The emergence of social media data and sentiment analysis in election prediction

P Chauhan, N Sharma, G Sikka - Journal of Ambient Intelligence and …, 2021 - Springer
This work presents and assesses the power of various volumetric, sentiment, and social
network approaches to predict crucial decisions from online social media platforms. The …

Echo chamber or public sphere? Predicting political orientation and measuring political homophily in Twitter using big data

E Colleoni, A Rozza, A Arvidsson - Journal of communication, 2014 - academic.oup.com
This paper investigates political homophily on Twitter. Using a combination of machine
learning and social network analysis we classify users as Democrats or as Republicans …

[CARTE][B] Qualitative research in digital environments: A research toolkit

A Caliandro, A Gandini - 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
This book offers a toolkit of methods and technologies to undertake qualitative research on
digital spaces. Unlike commonly used traditional methodological strategies, which are …

Predicting elections from social media: a three-country, three-method comparative study

K Jaidka, S Ahmed, M Skoric… - Asian Journal of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This study introduces and evaluates the robustness of different volumetric, sentiment, and
social network approaches to predict the elections in three Asian countries–Malaysia, India …

Analyzing polarization of social media users and news sites during political campaigns

F Marozzo, A Bessi - Social Network Analysis and Mining, 2018 - Springer
Social media analysis is a fast growing research area aimed at extracting useful information
from social networks. Recent years have seen a great interest from academic and business …

Online and social media data as an imperfect continuous panel survey

F Diaz, M Gamon, JM Hofman, E Kıcıman… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
There is a large body of research on utilizing online activity as a survey of political opinion to
predict real world election outcomes. There is considerably less work, however, on using …

Using sentiment analysis to define twitter political users' classes and their homophily during the 2016 American presidential election

JA Caetano, HS Lima, MF Santos… - Journal of internet …, 2018 - Springer
This paper proposes an analysis of political homophily among Twitter users during the 2016
American Presidential Election. We collected 4.9 million tweets of 18,450 users and their …

Analyzing voter behavior on social media during the 2020 US presidential election campaign

L Belcastro, F Branda, R Cantini, F Marozzo… - Social Network Analysis …, 2022 - Springer
Every day millions of people use social media platforms by generating a very large amount
of opinion-rich data, which can be exploited to extract valuable information about human …

The megaphone of the people? Spanish SentiStrength for real-time analysis of political tweets

D Vilares, M Thelwall… - Journal of Information …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Twitter is an important platform for sharing opinions about politicians, parties and political
decisions. These opinions can be exploited as a source of information to monitor the impact …

Temporal graph learning for dynamic link prediction with text in online social networks

M Dileo, M Zignani, S Gaito - Machine Learning, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Link prediction in Online Social Networks—OSNs—has been the focus of numerous
studies in the machine learning community. A successful machine learning-based solution …