Political hashtag hijacking in the U.S.

Asmelash Teka Hadgu; Kiran Garimella; Ingmar Weber

doi:https://doi.org/10.1145/2487788.2487809

Political hashtag hijacking in the U.S.

Asmelash Teka Hadgu, Kiran Garimella, Ingmar Weber

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Abstract

We study the change in polarization of hashtags on Twitter over time and show that certain jumps in polarity are caused by "hijackers" engaged in a particular type of hashtag war.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	WWW 2013 Companion - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	55-56
Number of pages	2
ISBN (Print)	9781450320382
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2487788.2487809
State	Published - 2013
Externally published	Yes
Event	22nd International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2013 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Duration: May 13 2013 → May 17 2013

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Name	WWW 2013 Companion - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web

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Other	22nd International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2013
Country/Territory	Brazil
City	Rio de Janeiro
Period	5/13/13 → 5/17/13

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Computer Networks and Communications

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Partisanship
Political leaning classification
Political trends
Twitter

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Hadgu, AT, Garimella, K & Weber, I 2013, Political hashtag hijacking in the U.S. in WWW 2013 Companion - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web. WWW 2013 Companion - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 55-56, 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2013, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 5/13/13. https://doi.org/10.1145/2487788.2487809

Political hashtag hijacking in the U.S. / Hadgu, Asmelash Teka; Garimella, Kiran; Weber, Ingmar.

WWW 2013 Companion - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web. Association for Computing Machinery, 2013. p. 55-56 (WWW 2013 Companion - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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Political hashtag hijacking in the U.S.

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