Politicians & the public: The analysis of political communication in social media. Issue 1 (1st February 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Alperin, Juan Pablo; Dumas, Catherine; Karami, Amir; Moscrop, David; Singh, Vivek; Zamir, Hassan; Ilhan, Aylin; Dorsch, Isabelle
• Is Part Of: Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology. Volume 55:Issue 1(2018)
• Page Start: 646
• Page End: 649
• Publication Date: 2019-02-01
• Subjects: E‐petitioning -- opinion mining -- privacy challenges -- political elections -- social media; Information science -- Congresses; Information technology -- Congresses; Information science; Information technology; Conference papers and proceedings; 020
• DOI: 10.1002/pra2.2018.14505501071
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2373-9231

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Nowadays, social media has a pivotal role in political communication. Politicians, parties, and the public engage in social networks like Twitter or Facebook. This panel focuses on election campaigns and policy‐making process in social media. How do politicians use social media during elections? How can we identify the public opinion of voters through the application of text‐mining in social media? The US presidential election in 2016, possess big discussions and critics about the general social media usage in the context of election campaigns. Considering the case of Cambridge Analytica, information leakage, privacy issues, and trust also play an essential role as well. In respect of truthfulness, how can we encourage more robust and wide‐reaching sharing of trustworthy material, such as scholarly research? Besides politicians, the public comes more and more into the focus as a political stakeholder in social media. How does the public engage in policy‐making? Electronic‐petitioning serves as a medium to mobilize support and interest of the public. The panel provides the possibility for speaker and participants to exchange both, information as well as methodological approaches of political communication in social media.