A Systematic Review of Predicting Elections Based on Social Media Data: Research Challenges and Future Directions

• Published in: IEEE transactions on computational social systems Vol. 8; no. 4; pp. 819 - 843
• Main Authors: Brito, Kellyton Dos Santos, Filho, Rogerio Luiz Cardoso Silva, Adeodato, Paulo Jorge Leitao
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Piscataway IEEE 01.08.2021; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Blogs; Context; Data mining; Data models; Digital media; Elections; Literature reviews; Machine learning; Modelling; Performance evaluation; Predictive models; Sentiment analysis; social media (SM); Social networking (online); Social networks; social networks (SNs); systematic review; Systematics; Voting

The way politicians communicate with the electorate and run electoral campaigns was reshaped by the emergence and popularization of contemporary social media (SM), such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram social networks (SNs). Due to the inherent capabilities of SM, such as the large amount of avai...