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 …

This study employs content and network analysis techniques to explore the predictors of
opinion leadership in a political activism network on Twitter. The results demonstrate the …

Las redes sociales han visto crecer la figura del influencer como un nuevo modelo de líder
de opinión que debe combinar la gestión de su marca perso nal con el rol de prescriptor …

This article explores social media use during Japan's 2011 earthquake. In the era of social
media, this earthquake provides an opportunity for analysing the role of communication …

The conventional understanding of how elected officials affect the policy agenda is based on
the argument that they use symbols and rhetoric to propagate a policy problem, primarily …

Through a qualitative study of the historical patterns of retweeting and favouriting of Prime
Minister Narendra Modi's messages, followbacks to other Twitter accounts, and evolving …

The aim of this study is to explore online social network exposure effects on predicting
individual's willingness to self-censor political expression (WTSC) and political posting …

Although conceptual efforts have often suggested that the Internet harbors considerable
possibilities to revolutionize political participation, empirical studies have often presented …

This study examines Twitter use by the central government in Korea and the federal
government in the USA by employing the webometric technique to extract their Twitter …

We present a scalable methodology to identify Twitter handles of politicians in a given
region and test our framework in the context of Indian and US politics. The main contribution …