When Politicians Talk About Politics: Identifying Political Tweets of Brazilian Congressmen

05/04/2018
by   Lucas S. Oliveira, et al.
0

Since June 2013, when Brazil faced the largest and most significant mass protests in a generation, a political crisis is in course. In midst of this crisis, Brazilian politicians use social media to communicate with the electorate in order to retain or to grow their political capital. The problem is that many controversial topics are in course and deputies may prefer to avoid such themes in their messages. To characterize this behavior, we propose a method to accurately identify political and non-political tweets independently of the deputy who posted it and of the time it was posted. Moreover, we collected tweets of all congressmen who were active on Twitter and worked in the Brazilian parliament from October 2013 to October 2017. To evaluate our method, we used word clouds and a topic model to identify the main political and non-political latent topics in parliamentarian tweets. Both results indicate that our proposal is able to accurately distinguish political from non-political tweets. Moreover, our analyses revealed a striking fact: more than half of the messages posted by Brazilian deputies are non-political.

READ FULL TEXT

page 1

page 2

page 3

page 4

research
09/17/2019

Two Computational Models for Analyzing Political Attention in Social Media

Understanding how political attention is divided and over what subjects ...
research
10/12/2021

Prediction of Political Leanings of Chinese Speaking Twitter Users

This work presents a supervised method for generating a classifier model...
research
06/11/2021

Assessing Political Prudence of Open-domain Chatbots

Politically sensitive topics are still a challenge for open-domain chatb...
research
04/04/2022

Leaders or Followers? A Temporal Analysis of Tweets from IRA Trolls

The Internet Research Agency (IRA) influences online political conversat...
research
02/26/2017

Friends and Enemies of Clinton and Trump: Using Context for Detecting Stance in Political Tweets

Stance detection, the task of identifying the speaker's opinion towards ...
research
05/08/2020

Text-Based Ideal Points

Ideal point models analyze lawmakers' votes to quantify their political ...
research
05/06/2022

Combining Humor and Sarcasm for Improving Political Parody Detection

Parody is a figurative device used for mimicking entities for comedic or...

Please sign up or login with your details

Forgot password? Click here to reset