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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

      Author:

      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

      Author:

      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 ...
      Read More Stormzy 1: The Sun 0 — Three Reasons Why #GE2017 Was the Real Social Media Election

    • Understanding voters’ information seeking behaiviour

      20 June 2016

      Author:

      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 ...
      Read More Understanding voters’ information seeking behaiviour

    • Not Just #GE2015: Other 2015 Polling Failures

      21 July 2015

      Author:

      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

      Author:

      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 ...
      Read More Social Media + Elections: A Recap

    • Wikipedia readership around the UK general election

      4 May 2015

      Author:

      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 ...
      Read More Wikipedia readership around the UK general election

    • Does anyone read Wikipedia around the election time?

      4 May 2015

      Author:

      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 ...
      Read More Does anyone read Wikipedia around the election time?

    • Elections and Social Media Presence of the Candidates

      3 May 2015

      Author:

      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

      Author:

      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 ...
      Read More How much Wikipedia could tell us about elections

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