Who is leading the campaign charts? Comparing individual popularity on old and new media

Aelst, Peter Van; Erkel, Patrick van; D’heer, Evelien; Harder, Raymond A.

doi:10.1080/1369118x.2016.1203973

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“…However, we found some exceptions to the rule-it appears that especially younger politicians, newcomers or those who are not leader of their party are "rewarded" to some extent, as greater visibility on social media gives them more attention in newspapers relative to older politicians leaders. Also in line with Van Aelst et al (2017), we found that left-wing politicians seem to profit from attention on social media, as more visibility on social media increases the likelihood of receiving more attention in newspapers. Also politicians from more extremist parties (compared to more mainstream parties) are more likely to benefit from social media visibility.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 66%

“…It is often suggested that the traditional criteria, such as power and status of politicians, also apply to the social media agenda (see Van Aelst et al 2017), with more attention being given to those who have higher public standing, and hence receive attention by traditional media in the first place. We indeed found that lead candidates benefit from increasing visibility in newspapers compared to other candidates as the former also gain popularity on social media.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, there is empirical evidence that, just as in traditional media, politicians with lengthier careers are more likely to receive more mentions online, for instance on blogs (Lim and Park 2011). Van Aelst et al (2017) note that candidates with better list positions 1 and younger candidates seem to be more popular on Twitter. Interestingly, they found that differences in popularity on Twitter between parties are minimal, only the Flemish nationalist party seems to be more popular on Twitter.…”

Section: Exploring the Conditionality Of The Dynamic Relationshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Scharkow and Vogelsang (2011) show a correlation between the traditional news agenda and the public agenda measured through Google search enquiries about an individual public figure during the 2005 German election campaigns. Van Aelst et al (2017) found that in Belgian election campaigns attention paid by newspapers to individual candidates on Twitter is positively correlated with popularity of these candidates.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For instance, Jacobson (2013) finds that television broadcasts follow up Facebook discussions surrounding a U.S. television show, while Meraz (2011) reveals that blog networks or political blogs can affect traditional media. In addition, Van Aelst et al (2017) found that Twitter popularity positively affected media attention during an election campaign. We therefore expect that candidates' visibility in social media positively affects candidates' visibility in traditional media (H2).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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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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Section: Exploring the Conditionality Of The Dynamic Relationshipmentioning

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Kruikemeier

Gattermann

Vliegenthart

2018

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Saving social media data: Understanding data management practices among social media researchers and their implications for archives

Hemphill

Hedstrom

Leonard

2020

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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Social media data (SMD) offer researchers new opportunities to leverage those data for their work in broad areas such as public opinion, digital culture, labor trends, and public health. The success of efforts to save SMD for reuse by researchers will depend on aligning data management and archiving practices with evolving norms around the capture, use, sharing, and security of datasets. This paper presents an initial foray into understanding how established practices for managing and preserving data should adapt to demands from researchers who use and reuse SMD, and from people who are subjects in SMD. We examine the data management practices of researchers who use SMD through a survey, and we analyze published articles that used data from Twitter. We discuss how researchers describe their data management practices and how these practices may differ from the management of conventional data types. We explore conceptual, technical, and ethical challenges for data archives based on the similarities and differences between SMD and other types of research data, focusing on the social sciences. Finally, we suggest areas where archives may need to revise policies, practices, and services in order to create secure, persistent, and usable collections of SMD.

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Social Media Logic and Its Impact on Political Communication During Election Times

Verdegem

D’heer

2017

Managing Democracy in the Digital Age

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Who is leading the campaign charts? Comparing individual popularity on old and new media

Cited by 41 publications

References 45 publications

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

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

Saving social media data: Understanding data management practices among social media researchers and their implications for archives

Social Media Logic and Its Impact on Political Communication During Election Times

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