Information Networks and Social Media Power in Congress

• In Event: Twitter Politics: Networked Power, Partisanship, and Activism

Brief Overview

This paper looks at the information diffusion in Congressional Twitter accounts using network analysis and machine learning. It shows that the pace and extent of information diffusion is related to network power and the category of information.

Authors

• Cantay Caliskan, Denison University

• Dino Christenson, Boston University