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Two Computational Models for Analyzing Political Attention in Social Media
(2019)
Understanding how political attention is divided and over what subjects is crucial for research on areas such as agenda setting, framing, and political rhetoric. However, existing methods for measuring attention, such as ...
Appealing to the Base or to the Moveable Middle? Incumbents’ Partisan Messaging Before the 2016 U.S. Congressional Elections
(2018-03-28)
Political polarization has been widely discussed in political communication research and the popular press for over half a century. Polarized politicians are sorted into clear camps or teams, and they have little overlap ...
What Drives U.S. Congressional Members’ Policy Attention on Twitter?
(2019-03-26)
Understanding how Members of Congress (MCs) distribute their political attention is key to a number of areas of political science research including agenda setting, framing, and issue evolution. Tweets illuminate what ...
Updates to Congressional Speech Acts on Twitter
(2018-08)
Over the last several years, research on our elected officials’ use of social media as a political communication platform has greatly increased. While the bulk of social media-related research focuses on elections, social ...
Crafting Moral Infrastructures: How Nonprofits Use Facebook to Survive
(2018-08-28)
We present findings from interviews with 23 individuals affiliated with non-profit organizations (NPOs) to understand how they deploy information and communication technologies (ICTs) in civic engagement efforts. Existing ...
Digital Data Curation – Examining Needs for Digital Data Curators
(2012-12-12)
As data increases in volume, complexity and value, there is a growing recognition of the need for digital data curation. The demand for data curation is not limited to libraries, archives, museums and other cultural ...
Building Partnerships Among Social Science Researchers, Institution-based Repositories and Domain Specific Data Archives
(2006-08-07)
In developing and debating digital repositories, the digital library world has devoted more attention to their missions and roles in supporting access to and stewardship of academic research output than to discussing ...