Structuring Twitter speeches during the French presidential election of 2017 Structure of speeches within Twitter during the 2017 French presidential election: Between political agenda and social representations ; Structuration des discours au sein de Twitter durant l'élection présidentielle françai...
This study aims to describe and study the exchange of information within Twitter during the election campaign for the French presidential in 2017. Embedded in the theoretical framework of social representations, it consists of investigating the speeches of the support communities of the five main candidates using methods of network analysis and statistical analysis of textual data. The results highlight the weight of psycho-sociological processes that regulate the relationship of social groups to their political environment and how they are updated in the structuring of Twitter exchanges. They show how ideological registration of different political communities can regulate their perception of certain objects of social representation in connection with the presidential campaign. ; International audience This article describes and studies information exchanges on Twitter during the 2017 French presidential election campaign. Grounded in the theoretical framework of social representations, it investigates the discourses of the support communities of the five main candidates, using methods drawn from network analysis and the statistical analysis of text data. The findings highlight the weight of the psycho-sociological processes that regulate the way social groups relate to their political environment, and the way in which this relationship materializes through the structuring of communication on Twitter. This article thus shows how the ideological background of the different political communities can regulate their perception of certain objects of social representation connected to the presidential campaign. ; This study aims to describe and study the exchange of information within Twitter during the election campaign for the French presidential in 2017. Embedded in the theoretical framework of social representations, it consists of investigating the speeches of the support communities of the five main candidates using methods of network analysis and statistical analysis of textual data. The results highlight the ...