Thousands of small, constant rallies
| Autor: | Victor S. Bursztyn, Lawrence Birnbaum |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Data collection
Presidential election media_common.quotation_subject Advertising 02 engineering and technology Politics 020204 information systems Voting Political science Enabling 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering 020201 artificial intelligence & image processing Narrative media_common |
| Zdroj: | ASONAM |
| DOI: | 10.1145/3341161.3342905 |
| Popis: | There is growing concern about the use of social platforms to push political narratives during elections. One very recent case is Brazil's, where WhatsApp is now widely perceived as a key enabler of the far-right's rise to power. In this paper, we perform a large-scale analysis of partisan WhatsApp groups to shed light on how both right-wingers and left-wingers used the platform in the 2018 Brazilian presidential election. Across its two rounds, we collected +2.8M messages from +45k users in 232 public groups (175 right-wing vs. 57 left-wing). After describing how we obtained a sample that is many times larger than previous works, we contrast right-wingers and left-wingers on their social network metrics, regional distribution of users, content-sharing habits, and most characteristic news sources. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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