MP Twitter Engagement and Abuse Post-first COVID-19 Lockdown in the UK: White Paper
Tracie Farrell,
Mehmet Bakir,
Kalina Bontcheva
Abstract:The UK has had a volatile political environment for some years now, with Brexit and leadership crises marking the past five years. With this work, we wanted to understand more about how the global health emergency, COVID-19, influences the amount, type or topics of abuse that UK politicians receive when engaging with the public. This work covers the period of June -December 2020 and analyses Twitter abuse in replies to UK MPs. This work is a follow-up from our analysis of online abuse during the first four mon… Show more
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