Tweeting for Brexit: how social media influenced the referendum
Hänska, M.
& Bauchowitz, S.
(2017).
Tweeting for Brexit: how social media influenced the referendum.
In
Mair, J., Clark, T., Fowler, N., Snoddy, R. & Tait, R.
(Eds.),
Brexit, Trump and the Media
(pp. 31-35).
Abramis Academic Publishing.
& Bauchowitz, S.
(2017).
Tweeting for Brexit: how social media influenced the referendum.
In
Mair, J., Clark, T., Fowler, N., Snoddy, R. & Tait, R.
(Eds.),
Brexit, Trump and the Media
(pp. 31-35).
Abramis Academic Publishing.
Eurosceptic Twitter users outnumbered and out-tweeted pro-Europeans in the EU Referendum campaign, but were more confined into their own echo-chambers than Remainers. Max Hänska and Stefan Bauchowitz analysed 7.5m tweets and found the predominance of Euroscepticism on social media mirrored its dominance in the press.