Analyzing public opinions on death penalty abolishment Academic Article

abstract

• A meme consists of any words or images in a text that can be replicated across communicators in the exchange of information. This study tests the Multilevel Model of Meme Diffusion (M3D) in a case study in the digital electronic technology that captures the controversial opinions regarding death penalty abolishment in Nebraska. The objective is to demonstrate that an internet-based study using social media data can be used to analyze and predict social processes engaging with phenomena in real space. The authors utilize the meme death_penalty in Twitter texts to predict public perception of death penalty abolishment in Nebraska. The M3D theory integrates the fields of geography and computer-mediated communication technology to explain and predict public opinion on the death penalty.

authors

• Ye, Xinyue

published proceedings

• Chinese Sociological Dialogue

author list (cited authors)

• Ye, X., Sharag-Eldin, A., Spitzberg, B., & Wu, L.

citation count

• 7

complete list of authors

• Ye, Xinyue||Sharag-Eldin, Adiyana||Spitzberg, Brian||Wu, Ling

publication date

• March 2018

publisher

• SAGE Publications  Publisher

published in

• Chinese Sociological Dialogue  Journal

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1177/2397200918761665

start page

• 53

end page

• 75

volume

• 3

issue

• 1

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2397200918761665