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. ... Read More Japan’s 2014 General Election: Political Bots, Right-Wing Internet Activism, and Prime Minister Shinzō Abe’s Hidden Nationalist Agenda

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 ... 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

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 ... Read More Understanding voters’ information seeking behaiviour

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 ... Read More Not Just #GE2015: Other 2015 Polling Failures

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

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

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

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 ... Read More Elections and Social Media Presence of the Candidates

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

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