Social Media in State Politics: Mining Policy Agendas Topics

Thumbnail Image
Date
2017-01-01
Authors
Qi, Lei
Li, Rihui
Wong, Johnny
Major Professor
Advisor
Committee Member
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Abstract

Twitter is a popular online microblogging service that has become widely used by politicians to communicate with their constituents.Gaining understanding of the influence of Twitter in state politics in the United States cannot be achieved without proper computational tools. We present the first attempt to automatically classify tweets of state legislatures (policy makers at the state level) into major policy agenda topics defined by Policy Agendas Project (PAP), which was initiated to group national policies.

Series Number
Journal Issue
Is Version Of
Versions
Series
Academic or Administrative Unit
Type
article
Comments

This article is published as Qi, Lei, Rihui Li, Johnny Wong, Wallapak Tavanapong, and David AM Peterson. "Social Media in State Politics: Mining Policy Agendas Topics." (2017). doi: 10.1145/3110025.3110097. Posted with permission.

Rights Statement
Copyright
Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 UTC 2017
Funding
DOI
Supplemental Resources