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DİJİTAL SİYASAL İLETİŞİM VE TİKTOK: 2024 ABD BAŞKANLIK SEÇİMLERİNDE KULLANICI YORUMLARININ DUYGU ANALİZİ

Year 2025, Volume: 10 Issue: 1, 216 - 230, 05.06.2025
https://doi.org/10.47107/inifedergi.1606256

Abstract

Siyasal iletişim; hedef kitlenin algı ve tutumlarına etki etme amacıyla gerçekleştirilen stratejik bir iletişim olarak tanımlanabilir. Seçmenler, desteklemeyi düşündükleri adaylar hakkında bilgiye ihtiyaç duymaktadır ve seçim kampanyaları seçmenlerin görüş, öneri ve düşüncelerini siyasetçilerle paylaşabilmelerine olanak tanımaktadır. Siyasal partiler bu dönemlerde kitle iletişim araçları ve dijital medya olanaklarıyla doğrudan seçmene ihtiyaç duyabileceği bilgileri aktarma yönelimindedir. Günümüzde TikTok, seçmenlerle iletişim yoluyla siyasi mesajları yaymak ve kitlelere ulaşmak için tercih edilen sosyal medya platformları arasında yer alması ile de dikkat çekmektedir. Ayrıca dijital siyasal iletişim sürecinde önemli bir platform olarak politikacıların hedef kitle ile etkileşim kurmasında ve kamuoyu algısının şekillendirilmesinde kritik bir rol oynamaktadır. Bu rol 5 Kasım 2024 tarihinde gerçekleştirilen Amerika Birleşik Devletleri (ABD) başkanlık seçimleri süresince de dikkat çekmiştir. Bu bağlamda 2024 ABD başkanlık seçimlerinde dijital siyasal iletişim sürecini konu edinen bu çalışmada, seçimde yarışan Cumhuriyetçi Parti adayı Donald Trump ve Demokratik Parti Adayı Kamala Harris’e yönelik kamuoyu algısının duygusal dağılımları, adayların TikTok paylaşımlarına yapılan yorumlar üzerinden duygu analizi yöntemi ile incelenmiştir. Araştırma bulgularına göre; Donald Trump’ın paylaşımlarına gelen yorumlar, olumlu bir duygusal tonla öne çıkmaktadır. Ancak destek ve bağlılık duyguları ve sosyal/bağlamsal yorumlar gibi daha derin ve kalıcı etkileşimlerin sınırlı olduğu gözlemlenmiştir. Kamala Harris’e ilişkin yorumlar ise büyük ölçüde olumlu olmakla birlikte, destekleyen kitlenin sadakat ve bağlılık oranlarının düşüklüğü dikkat çekmektedir. Dikkat çekici bir bulgu olarak Trump destekçilerinin sadakat ve bağlılık içeren yorumlarının Kamala Harris destekçilerine göre daha fazla olduğu görülmüştür. Sonuç olarak her iki adayın sosyal medya etkileşimleri, destekçilerinin duygusal durumlarını ve toplumsal bağlamda nasıl etkileşimde bulunduklarına dair bir görünüm sunulmaktadır.

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DIGITAL POLITICAL COMMUNICATION AND TIKTOK: SENTIMENT ANALYSIS OF USER COMMENTS IN THE 2024 US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

Year 2025, Volume: 10 Issue: 1, 216 - 230, 05.06.2025
https://doi.org/10.47107/inifedergi.1606256

Abstract

Political communication can be defined as strategic communication with the aim of influencing the perceptions and attitudes of the target audience. Voters need information about the candidates they intend to support and election campaigns allow voters to share their opinions, suggestions and thoughts with politicians. During these periods, political parties tend to use mass media and digital media to provide voters with the information they may need. Today, TikTok as an important platform in the digital political communication process, it plays a critical role for politicians to interact with the target audience and shape public perception. This role also attracted attention during the United States of America (USA) presidential elections held on November 5, 2024. In this context, in this study, which focuses on the digital political communication process in the 2024 US presidential elections, the emotional distribution of public perception towards the Republican Party candidate Donald Trump and Democratic Party candidate Kamala Harris, who competed in the election, was analyzed through the sentiment analysis method based on the comments made on the TikTok posts of the candidates. According to the research findings, comments on Donald Trump's posts are characterized by a positive emotional tone. However, deeper and more lasting interactions, such as feelings of support and loyalty and social/contextual comments, were observed to be limited. Although the comments on Kamala Harris are largely positive, the low level of loyalty and commitment of her supporters is noteworthy. As a noteworthy finding, it was observed that Trump supporters were more likely to comment with loyalty and commitment than Kamala Harris supporters. In conclusion, the social media interactions of both candidates provide a view of the emotional states of their supporters and how they interact in the social context.

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  • Bhandari, A., & Bimo, S. (2020). TikTok and the “algorithmized self”: A new model of online interaction. AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research. The 21st Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers
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  • Bostancı, M. (2014). Siyasal iletişim 2.0. Erciyes İletişim Dergisi, 3(3, 51-58.
  • Brooks, K. E., & Wellman, M. L. (2024). Voters-turned-political influencers: Social media users maintain popularity by cultivating support for 2020 US presidential election candidates. In Social Media Politics (pp. 134-153). London: Routledge.
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  • Cheng, Z., & Li, Y. (2024). Like, comment, and share on TikTok: Exploring the effect of sentiment and second-person view on the user engagement with TikTok news videos. Social Science Computer Review, 42(1), 201-223.
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  • Hindarto, I. H. (2022). TikTok and political communication of youth: A systematic review. JRP (Jurnal Review Politik), 12(2), 146-176.
  • Irak, H. (2022). Siyasal iletişimin dijitalleşmesi: 2018 cumhurbaşkanlığı seçiminde siyasal partilerin Twitter üzerinden karşılaştırmalı analizi. ARTS: Artuklu Sanat ve Beşeri Bilimler Dergisi, (7), 203-234.
  • Isnan, M., Elwirehardja, G. N., & Pardamean, B. (2023). Sentiment analysis for TikTok review using VADER sentiment and SVM model. Procedia Computer Science, 227, 168-175.
  • Lane, J., Ramirez, F. A., & Patton, D. U. (2024). Defending against social media: Structural disadvantages of social media in criminal court for public defenders and defendants of low socioeconomic status. Information, Communication & Society, 27(1), 23-38.
  • Lipschultz, J. H. (2022). Social media and political communication. London: Routledge.
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  • Marquart, F., Ohme, J., & Möller, J. (2020). Following politicians on social media: Effects for political information, peer communication, and youth engagement. Media and Communication, 8(2), 197-207.
  • McNair, B. (2017). An introduction to political communication. London: Routledge.
  • Medina Serrano, J. C., Papakyriakopoulos, O., & Hegelich, S. (2020, July). Dancing to the partisan beat: A first analysis of political communication on TikTok. In Proceedings of the 12th ACM Conference on Web Science (pp. 257-266).
  • Montag, C., Błaszkiewicz, K., Sariyska, R., Lachmann, B., Andone, I., Trendafilov, B., et al. (2015). Smartphone usage in the 21st century: Who is active on WhatsApp? BMC Research Notes, https://bmcresnotes.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13104-015-1280-z, Erişim Tarihi: 18 Aralık 2024.
  • Montag, C., Yang, H., & Elhai, J. D. (2021). On the psychology of TikTok use: A first glimpse from empirical findings. Frontiers in Public Health, 9, 641673.
  • Neyaz, A., Kumar, A., Krishnan, S., Placker, J., & Liu, Q. (2020). Security, privacy and steganographic analysis of FaceApp and TikTok. International Journal of Computer Science and Security (IJCSS), 14, 38–59.
  • Nguyen, T. A., Bui, T. C., & Sokolovskiy, K. (2022). Social media and political communication. Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies, 9(4), 187-200.
  • Özkan, A. (2007). Siyasal iletişim stratejileri. İstanbul: Tasam Yayınları.
  • Postill, J. (2020). Digital politics and political engagement. In Digital anthropology (pp. 165-184). London: Routledge.
  • Reuters Institute. (2023). News topics paid most attention to among social media news users worldwide as of February 2023. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1392866/social-media-news-topics-worldwide/ Erişim Tarihi: 26 Mayıs 2024
  • Saberi, B., & Saad, S. (2017). Sentiment analysis or opinion mining: A review. International Journal of Advanced Science, Engineering and Information Technology, 7(5), 1660-1666.
  • Salazar, A. (2023). Scrolling politics in the politainment era. In Fast Politics: Propaganda in the Age of TikTok (pp. 41-57). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore.
  • Schellewald, A. (2021). Communicative forms on TikTok: Perspectives from digital ethnography. International Journal of Communication, 15(21), 1437–1457.
  • Schellewald, A. (2023). Understanding the popularity and affordances of TikTok through user experiences. Media, Culture & Society, 45(8), 1568-1582.
  • Shah, K., Gerard, P., Luceri, L., & Ferrara, E. (2024). Unfiltered conversations: A dataset of 2024 US presidential election discourse on Truth Social. University of Southern California HUMANSLab–Working Paper No. 2024.8, https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2411.01330 Erişim Tarihi: 20.12.2024
  • Seppälä, M. (2022). Creative political participation on TikTok during the 2020 US presidential election. In At the Breaking Point: Media and Politics in the 2020 US Presidential Election (pp. 84)., https://widerscreen.fi/assets/Seppala3-4.2022PDF.pdf, Erişim Tarihi: 1 Aralık 2024
  • Taylor, S. H., & Brisini, K. S. C. (2024). Parenting the TikTok algorithm: An algorithm awareness as process approach to online risks and opportunities. Computers in Human Behavior, 150, 107975.
  • Tsatsou, P. (2022). Vulnerable people’s digital inclusion: Intersectionality patterns and associated lessons. Information, Communication & Society, 25(10), 1475-1494.
  • Tuncer, U., İcil Tuncer, A., & Demirel, Y. (2025). Siyasal iletişimde lider imajı: 2023 Cumhurbaşkanlığı Seçimlerinde ilk oyunu kullanan z kuşağının algılarının psikofizyolojik veri hasadı tekniği ile analizi. Erciyes İletişim Dergisi, 12(1), 323-344. https://doi.org/10.17680/erciyesiletisim.1529314
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  • We are social and Meltwater. (2024). Digital 2024 Global Overview Report. Datareportal.com: https://datareportal.com/reports/digital-2024-global- Erişim Tarihi: 1 Mayıs 2024.
  • Wolfsfeld, G. (2022). Making sense of media and politics: Five principles in political communication. London: Routledge.
  • Zamora-Medina, R. (2023). Politainment as dance: Visual storytelling on TikTok among Spanish political parties. In Research handbook on visual politics (pp. 228-243). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • Zeng, J., & Abidin, C. (2023). ‘#OkBoomer, time to meet the Zoomers’: Studying the memefication of intergenerational politics on TikTok. In The playful politics of memes (pp. 93-115). London: Routledge.
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Primary Language English
Subjects Communication Studies
Journal Section ARAŞTIRMA MAKALESİ
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Yaren Demirel 0000-0002-8813-0226

Mahmut Enes Ağca 0000-0003-1944-5635

Publication Date June 5, 2025
Submission Date December 23, 2024
Acceptance Date April 9, 2025
Published in Issue Year 2025 Volume: 10 Issue: 1

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APA Demirel, Y., & Ağca, M. E. (2025). DIGITAL POLITICAL COMMUNICATION AND TIKTOK: SENTIMENT ANALYSIS OF USER COMMENTS IN THE 2024 US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. İnönü Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi Elektronik Dergisi (İNİF E-Dergi), 10(1), 216-230. https://doi.org/10.47107/inifedergi.1606256