TY - JOUR
T1 - Complex, contemporary, and unconventional
T2 - Characterizing the tweets of the #nativevote movement and native American candidates through the 2018 U.S. Midterm elections
AU - Vigil-Hayes, Morgan
AU - Parkhurst, Nicholet Deschine
AU - Duarte, Marisa Elena
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2019 Association for Computing Machinery.
PY - 2019/11
Y1 - 2019/11
N2 - In the 2018 U.S. midterm elections, a record number of Native American candidates ran for office at all levels of government [85]. To better understand how these 104 candidates intersected with Indigenous political issues and movements to increase Native American voter turnout, we study 723,269 tweets about or by these candidates and 15,476 tweets associated with the #NativeVote movement between October 6, 2018 and February 5, 2019. We use a mixed methods approach to identify issues that emerge in the Native Candidates data set, including issues of representation and protean usage of the “Make America Great Again” hashtag (#maga). When examining the feeds of selected candidates, we find that there can be a disconnect between the issues that candidates align themselves with on social media and the issues that they are associated with by others. We also find evidence of Indigenous issues spanning a vast political spectrum and being coupled with other issues in different ways by different candidates and audiences. Finally, we examine the intersection between Native American candidates and the #NativeVote movement to discover emergent issue networks, including networks around voter suppression and Indigenous political action. Critically, we discuss how our interdisciplinary Indigenous feminist approach to social media analysis illuminates issues of marginalized communities in both a systematic and inductive manner that allows us to discover new patterns and issues with limited a priori knowledge about a complex system.
AB - In the 2018 U.S. midterm elections, a record number of Native American candidates ran for office at all levels of government [85]. To better understand how these 104 candidates intersected with Indigenous political issues and movements to increase Native American voter turnout, we study 723,269 tweets about or by these candidates and 15,476 tweets associated with the #NativeVote movement between October 6, 2018 and February 5, 2019. We use a mixed methods approach to identify issues that emerge in the Native Candidates data set, including issues of representation and protean usage of the “Make America Great Again” hashtag (#maga). When examining the feeds of selected candidates, we find that there can be a disconnect between the issues that candidates align themselves with on social media and the issues that they are associated with by others. We also find evidence of Indigenous issues spanning a vast political spectrum and being coupled with other issues in different ways by different candidates and audiences. Finally, we examine the intersection between Native American candidates and the #NativeVote movement to discover emergent issue networks, including networks around voter suppression and Indigenous political action. Critically, we discuss how our interdisciplinary Indigenous feminist approach to social media analysis illuminates issues of marginalized communities in both a systematic and inductive manner that allows us to discover new patterns and issues with limited a priori knowledge about a complex system.
KW - Indigenous
KW - Mixed methods
KW - Political discourse
KW - Representation
KW - Social computing
KW - Social media
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U2 - 10.1145/3359205
DO - 10.1145/3359205
M3 - Editorial
SN - 2573-0142
VL - 3
JO - Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
JF - Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
IS - CSCW
M1 - 103
ER -