People spend more time on social media either for
personal or social interest which generates an expanding amount
of Data. This paper is written for researchers seeking to have an
overview of the different technical methods used for political
purposes principally Data Mining and Social Network Analysis.
Hence, the first part introduces the impact of Social Media on
politics for different aims such as communicating with voters,
promoting participation, and predicting election results, then the
two main methods to achieve political purposes were presented.
Data mining approaches is likely to be used on political context to
classify citizen’s opinion or predicting results thus by using
methods such as term occurrence, mentions, Support Vector
Machine, Machine Learning, and Artificial Neural Networks.
The Social Network Analysis approaches are used to retrieve data
about influencers, their role during a period, and the nature of the
information shared.
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