creator Hemphill, Libby creator Roback, Andrew Twitter is increasingly becoming a medium through which constituents can lobby their elected representatives in Congress about issues that matter to them. Past research has focused on how citizens communicate with each other or how members of Congress (MOCs) use social media in general; our research examines how citizens communicate with MOCs. We contribute to existing literature through the careful examination of hundreds of citizen-authored tweets and the development of a categorization scheme to describe common strategies of lobbying on Twitter. Our findings show that contrary to past research that assumed citizens used Twitter to merely shout out their opinions on issues, citizens utilize a variety of sophisticated techniques to impact political outcomes. Submitted by Libby Hemphill (lhemphil@iit.edu) on 2014-02-13T19:52:23Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1370 bytes, checksum: cd1af5ab51bcc7a5280cf305303530e9 (MD5) Hemphill and Roback - 2014 - Tweet Acts.pdf: 652893 bytes, checksum: 6732c6b80098138db50e55bd2fc54248 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2014-02-13T19:52:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1370 bytes, checksum: cd1af5ab51bcc7a5280cf305303530e9 (MD5) Hemphill and Roback - 2014 - Tweet Acts.pdf: 652893 bytes, checksum: 6732c6b80098138db50e55bd2fc54248 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 2014 2014 2014

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2531602.2531735 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/3057 Attribution 3.0 United States http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/ twitter political communication social media Article born digital application/pdf In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/ Open Access HUM / Humanities Illinois Institute of Technology Affiliated department http://hdl.handle.net/10560/islandora:10186