Understanding How People Use Twitter During Election Debates

Katerina Gorkovenko; Nick Taylor

doi:10.14236/ewic/HCI2017.88

Understanding How People Use Twitter During Election Debates

Katerina Gorkovenko, Nick Taylor

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Abstract

During televised election debates, it is now common for citizens to take to social media to express their own opinions. Within this paper, we present a thematic analysis of the tweets generated during a debate from the 2015 UK General Election. The aim of this work is to explore the visible online behaviour seen on Twitter. We argue that by exploring what types of tweets emerge regardless of their political affiliation, we will gain a deeper understanding of citizen’s behaviours online during live debates. We observed that citizens use Twitter to commentate along by sharing their opinions, experiences, make provocative or humorous statements, and interact and inform others.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 31st International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2017)
Editors	Lynne Hall, Tom Flint, Suzy O'Hara, Phil Turner
Place of Publication	United Kingdom
Publisher	BCS Learning and Development Ltd
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/HCI2017.88
Publication status	Published - 2017
Event	HCI 2017: Digital Make Believe - University of Sunderland, Sunderland, United Kingdom Duration: 3 Jul 2017 → 6 Jul 2017 http://hci2017.bcs.org/

Publication series

Name	Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
Publisher	BCS
ISSN (Print)	1477-9358

Conference

Conference	HCI 2017
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Sunderland
Period	3/07/17 → 6/07/17
Internet address	http://hci2017.bcs.org/

Keywords

Twitter
Political discourse
Social media
Second screens
UK General Education
Thematic analysis

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5 Citations
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Audience and Expert Perspectives on Second Screen Engagement with Political Debates
Gorkovenko, K. & Taylor, N., 4 Jun 2019, TVX 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video: Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, p. 70-82 13 p. (TVX 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video).
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Second Screens for Engagement with Political Discourse
Gorkovenko, K. (Author), Taylor, N. (Supervisor) & Rogers, J. (Supervisor), 2019
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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Tweets from #leadersdebate (2015 UK General Election TV Debates)
Taylor, N. (Creator) & Gorkovenko, K. (Contributor), University of Dundee, 20 Aug 2015
DOI: 10.15132/e0f2d122-f40f-449d-93b1-e58300ab1f3f
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Gorkovenko, K & Taylor, N 2017, Understanding How People Use Twitter During Election Debates. in L Hall, T Flint, S O'Hara & P Turner (eds), Proceedings of the 31st International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2017). Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC), BCS Learning and Development Ltd, United Kingdom, HCI 2017, Sunderland, United Kingdom, 3/07/17. https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/HCI2017.88

Understanding How People Use Twitter During Election Debates. / Gorkovenko, Katerina; Taylor, Nick.
Proceedings of the 31st International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2017). ed. / Lynne Hall; Tom Flint; Suzy O'Hara; Phil Turner. United Kingdom: BCS Learning and Development Ltd, 2017. (Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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Understanding How People Use Twitter During Election Debates

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Audience and Expert Perspectives on Second Screen Engagement with Political Debates

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Second Screens for Engagement with Political Discourse

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Tweets from #leadersdebate (2015 UK General Election TV Debates)

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