Two Computational Models for Analyzing Political Attention in Social Media
dc.contributor.author | Hemphill, Libby | |
dc.contributor.author | Schöpke-Gonzalez, Angela | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-02-01T16:46:50Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-02-01T16:46:50Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/147460 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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 manual labeling ac- cording to established codebooks, are expensive and restric- tive. We describe two computational models that automati- cally distinguish topics in politicians’ social media content. Our models - one supervised classifier and one unsupervised topic model - provide different benefits. The supervised clas- sifier reduces the labor required to classify content accord- ing to pre-determined topic lists. However, tweets do more than communicate policy positions. Our unsupervised model uncovers both political topics and other Twitter uses (e.g., constituent service). Together, these models are effective, in- expensive computational tools for political communication and social media research. We demonstrate their utility and discuss the different analyses they afford by applying both models to the tweets posted by members of the 115th U.S. Congress. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1822228. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.rights | CC0 1.0 Universal | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ | * |
dc.subject | en_US | |
dc.subject | political communication | en_US |
dc.subject | machine learning | en_US |
dc.subject | US Congress | en_US |
dc.title | Two Computational Models for Analyzing Political Attention in Social Media | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Information and Library Science | |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Information, School of | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | ICSPR | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/147460/6/Hemphill and Schopke - Two Compuational Models.pdf | |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/147460/1/Hemphill and Schopke - Two Computational Models.pdf | |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/147460/8/ICWSM 2020 Two Computational Models.pptx | |
dc.description.mapping | 50 | en_US |
dc.description.mapping | 56 | en_US |
dc.identifier.orcid | 0000-0002-3793-7281 | en_US |
dc.description.filedescription | Description of Hemphill and Schopke - Two Compuational Models.pdf : Revised article | |
dc.description.filedescription | Description of Hemphill and Schopke - Two Computational Models.pdf : Main article | |
dc.description.filedescription | Description of ICWSM 2020 Two Computational Models.pptx : Presentation with script | |
dc.identifier.name-orcid | Hemphill, Libby; 0000-0002-3793-7281 | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Information, School of (SI) |
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