TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jungherr,Andreas
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Analyzing Political Communication with Digital Trace Data: The Role of Twitter Messages in Social Science Research 
T2  - Contributions to Political Science,
SN  - 9783319203195
AV  - JA85-85.2 
U1  - 320.014 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Political science
KW  - Political Communication
KW  - Application software
KW  - Communication
KW  - sociology
KW  - Mass media
KW  - Political Science and International Relations
KW  - Communication Studies
KW  - Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences
KW  - Media Research
N1  - Introduction: How to use Twitter in the Social Sciences -- Twitter, Usage and Research -- Twitter in the Analysis of Social Phenomena: An Interpretative Framework -- Twitter as Political Communication Space: Publics, Prominent Users and Politicians -- Sensor of Attention to Politics -- The Media Connection -- Predictor of Electoral Success and Public Opinion at Large -- Conclusion: Twitter and the Analysis of Social Phenomena
N2  - This book offers a framework for the analysis of political communication in election campaigns based on digital trace data that documents political behavior, interests and opinions. The author investigates the data-generating processes leading users to interact with digital services in politically relevant contexts. These interactions produce digital traces, which in turn can be analyzed to draw inferences on political events or the phenomena that give rise to them. Various factors mediate the image of political reality emerging from digital trace data, such as the users of digital services’ political interests, attitudes, or attention to politics. In order to arrive at valid inferences about the political reality on the basis of digital trace data, these mediating factors have to be accounted for. The author presents this interpretative framework in a detailed analysis of Twitter messages referring to politics in the context of the 2009 federal elections in Germany. This book will appeal to scholars interested in the field of political communication, as well as practitioners active in the political arena
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20319-5
ER  -