Twitter analysis

Twitter analysis

Twitter analysis

Twitter analysis

30 April 2018

How German political parties feel about the EU – A Twitter study

By Martina Zaghi

While Merkel is facing crucial political decisions on the EU, we analysed debates on Twitter during last year’s electoral campaign.

16 April 2018

Understanding the Italian vote: a matter of policy agendas

By Alessandro Pellegata and Francesco Visconti

Voter’s agendas suggest unemployment remains the most pressing problem, while immigration is becoming more important compared to previous elections. The polarisation of the issue of immigration played a central role in this year’s electoral campaign and is reflected in the public’s attitude towards the EU.

13 March 2018

How Italy’s Five-Star Movement and the League Won the Twitter Campaign

By Giovanni Pagano, Francesca Arcostanzo and Martina Zaghi

We have followed 1,579 candidates and tracked their Twitter conversations in the two weeks before the Italian parliamentary elections. Also, we collected 400,000 citizens’ retweets and replies to candidates’ tweets.

2 March 2018

Delocalisation in the EU: the Embraco case on Twitter

By Martina Zaghi, Giovanni Pagano and Francesca Arcostanzo

EuVisions collected all conversations about the Embraco case that took place in the Italian Twitter-sphere between February 10 to 25, for a total amount of 50,984 tweets sent by 14,251 users. Many negative opinions were specifically addressed to the EU institutions and actors.

21 February 2018

Italian elections 2018: the Macerata attacks and the issue of immigration. A Twitter study

By Giovanni Pagano, Francesca Arcostanzo and Martina Zaghi

As the electoral campaign intensifies, political heat surrounding immigration remains high. Whatever the outcome of 4 March election will be, the issue of immigration is here to stay.

29 January 2018

Italian elections 2018: the online debate on “Euro-exit”

By Giovanni Pagano

The debate about Italy and the euro is a long-standing one on Twitter. However, the recent events seem to have spiced up the discussion, bringing the topic in the arena of the electoral campaign.

18 December 2017

Do German parties care about Europe? A Twitter study

By Giovanni Pagano, Francesca Arcostanzo and Martina Zaghi

Judging from the political debate on Twitter, the discussion about the European Union was not at the core of the German electoral campaign. However, surprisingly, mainstream parties demonstrated to be more capable than Eurosceptic ones to lead discussions on Europe.

20 November 2017

The Catalan Referendum Seen from Europe: A Twitter Study

By Martina Zaghi

We looked at how the European Twittersphere reacted to the Catalan Referendum in the first few weeks after the vote. From the results, it seems that the European Union (EU) was given an important role in these events.

3 November 2017

UK 2017 snap elections: did “tweeting Brexit” pay off?

By Giovanni Pagano and Francesca Arcostanzo

During the electoral campaign we tracked the Twitter activity of all the candidates in #GE2017 and measured the selective salience that candidates accorded to the Brexit theme. Results showed that tweeting "too much" about Brexit may have counterfired.

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