Twitter as political acclamation

IF 2.3 Q1 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Frontiers in Political Science Pub Date : 2023-09-15 DOI:10.3389/fpos.2023.1150501
Simon Hegelich, Saurabh Dhawan, Habiba Sarhan
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Acclamation as political form of communication has been used to understand political phenomena by a range of 20th century thinkers and recently has been used to analyze social media. However, if the notion of social media as acclamation is to be fruitful, it should be closely connected to inherent features of social media as technology and should be available to empirical analysis. To do so, this study follows a mixed-method approach. First, we offer a theoretical analysis of acclamation and how it links to each of the constituent parts of social media. Next, we build upon this theoretical analysis to study acclamation and social media as a matter of empirical data analysis to analyse the Tweets of the US-Presidents Obama, Trump and Biden. We apply regression models to measure the effects of acclamation. Our results show that acclamation is an essential feature of political communication but different for each President. This is in parts caused by the algorithms of Twitter which have different effects on the communication of the three Presidents. Our findings expand the idea of social media as acclamation and prove its relevance to the current political discourse.
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推特是一种政治欢呼
鼓掌作为一种政治形式的交流已经被20世纪的思想家用来理解政治现象,最近也被用来分析社交媒体。然而,社交媒体作为鼓掌的概念要想取得成果,就必须与社交媒体作为技术的固有特征紧密联系起来,并可供实证分析。为此,本研究采用混合方法。首先,我们提供了鼓掌的理论分析,以及它如何与社会媒体的每个组成部分联系起来。接下来,我们在此理论分析的基础上,对鼓掌和社交媒体进行实证数据分析,分析美国总统奥巴马、特朗普和拜登的推文。我们运用回归模型来衡量鼓掌的效果。我们的研究结果表明,鼓掌是政治沟通的基本特征,但对每位总统都有所不同。这部分是由于推特的算法对三位总统的沟通有不同的影响。我们的研究结果扩展了社交媒体作为鼓掌的想法,并证明了它与当前政治话语的相关性。
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Frontiers in Political Science
Frontiers in Political Science Social Sciences-Political Science and International Relations
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