The use of Twitter as a discussion platform for political is- sues has led researchers to study its role in predicting elec- Tion outcomes. This work studies a much neglected aspect of politics on Twitter namely "election trolling" whereby sup- porters of different political parties attack each other during election campaigns. We also propose a novel strategy to de- Tect terms that are usually not associated with sentiment but are introduced by supporters of political parties to at- Tack the opposing party. We demonstrate a lack of political maturity as evidenced through high percentage of political attacks in a developing region such as Pakistan.
Younus, A., Qureshi, M., Saeed, M., Touheed, N., O'Riordan, C., Pasi, G. (2014). Election trolling: Analyzing sentiment in tweets during Pakistan elections 2013. In WWW 2014 Companion - Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on World Wide Web (pp.411-412). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc [10.1145/2567948.2577352].
Election trolling: Analyzing sentiment in tweets during Pakistan elections 2013
Younus, A;Qureshi, MA;Pasi, G
2014
Abstract
The use of Twitter as a discussion platform for political is- sues has led researchers to study its role in predicting elec- Tion outcomes. This work studies a much neglected aspect of politics on Twitter namely "election trolling" whereby sup- porters of different political parties attack each other during election campaigns. We also propose a novel strategy to de- Tect terms that are usually not associated with sentiment but are introduced by supporters of political parties to at- Tack the opposing party. We demonstrate a lack of political maturity as evidenced through high percentage of political attacks in a developing region such as Pakistan.
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