Web 2.0 and Politics: The 2008 U.S. Presidential Election and an E-Politics Research Agenda

Wattal, Sunil; Schuff, David; Mandviwalla, Munir; Williams, Christine B.

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“…Las redes sociales irrumpieron con fuerza desde 2002 y muy pronto alcanzaron audiencias masivas: Fotolog (2002), LinkedIn (2003), MySpace (2003), Last.FM (2003), Hi5 (2003), Orkut (2004), Flickr (2004), Facebook (2004), YouTube (2005), Bebo (2005), Ning (2005) y Twitter (2006) (Pérez-Latre, Portilla y Sánchez Blanco, 2011: 64-65). El principal hito en el empleo de las redes sociales en política, propulsor de su uso en otros países, fue la campaña electoral de Obama en 2008, que le llevó hasta la presidencia de los Estados Unidos (Wattal, Schuff, Mandviwalla y Williams, 2010;Cogburn y Spinoza-Vásquez, 2011).…”

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La campaña virtual en Twitter: análisis de las cuentas de Rajoy y de Rubalcaba en las elecciones generales de 2011

Ortega¹,

Azagra²

2014

Hist. Comun. Soc.

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Resumen:Twitter es la red social en Internet que mayor interés despierta para la comunicación política. Este artículo pretende llenar parcialmente la escasez de investigaciones sobre su empleo electoral en España con un estudio de las cuentas de los dos principales candidatos a la presidencia del Gobierno en 2011. Para ello se analizó cuantitativamente el contenido de cada uno de los 2.319 tweets publicados en ambas cuentas durante la campaña electoral con el objeto de conocer los temas de campaña, así como diversas características de los tweets en relación con su nivel de interactividad.Palabras clave: Twitter; comunicación política; campañas electorales. The virtual campaign: Analysis of the Twitter accounts of Rajoy and Rubalcaba in the 2011 Spanish general elections Abstract:Twitter is an online social networking service which has generated a special interest regarding political communication. This piece of research aims to offer one of the first studies about the use of Twitter in a Spanish electoral context through an analysis of the two main candidates' Twitter accounts during the 2011 general elections campaign. To that end a quantitative content analysis was applied to every tweets posted in both accounts (2,319 in total). The analysis focuses on identifying the campaign issues as well as knowing the level of interactivity.

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La campaña virtual en Twitter: análisis de las cuentas de Rajoy y de Rubalcaba en las elecciones generales de 2011

Ortega¹,

Azagra²

2014

Hist. Comun. Soc.

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“…The level of digital activism we see today is likely a precursor to major actions undertaken by the citizens of the future [50]. As technology develops along with citizen IS skills, the opportunity to take direct action through organization, coordination, disruption, information theft, and virtual vandalism increases.…”

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“…Digital activism has allowed political bodies to span boundaries and gain new adherents in record time. For better or worse, information systems (IS) are now an established part of the political landscape [50]. This paper seeks to explore and build theory on the use and impact of digital activism.…”

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Digital Activism: a Hierarchy of Political Commitment

George

Leidner

2018

Proceedings of the 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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“…In traditional mass media and older genres securitization was a problem faced by the political leaders as terrorism has become a major problem but political blogs might provide spaces for securitization discourse that might not be found in previous practices. After the 2008 US presidential election, Wattal et al (2010) investigated the contingent impact of political blogs on the campaign process [20]. Their results showed that the blogosphere can influence the campaign process and the election outcomes.…”

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Social Media Analytics and Intelligence

Jagdale¹

2018

IJCA

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Recent advances in the internet have helped social media to influence many areas of business, marketing, weather forecasting, communication etc. Social media Analytics has become a vital part of the data analytics as the vast population is involved in social media and immeasurable insights can be taken from their activities in the social media websites. In this paper, we summarise different techniques used to analyze social media activities like tweets, blogs, etc., and to present the pros and cons of each. KeywordsKeywords are your own designated keywords which can be used for easy location of the manuscript using any search engines.

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Web 2.0 and Politics: The 2008 U.S. Presidential Election and an E-Politics Research Agenda

Cited by 174 publications

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La campaña virtual en Twitter: análisis de las cuentas de Rajoy y de Rubalcaba en las elecciones generales de 2011

La campaña virtual en Twitter: análisis de las cuentas de Rajoy y de Rubalcaba en las elecciones generales de 2011

Digital Activism: a Hierarchy of Political Commitment

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