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In the past few years, social media has become the most popular communication software, replacing phone calls, text messages, television and even advertisements. Social media has become the most important channel for spreading opinions. As a result of this trend, many politicians have also started to operate social media (Wang, Tsai, & Chen 2019). This study was conducted in order to understand whether there was an intercandidate agenda-setting effect between the Facebook posts of legislative candidates and presidential candidates during the election period, and whether the legislative candidates' Facebook posts were influenced by the presidential candidates' Facebook posts. The target population of this study was the three presidential candidates in Taiwan's 2020 presidential election — Dr. Tsai Ing-Wen, Mr. Han Kuo-Yu, and Mr. James Soong — as well as the 36 legislative candidates in Taipei, Taichung, and Kaohsiung.
The study focused on Facebook posts from 1thNovember 2019 to 10th January 2020, 10 weeks before the voting day. Text-mining and cosine similarity were used to organize the posts and compare the similarity between posts. Finally, the similarity between posts was presented as a line graph.
The study revealed that there was an inter-candidate agenda-setting effect between legislative candidate posts and presidential candidate posts, and that Dr. Tsai Ing-Wen, who was also the incumbent president during the campaign, was the most influential Facebook poster during the entire election.
Future research is proposed on the inter-candidate agenda-setting effect only analyzing the similarity of posts among the candidates to discuss the influence of the candidates' Facebook agenda-setting during a specific election period.
This is the first study in which the Facebook posts of Taiwanese politicians are analyzed and the relationships were analyzed and the relationships were systematically compared, across multiple degrees, which opens up a whole new subject for future elections in Taiwan.
The topic of soulbound, non-transferable tokens is getting lots of interest within the blockchain space lately as decentralized societies become more tangible with Web3 social media applications and DAOs. In this article, I want to outline how such tokens function, their problems for adoption and standardization, and how they differ from verifiable credentials in the SSI field. As such soulbound assets will likely rely on extended recovery and asset management schemes to become viable identities that safely gain reputation and trust, features like social recovery and contract-based accounting are incorporated. By combining those new technologies and the theoretical crypto-native identity construct, the paper will give an impression of the future user-centric data economy.
Social media platforms play an increasing role in marketing, politics and police affairs, because they can strongly influence opinions. So called “opinion leaders” exert their influence in a given network and shape the opinions of other users. Identifying central nodes in a social graph has been of interest for decades. However, not all centrality measures were developed for social media platforms. They were built for social graphs, which did not include additional metrics (e.g. “likes”, “shares”). Nevertheless, these metrics play a crucial role on modern platforms. Hence, outdated measures need to be adjusted and additional metrics need to be integrated to ensure the best possible results.