Politics on the Web: Using Twitter to Estimate the Ideological Positions of Brazilian Representatives

Politics on the Web: Using Twitter to Estimate the Ideological Positions of Brazilian Representatives

The use of social media has become increasingly widespread among citizens and politicians in Brazil. This means of communication served as a key arena for debate and propaganda during the 2014 legislative and presidential elections, when a very polarized political scenario emerged. New approaches ha...

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Main Authors:	Rafael Martins de Souza, Luís Felipe Guedes da Graça, Ralph dos Santos Silva
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Brazilian Political Science Association 2017-12-01
Series:	Brazilian Political Science Review
Subjects:	Bayesian inference election campaigns political participation social media Brazil
Online Access:	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1981-38212017000300202&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en

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