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RESEARCH & POLITICS
卷 4, 期 3, 页码 -出版社
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/2053168017720008
关键词
Twitter; Facebook; representativeness; election forecasting; social media; British Election Study
资金
- Economic and Social Research Council [ES/K005294/1]
- Electoral Commission
- Economic and Social Research Council [ES/K005294/1, ES/L005166/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- ESRC [ES/L005166/1, ES/K005294/1] Funding Source: UKRI
A growing social science literature has used Twitter and Facebook to study political and social phenomena including for election forecasting and tracking political conversations. This research note uses a nationally representative probability sample of the British population to examine how Twitter and Facebook users differ from the general population in terms of demographics, political attitudes and political behaviour. We find that Twitter and Facebook users differ substantially from the general population on many politically relevant dimensions including vote choice, turnout, age, gender, and education. On average social media users are younger and better educated than non-users, and they are more liberal and pay more attention to politics. Despite paying more attention to politics, social media users are less likely to vote than non-users, but they are more likely to support the left leaning Labour Party when they do vote. However, we show that these apparent differences mostly arise due to the demographic composition of social media users. After controlling for age, gender, and education, no statistically significant differences arise between social media users and non-users on political attention, values or political behaviour.
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