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## Working Papers

**Understanding Political Communication and Political Communicators on Twitch** <br>
*Under Review* [[Paper]](https://osf.io/9hdej) <br>
*Under Review* [[Paper]](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.05186) <br>
> As new technologies rapidly reshape patterns of political communication, platforms like Twitch are transforming how people consume political information. This entertainment-oriented live streaming platform allows us to observe the impact of technologies such as "live-streaming" and "streaming-chat" on political communication. Despite its entertainment focus, Twitch hosts a variety of political actors, including politicians and pundits. This study explores Twitch politics by addressing three main questions: 1) Who are the political Twitch streamers? 2) What content is covered in political streams? 3) How do audiences of political streams interact with each other? To identify political streamers, I leveraged the Twitch API and supervised machine-learning techniques, identifying 574 political streamers. I used topic modeling to analyze the content of political streams, revealing seven broad categories of political topics and a unique pattern of communication involving context-specific "emotes." Additionally, I created user-reference networks to examine interaction patterns, finding that a small number of users dominate the communication network. This research contributes to our understanding of how new social media technologies influence political communication, particularly among younger audiences.

**The Persistence of Contrarianism on Twitter: Mapping users’ sharing habits for the Ukraine war, COVID-19 vaccination, and the 2020 Midterm Elections** <br>
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