Our work at INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE,  Cologne 2017 

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`Quantifying Attention to Foreign Elections with Text Analysis of U.S. Congress and the Presidency,' by Ashrakat Elshehawy, Nikolay Marinov and Federico Nanni of the University of Mannheim, derives a new measure of attention to foreign elections.

keywords: sanctions, elections, web-scraping, text analysis, event collections  

The article is available for download from SSRN.

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Session 19: Elections (Room: TBA)

 Urban Scaling in US Presidential Elections
Eszter Bokányi, Zoltán Szállási and Gábor Vattay

 The Spread of Fake News on Twitter by Voters During the 2016 U.S. General Election
Kenneth Joseph, Nir Grinberg, Lisa Friedland, William Hobbs, Carolina Mattsson, Stefan McCabe, Lucas Da Silva Almeida and David Lazer

 Revealing the Anatomy of Vote Trading
Omar Guerrero and Ulrich Matter

 Platform effects on social media: Topic salience in a representative survey, Facebook and Twitter during an election campaign
Sebastian Stier, Arnim Bleier, Haiko Lietz and Markus Strohmaier

 Quantifying Attention to Electoral Integrity of Foreign States with Text Analysis
Ashrakat Elshehawy, Nikolay Marinov and Federico Nanni

 The Effect of Missing Translations on Analyses of European Legislative Speech
Laura Hollink, Astrid van Aggelen and Jacco van Ossenbruggen