Emotions of Candidates on Twitter in the 2023 Seville City Council Election: A Second-Order Campaign?

This paper analyses the messages that candidates emitted on the social network Twitter (now called “X”) during the campaign for the 2023 municipal elections in the city of Seville and the emotions they used. This type of electoral process has usually been deemed as second-order elections within mult...

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Autores: García-García, David, Trujillo, José Manuel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universidad Pablo de Olavide (UPO)
Repositorio:RIO. Repositorio Institucional Olavide
Idioma:inglés
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Palabra clave:Twitter
Elections
Emotions
Seville
LIWC
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Emotions of Candidates on Twitter in the 2023 Seville City Council Election: A Second-Order Campaign?
title Emotions of Candidates on Twitter in the 2023 Seville City Council Election: A Second-Order Campaign?
spellingShingle Emotions of Candidates on Twitter in the 2023 Seville City Council Election: A Second-Order Campaign?
García-García, David
Twitter
Elections
Emotions
Seville
LIWC
title_short Emotions of Candidates on Twitter in the 2023 Seville City Council Election: A Second-Order Campaign?
title_full Emotions of Candidates on Twitter in the 2023 Seville City Council Election: A Second-Order Campaign?
title_fullStr Emotions of Candidates on Twitter in the 2023 Seville City Council Election: A Second-Order Campaign?
title_full_unstemmed Emotions of Candidates on Twitter in the 2023 Seville City Council Election: A Second-Order Campaign?
title_sort Emotions of Candidates on Twitter in the 2023 Seville City Council Election: A Second-Order Campaign?
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv García-García, David
Trujillo, José Manuel
author García-García, David
author_facet García-García, David
Trujillo, José Manuel
author_role author
author2 Trujillo, José Manuel
author2_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Twitter
Elections
Emotions
Seville
LIWC
topic Twitter
Elections
Emotions
Seville
LIWC
description This paper analyses the messages that candidates emitted on the social network Twitter (now called “X”) during the campaign for the 2023 municipal elections in the city of Seville and the emotions they used. This type of electoral process has usually been deemed as second-order elections within multilevel governance political systems, implying that the national arena may affect local dynamics to some degree. Thus, the main research objective is to determine the extent to which elements of nationalisation were used in candidates’ rhetoric, along with the emotional components associated with each political formation during a local campaign somewhat relevant on the state level. A total of 960 tweets were retrieved through R Statistics and the Application Programming Interface of the social network itself. They were then analysed drawing upon the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count programme. The results show that certain elements of nationalisation were indeed used by candidates, in addition to emotional-level differences present in their messages. This accentuates the evident need for further research on municipal elections and campaigns, as well as on their potential distinctive features regarding political jurisdiction.
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