Strategies affecting Twitter-based networking pattern of South Korean politicians: social network analysis and exponential random graph model

Opinion leadership in parliamentary Twitter networks: A matter of layers of interaction?

“…However, we also found, in line with results from Yoon and Park (2012) for the Korean parliamentarians, that, although the following-follower and mention networks (and to a lesser extent the retweet one) are subjected to partisan pressures, the parliamentarians' strategies in these two networks are different. That is, the number of a parliamentarian's followers (indegree) is highly determined by the number of parliamentarians followed (outdegree is a significant predictor), but in the case of the mentions received, one of the most important predictors is the Twitter activity in which a parliamentarian engages.…”

“…Nevertheless, having an important presence on Twitter (number of tweets, retweets, and mentions sent) activates the number of retweets and mentions received as found in other studies (Grant et al, 2010;Karlsen & Enjolras, 2016), but does not have an influence on the number of followers. In that sense, the number of followers a parliamentarian has depends on the official visibility of the parliamentarian, but not on his or her activity on Twitter (Yoon & Park, 2012). In addition, the regression analyses reveal that having a parliamentarian appointment is comparatively less important in the case of retweets received, being a stronger predictor for the mentions received and, above all, for the number of followers.…”

“…As happens in other countries, the opinion leaders in the mention and retweet networks do not constitute the top politicians (Karlsen & Enjolras, 2016;Yoon & Park, 2012).…”

“…To do this, we gathered all the Catalan parliamentarians' relations-following/follower (4,516), retweets (6,045) and mentions (19,507)-in the period from January 1, 2013 to March 31, 2014. We decided to analyze these three networks due to the fact that politicians strategically use these layers of interaction in different ways (Grant, Moon, & Grant, 2010;Xu, Sang, Blasiola, & Park, 2014;Yoon & Park, 2012). We have chosen the Catalan Parliament because 85% of its members have Twitter accounts, so there is enough variation to ascertain the rise of new opinion leaders.…”

lobalization of Cultural Products: A Webometric Analysis of Kpop in Spanish-Speaking Countries

“…La Webometría se centra en la medición de sitios web, páginas web, palabras en las páginas web, hipervínculos y resultados en motores de búsqueda (Thelwall, 2009). Este método ha sido utilizado para rastrear patrones de comunicación en Twitter relacionados con desastres naturales (Cho, Jung y Park, 2013), política (Yoon & Park, 2014), y entretenimiento (Yoon & Park, 2013), entre otros temas.…”