Journalists who cross over to politics: perceived motivations, communicative and parliamentary salience

Silent Partners: How Politicians' Facebook Communication with Constituents is Mediated

“…On the other hand, there are “objective” factors—open to more exact quantification—that could also affect the relationship between MPs and their social media PAs, such as: Professional media experience . MPs who come from the media world might have acquired writing skills and communication abilities over the years, advantaging them over other politicians and over their own PAs in producing social media content (Lev‐On and Mann 2018). MPs running in primary party elections .…”

“…Moreover, MP involvement levels will be affected by their personality traits (Belkacem and Busby 2013; Bürger and Ross 2014; Larsson and Kalsnes 2014). Hypothesis 4b: Objective variables : Following the discussion above, there is an expectation that MPs who had past media employment (Lev‐On and Mann 2018), or who belong to parties that hold primaries (Hermans and Vergeer 2013), or whose level of activity on their Facebook is high, or who belong to Left‐wing parties (Congressional Management Foundation 2011; Marques, Alves de Aquino, and Miola 2014; Williamson 2009), or who are relatively young (Akirav 2014; Larsson 2015; Tenscher 2014), will more intensively be involved with their political Facebook activity.…”