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

Conference paper | Konferenzbeitrag

"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 to quantification and (ii) the way social media such as Twitter are utilized by political parties." (author's abstract)

Object Details

• Alternative title: Konversationspraktiken politischer Parteien in Twitter
• Extent: Seite(n): 285-294
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; 8. International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-14). Ann Arbor, MI, 2014

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Proceedings of the 8th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media

Classification and Topics

• Subject: Politikwissenschaft ; Publizistische Medien, Journalismus,Verlagswesen ; Soziologie, Anthropologie ; Kommunikationssoziologie, Sprachsoziologie, Soziolinguistik ; interaktive, elektronische Medien ; politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur ; Bundesrepublik Deutschland ; computervermittelte Kommunikation ; Medien ; Twitter ; Soziale Medien ; Politikerin ; Partei ; Netzwerk ; politische Kommunikation ; Kommunikationsverhalten ; Nutzung ; Politiker ; Bundestagswahl

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Lietz, Haiko ; Wagner, Claudia ; Bleier, Arnim ; Strohmaier, Markus
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
• (where): Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Palo Alto, CA
• (when): 2014

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-388529
• Rights: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
• Last update: 21.06.2024, 4:27 PM CEST