and practices, initiated by a variety of media audiences, users, professionals, and providers, it explores the interplay between the different drivers of innovation and the effects of such innovation on the complex frameworks of contemporary society and the media ecology which supports it. In doing so, this article makes a number of key observations: first, it notes that media innovation is an innovation in media practices at least as much as in media technologies, and that changes to the practices of media both reflect and promote societal changes as well – media innovations are never just media technology innovations. Second, it shows that the continuing mediatisation of society, and the shift towards a more widespread participation of ordinary users as active content creators and media innovators, make it all the more important to investigate in detail these interlinked, incremental, everyday processes of media and societal change – media innovations are almost always also user innovations. Finally, it suggests that a full understanding of these processes as they unfold across erse interleaved media spaces and complex societal structures necessarily requires a holistic perspective on media innovations, which considers the contemporary media ecology as a crucial constitutive element of societal structures and seeks to trace the repercussions of innovations across both media and society – media innovations are inextricably interlinked with societal innovations (even if, at times, they may not be considered to be improvements to the status quo).
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2014
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 15-05-2015
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Date: 30-09-2014
Abstract: Scholarly research into the uses of social media has become a major area of growth in recent years, as the adoption of social media for public communication itself has continued apace. While social media platforms provide ready avenues for data access through their Application Programming interfaces, it is increasingly important to think through exactly what these data represent, and what conclusions about the role of social media in society the research which is based on such data therefore enables. This article explores these issues especially for one of the currently leading social media platforms: Twitter .
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-2010
DOI: 10.1177/1329878X1013600108
Abstract: The intersection of current arguments about the role of creative industries in economic development, online user-generated content and the uptake of broadband in economically disadvantaged communities, provides the content for this article. From 2006 to 2008, the authors carried out a research project in Ipswich, Queensland involving local creative practitioners and community groups in their development of edgeX, a web-based platform for content uploads and social networking. The project aimed to explore issues of local identity and community-building through online networking, as well as the possibilities for creating pathways from amateur to professional practice in the creative industries through the auspices of the website. Against a rapidly changing technological environment with problematic implications for research projects aiming to build new online platforms, we present several case studies from the project to illustrate the challenges to participation experienced by people with limited access to, and literacy with, the internet.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2013
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-08-2020
Abstract: Focussing in detail on one key component of the infodemic surrounding COVID-19, this article traces the dissemination dynamics of rumours that the pandemic outbreak was somehow related to the rollout of 5G mobile telephony technology in Wuhan and around the world. Drawing on a mixture of quantitative and qualitative methods including time-series analysis, network analysis and in-depth close reading, our analysis shows the dissemination of the rumour on Facebook from its obscure origins in pre-existing conspiracist groups through greater uptake in more erse communities to substantial lification by celebrities, sports stars and media outlets. The in-depth tracing of COVID-related mis- and disinformation across social networks offers important new insights into the dynamics of online information dissemination and points to opportunities to slow and stop the spread of false information, or at least to combat it more directly with accurate counterinformation.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2012
Publisher: Peter Lang
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2013
Publisher: Peter Lang US
Date: 23-09-2015
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2019
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 07-05-2013
Publisher: University of Illinois Libraries
Date: 26-03-2012
Abstract: During the course of several natural disasters in recent years, Twitter has been found to play an important role as an additional medium for many-to-many crisis communication. Emergency services are successfully using Twitter to inform the public about current developments, and are increasingly also attempting to source first-hand situational information from Twitter feeds (such as relevant hashtags). The further study of the uses of Twitter during natural disasters relies on the development of flexible and reliable research infrastructure for tracking and analysing Twitter feeds at scale and in close to real time, however. This article outlines two approaches to the development of such infrastructure: one which builds on the readily available open source platform yourTwapperkeeper to provide a low-cost, simple, and basic solution and one which establishes a more powerful and flexible framework by drawing on highly scaleable, state-of-the-art technology.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-2012
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 23-10-2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2013
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 15-02-2014
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 23-10-2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-2012
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Ltd.
Date: 2014
Publisher: SensePublishers
Date: 2011
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 31-01-2013
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2012
Publisher: OLDENBOURG WISSENSCHAFTSVERLAG
Date: 2013
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2016
Publisher: Springer Vienna
Date: 2010
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 14-12-2010
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 17-06-2013
Abstract: Although popular media narratives about the role of social media in driving the events of the 2011 “Arab Spring” are likely to overstate the impact of Facebook and Twitter on these uprisings, it is nonetheless true that protests and unrest in countries from Tunisia to Syria generated a substantial amount of social media activity. On Twitter alone, several millions of tweets containing the hashtags #libya or #egypt were generated during 2011, both by directly affected citizens of these countries and by onlookers from further afield. What remains unclear, though, is the extent to which there was any direct interaction between these two groups (especially considering potential language barriers between them). Building on hashtag data sets gathered between January and November 2011, this article compares patterns of Twitter usage during the popular revolution in Egypt and the civil war in Libya. Using custom-made tools for processing “big data,” we examine the volume of tweets sent by English-, Arabic-, and mixed-language Twitter users over time and examine the networks of interaction (variously through @replying, retweeting, or both) between these groups as they developed and shifted over the course of these uprisings. Examining @reply and retweet traffic, we identify general patterns of information flow between the English- and Arabic-speaking sides of the Twittersphere and highlight the roles played by users bridging both language spheres.
Publisher: ACM
Date: 16-10-2005
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-2013
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-2015
DOI: 10.1177/1329878X1515500113
Abstract: This article analyses and compares Twitter activity for the niche sport of netball over the 2013 trans-Tasman ANZ Ch ionship competition and the international Commonwealth Games event in 2014. Patterns within the Twitter data that were discovered through an analysis of the 2013 ANZ Ch ionship season are considered in terms of the Commonwealth Games, and thus compared between a quasi-domestic and an international context. In particular, we highlight the extent to which niche sports such as netball attempt to capitalise on the opportunities provided by social media, and the challenges involved in coordinating event-specific hashtags, such as the #netball2014 hashtag promoted by the Commonwealth Games Federation.
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Date: 08-09-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 15-09-2022
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-2021
DOI: 10.1177/20563051211063462
Abstract: This special issue of Social Media + Society develops a cross-national, longitudinal perspective on the use of social media in election c aigns. Australia, where leading social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter were adopted early and widely by the general population, and where federal election cycles are unusually short (often less than 3 years), provides a particularly suitable environment for observing the evolution of social media c aigning approaches. This article extends our analysis of previous federal election c aigns in Australia by examining Twitter c aigning in the 2019 election to allow for a direct comparison with previous c aigns, it builds on a methodological and analytical framework that we have used since the 2013 election.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 19-05-2014
DOI: 10.1108/AJIM-09-2013-0086
Abstract: – The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyse relationships and communication between Twitter actors in Swedish political conversations. More specifically, the paper aims to identify the most prominent actors, among these actors identify the sub-groups of actors with similar political affiliations, and describe and analyse the relationships and communication between these sub-groups. – Data were collected during four weeks in September 2012, using Twitter API. The material included 77,436 tweets from 10,294 Twitter actors containing the hashtag #svpol. In total, 916 prominent actors were identified and categorised according to the main political blocks, using information from their profiles. Social network analysis was utilised to map the relationships and the communication between these actors. – There was a marked dominance of the three main political blocks among the 916 most prominent actors: left block, centre-right block, and right-wing block. The results from the social network analysis suggest that while polarisation exists in both followership and re-tweet networks, actors follow and re-tweet actors from other groups. The mention network did not show any signs of polarisation. The blocks differed from each other with the right-wingers being tighter and far more active, but also more distant from the others in the followership network. – While a few papers have studied political polarisation on Twitter, this is the first to study the phenomenon using followership data, mention data, and re-tweet data.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 26-09-2016
Abstract: Past years have seen continuing experimentation in the use of social media for political c aigning. By the time of the 2013 Australian federal election, social media of various forms had become comparatively mainstream in Australia and were widely used by members and candidates: more than 350 candidates operated Twitter accounts during the c aign, for instance. This article explores the key patterns both in how politicians and their parties c aigned on Twitter during the 2013 federal election c aign and in how the public responded to and engaged with these c aigns. It documents significant, systematic differences between the major party blocs and interprets these as reflecting the Coalition’s ‘small target’ strategy and Labor’s last-ditch attempts to ‘save the furniture’, respectively.
Publisher: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
Date: 2010
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