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Title Tweets from the campaign trail : researching candidates' use of Twitter during the European parliamentary elections / Alex Frame, Arnaud Mercier, Giles Brachotte, Caja Thimm (eds.).

Publication Info. Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang, [2016]
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Description 1 online resource (273 pages).
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Physical Medium polychrome
Series Bonner Beiträge zur Medienwissenschaft ; Volume 11
Bonner Beiträge zur Medienwissenschaft ; Bd. 11.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Cover; Contents; General Introduction (Alex Frame/Arnaud Mercier/Gilles Brachotte/Caja Thimm); This volume: Twitter as a political practice; References:; Online Sources:; Part 1: Studying Tweet campaigns: methodological issues; 1. SNFreezer: a Platform for Harvesting and Storing Tweets in a Big Data Context (Éric Leclercq/Marinette Savonnet/Thierry Grison/Sergey Kirgizov/Ian Basaille); 1.1 Introduction and Objectives; 1.2 New Paradigms for Data Management Systems; 1.3 SNFreezer Architecture; 1.3.1 The Storage System; 1.3.2 Storing Tweets; Tweet Relational Database Schema.
1.3.3 Tweet Graph Database1.3.4 Cluster Mode and Fail Over; 1.4 Connection with Analysis Tools and Web Applications; 1.5 Conclusion; References; Acknowledgements; 2. Families of practices. A bottom-up approach to differentiate how French candidates made use of Twitter during the 2014 European Campaign (Dario Compagno); 2.1 Introduction and rationale; 2.2 Corpus and methodology; 2.3 Exploration and clustering; 2.4 Interpretation of the clusters; 2.5 Structuring the Tweeting practices of French candidates; 2.6 Associations between clusters and tweeting interfaces.
2.7 Associations between clusters and political parties2.8 Classification of tweets based on textual analysis; 2.9 Conclusion; References; 3. Exploring the dialogical dimension of political tweets: A qualitative analysis of 'Twitter styles' of UK candidates during the 2014 EU Parliamentary Elections (Tatiana Kondrashova/Alex Frame); 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Twitter styles revisited; 3.3 Methodology & results; 3.4 Results and Analysis; 3.4.1 The operator @; 3.4.2 The operator RT; 3.4.3 The operator #; 3.4.4 Use of media; 3.4.5 The use of links (http); 3.5 Discussion and conclusions; References.
4. Twitter et la politique : stratégies de communication de candidats et espace public (Nanta Novello Paglianti)4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Le cadre de la recherche; 4.3 Twitter: structure, matérialité et fonctionnalités; 4.4 Twitter en action : focus sur les fonctions communicationnelles; 4.5 Le tweet politique; 4.6 Un rappel des bonnes pratiques; 4.7 Analyses des pratiques des candidats : le cas E. Forenza; 4.7.1 Le- re-tweet de E. Forenza; 4.8 Le cas d'I. Adinolfi; 4.9 Vers des pratiques " transmédiatiques "?; Références bibliographiques; Part 2: Tweet campaign argumentation.
5. Les figures de l'ennemi dans les tweets-polémiques des forces protestataires françaises durant la campagne de mai 2014 (Arnaud Mercier)5.1 Twitter, un excellent outil de polémique électorale; 5.2 Analyse statistique croisée des tweet-campagnes protestataires françaises; 5.3 Les figures de l'ennemi dans la rhétorique protestataire anti-européenne; 5.4 Des tweets-polémiques adossées à l'ironie et aux sarcasmes; 5.5 Conclusion; Références bibliographiques; 6. Les discours sur l'Europe dans la tweet-campagne en Italie (Marina Villa); 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Les tweets des candidats.
Summary Twitter was extensively used during the 2014 European Parliamentary elections. This volume analyses campaign-related microblogging activity in six countries, providing insights into communication styles and strategies observed in different languages and outlining methodological solutions for collecting and analysing political tweets.
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Local Note JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access
Language English.
Subject European Parliament -- Elections -- 2014.
European Parliament.
Elections.
Chronological Term 2014
Subject Twitter -- Political aspects -- European Union countries.
Twitter.
European Union countries.
Twitter.
Eclaireurs Unionistes de France.
Social media -- Political aspects -- European Union countriers.
Social media -- Political aspects.
Social media.
Communication in politics -- Technological innovations -- European Union countries.
Communication in politics -- Technological innovations.
Communication in politics.
Indexed Term Media & Communications.
Media & Communication.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Subject Social media.
Added Author Frame, Alex, 1976- editor.
Mercier, Arnaud, editor.
Brachotte, Gilles, 1971- editor.
Thimm, Caja, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Tweets from the campaign trail. Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang, [2016] 9783631670095 (DLC) 2016043861 (OCoLC)962853084
ISBN 9783631697405 (electronic book)
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