poster

Election trolling: analyzing sentiment in tweets during pakistan elections 2013

Authors:

Gabriella PasiAuthors Info & Claims

WWW '14 Companion: Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on World Wide Web

Pages 411 - 412

https://doi.org/10.1145/2567948.2577352

Published: 07 April 2014 Publication History

Get Access

Abstract

The use of Twitter as a discussion platform for political issues has led researchers to study its role in predicting election outcomes. This work studies a much neglected aspect of politics on Twitter namely "election trolling" whereby supporters of different political parties attack each other during election campaigns. We also propose a novel strategy to detect terms that are usually not associated with sentiment but are introduced by supporters of political parties to attack the opposing party. We demonstrate a lack of political maturity as evidenced through high percentage of political attacks in a developing region such as Pakistan.

References

[1]

M. Thelwall, K. Buckley, G. Paltoglou, D. Cai, and A. Kappas. Sentiment strength detection in short informal text. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61(12):2544--2558, 2010.

Crossref

Google Scholar

[2]

A. Tumasjan, T. O. Sprenger, P. G. Sandner, and I. M. Welpe. Predicting elections with twitter: What 140 characters reveal about political sentiment. ICWSM, 10:178--185, 2010.

Crossref

Google Scholar

Cited By

View all

Rabbani KMehmood MAreej A(2024)Speech act of flaming: A pragmatic analysis of Twitter trolling in PakistanDiscourse & Society10.1177/0957926523122258935:4(499-517)Online publication date: 5-Feb-2024
https://doi.org/10.1177/09579265231222589
Wei ZXu XHui PChua TNgo CKumar RLauw HKa-Wei Lee R(2024)Digital Democracy at Crossroads: A Meta-Analysis of Web and AI Influence on Global ElectionsCompanion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 202410.1145/3589335.3652003(1126-1129)Online publication date: 13-May-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3589335.3652003
Nobre GFerreira KSilva IBarbosa G(2022)Using Twitter to Characterize Public Opinion in Brazil During Political EventsResearch Anthology on Social Media's Influence on Government, Politics, and Social Movements10.4018/978-1-6684-7472-3.ch028(585-598)Online publication date: 26-Aug-2022
https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-7472-3.ch028
Show More Cited By

Index Terms

Election trolling: analyzing sentiment in tweets during pakistan elections 2013

Recommendations

The Impact of Question Type and Topic on Misinformation and Trolling on Yahoo! Answers
Diversity, Divergence, Dialogue
Abstract
Trolling and misinformation are ubiquitous on social media platforms, such as Yahoo! Answers. Yet, little is known about the impact of question type and topic on the extent of trolling and misinformation in answers on these platforms. We address ...
Prediction and analysis of Pakistan election 2013 based on sentiment analysis
ASONAM '14: Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining

The significance of social media has already been proven in provoking transformation of public opinion for developed countries in improving democratic process of elections. On the contrary, developing countries lacking basic necessities of life possess ...
Political Communication and Influence through Microblogging--An Empirical Analysis of Sentiment in Twitter Messages and Retweet Behavior
HICSS '12: Proceedings of the 2012 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Microblogging services such as Twitter are said to have the potential for increasing political participation. Given the feature of 'retweeting' as a simple yet powerful mechanism for information diffusion, Twitter is an ideal platform for users to ...

Comments

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

WWW '14 Companion: Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on World Wide Web

April 2014

1396 pages

ISBN:9781450327459

DOI:10.1145/2567948

General Chair:
Chin-Wan Chung
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
,
Program Chairs:
Andrei Broder
Google Inc., USA
,
Kyuseok Shim
Seoul National University, Korea
,
Torsten Suel
New York University, USA

Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for third-party components of this work must be honored. For all other uses, contact the Owner/Author.

In-Cooperation

SIGWEB: ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Web

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

Publication History

Published: 07 April 2014

Check for updates

Author Tags

Qualifiers

Poster

Conference

WWW '14

Sponsor:

IW3C2

WWW '14: 23rd International World Wide Web Conference

April 7 - 11, 2014

Seoul, Korea

Acceptance Rates

Overall Acceptance Rate 1,899 of 8,196 submissions, 23%

Contributors

Other Metrics

View Article Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

10
Total Citations
View Citations
335
Total Downloads

Downloads (Last 12 months)7
Downloads (Last 6 weeks)2

Reflects downloads up to 12 Nov 2024

Other Metrics

View Author Metrics

Citations

Cited By

View all

Rabbani KMehmood MAreej A(2024)Speech act of flaming: A pragmatic analysis of Twitter trolling in PakistanDiscourse & Society10.1177/0957926523122258935:4(499-517)Online publication date: 5-Feb-2024
https://doi.org/10.1177/09579265231222589
Wei ZXu XHui PChua TNgo CKumar RLauw HKa-Wei Lee R(2024)Digital Democracy at Crossroads: A Meta-Analysis of Web and AI Influence on Global ElectionsCompanion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 202410.1145/3589335.3652003(1126-1129)Online publication date: 13-May-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3589335.3652003
Nobre GFerreira KSilva IBarbosa G(2022)Using Twitter to Characterize Public Opinion in Brazil During Political EventsResearch Anthology on Social Media's Influence on Government, Politics, and Social Movements10.4018/978-1-6684-7472-3.ch028(585-598)Online publication date: 26-Aug-2022
https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-7472-3.ch028
Adek RBustami BUla M(2022)Systematics Review on Detecting Cyberattack Threat by Social Network Analysis and Machine LearningProceedings of Seventh International Congress on Information and Communication Technology10.1007/978-981-19-1610-6_50(567-577)Online publication date: 27-Jul-2022
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1610-6_50
Tomaiuolo MLombardo GMordonini MCagnoni SPoggi A(2020)A Survey on Troll DetectionFuture Internet10.3390/fi1202003112:2(31)Online publication date: 10-Feb-2020
https://doi.org/10.3390/fi12020031
Aman Ullah MArif Hasnayeen MShan-A-Alahi ARahman FAkhter S(2020)A Search for Optimal Feature in Political Sentiment Analysis2020 IEEE International Women in Engineering (WIE) Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (WIECON-ECE)10.1109/WIECON-ECE52138.2020.9397966(340-343)Online publication date: 26-Dec-2020
https://doi.org/10.1109/WIECON-ECE52138.2020.9397966
Ancheta JGorro KUy M(2020)#Walangpasok on Twitter: Natural language processing as a method for analyzing tweets on class suspensions in the Philippines2020 12th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST)10.1109/KST48564.2020.9059411(103-108)Online publication date: Jan-2020
https://doi.org/10.1109/KST48564.2020.9059411
Qayyum AGilani ZLatif SQadir J(2018)Exploring Media Bias and Toxicity in South Asian Political Discourse2018 12th International Conference on Open Source Systems and Technologies (ICOSST)10.1109/ICOSST.2018.8632183(01-08)Online publication date: Dec-2018
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOSST.2018.8632183
Peres Nobre GMarques Ferreira KSilva IBarbosa G(2018)Characterization of Public Opinion on Political Events in Brazil Based on Twitter DataCollaboration and Technology10.1007/978-3-319-99504-5_9(105-116)Online publication date: 8-Aug-2018
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99504-5_9
AlMuhanna NHall WMillard DNejdl WHall WParigi PStaab S(2016)Modeling Twitter acceptance and use under the risk of antisocial behaviorProceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Web Science10.1145/2908131.2908182(312-314)Online publication date: 22-May-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2908131.2908182

View Options

Get Access

Login options

Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

Cited By

Index Terms

Recommendations

The Impact of Question Type and Topic on Misinformation and Trolling on Yahoo! Answers

Prediction and analysis of Pakistan election 2013 based on sentiment analysis

Political Communication and Influence through Microblogging--An Empirical Analysis of Sentiment in Twitter Messages and Retweet Behavior