Social Media, Parties, and Political Inequalities

Jacobs, Kristof; Spierings, Niels

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“…; Golbeck et al. ; Jacobs and Spierings ). These opportunities allow populist politicians such as Beppe Grillo or Geert Wilders to spread their messages to their voters without any journalistic intervention.…”

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Bipolar Populism? The Use of Anti‐Elitism and People‐Centrism by Swiss Parties on Social Media

Ernst

Engesser

Esser

2017

Swiss Political Sci Review

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Bipolar Populism? The Use of Anti‐Elitism and People‐Centrism by Swiss Parties on Social Media

Ernst

Engesser

Esser

2017

Swiss Political Sci Review

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“…As these candidates use social media to a larger extent, they might also instigate more visibility and mentions among the online public. However, Jacobs and Spierings (2016) note that high-profile politicians (with a network and expertise) are more likely to deploy high-quality presence on social media. Therefore, while the extent to which an individual politician is active on social media may be one pre-condition, it may not be the sole determinant of visibility in social media.…”

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“…Also, since the entire country constitutes a single electoral district, local campaigning gets deemphasized (see also Gattermann and De Vreese 2017). Furthermore, in the Netherlands, a leader in Europe in Internet use, almost every household has an Internet connection (Eurostat 2017) and Dutch politicians are keen users of social media during election campaigns (Jacobs and Spierings 2016).…”

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Understanding the dynamics of politicians' visibility in traditional and social media

Kruikemeier

Gattermann

Vliegenthart

2018

The Information Society

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Understanding the dynamics of politicians' visibility in traditional and social media Kruikemeier, S.; Gattermann, K.; Vliegenthart, R. General rightsIt is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), other than for strictly personal, individual use, unless the work is under an open content license (like Creative Commons). Disclaimer/Complaints regulationsIf you believe that digital publication of certain material infringes any of your rights or (privacy) interests, please let the Library know, stating your reasons. In case of a legitimate complaint, the Library will make the material inaccessible and/or remove it from the website. Please Ask the Library: http://uba.uva.nl/en/contact, or a letter to: Library of the University of Amsterdam, Secretariat, Singel 425, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands. You will be contacted as soon as possible. ABSTRACTThis study examines the extent to which politicians' visibility in traditional news coverage explains individual politicians' visibility on social media, and vice versa. We also explore whether these relationships depend on commonly identified characteristics of individual politicians. We collected data for all elected candidates from the 2012 Dutch national elections covering each 15 days prior to the election day (N D 2250). This includes 2736 newspaper articles and 77,597 mentions on Facebook and Twitter. Our results show that the traditional news agenda and social media agenda impact each other, but that the reciprocal influence is not independent of politician characteristics.

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“…These communication channels provide governments and political parties with the opportunity to interact and engage with citizens more than they did before. Social media represent another channel which allows political actors to promote themselves and directly communicate with the electorate and have direct and inexpensive access to voters (Jacobs & Spierings 2016). The difference between social networks and other e-government websites is that the former allows a higher degree of interactivity, which should lead to increased transparency and trust in ruling political parties and government, whereas the latter does not allow for such interactivity.…”

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The Online Communication of Political Parties and their Leaders Reacting to Street Protests in Romania

Mucundorfeanu¹

2019

JMR

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At the beginning of 2017 massive protests took place on the streets of the biggest cities in Romania, unprecedented in the post-Decembrist history of the country. They were caused by a decree passed by the government that was meant to decriminalize certain offences, including official misconduct. In situations such as social movements on a larger scale, the communication flow on social networking platforms, especially on Facebook, which is the most popular social media platform in Romania, increases exponentially (Tufekci & Wilson, 2012;Valenzuela, 2013). In this context, the present paper focuses on the analysis of the social media communication of the main political parties and their leaders. The communication strategy expressed especially on Facebook is interesting, because it is preferred by a large part of the protest participants (for information regarding Facebook groups of protesters see Adi & Lilleker, 2018). The central question of the present paper revolves around the way in which political parties and leaders communicated during the aforementioned protests. We have carried out a computer-assisted frequency analysis and have analyzed 15 Facebook accounts of the main political parties and their leaders during the period January 18 th -March 5 th 2017, which corresponds to the period of the protests.According to Facebrands.ro, a Romanian monitoring service of Facebook accounts nationwide 3 , in 2017, 50% of users were women and 50% were men. The top three age categories of users are the following: most of them are 25-34 years old (26.83%), followed by users aged 18-24 years old (21.47%) and 35-44 years old (21.15%). Other age groups are the following: 45-54 years old (12.63%), 13-17 years old (9.24%), followed by 55-64 years old (6.16%) and by users aged 65+ (2.53%). Most of them are married (68.04%), while only 22.6% of them are single, 8.2% are in a relationship and 1.09% are engaged. These number and figures show that this social networking platform reaches a significant proportion of Romanian Internet users, considering that almost half of all Romanian Internet users are present on Facebook and most of them are relatively young. This segment of the population that is present on social media is the same segment that represents the working force of the country directly affected by any political action or decision. For politicians, the fact that they can address this population segment directly through this communication tool should be perceived as an asset and should be fully used. Whether this is the case will be shown in the following chapters.We will focus on the created dialogue, or to be specific, on the use or lack of reactions and responses from the main political parties and leaders towards the issues. By using a computer-assisted analysis, we analyzed online materials published by the abovementioned country's representatives on their Facebook profiles during the period of the protests, in order to see how they acted and reacted during the protests, how active (number of posts) and how involve...

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Social Media, Parties, and Political Inequalities

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Bipolar Populism? The Use of Anti‐Elitism and People‐Centrism by Swiss Parties on Social Media

Bipolar Populism? The Use of Anti‐Elitism and People‐Centrism by Swiss Parties on Social Media

Understanding the dynamics of politicians' visibility in traditional and social media

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