Social Media Monitoring of the Campaigns for the 2013 German Bundestag Elections on Facebook and Twitter

Kaczmirek, Lars; Mayr, Philipp; Vatrapu, Ravi; Bleier, Arnim; Blumenberg, Manuela S.; Gummer, Tobias; Hussain, Abid; Kinder-Kurlanda, Katharina; Thamm, Mark; Weller, Katrin; Wenz, Alexander; Wolf, Christof

doi:10.48550/arxiv.1312.4476

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“…Online fora have attracted much attention as a way of exploring political dynamics (Colleoni, Rozza, & Arvidsson, 2014;Conover et al, 2011;Gonzalez-Bailon, Banchs, & Kaltenbrunner, 2010;Kaczmirek et al, 2013;Nulty, Theocharis, Popa, arnet, & Benoit, 2016;Weber, Garimella, & Borra, 2012). The effect of abuse and incivility in online political discussion has also been explored.…”

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Race and Religion in Online Abuse towards UK Politicians: Working Paper

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Bakir²,

Greenwood³

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Against a backdrop of tensions related to EU membership, we find levels of online abuse toward UK MPs reach a new high. Race and religion have become pressing topics globally, and in the UK this interacts with "Brexit" and the rise of social media to create a complex social climate in which much can be learned about evolving attitudes. In 8 million tweets by and to UK MPs in the first half of 2019, religious intolerance scandals in the UK's two main political parties attracted significant attention. Furthermore, high profile ethnic minority MPs started conversations on Twitter about race and religion, the responses to which provide a valuable source of insight. We found a significant presence for disturbing racial and religious abuse. We also explore metrics relating to abuse patterns, which may affect its impact. We find "burstiness" of abuse doesn't depend on race or gender, but individual factors may lead to politicians having very different experiences online.

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