Research

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

Panda A., Gonawela A., Mishra D., Mohapatra M., Chandrasekaran R., Pal J. (2020) “PoliTwictionary with NivaDuck – A scalable database of political Twitter handles for India and the United States.” In: 11th International Conference on Social Media and Society (#SMSociety 2020).

Gonawela A., Kumar R., Thawani U., Ahmad D., Chandrasekaran R., Pal J. (2020) “The Anointed Son, the Hired Gun, and the Chai Wala: Antipathy and Insults in key Politicians’ Tweets in the Run-Up to the 2019 Indian General Elections.” In: Proceedings of the 53^rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
Gonawela A., Pal J., Thawani U., van der Vlugt E., Out W., Chandra P. (2018) “Speaking their Mind: Populist Style and Antagonistic Messaging in the Tweets of Donald Trump, Narendra Modi, Nigel Farage, and Geert Wilders,” Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Published Online May 2018
Pal J., Chandra P., Chirumamilla P., Kameswaran V., Gonawela A., Thawani U., Dasgupta P (2017) “Innuendo as Outreach: @narendramodi and the Use of Political Irony on Twitter”. In: International Journal of Communication, vol 11, Pages 4197-4218.
Pal J., Gonawela A. (2017) “Studying political communication on Twitter: the case for small data”. In: Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, vol 18, Pages 97-102.
Pal J., Gonawela A. (2016) “Political Social Media in the Global South”. In: Dwivedi Y. et al. (eds) Social Media: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. I3E 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 9844. Springer, Cham.

Gonawela, A. and A. Parameshwar (2018, April). Paul Kagame: A Transformative Twitter. Poster session presented at the Politicians and Social Media in the Global South Workshop held by the School of Information at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Gonawela, A. and A. Parameshwar (2018, April). Political Twitter in Sri Lanka. Poster session presented at the Politicians and Social Media in the Global South Workshop held by the School of Information at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.