This work presents and assesses the power of various volumetric, sentiment, and social
network approaches to predict crucial decisions from online social media platforms. The …

To what extent does our online activity reveal who we are? Recent research has
demonstrated that the digital traces left by individuals as they browse and interact with …

We offer comprehensive evidence of preferences for ideological congruity when people
engage with politicians, pundits, and news organizations on social media. Using 4 years of …

Politicians and citizens increasingly engage in political conversations on social media
outlets such as Twitter. In this article, I show that the structure of the social networks in which …

Electoral prediction from Twitter data is an appealing research topic. It seems relatively
straightforward and the prevailing view is overly optimistic. This is problematic because …

This study introduces and evaluates the robustness of different volumetric, sentiment, and
social network approaches to predict the elections in three Asian countries–Malaysia, India …

Prior Twitter-based electoral research has mostly ignored multi-party contexts and 'mix
tweets' that jointly mention more than one party. Hence, we investigate the complex nature of …

Opinion polls have been the bridge between public opinion and politicians in elections.
However, developing surveys to disclose people's feedback with respect to economic issues …

Social Networking portals have been widely used for expressing opinions in the public
domain through internet based text messages and images. Among popular social …

There is a large body of research on utilizing online activity as a survey of political opinion to
predict real world election outcomes. There is considerably less work, however, on using …