The untold story of USA presidential elections in 2016 - Insights from twitter analytics

The untold story of USA presidential elections in 2016 - Insights from twitter analytics

Grover, Purva (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi)
Kar, Arpan Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi)
Dwivedi, Yogesh K. (Swansea University)
Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. (TU Delft Information and Communication Technology)

2017

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.

Information propagation
Public policy
Social media
Social media analytics
Twitter analytics

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:5c31dd52-e74c-4baf-bc37-d4b435906353

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68557-1_30

Springer

9783319685564

Digital Nations – Smart Cities, Innovation, and Sustainability - 16th IFIP WG 6.11 Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society, I3E 2017, Proceedings, 10595 LNCS

16th IFIP WG 6.11 Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society, I3E 2017, 2017-11-21 → 2017-11-23, Delhi, India

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 0302-9743, 10595 LNCS

Accepted Author Manuscript

Institutional Repository

conference paper

© 2017 Purva Grover, Arpan Kumar Kar, Yogesh K. Dwivedi, M.F.W.H.A. Janssen