Voting with the Stars: Analyzing Partisan Engagement between Celebrities and Politicians in India

Author:

Kommiya Mothilal Ramaravind1,Mishra Dibyendu2,Nishal Sachita3,Lalani Faisal M.1,Pal Joyojeet1

Affiliation:

1. Microsoft Research India, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

2. Microsoft Research, Bangalore, India

3. Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

Abstract

Celebrity influencers are increasingly central to political discourse as they engage in, and get engaged with, on matters of electoral importance. In this paper, using Twitter data from 1432 sportspersons and entertainers and their engagement with the 1000 of the most followed ruling party and opposition politicians from India, we propose a new method to measure partisanship of celebrities along different modes of engagement. Our examination of polarization, through topical and retweet analyses, shows patterns related to both party incumbency and the level of internal organization. We find that the ruling BJP has been more effective than the opposition, the INC, in organized outreach to celebrities, by eschewing explicit party-based partisanship, and instead employing non-partisan narrative techniques, such as maintaining nationalism as the central theme in tweets. We find that while entertainers are equally engaged by both the ruling and opposition parties, sportspersons, who often enjoy a nationalist appeal by virtue of representing the country, tend to have a much more partisan relationship with the incumbent party.

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Subject

Computer Networks and Communications,Human-Computer Interaction,Social Sciences (miscellaneous)

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