Identifying political topics in social media messages: A lexicon-based approach

S Jackson, F Zhang, O Boichak, L Bryant, Y Li… - Proceedings of the 8th …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we introduce a lexicon-based method for identifying political topics in social
media messages. After discussing several critical shortcomings of unsupervised topic …

Strategic temporality on social media during the general election of the 2016 US presidential campaign

F Zhang, S Tanupabrungsun, J Hemsley… - Proceedings of the 8th …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
To date, little attention has been paid to the temporal nature of campaigns as they respond
to events or react to the different stages of a political election--what we define as strategic …

Social media, US presidential campaigns, and public opinion polls: Disentangling effects

PGC Rossini, J Hemsley, S Tanupabrungsun… - Proceedings of the 8th …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
The use of digital technologies by political campaigns has been a topic of scholarly concern
for over two decades. However, these studies have been mostly focused on analyzing the …