Tag: election
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Japan’s 2014 General Election: Political Bots, Right-Wing Internet Activism, and Prime Minister Shinzō Abe’s Hidden Nationalist Agenda
14 December 2017
Authors: Gillian Bolsover
Abstract: In this article, we present results on the identification and behavioral analysis of social bots in a sample of 542,584 Tweets, collected before and after Japan’s 2014 general election. ...
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Stormzy 1: The Sun 0 — Three Reasons Why #GE2017 Was the Real Social Media Election
15 June 2017
Authors: Helen Margetts
After its initial appearance as a cynical but safe device by Teresa May to ratchet up the Conservative majority, the UK general election of 2017 turned out to be ...
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Understanding voters’ information seeking behaiviour
20 June 2016
Authors: Taha Yasseri
Jonathan and I recently published a paper titled “Wikipedia traffic data and electoral prediction: towards theoretically informed models“ in EPJ Data Science. In this article we examine the possibility ...
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Not Just #GE2015: Other 2015 Polling Failures
21 July 2015
Authors: Eve Ahearn
The failure of pollsters in #GE2015 was covered widely, including in a previous post here, but it was not the only opinion polling failure that year. Polls also failed ...
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Social Media + Elections: A Recap
12 May 2015
Authors: Eve Ahearn
From Jonathan Bright and Scott Hale’s blog post on Twitter Use. In the run-up to the general election we conducted a number of investigations into relative candidate and party ...
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Wikipedia readership around the UK general election
4 May 2015
Authors: Taha Yasseri
I already have written about the Wikipedia-Shapps story. So, that is not the main topic of this post! But when that topic was still hot, some people asked me whether I ...
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Does anyone read Wikipedia around the election time?
4 May 2015
Authors: Taha Yasseri
I already have written about the Wikipedia-Shapps story. So, that is not the main topic of this post! But when that topic was still hot, some people asked me whether I ...
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Elections and Social Media Presence of the Candidates
3 May 2015
Authors: Taha Yasseri
Some have called the forthcoming UK general election a Social Media Election. It might be a bit of exaggeration, but there is no doubt that both candidates and voters are very ...
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How much Wikipedia could tell us about elections
14 June 2013
Authors: Taha Yasseri
IMPORTANT NOTE: this post does not aim at predicting the results of any election. This is just a report on some publicly available data and does not draw any conclusion on ...
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