The Knowledge-Based Economy: Modeled, Measured, Simulated
The Knowledge-Based Economy: Modeled, Measured, Simulated
The Myth of Digital Democracy
Republic.com 2.0
What is Twitter, a social network or a news media?
Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web
Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL: Insights from a Connected World
Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL: Insights from a Connected World
Networked Politics on Cyworld: The Text and Sentiment of Korean Political Profiles
Social Science Computer Review
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
What's congress doing on twitter?
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
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This study investigates the role of Twitter in political deliberation and participation by analyzing the ways in which South Korean politicians use Twitter. In addition, the study examines the rise of Twitter as user-generated communication system for political participation and deliberation by using the Triple Helix indicators. For this, we considered five prominent politicians, each belonging to one of four political parties, by using data collected in June 2010. The results suggest that non-mainstream, resource-deficient politicians are more likely to take advantage of Twitter's potential as an alternative means of political participation and that a small number of Twitter users lead political discourse in the Twittersphere. We also examined the occurrence and co-occurrence of politicians' names in Twitter posts, and then calculate entropy values for trilateral relationships. The results suggest that the level of political deliberation, expressed in terms of the level of balance in the communication system, is higher when politicians with different political orientations form the trilateral relationships.