How political candidates use Twitter and the impact on votes

By Sanne Kruikemeier. Computers in Human Behavior, 2014

298 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• What’s in a post? How sentiment and issue salience affect users’ emotional reactions on Facebook (2020, background): “Still, studies show that the (inter-)active use of SNS may have a positive influence on the number of preferential votes a candidate receives (Kruikemeier, 2014) and that political elites’ interactive and personalized online communication may increase citizens’ political involvement and positively…”