connecting and collecting on and offline political network data
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From DIMACS Workshop on Building Communities for Transforming Social Media Research Through New Approaches for Collecting, Analyzing, and Exploring Social Media Data http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/SocialMedia/program.htmlTRANSCRIPT
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Collecting and Connecting On and Offline Political Network DataLibby Hemphill
Department of Humanities
Illinois Institute of Technology
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my work in general
Public policy
Social Media
Civic action
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today’s topic
Policy discussion
s
Congress on
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focus of inquiry
Whole populations
Bounded groups with known members
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connecting disparate data sources
offline data
social media data
Better
insight
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Does social media provide an alternate route to influence?
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Nope.
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data sources
My data
Co-sponsorship
Govtrack
ICPSR IDs
Congress.gov
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First, fast movers control the discussion.
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The same people wield influence online and off.
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who’s influential online?
PersonNormalized Connectedness
Speaker John Boehner (R-OH)
1.00
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) .99
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) .94
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) .91
Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) .91
Rep. Tim Griffin (R-AR) .91
Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) .88
Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH) .88
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what’s my point?
Social media data is most useful when we connect to other data sources.
Social media is not an alternate route to influence for politicians.
Male-ness and Republican-ness are still the most reliable routes to power.
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a call to action
Respect expertise beyond the technical
Educate students to be adequate coders and outstanding theorists
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Thank you
Libby Hemphill
Department of Humanities
Illinois Institute of Technology
http://libbyh.com
Who said it first – Congress or the press?
How do constituents lobby Congress via Twitter?
How can we measure the impact of online protests like #stopthensa?
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