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“I’d have to vote against you”: Issue Campaigning via Twitter
Title
“I’d have to vote against you”: Issue Campaigning via Twitter
Creator
Roback, Andrew, Hemphill, Libby
Date
2012-12-03, 2013
Description
Using tweets posted with #SOPA and #PIPA hashtags and directed at members of Congress, we identify six strategies constituents employ when...
Show moreUsing tweets posted with #SOPA and #PIPA hashtags and directed at members of Congress, we identify six strategies constituents employ when using Twitter to lobby their elected officials. In contrast to earlier research, we found that constituents do use Twitter to try to engage their officials and not just as a “soapbox” to express their opinions.
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Tweet Acts: How Constituents Lobby Congress via Twitter
Title
Tweet Acts: How Constituents Lobby Congress via Twitter
Creator
Hemphill, Libby, Roback, Andrew
Date
2014, 2014
Description
Twitter is increasingly becoming a medium through which constituents can lobby their elected representatives in Congress about issues that...
Show moreTwitter 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.
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Chicago Politicians on Twitter
Title
Chicago Politicians on Twitter
Creator
Hemphill, Libby, Shapiro, Matthew A., Otterbacher, Jahna
Date
2012-03-12, 2012-03-12
Description
This paper uses data from 1,042 tweets posted by or mentioning Chicago Aldermen or Mayor Rahm Emanuel to examine how Chicago politicians use...
Show moreThis paper uses data from 1,042 tweets posted by or mentioning Chicago Aldermen or Mayor Rahm Emanuel to examine how Chicago politicians use social media. Twitter provides a public communication medium in which constituents and their representatives can have two-way conversations that others can witness and record, and we used qualitative and social network methods to examine conversations between Chicagoans and representatives in city government. We coded the contents of each tweet over the two-week time period (e.g., official business, fundraising) and created representations of the social networks created by the users’ following behaviors. These networks indicate who receives politicians’ tweets and help identify the audiences for political messaging in social media. Our analysis indicates that Chicago’s Aldermen and Mayor use Twitter for social conversations more often than political ones, and that only a small number of Aldermen dominate the resulting conversation networks.
Sponsorship: Social Network Research Group at IIT, IIT Graduate College
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Doing What I Say: Connecting Congressional Social Media Behavior and Congressional Voting
Title
Doing What I Say: Connecting Congressional Social Media Behavior and Congressional Voting
Creator
Shapiro, Matthew A., Hemphill, Libby, Otterbacher, Jahna
Date
2012-03-10, 2012-03-10
Description
Public officials’ communication has been explored at length in terms of how such their statements are conveyed in the traditional media, but...
Show morePublic officials’ communication has been explored at length in terms of how such their statements are conveyed in the traditional media, but minimal research has been done to examine their communication via social media. This paper explores the kinds of statements U.S. officials are making on Twitter in terms of the actions they are trying to achieve. We then analyze the correlation between these statements, Congressional communication network structures, and voting behavior. Our analysis leverages over 29,000 tweets by members of Congress in conjunction with existing DW-NOMINATE voting behavior data. We find that pro-social and self-promoting statements correlate with Congressional voting records but that position within the Congressional communication network does not correlate with voting behavior.
Sponsorship: Social Networks Research Group at IIT, IIT Graduate College
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MOTIVES FOR SOCIAL MEDIA USE AMONG PRACTITIONERS AT NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
Title
MOTIVES FOR SOCIAL MEDIA USE AMONG PRACTITIONERS AT NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
Creator
Roback, Andrew J.
Date
2017, 2017-05
Description
I used the motivation concept from activity theory to derive a fundamental notion of why workers at nonprofit organizations (NPOs) use social...
Show moreI used the motivation concept from activity theory to derive a fundamental notion of why workers at nonprofit organizations (NPOs) use social media sites. This study rejects the notion that practitioners are not taking full advantage of social media sites by not using every available feature and engaging in dialogic communication. Existing work relies too extensively on the dialogic model of communication and frequently focuses on only top-tier NPOs, ignoring the context in which smaller NPOs operate and producing recommendations that are of little practical value. To investigate this issue, I reviewed existing best practices as portrayed in NPO social media strategy guides, and used the principles of activity theory to survey practitioners at human services NPOs in Chicago. I collected data on user motivation for using Facebook and Twitter by asking users to review past posts on these sites and describe their purpose in posting this information. Using this information, I trained an automated text classifier to classify a large corpus of posts based on four types of motivations: soliciting, promoting, sharing, and credit-giving. This dissertation builds off recent studies that question existing wisdom on “effective” use of social media by NPOs and argues for an expanded consideration of user agency and intent when using social media.
Ph.D. in Technical Communication, May 2017
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Data from Tweet Acts: How Constituents Lobby Congress via Twitter
Title
Data from Tweet Acts: How Constituents Lobby Congress via Twitter
Creator
Hemphill, Libby, Roback, Andrew
Date
2013-09-19, 2012
Description
Sponsorship: Amazon Web Services Education Grants Program
Data presented in a CSCW 2014 paper titled Tweet Acts: How Constituents Lobby...
Show moreSponsorship: Amazon Web Services Education Grants Program
Data presented in a CSCW 2014 paper titled Tweet Acts: How Constituents Lobby Congress via Twitter. Libby Hemphill and Andrew J. Roback. 2014. Tweet acts: how constituents lobby congress via Twitter. In Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing (CSCW '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1200-1210. DOI=10.1145/2531602.2531735http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2531602.2531735
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DO ACT CONSTRUCTS MODERATE ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN SOCIAL MEDIA AND EATING PATHOLOGY?
Title
DO ACT CONSTRUCTS MODERATE ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN SOCIAL MEDIA AND EATING PATHOLOGY?
Creator
Badillo Regan , Krystal E
Date
2022
Description
Limited research has assessed individuals with disordered eating and their social media use. Additionally, there has been limited...
Show moreLimited research has assessed individuals with disordered eating and their social media use. Additionally, there has been limited investigation into psychotherapy constructs that could be used when addressing social media use in those with eating pathology. This study aims to improve the existing literature on social media and eating pathology by recruiting a sample of probable eating disorders and assessing if Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) constructs moderate the relation between social media and eating pathology. It is anticipated that 1) eating disorder pathology severity will be positively correlated with photo-based social media behavior; 2) eating disorder symptom severity will be positively associated with importance of social media; and 3) those who score higher in mindful eating, body image flexibility, and body image acceptance will have a weaker positive association between ED pathology and importance of social media and those who score lower in body image cognitive fusion will have a weaker positive association between ED pathology and importance of social media mindful eating, body image flexibility, body image acceptance, and body image cognitive fusion will moderate the relation between eating disorder symptom severity and social media use. To test the hypotheses women with a probable eating disorder (N=121) completed online questionnaires via prolific. The majority of participants identified as non-Hispanic (81%) and White (45.5%). Results suggest that there are associations between ED pathology, ACT constructs, Importance of Twitter and Instagram, and photo-based behaviors but not Importance of Facebook. Additionally, the moderation models examined were not statistically significant. Implications of these findings are discussed as well as future direction for research and clinical work.
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