Politicians and the policy agenda
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Talk for DePaul College of Computing and Digital Media Colloquium series. Based on the paper Shapiro, M. and Hemphill, L. (2016) Politicians and the Policy Agenda: Does the U.S. Congress Direct New York Times Content through Twitter? Policy & Internet. doi: 10.1002/poi3.120
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Politicians and the policy agenda
- 1. POLITICIANS AND THE POLICY AGENDA: How Congress drives NYTimes policy coverage Libby Hemphill, PhD Illinois Institute of Technology
- 2. Thanks for coming! libby.hemphill@iit.edu @libbyh libbyh.com casmlab.org github.com/casmlab ▸ Social media in service of social change ▸ Special attention to power and participation
- 4. 1. AGENDA SETTING AND MAINSTREAM MEDIA How do issues get on the public agenda?
- 5. Agenda setting Public agenda Personal experience and interpersonal communication Policy agenda Media agenda Real-world indicators of the importance of an agenda issue or event Gatekeepersandinfluential media
- 6. Agenda setting Public agenda Personal experience and interpersonal communication Policy agenda Media agenda Real-world indicators of the importance of an agenda issue or event Gatekeepersandinfluential media
- 8. 2. AGENDA SETTING VIA SOCIAL MEDIA How does Twitter change the way agenda setting works? Can indexing theory adequately explain Twitter’s influence if there is any?
- 9. Hypotheses H1: The index of news about a particular policy issue grows in proportion to the breadth of debate about the issue on Twitter.
- 10. Hypotheses H2: The index of news about a particular policy issue grows in proportion to the dominance of one party over the other in its Twitter-based discourse.
- 11. 3. METHODS AND DATA SOURCES Regression Twitter API New York Times API
- 12. 4. CONGRESS AND THE NEW YORK TIMES For some policy issues, Twitter is an effective route to the public agenda.
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- 19. 5. THE BOTTOM LINE Social media is a legitimate route for issues to make it on the public agenda.
- 20. Summary ▸ Social media matters: Congress can influence New York Times coverage of political topics through Twitter. ▸ Partisanship gets attention: effects are strongest when just one party is talking about the topic. ▸ Indexing theory needs an update - or we need to define “debate” differently.
- 21. Open Questions ▸ Does the link between mainstream media and the public agenda still stand? ▸ Does Congress also get their constituents to pay attention through Twitter?
- 22. More questions? Contact me! libby.hemphill@iit.edu @libbyh libbyh.com casmlab.org github.com/casmlab ▸ Social media in service of social change ▸ Special attention to power and participation
- 23. CREDITS Special thanks to all the people who made and released these awesome resources for free: ▸ Presentation template by SlidesCarnival ▸ Photographs by ▹ TNT ▹ Bjoertvedt (Wikimedia Commons) ▹ terimakashi0 (pixabay)
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