Journal
SOCIAL NETWORKS
Volume 36, Issue -, Pages 177-184Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2013.07.004
Keywords
Twitter; Politics; Liberal; Conservative; News; Journalism
Categories
Ask authors/readers for more resources
There is great interest in understanding media bias and political information seeking preferences. As many media outlets create online personas, we seek to automatically estimate the political preferences of their audience, rather than examining the bias of the media source. In this paper, we present a novel method for computing the political preferences of an organization's Twitter followers. We present an application of this technique to estimate the political preferences of the audiences of U.S. media outlets, government agencies, and interest groups and think tanks. We also discuss how these results may be used and extended. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available