Ruiloba-Núñez, Juana María Goenaga Ruiz de Zuazu, María
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Frontiers in Political Science
Electoral campaigns are particularly significant moments for identifying the available political options. Social media campaigns have become universal, and every candidate seeks to showcase their proposals and distinct political personality. The main goal of this article is to examine electoral political communication on social media platforms thro...
ruytenbeek, nicolas
In today’s digital society, social networks such as Twitter are a preferred place for expressing one’s emotions, especially when they are negative. Despite a growing interest in the variety of linguistic realizations of commuters’ complaints, little attention has so far been paid to writers’ choices, especially when morphologically or syntactically...
Murthy, Dhiraj
This article provides a sociology of Twitter (now known as X) and charts the development of the study of the platform and its data in sociological venues through an analysis of 1,644 articles published since 2009. This review helps readers understand developments in the field and provides a road map for advancing future Twitter-related sociological...
Okere, Oluchi Ojinamma Onyebinama, Colette Ogugua
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Open Information Science
The open-access (OA) discourse is shrouded in controversy and is actively discussed on forums like social media, where scholars engage in professional conversations. The mining of the conversations of the Twitter (X) scholarly community with an open-source intelligence tool for a 7-day time frame yielded a cleaned dataset of 67 posts, which were an...
Graham, Timothy
This article examines the circulation of unverified and misleading information during the 2023 Australian Voice to Parliament referendum, focusing on X (formerly Twitter). Adapting Harsin's concept of Regimes of Post-Truth and a participatory perspective of propaganda, we analyse over 224,000 posts, exploring the interplay of Voice-related discussi...
岡本, 正明 桐村, 喬
〈特集〉危機の文脈 --ロヒンギャ問題を巡る複眼的考察-- / Contexts of Crisis: Understanding the Rohingya Issue from Multiple Perspectives / Military persecution of the Rohingya, a Muslim minority in the southern part of Buddhist-majority Myanmar, has continued for years. And the beginning of democratization in the 2010s did not decrease the intensity of persecution. In resp...
Bimber, Bruce Labarre, Julien Gomez, Daniel Nikiforov, Ilia Koc-Michalska, Karolina
We take two approaches to understanding democratically corrosive sentiment (DCS) in the US, which we operationalize in terms of populist attitudes, conspiracy beliefs, and expectation of fraud in the next election. Our first approach is media use, which is not well understood as a correlate of DCS beyond generalities about the harms of social media...
Balcarova, Tereza Pilarova, Lucie Prokop, Michal Jadrna, Monika Kvasnickova Stanislavska, Lucie Pilar, Ladislav
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Frontiers in Environmental Science
The Green Deal and its implementation are generating discussions across society. Changes brought about by the agreement could impact sustainable development worldwide; therefore, identifying the most common Green Deal-related topics on a global scale can offer insight into the public mood around implementation of the agreement. Social networks prov...
Quiriny, Antoine Lambrechts, Jonathan Moës, Nicolas Remacle, Jean-François
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Graham, Timothy FitzGerald, Katherine M.
This study investigates post-truth messaging and participatory disinformation on Twitter, focusing on the activities of Craig Kelly, a former Australian member of parliament and a key figure previously accused of spreading health misinformation in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic. We draw on Harsin's conceptualisation of post truth communicat...