Reconstruction of the socio-semantic dynamics of political activist Twitter networks-Method and application to the 2017 French presidential election.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Digital spaces, and in particular social networking sites, are becoming increasingly present and influential in the functioning of our democracies. In this paper, we propose an integrated methodology for the data collection, the reconstruction, the analysis and the visualization of the development of a country's political landscape from Twitter data.

Method

The proposed method relies solely on the interactions between Twitter accounts and is independent of the characteristics of the shared contents such as the language of the tweets. We validate our methodology on a case study on the 2017 French presidential election (60 million Twitter exchanges between more than 2.4 million users) via two independent methods: the comparison between our automated political catego

SUBMITTER: Gaumont N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6145593 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature