论文标题
表征与政治候选人进行对抗互动的Twitter用户
Characterizing Twitter Users Who Engage in Adversarial Interactions against Political Candidates
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论文摘要
社交媒体为政治人物提供了关键的沟通平台，但也使它们容易骚扰。在本文中，我们表征了使用混合方法技术在Twitter上与政治人物互动的用户。该分析基于40万用户在2018年中期选举之前的两个月内对756名候选人的1.2万用户回复。我们表明，在中等活跃的用户中，对抗性活动与社会图中的中心性降低有关，并增加了对抗方对候选人的关注。与同样活跃的用户相比，高度对抗性用户倾向于与自己的党派候选人进行更少的支持互动，并在其用户个人资料中表达负面影响。我们的结果可以为平台审核机制的设计提供信息，以支持应对在线骚扰的政治人物。
Social media provides a critical communication platform for political figures, but also makes them easy targets for harassment. In this paper, we characterize users who adversarially interact with political figures on Twitter using mixed-method techniques. The analysis is based on a dataset of 400~thousand users' 1.2~million replies to 756 candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives in the two months leading up to the 2018 midterm elections. We show that among moderately active users, adversarial activity is associated with decreased centrality in the social graph and increased attention to candidates from the opposing party. When compared to users who are similarly active, highly adversarial users tend to engage in fewer supportive interactions with their own party's candidates and express negativity in their user profiles. Our results can inform the design of platform moderation mechanisms to support political figures countering online harassment.
