{"id":2036,"date":"2015-05-26T15:31:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T15:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=2036"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:50:07","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:50:07","slug":"can-social-media-predict-election-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2015\/05\/26\/can-social-media-predict-election-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Can social media predict election results?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent <a href=\"http:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2603433\">SSRN paper from Cardiff University<\/a> developed a model using Twitter and considers how it could be applied to the UK 2015 general election.<\/p>\n<p>Compare this with the latest analysis from the <a href=\"http:\/\/elections.oii.ox.ac.uk\/could-social-media-forecast-political-movements\/\">Oxford Internet Institute.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elections.oii.ox.ac.uk\/could-social-media-forecast-political-movements\/\">UK Election Analysis 2015: Media, Voters and the Campaign which contains 73 contributions from UK academics issued just 10 days after the result!\u00a0 It includes a paper from Professor Charlie Beckett, LSE . A number of articles cover the use of social media as a campaign tool<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cardiff University has also released the preliminary\u00a0 results of\u00a0its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/series\/tv-election-stidy\">TV election coverage project<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent SSRN paper from Cardiff University developed a model using Twitter and considers how it could be applied to the UK 2015 general election. Compare this with the latest analysis from the Oxford Internet Institute. UK Election Analysis 2015: Media, Voters and the Campaign which contains 73 contributions from UK academics issued just 10 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[41,115,82,93],"class_list":["post-2036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-and-communication","category-politics","tag-democracy","tag-elections","tag-social-media","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2037,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions\/2037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}