Legislators in UK, Canada and Australia Express Post-election Enthusiasm for Biden Administration on Twitter
In preelection tweets about the U.S., lawmakers abroad focused on how the election will affect bilateral ties and trade.
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How U.S. Lawmakers Have Discussed Asian Americans on Social Media
From 2016 through 2019, lawmaker mentions of Asian Americans on social media – either of the population at large or of smaller subgroups – followed a relatively predictable pattern.
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Are topic models reliable or useful?
The final post in our series examines how topic models can and can’t help when classifying large amounts of text.
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2018 Twitter Survey
Survey dates: Nov. 30, 2018 – Dec. 17, 2018
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Though not especially productive in passing bills, the 116th Congress set new marks for social media use
Voting members of the 116th Congress collectively produced more than 2.2 million tweets and Facebook posts in 2019 and 2020.
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Social Media Use in 2021
A majority of Americans say they use YouTube and Facebook, while use of Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok is especially common among adults under 30.
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How lawmakers’ social media activity changed in the days after the U.S. Capitol riot
Social media activity by members of Congress changed in notable ways following the rioting at the Capitol by supporters of President Trump.
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Methodology
To analyze how legislators in three countries outside the United States used Twitter to discuss the U.S. elections and presidential candidates in the run-up to the election, researchers obtained 167,464 public tweets from each of the 1,289 members of national legislatures in the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada who tweeted between Aug. 28 and Sept. […]
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Appendix: Changing measurements of news consumption on social media
This year’s edition of Pew Research Center’s annual study of how Americans use social media sites for news asks about similar topics in different ways from previous years. The Center’s experts made changes this year to improve measurements of news consumption on social media. Those changes are described below. Accordingly, these measures should not be […]
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2. Public digital spaces will be improved: Tech can be fixed, governments and corporations can reorient incentives and people can band together to work for reform
A notable share of the most hopeful respondents to this canvassing declared that in order to serve the public interest and improve digital spaces, the tech industry, government and civil society need to focus on achieving an ethical tech design that values people over profit. They said that this – combined with vastly improved individual […]