Using social media to predict the general election?
Shephard, Mark; Jackson, Daniel and Thorsen, Einar, eds. (2015) Using social media to predict the general election? In: UK Election Analysis 2015. Centre for the Study of Journalism, Culture and Community (CSJCC).
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While public polls showed the two main parties consistently neck and neck in the run up to the 2015 General Election, social media suggested a more divided level of support. In this short piece, I look for patterns in an admittedly retrospective-fitting and cherry-picked selection of online data to show how we might have otherwise better predicted the General Election outcome.
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Item type: Book Section ID code: 53645 Dates: DateEvent2015PublishedSubjects: Political Science > Political theory Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Government and Public Policy > Politics Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 07 Jul 2015 15:45 Last modified: 08 Apr 2024 13:21 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/53645
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