Political conversations on Twitter in a disruptive scenario: The role of “party evangelists” during the 2015 Spanish general elections
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Political conversations on Twitter in a disruptive scenario: The role of “party evangelists” during the 2015 Spanish general electionsDate
2019-04-18Publisher
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Tomás Baviera, Agnese Sampietro & Francisco J. García-Ull (2019) Political conversations on Twitter in a disruptive scenario: The role of “party evangelists” during the 2015 Spanish general elections, The Communication Review, 22:2, 117-138, DOI: 10.1080/10714421.2019.1599642Type
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During election campaigns, candidates, parties, and media share their relevance on Twitter with a group of especially active users, aligned with a particular party. This paper introduces the profile of “party evange ... [+]
During election campaigns, candidates, parties, and media share their relevance on Twitter with a group of especially active users, aligned with a particular party. This paper introduces the profile of “party evangelists,” and explores the activity and effects these users had on the general political conversation during the 2015 Spanish general election. On that occasion, the electoral expectations were uncertain for the two major parties (PP and PSOE) because of the rise of two emerging parties that were disrupting the political status quo (Podemos and Ciudadanos). This was an ideal situation to assess the differences between the evangelists of established and emerging parties. The paper evaluates two aspects of the political conversation based on a corpus of 8.9 million tweets: the retweeting effectiveness, and the sentiment analysis of the overall conversation. We found that one of the emerging party’s evangelists dominated message dissemination to a much greater extent. [-]
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The Communication Review. Volume 22, 2019 - Issue 2Funder Name
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad
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CSO2013- 43960-R | CSO2016-77331-C2-1-R
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