Twitter has become a pervasive tool in election campaigns. Candidates, parties, journalists,
and a steadily increasing share of the public are using Twitter to comment on, interact …

Abstract [Update: An updated version of this working papers has been published in 2016 by
Journal of Information Technology & Politics under the title" Twitter use in election …

New communication technologies have reshaped media and politics. But who are the new
power players? The Hybrid Media System is a sweeping new theory of how political …

From selfies and memes to hashtags and parodies, social media are used for mundane and
personal expressions of political commentary, engagement, and participation. The coverage …

Social media monitoring in politics can be understood by situating it in theories of public
opinion. The multimethod study we present here indicates how social media monitoring …

The dramatic increase in the number of users on social media platform leads to the
generation of huge amount of unstructured text in the form of messages, chats, posts and …

The populist phenomenon has acquired great relevance during the last decade. The
emergence of new populist actors and the consolidation of the use of social media such as …

This book offers a toolkit of methods and technologies to undertake qualitative research on
digital spaces. Unlike commonly used traditional methodological strategies, which are …

The 2012 US Presidential debates were hybrid media events. Millions of viewers 'dual-
screened'them, simultaneously watching their televisions and commenting on their social …

This study explains how bots interact with human users and influence conversational
networks on Twitter. We analyze a high-stakes political environment, the UK general …