When politicians talk: assessing online conversational practices of political parties on Twitter

Abstract: "Assessing political conversations in social media requires a deeper understanding of the underlying practices and styles that drive these conversations. In this paper, we present a computational approach for assessing online conversational practices of political parties. Following a deductive approach, we devise a number of quantitative measures from a discussion of theoretical constructs in sociological theory. The resulting measures make different - mostly qualitative - aspects of online conversational practices amenable to computation. We evaluate our computational approach by applying it in a case study. In particular, we study online conversational practices of German politicians on Twitter during the German federal election 2013. We find that political parties share some interesting patterns of behavior, but also exhibit some unique and interesting idiosyncrasies. Our work sheds light on (i) how complex cultural phenomena such as online conversational practices are amenable

Object Details

• Alternative title: Konversationspraktiken politischer Parteien in Twitter
• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource, 285-294 S.
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; In: Proceedings of the Eighth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media. 2014. S. 285-294

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Politik

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Palo Alto, CA
• (when): 2014
• Creator: Lietz, Haiko ; Wagner, Claudia ; Bleier, Arnim ; Strohmaier, Markus
• Contributor: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-388529
• Rights: Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Last update: 14.08.2025, 11:00 AM CEST