Quantifying Social Media’s Political Space: Estimating Ideology from Publicly Revealed Preferences on Facebook

摘要: We demonstrate that social media data represent a useful resource for testing models of legislative and individual-level political behavior attitudes. First, we develop model to estimate the ideology politicians their supporters using on individual citizens’ endorsements figures. Our measure allows us place more than 6 million citizens who are active in same metric. validate ideological estimates result from scaling process by showing they correlate highly with existing measures Congress, self-reported views. Finally, use these study relationship between age, relationships ideology, friend turnout.