The pragmatics of political messages in twitter communication

Jurgis Škilters; Monika Kreile; Uldis Bojars; Inta Brikše; Janis Pencis; Laura Uzule

The pragmatics of political messages in twitter communication

Jurgis Škilters
, Monika Kreile
, Uldis Bojars
, Inta Brikše
, Janis Pencis
, Laura Uzule

University of Oxford

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Abstract

The aim of the current paper is to formulate a conception of pragmatic patterns characterizing the construction of individual and collective identities in virtual communities (in our case: The Twitter community). We have explored several theoretical approaches and frameworks and relevant empirical data to show that the agents building virtual communities are 'extended selves' grounded in a highly dynamic and compressed, linguistically mediated virtual network structure. Our empirical evidence consists of a study of discourse related to the Latvian parliamentary elections of 2010. We used a Twitter corpus (in Latvian) harvested and statistically evaluated using the Pointwise Mutual Information (PMI) algorithm and complemented with qualitative and quantitative content analysis.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	69-80
Number of pages	12
Journal	CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Volume	718
Publication status	Published - 2011
Event	1st Workshop on Making Sense of Microposts 2011: Big Things Come in Small Packages, #MSM 2011 - Co-located with the 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2011 - Heraklion, Crete, Greece Duration: 30 May 2011 → 30 May 2011

Keywords

Political messages
Social science
Twitter
Virtual identity

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