Political Discourse on Twitter: The Case of Election Fraud in South Korea

• 영문명: Political Discourse on Twitter: The Case of Election Fraud in South Korea
• 발행기관: 한국학술연구원
• 저자명: Jongmyung Lee Daesik Kim Chung Joo Chung
• 간행물 정보: 『Korea Observer』Vol 55, No 1, 101~129쪽, 전체 29쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 정치외교학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2024.03.31

영문 초록

The fake news that circulated on social media in 2020 and 2022 affected the voters of the South Korean general and presidential elections, respectively. The political controversy, centered on the election fraud that occurred in both the elections, received significant attention from the society. This study emphasizes the Twitter discourse and compares the formation and distribution of election fraud. We conduct semantic social network analysis and structural topic modeling (STM) to represent topics and relationships among the emerging themes using Twitter texts related to both elections. Results demonstrate that discourses on the same political issue exhibited unique contents and structures, as information is formed and distributed differently depending on the type of election in South Korea. Furthermore, this study illustrates the process and analysis of large-scale text data collected from Twitter. It also includes new methods, such as political ideology, for considering an analytical dimension.

목차

Ⅰ. Introduction

Ⅱ. Literature Review

Ⅲ. Methods

Ⅳ. Result

Ⅴ. Discussion

Ⅵ. Conclusion

References

키워드

Election Fraud General Election Presidential Election Structural Topic Modeling Semantic Network Analysis