Tag: Gonzalo Rivero

Political discussions on Twitter during elections are dominated by those with extreme views

Political discussions on Twitter during elections are dominated by those with extreme views

What do discussions on social media platforms tell us about political behaviour? Pablo Barberá and Gonzalo Rivero outline results from a study of 12,000 Spanish Twitter users during the 2011 Spanish general election and 50,000 American Twitter users during the 2012 U.S. presidential election. They find that users who were on the extreme left or […]