A sample design proposal for the analysis of Twitter in political communication
Item
Title
A sample design proposal for the analysis of Twitter in political communication
El Profesional de la Información
Creator
Salvador Percastre-Mendizábal
Carles Pont-Sorribes
Lluís Codina
Abstract
Based on an analysis of several sampled political discussions on Twitter, a new methodology is proposed that allows researchers to obtain a significant, replicable, and manageable data sample from a universe of Twitter metadata. The proposal is a new model called Top discussion indicator (TDI). The aim of TDI is to assist researchers in obtaining a representative set of text from Twitter that includes the minimum amount of information needed to generalize the results.
volume
26
issue
4
pages
579
Date
August 2, 2017
Language
EN English, ES Spanish Español
doi
10.3145/epi.2017.jul.02
issn
1699-2407, 1386-6710