Identifying Concerned Citizen Communication Style during the State Parliamentary Elections in Bavaria

In this case study, we analyze the Twitter-comments of candidates during the 2018 state parliamentary elections in Bavaria, Germany. This paper focuses on the seven most popular parties competing for seats in the parliament. The analysis indicates that the use of language classifies as populism, a political communication style. First, we determine the timing of the election campaigns on Twitter, after that we categorize the posting times of the different direct candidates in order to derive ideal types from our empirical data. Second, use the Dictionary of Concerned Citizens which contains German political language of the right and the far right, to analyze the data with methods of text mining and social network analysis, and afterwards we display the results in a network of words of Concerned Citizen Communication Style (CCCS).