2014
DOI: 10.1177/1461444814546728
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New platform, old habits? Candidates’ use of Twitter during the 2010 British and Dutch general election campaigns

Abstract: Twitter has become one of the most important online spaces for political communication practice and research. Through a hand-coded content analysis, this study compares how British and Dutch Parliamentary candidates used Twitter during the 2010 general elections. We found that Dutch politicians were more likely to use Twitter than UK candidates and on average tweeted over twice as much as their British counterparts. Dutch candidates were also more likely to embrace the interactive potential of Twitter, and it … Show more

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“…After a pilot study, a coding manual was developed, based on earlier research by Graham et al (2013Graham et al ( , 2014 on the use of Twitter by politicians. A set of carefully formulated rules guided the coding process that was conducted on four different levels.…”
Section: Coding Proceduresmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…After a pilot study, a coding manual was developed, based on earlier research by Graham et al (2013Graham et al ( , 2014 on the use of Twitter by politicians. A set of carefully formulated rules guided the coding process that was conducted on four different levels.…”
Section: Coding Proceduresmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As outlined above, there is some debate about the extent to which politicians value and are able to prioritize on-line communication (Gibson and McAllister 2015;Gibson and Cantijoch 2011;Lilleker and Jackson 2013;Marcinowski et al 2014;Nielsen and Vaccari 2013;Vaccari 2014). In part this may be an issue of the skills and experience of the candidates and their campaign teams and their personal campaign priorities, as has been highlighted by McGregor at the national level (2012) and also by Graham et al (2014) in relation to politicians' use of Twitter. The age of the politicians may also be a factor, given the well-established differences in the use of the Internet by age (Ofcom 2014); however, we were not able to capture this in our analysis and so it is clearly an area for further research.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It is worth noting that social media adoption rate not only impacts on citizens' online political practices, but also influences the extent to which political parties use these platforms. For instance, in a study comparing how British and Dutch Parliamentary candidates used Twitter during the 2010 general elections, Graham et al (2016) establish that Dutch politicians were far more active on Twitter than their British counterparts, and link this finding to the longer history and higher popularity of social media in the Netherlands.…”
Section: Research Questions (Rq)mentioning
confidence: 99%