Honors Theses
Date of Award
Spring 5-11-2024
Document Type
Undergraduate Thesis
Department
Political Science
First Advisor
Jonathan Klingler
Second Advisor
Julie Wronski
Third Advisor
Ike Brunner
Relational Format
Dissertation/Thesis
Abstract
This thesis seeks to advance the existing work in the field of political communications through a study of congressional Twitter use. While there has been a significant amount of study focused on presidential Twitter presence, there is less existing literature on the use of Twitter by members of the U.S. Congress. This study focuses on the use of disgust language on Twitter and tests the hypothesis that Republican congressmen and women will have a higher proportion of disgust language in their Twitter presence over time. The hypothesis was unsupported, as the results produce an unexpected outcome that Democratic members of Congress utilize an increased proportion of disgust language throughout the dataset. The findings suggest that further research may produce a more holistic answer to the correlation between party and level of disgust language utilized, and discussion of potential alternative hypotheses is provided in the conclusion.
Recommended Citation
Nichols, Martha, "An Analysis of Congressional Disgust Language on Twitter by Party Identification" (2024). Honors Theses. 3149.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/hon_thesis/3149
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