Characterizing Political Talk on Twitter: A Comparison Between Public Agenda, Media Agendas, and the Twitter Agenda with Regard to Topics and Dynamics

dc.contributor.authorPosegga, Oliver
dc.contributor.authorJungherr, Andreas
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-03T00:05:58Z
dc.date.available2019-01-03T00:05:58Z
dc.date.issued2019-01-08
dc.description.abstractSocial media platforms, especially Twitter, have become a ubiquitous element in political campaigns. Although politicians, journalists, and the public increasingly take to the service, we know little about the determinants and dynamics of political talk on Twitter. We examine Twitter’s issue agenda based on popular hashtags used in messages referring to politics. We compare this Twitter agenda with the public agenda measured by a representative survey and the agendas of newspapers and television news programs captured by content analysis. We show that the Twitter agenda had little, if any, relationship with the public agenda. Political talk on Twitter was somewhat stronger connected with mass media coverage, albeit following channel-specific patterns most likely determined by the attention, interests, and motivations of Twitter users.
dc.format.extent10 pages
dc.identifier.doi10.24251/HICSS.2019.312
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-9981331-2-6
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/59697
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectMediated Conversation
dc.subjectDigital and Social Media
dc.subjectagendas
dc.subjectdigital trace
dc.subjectdata mediated communication
dc.subjectsocial media
dc.subjecttwitter
dc.titleCharacterizing Political Talk on Twitter: A Comparison Between Public Agenda, Media Agendas, and the Twitter Agenda with Regard to Topics and Dynamics
dc.typeConference Paper
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