How Partisan Users Engage and Disengage with Each Other over Immigration: Fine-Tuning BERT to Explore Twitter Discourse between 2014–2017

• In Event: Political Communication about Pressing Issues

Brief Overview

This study analyzed over 10 million tweets to examine how partisans engage or disengage each other when discussing immigration, mentioning in- and out-party members, addressing and attacking them, with user responses reinforcing polarization.

Authors

• Jisoo Kim, University of Wisconsin–Madison

• Hyerin Kwon, University of Wisconsin–Madison

• Yini Zhang, University at Buffalo - SUNY

• Dhavan V. Shah, University of Wisconsin–Madison