The Rhetorical Agenda: What Twitter Tells Us About Congressional Attention

• In Event: Congress and Twitter: Issues and Negativity

Brief Overview

We trained a supervised machine learning classifier to label Members of Congress (MCs) Tweets according to the Comparative Agenda Project’s Policy Codebook and used the results to examine the attention political topics receive from MCs on Twitter.

Authors

• Libby Hemphill, University of Michigan

• Annelise Russell, University of Kentucky

• Angela Schopke, University of Michigan