A sample design proposal for the analysis of Twitter in political communication

Authors

  • Salvador Percastre-Mendizábal El profesional de la información
  • Carles Pont-Sorribes
  • Lluí­s Codina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2017.jul.02

Keywords:

Communication, Political communication, Twitter, Elections, Methodology, Metrics, Inputs, Interactions.

Abstract

Based on an analysis of several sampled political discussions on Twitter, a new methodology is proposed that allows researchers to obtain a significant, replicable, and manageable data sample from a universe of Twitter metadata. The proposal is a new model called Top discussion indicator (TDI). The aim of TDI is to assist researchers in obtaining a representative set of text from Twitter that includes the minimum amount of information needed to generalize the results.

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Published

2017-08-02

How to Cite

Percastre-Mendizábal, S., Pont-Sorribes, C., & Codina, L. (2017). A sample design proposal for the analysis of Twitter in political communication. Profesional De La información, 26(4), 579–588. https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2017.jul.02