A Test Methodology

I am going to test how different politicians post messages on Twitter and if their political party depends on the tweets that they make. Before I start the investigation, I would need to research and list the politicians and the party that they are in so that I can make cards with their names on. To do this investigation, I would make a fair draw, putting the names of members from each of the 3 leading parties (Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats) who have Twitter into three different containers coordinating with the party that they are in. Then, randomly I would select three names from each container so that it avoids bias in the data sample. This is because I do not want the data to be based on my views.

After finding the data, I will use a random number generator to select a number to look at the tweet that they had. This will mean that I will have no bias in the tweets that I am looking at so I can unbiasly look at the data and analyse how they have used language. From these tweets, I will look at the language that they use with whether they use high or low frequency lexis and their use of slang terms and cliché. This will mean that I can look at whether the party they are in depends on the language that they use of social networks.

To make this ethnical, I will need to ask the permission of the people's tweets that I will be looking at so that I am not just taking the language that they are using and invading their Twitter account. I will keep as many of the variables the same as possible except changing what party the politician is from.