Structural Topic Modeling and Social Media Communications: U.S. Senate Elections in 2016 and 2018

• In Event: Text as Data: Methods and Applications

Brief Overview

We use structural topic modeling to analyze Twitter data from U.S. Senate campaigns in 2016 and 2018. This gives us an opportunity to analyze each campaign's messaging strategy on social media.

Authors

• Michael Alvarez, California Institute of Technology

• Nicholas J Adams-Cohen, Stanford University