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 …

Sentiment analysis, one of the research hotspots in the natural language processing field,
has attracted the attention of researchers, and research papers on the field are increasingly …

The new transformed read-write Web has resulted in a rapid growth of user generated
content on the Web resulting into a huge volume of unstructured data. A substantial part of …

Introduction to Political Psychology explores the many psychological patterns that influence
individual political behavior. The authors introduce readers to a broad range of theories …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to conceptualize the use of Twitter hashtag as a
strategy to enhance the visibility and symbolic power of social movement-related …

Many public organizations are opening their data to the general public and embracing social
media in order to stimulate innovation. These developments have resulted in the rise of new …

While emerging technologies such as social media have demonstrated value for crisis
communications, significant question remains regarding how these tools can be most …

The purpose of this study was to investigate the Facebook narrative surrounding Colin
Kaepernick and Megan Rapinoe's activism as crafted through user comments on their …

The purpose of this study was to examine how individuals responded to a 2015 protest by
the University of Missouri football players' in response to racial injustices on campus and the …