Author of
Research: Luka Jesenšek
Year of Research: 2019
Key words: Twitter, European Parliament elections, social
networks, elections, internet, European Union;
As part of his doctoral thesis, the author wanted to examine the structure
of the Slovenian political debate on Twitter before the European Parliament
elections in 2019, with the help of the social network analysis, focusing on 1)
the phenomena of echo chambers; 2) content diffusion patterns and 3) the role
of central users and politicians. Datafile contains 40670 units, that is Tweet
IDs posted by 2,854 Twitter users between April 28th, 2019, and May 28th, 2019.
Datafile is accessible in excel format. Instructions for extracting actual
Tweets based on accessible IDs are also available as accompanying material.
Social media became an important platform for political communication and
dissemination of news, however some key questions regarding the nature of
increasingly globalized and personalized communication networks remain
unanswered. Modern networked public sphere consists of multitude of dispersed
publics that are being shaped, interconnected and dissolved according to shared
interests of its members. Optimistic expectations about social media enabling
global democratization and a revival of critical public deliberation have been
replaced by warnings that citizens online tend to cluster into polarized
communities of similar views.
Cite the data:
Jesenšek, L. (2023). Slovenian Twitter debate
ahead of 2019 European Parliament elections [Data file]. Ljubljana: Univerza v
Ljubljani = University of Ljubljana, Arhiv družboslovnih podatkov = Slovenian
Social Science Data Archives. ADP - IDNo: TWITEP19. https://doi.org/10.17898/ADP_TWITEP19_V1
Based on the
research data, several publications were created, for example:
JESENŠEK, Luka, 2023, Polarizacija in širjenje vsebin na
spletnih družbenih omrežjih pred slovenskimi volitvami v Evropski parlament
2019 : doktorska disertacija [na spletu]. Doktorska disertacija. Ljubljana :
Univerza v Ljubljani. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12556/RUL-147414
Jesenšek, L., Verčič, D., & Kronegger, L. (2021).
Struktura slovenske politične razprave na Twitterju ob volitvah v Evropski
parlament. Teorija in praksa, 58(1), 49-71,. https://www.fdv.uni-lj.si/docs/default-source/tip/struktura-slovenske-politi%C4%8Dne-razprave-na-twitterju-ob-volitvah-v-evropski-parlament.pdf?sfvrsn=0
