Introduction: Politics in 140 Characters or Less

Galdieri, Christopher J.; Lucas, Jennifer C.; Sisco, Tauna S.

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“…The comparative perspective across the two media allows us to notice differences and similarities in campaign discourse for mainstream media, targeted by official press statements, and social media, through Twitter. Second, I selected Twitter for the analysis of social media use because the platform is a crucial factor in explaining Trump’s political rise and victory (Galdieri, Lucas, and Sisco 2018). I explore further whether Twitter, with press releases, also was a medium to disseminate populist messages during the 2016 electoral race.…”

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Populism and the 2016 American Election: Evidence from Official Press Releases and Twitter

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2018

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In the past year, academics and mass media alike have spoken of populism as a necessary condition for Donald Trump’s success in the 2016 US presidential election. Despite the growing interest in populism for understanding the election, we have yet to provide a systematic analysis of the official campaign discourse and its use of populist rhetoric. To fill this gap, this article proposes an analysis of official campaign statements based on original text data from press releases published from January to June 2016 on campaign websites and tweets published on the official accounts of the three main presidential candidates: Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Donald Trump. Data show that the Sanders and Trump campaigns relied on populist discourse to promote two opposing electoral agendas on the left and the right of the political spectrum. Clinton made limited use of populist discourse, mostly in response to the other counter-candidates.

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Populism and the 2016 American Election: Evidence from Official Press Releases and Twitter

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“…Vastermann, 2018 and Abdi-Herrle, 2018), Twitter's influence on electoral politics (e.g. Galdieri et al, 2018 andKamps, 2020), its interconnections with street protests (e.g. Gerbaudo, 2012 andDang-Anh, 2019) and Twitter as a performance space for the creation of an online persona (e.g.…”

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Digital Europeanism and extending the literary Europeanist discourse: The Twitter feeds of @PulseofEurope and @mycountryeurope

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2023

Journal of European Studies

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This article argues that the study of literary Europeanism should be extended to the discourse of wider textual Europeanism, understood here as a digital Europeanism that examines digital texts, in the widest sense, contextualised within the norms of digital culture. The texts emanating on the platform Twitter from two explicitly pro-European/pro-European Union accounts, one German-language and one largely (non-native) anglophone – @PulseofEurope and @mycountryeurope – were examined from 9 May 2021 to 9 November 2021. In evidence was a type of textual Europeanism that indeed owes a degree of coherence to the norms of digital culture. This was seen in relation to referentiality, that is, the use of already existing and circulating cultural materials for one’s own cultural production. This was evident in commented and uncommented retweets, social TV practices and the Europeanisation of Internet memes. The creation of a sense of communality – the way in which meanings can be stabilised, options for action generated and resources made accessible via a collectively supported frame of reference – is also in evidence and to be seen in the distinct discursive creation of an authoritarian ‘other’. This ‘other’ consists of a temporal ‘other’ – a small number of tweets relating to authoritarianisms of the past; an inner-European Union ‘other’ – tweets relating to movements towards authoritarianism within the European Union, especially in Hungary and Poland; and an external European Union other – tweets relating to authoritarianism on the European Union’s borders, especially in Belarus and Russia.

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“…The influence of Twitter on broadly understood political communication is an undisputed fact in terms of the amount of changes it brought� This social media platform that at the very beginning of its existence was seen merely as Polish Political Science Studies vol. 75(3)/2022 a trivial tool, built only to share simple facts from users' lives, has now became a powerful instrument that is being analyzed by researchers all around the world (Puschmann et al�, 2014;Rogers, 2014)� No one doubts that it is being used not only for entertainment, but also for politics (quite frequently blurring the line between the two spheres)� There are many works describing the conventional use of this tool during election campaigns (Gainous & Wagner, 2014;Galdieri, Lucas, & Sisco, 2018;Hixson, 2018;Lee & Xu, 2018;Perry & Joyce, 2018;Pfeiffer, 2018), in everyday communication with voters (Maireder & Ausserhofer, 2014;Ott & Dickinson, 2019), or by diplomats in the so-called twiplomacy (Sandre, 2013; Lakomy, 2014)� But there is also a vast literature on less conventional use of Twitter in activism and protests' organization (Norris, 2012;Wolfsfeld, Segev, & Sheafer, 2013;della Porta & Mattoni, 2015;Papacharissi, 2016;Salem, 2015;Tufekci, 2017;Murthy, 2018), or even on the ways how we argue on this platform (Johnson & Cionea, 2020), and on the language that we use there (Zappavigna, 2012)� More and more researchers stress that there is no one way of using this tool and that even citizens of the same country discussing the same issue can differ between themselves and display other user practices� For example, before Donald Trump became the president of the United States of America in 2016, Twitter was seen as a medium used more often by Democrats than Republicans (Marietta et al�, 2018), which proves that certain social media platforms or applications can be associated with certain political views and ideologies� Nevertheless, as we could witness in the 2020 elections, this connection is much more labile than one could think� Literature studying Twitter and social media can be placed on an axis with works characterized by strongly positive approach on one end and those which see it as a threat to democracy as we know it on the other (Bouvier & Rosenbaum, 2020a)� Surely, Twitter leaves no one indifferent�…”

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Litmus Test for a Democratic Public Sphere? Discussion on the Abortion Issue on Polish Twitter

Trzcińska¹

2022

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The paper’s aim is to present key findings of the analysis of the discussion on the abortion issue on Polish Twitter. Social media are believed to be a tool serving the political periphery to participate in political discourse and with the COVID- 19 pandemic they have become crucial in our everyday communication. In this context, the Twitter discussion on abortion issue and Women’s Strike protests that took place in October 2020 in Poland was analyzed. The discussion on the abortion issue itself in many countries brings broader questions on the state of public discourse and democratic processes, and the protests brought even more inquiries about freedom of speech or the right to protest. In total, 68,716 tweets were collected from October 20 till November 15, 2020, and analyzed with MAXQDA software to answer two main research questions: RQ1: Who was shaping the discussion in the analyzed period? RQ2: Were the two sides of the conflict represented in the discussion? The analysis showed great potential that Twitter has for Polish public discourse, but also many obstacles, problems, and even social cleavages manifesting in the analyzed discussion.

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Introduction: Politics in 140 Characters or Less

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Populism and the 2016 American Election: Evidence from Official Press Releases and Twitter

Populism and the 2016 American Election: Evidence from Official Press Releases and Twitter

Digital Europeanism and extending the literary Europeanist discourse: The Twitter feeds of @PulseofEurope and @mycountryeurope

Litmus Test for a Democratic Public Sphere? Discussion on the Abortion Issue on Polish Twitter

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