During this marathon research session that went late into the night, we collected and analyzed thousands of tweets about the election, produced 5 excellent blog posts that attracted readers from across Canada and internationally to the lab’s website. As part of our work that evening, we were also fielding questions from reporters and sharing our analysis and findings live on air on Global TV and CBC Radio as part of their special Election Night Coverage. Some of the stories about our work that evening were also featured in May 3rd issue of the Chronicle Herald and on CBC Radio Information Morning Show.

I’m very proud of the Election 2.0 team which also included Amanda Wilk (LIS) and Thomas Robbins (Soc. Anthropology) and the work that we were able to produce during this election campaign. If you missed any of our blog posts about “Canada’s 1st social media election“, you can still check them all out here. In the next phase of this project we will  expand our analysis and correlate our results with actual polling data and the final results from Election Canada. The goal is to produce an article which will explore whether or not it is feasible to predict election results using data from social media.  If you are interested in social media research and you would like to participate in this or other projects at the lab, contact us for more information.