{"id":5464,"date":"2020-07-09T17:51:11","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T17:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/?p=5464"},"modified":"2020-07-09T17:51:11","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T17:51:11","slug":"websci20-paper-session-5-politics-by-nina-schuller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/websci20-paper-session-5-politics-by-nina-schuller\/","title":{"rendered":"#WebSci20 – Paper Session 5: Politics by Nina Schuller"},"content":{"rendered":"

Posted on behalf of Nina Schuller<\/em><\/p>\n

Session on Politics:\u00a0 Politics on\u00a0Digital Platforms<\/b><\/h4>\n

This session, chaired by Claire Hooper, explored findings from four studies on Reddit, TikTok, and Instagram.<\/p>\n

Corrado Monti and colleagues had developed predictive modelling of who would join a Reddit pro-Trump community.\u00a0 They found that groups and homophily played a greater role than linguistics features. In the run up to the 2020 US elections, the researchers were now focused more on behaviours and how the experience of the Trump presidency might impact on support.<\/p>\n

Deven and colleagues had\u00a0investigated how the fact-checking Snope operated across politicalised communities on Reddit.\u00a0 It was found that snopes were more corrective in political communities than in other Reddit spaces, and in some situations could impact on the length of conversation.<\/p>\n

Juan Carlos\u2019 and colleagues work on TikTok revealed politics as a form of entertainment – with the users as the stars.\u00a0 This included some surprising findings on how young users were performing politics through music videos, such as duets comprising of an original video and the users response to it.\u00a0 The study found that democrats were more likely than republicans to duet with their political opposites.<\/p>\n

Carols Henrique Gomes Ferreira and colleagues had investigated political commenters on Instagram.\u00a0 They focused on those commenters who came together as co-commenters, and the structures that emerged from this.\u00a0\u00a0 It was found that there highly active commenters were also highly persistent over time – especially around election time – and were the most stable commenters in their communities.<\/p>\n

Across all the studies it was recognised that context (including the specific algorithms and affordances of each platform) was important.\u00a0 For example, TikTok was seen to be a specific type of environment where users had to be creative in order to get noticed.\u00a0 Comparative studies, were difficult due to the speed at which platforms changed, but there were some studies emerging that were attempting comparison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Posted on behalf of Nina Schuller Session on Politics:\u00a0 Politics on\u00a0Digital Platforms This session, chaired by Claire Hooper, explored findings from four studies on Reddit, TikTok, and Instagram. Corrado Monti and colleagues had developed predictive modelling of who would join a Reddit pro-Trump community.\u00a0 They found that groups and homophily played a greater role than linguistics features. In the run …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99807,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","column","threecol"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p44UOk-1q8","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99807"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5464"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5466,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5464\/revisions\/5466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}