par Boireau, Michaël 
;Gagliolo, Matteo ;Van Haute, Emilie ;Sudulich, Maria Laura
Référence Workshop ‘Digital Media, Power, and Democracy in Election Campaigns’ (2-3 July 2015: Washington, DC)
Publication Non publié, 2015-06-01
;Gagliolo, Matteo ;Van Haute, Emilie ;Sudulich, Maria Laura Référence Workshop ‘Digital Media, Power, and Democracy in Election Campaigns’ (2-3 July 2015: Washington, DC)
Publication Non publié, 2015-06-01
Communication à un colloque
| Résumé : | The case of the May 2014 Belgian elections offers a unique opportunity to investigatecampaign behaviors. We explore interactions between candidates on Twitter in the run up tothe elections of three different legislative bodies: the federal, regional and Europeanassemblies. We define interactions based on the flow of retweets and conversations (@)initiated by candidates. In so doing we capture dynamic interactions or networks, as opposedto a more static definition based on followers. These multilayer elections enable us to map thepositions of candidates, explore whether Twitter based networks go beyond the languagedivide (French/Flemish) and if ideological boundaries characterize candidates ‘interactions.Interactions are analysed using Ucinet. Finally, we explore the extent to which visibilitywithin the network of candidates is fully explained by candidates’ offline profiles. |
