2016/08/04 by Juan C. Correa, Correa, Juan C., Jorge E. Camargo +1
Social Sciences · #Computers and Society (cs.CY) #Cultural and political discourse analysis #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Misinformation and Its Impacts #Political Dynamics in Latin America #Social Media and Politics
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1608.01552
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Propagation of political ideologies in social networks has shown a notorious\nimpact on voting behavior. Both the contents of the messages (the ideology) and\nthe politicians' influence on their online audiences (their followers) have\nbeen associated with such an impact. Here we evaluate which of these factors\nexerted a major role in deciding electoral results of the 2015 Colombian\nregional elections by evaluating the linguistic similarity of political\nideologies and their influence on the Twitter sphere. The electoral results\nproved to be strongly associated with tweets and retweets and not with the\nlinguistic content of their ideologies or their Twitter followers. Suggestions\non new ways to analyze electoral processes are finally discussed.\n