Online Israeli politics: the current state of the art

Haleva-Amir, Sharon

doi:10.1080/13537121.2011.584678

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“…As mentioned earlier, many candidates currently use social media technologies to campaign at a more individual level, which is less tied to the overall party campaign. By 2010, more than one-half of all Israeli parliament members had Facebook presence, and in September 2010, 70% of them (84) were active on Facebook (Haleva-Amir, 2011;Livak et al, 2011). Moreover, the fact that all five politicians analyzed in this study maintained a personal Facebook page -independent of their party Facebook page-further strengthens the notion that election campaigns ultimately center on candidates' personality.…”

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Equalization versus Normalization: Facebook and the 2013 Israeli Elections

Samuel-Azran

Yarchi

Wolfsfeld

2015

Social Media + Society

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The question of whether social media grant challengers a fair opportunity to compete with incumbents, thus promoting equalization rather than normalization, is a key issue in studies of the web’s contribution to democratic systems. To contribute to the current debate, whose evidence so far strongly supports the normalization hypothesis, we examined the ability of the five leading political candidates in Israel popularity to promote engagement to their messages on social media by measuring Likes and Shares on their Facebook posts during the 2013 election campaign. Surprisingly, we found that first-time candidate, Naftali Bennett, achieved statistically similar engagement levels as achieved by PM Netanyahu, measured by the two Facebook measures mentioned above, and attracted dramatically more Likes than Netanyahu during the campaign. Similarly, first-time contender Yair Lapid’s messages promoted equal levels of engagement as did the messages of opposition leader Shelly Yachimovich. The study indicates the ability of challengers to generate similar engagement levels as incumbents through social media campaigns, an encouraging result that illustrates the democratizing potential of social media.

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Equalization versus Normalization: Facebook and the 2013 Israeli Elections

Samuel-Azran

Yarchi

Wolfsfeld

2015

Social Media + Society

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“…Different from previous studies which found that communication between parliament and society usually one direction (Haleva-Amir, 2011;Ross & Bürger, 2014), This research showed that local parliamentarians not only use social media to communicate two-way, but also obtain and react to community feedback in their social media. This study also proves that social media is present to improve the quality of parliamentary relations with the community, one of which is by broadcasting online hearings found in the Banten and DIY's House of Representatives.…”

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confidence: 94%

Performer, Reporter, and Marketer: Three Different Local Parliament Faces on Social Media

Marpaung

Santoso

2019

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Indonesian local parliaments have an image as a corrupt, closed, outdated, and unreachable institution in the public’s eyes. However, the parliaments have never tried to more actively developing policies which encourage active community participation. The recent adoption of social media by local parliaments seems to be a sign of the parliament’s willingness to encourage greater community contributions. However, little can be understood about the implications of these activities. Moreover, whether social media contributes significantly to community participation in local parliaments. The purpose of this study is to explore the use of social media by local parliaments. This study employed qualitative multiple case studies by conducting a content analysis on Facebook and Twitter in four local parliaments. This study found three faces of local parliaments on social media which are performers, reporters, and marketers. In general, there has been a willingness of local parliaments to become more transparent and participatory institutions. Nevertheless, the massive adoption of social media to promote more participatory democratic practices was conducted half-heartedly by the local parliaments. Practically, if local parliaments want to use social media to enchance their image, they must publish content that promotes openness such as online assembly and educative information.

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“…In order to examine the issue of gender and political discourse on social media, we measured the support and engagement generated in publicly open discussions on Facebook, concerning male and female politicians, during eight days of the 2021 Israeli election campaign; specifically, the week leading up to the elections themselves and election day. As mentioned above, we focused on Facebook – the most popular social network in Israel – which is heavily used by Israeli politicians to convey their messages and engage with their supporters (Haleva-Amir, 2011; Kabir and Urbach, 2013; Yarchi and Samuel-Azran, 2018). We feel that Facebook serves as the correct platform to examine citizens' political discourse, due to its popularity among Israelis of various sectors (unlike other social media platforms that are used by specific segments of the Israeli society).…”

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The “gender affinity effect” behind female politicians' social media support: facebook civil talk during Israel's 2021 elections

Samuel-Azran

Yarchi

2023

OIR

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PurposeThe study aims to examine the validity of the gender affinity effect on social media throughout election campaigns.Design/methodology/approachThis paper examines the role of gender in political discourse, using citizens' conversations on Facebook in the days leading up to Israel's 2021 elections as its case study. The analysis measured the engagement generated by male and female politicians in citizens' publicly open Facebook discussions (N = 1875) using a trend-tracking software. The analysis uses t-tests to examine differences in engagement between conversations about male versus female politicians and between posts written by male versus female authors. In addition, a two-way ANOVA analysis was conducted in an attempt to understand the shared impact of both the politicians' gender and posts authors' gender on the posts' engagement.FindingsThe study reveals that although more posts discuss male politicians, posts dealing with female politicians expressed significantly more support towards those politicians. The analysis also highlights that women tend to write more supportive posts and that most of their posts deal with female politicians. Furthermore, interaction effect analysis revealed that women's posts about female politicians generate more engagement in terms of likes, comments and number of participants than posts written by women that deal with male politicians.Practical implicationsThe findings should encourage women politicians to run their campaigns via social media.Originality/valueThe study presents the first social media analysis for gender affinity effect and highlights the importance of the effect in online political communication studies.Peer reviewThe peer review history for this article is available at: https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/OIR-04-2022-0199

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Online Israeli politics: the current state of the art

Cited by 23 publications

References 3 publications

Equalization versus Normalization: Facebook and the 2013 Israeli Elections

Equalization versus Normalization: Facebook and the 2013 Israeli Elections

Performer, Reporter, and Marketer: Three Different Local Parliament Faces on Social Media

The “gender affinity effect” behind female politicians' social media support: facebook civil talk during Israel's 2021 elections

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