Social network analysis of politician statements on social networks

Abstract

Social networks are an integral part of our lives these days. Most people have an account on some of the many social networks. Social networks are used for various reasons such as to express some opinion or to spreading this opinion. Many subjects take advantage of this situation and one group of such subjects are politicians. This paper aims to analyze the behavior of Czech politicians on social networks. The paper focuses primarily on the statements of politicians on social networks with related characteristics and with specific posts on social networks. The reason why we should be interested in this topic is to control politicians’ behavior that affects also the way they express themselves and how they communicate. We used basic statistical tools and some metrics used for social network analysis to find out how this was done. The outcome of the paper expresses mainly the connection between the individual politicians and length of their posts on social networks. The result in the paper also shows the time distribution of individual posts on social networks.