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Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

Dates:15 November 2017
Times:16:00 - 16:00
What is it:Seminar
Organiser:School of Social Sciences
Speaker:Daniel Allington
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Daniel Allington, University of Leicester Mapping the political Twittersphere Who follows British politicians on social media? Who stood with Ken Livingstone online? What would it be like to get all your political news from Twitter? For over a year, I’ve been seeking answers to these questions and more using data scraping and a mixed methods approach centred on social network analysis. Social media have changed British political culture, creating quasi-celebrities out of figures who would otherwise have been condemned to the margins, and giving wide circulation to ideas long believed to be politically defunct – most alarmingly, the belief in an international conspiracy of Jews. In this seminar, I will present theoretical and methodological approaches to the large-scale study of online political culture, as well as sharing preliminary findings.

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Daniel Allington

Organisation: University of Leicester

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