A Smarter Twitter: Using Twitter as an Improved Measurement of Political Context

• In Event: Measurement

Brief Overview

We examine the feasibility of using social media, with a focus on Twitter, as an improved measurement tool for social and political context as compared to the traditional measures used in survey-based studies.

Authors

• Maricruz Ariana Osorio, University of California-Riverside

• Stephanie DeMora, University of California-Riverside