TY - GEN
T1 - The untold story of USA presidential elections in 2016 - Insights from twitter analytics
AU - Grover, Purva
AU - Kar, Arpan Kumar
AU - Dwivedi, Yogesh K.
AU - Janssen, Marijn
N1 - Accepted Author Manuscript
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Elections are the most critical events for any nation and paves the path for future growth and prosperity of the economy. Due to its high impact, a lot of discussions take place among all stakeholders in social media. In this study, we attempt to examine the discussions surrounding USA Election, 2016 in Twitter. Further we highlight some of the domains influencing the voter behaviour by applying the outcome of Twitter analytics to Newman and Sheth’s model of Voter Choice. Through the analysis of 784,153 tweets from 287,838 users over 18 weeks, we present interesting findings on what may have affected the polarization of USA elections.
AB - Elections are the most critical events for any nation and paves the path for future growth and prosperity of the economy. Due to its high impact, a lot of discussions take place among all stakeholders in social media. In this study, we attempt to examine the discussions surrounding USA Election, 2016 in Twitter. Further we highlight some of the domains influencing the voter behaviour by applying the outcome of Twitter analytics to Newman and Sheth’s model of Voter Choice. Through the analysis of 784,153 tweets from 287,838 users over 18 weeks, we present interesting findings on what may have affected the polarization of USA elections.
KW - Information propagation
KW - Public policy
KW - Social media
KW - Social media analytics
KW - Twitter analytics
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UR - http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:5c31dd52-e74c-4baf-bc37-d4b435906353
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-68557-1_30
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-68557-1_30
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85034216872
SN - 9783319685564
VL - 10595 LNCS
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 339
EP - 350
BT - Digital Nations – Smart Cities, Innovation, and Sustainability - 16th IFIP WG 6.11 Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society, I3E 2017, Proceedings
PB - Springer
T2 - 16th IFIP WG 6.11 Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society, I3E 2017
Y2 - 21 November 2017 through 23 November 2017
ER -