Elections and Social Networks around the World

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-57230-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 790 g

Reihe: Politics, Media and Political Communication

This book analyzes the role of social networks during electoral campaigns around the world, taking into account the non-technological particularities (political, electoral, social, economic, cultural) of the media configurations of different countries.

Political parties all over the world engage in real virtual battles to appear at the cutting edge of technology. Providing in-depth case studies from across Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia, and Africa, this book emphasizes the need to study how institutions, culture, and politics shape the processes of technology diffusion in each context. It asks: what are the uses of social networks in election campaigns in different countries? and what are the factors that lead to social networks playing an important role in the elections of a given country? International and comparative in focus, this book brings together work on the uses of social networks (Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), WhatsApp, TikTok, Instagram, Telegram, and more) in the context of an election campaign by different actors (such as parties, companies, journalists, and voters). This book explores the different methodological and theoretical approaches developed for the study of the uses of social networks in an electoral context. The contributors focus on the identification of the “online ecosystem” of electoral actors in each country, studying their strategies and logic. They also analyze the scaremongering rhetoric about the possible effect of social media on elections as an object of study. While taking seriously the issues of polarization, disinformation, or negative campaigning, this book provides understanding of how these work and how their discourses are constructed.

This book will be of great interest to upper-level students and scholars of Political Science, Media, and Communications Studies.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Guevara, Erica

Theviot, Anaïs

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Wahlen und Volksabstimmungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Propaganda & Kampagnen, Politik & Medien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction  PART 1: POLITICAL AND ELECTORAL SYSTEM IN AN HYBRID MEDIA CONTEXT  2. Introduction to Part 1: Political and electoral system in an hybrid media context 3. Gender and Online Campaign Styles in Multimember Districts: The Use of Twitter in the 2022 Congressional Election in Colombia. 4. Digital Communication and Social Media Strategies of Political Actors in Romania 5. Social media communicative power in Ghana’s 2016 and 2020 elections 6. Digital Political Campaigns in Social Media: The First Round of Peru's 2021 General Elections  PART 2: EVOLUTION OF PARTISAN DYNAMICS ON SOCIAL NETWORKS  7. Introduction to Part 2: Evolution of partisan dynamics on social networks 8. Is activism on social media headed for a renewal? A comparative analysis of the profile of cyber-activists and their practices in the United States and in France during the 2020 and 2022 presidential campaigns. 9. Social media communication of the foremost Italian political leaders in the Legislature XVIII (2018-2022). Three key moments and their internet approach 10. India’s Multi-Platform Election Campaigns for Voter Mobilisation 11. Strategy and digital narrative in social networks of Morena's gubernatorial candidates in the electoral process in Mexico 2022  PART 3: PERSONALIZATION AND POPULISM  12. Introduction to Part 3: Personalization and populism. 13. Populism, gender, and social media in electoral campaigns in Central America 14. Populist political communication on Facebook during the EP election campaign and post-electoral period 2019. The Polish case. 15. Social media, electoral politics, and political personalization in Indonesia. 16. Digital Populism, propaganda and the construction of electoral legitimacy in the 2022 Presidential elections in Kenya.  PART 4: POLARIZATION, ECHO CHAMBERS, MISINFORMATION AND CONSPIRACY STRATEGIES AND DISCOURSES  17. Introduction to Part 4: Polarization, echo chambers, misinformation and conspiracy strategies and discourses. 18. Internet Memes in the Conspiracy Feedback Loop of Bolsonarism. 19. Social media use, opinion polarization, social movement participation, and voting: The case of Hong Kong. 20. The dynamics of political echo chambers in the multi-party political system. 21. The political use and depolarizing role of Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp in Ecuador's 2021 national elections. 22. Disinformation, hate speech, and fake news. How much negativity did the parties spread on social media during the 2021 election campaign? 23. Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Erica Guevara is Associate Professor of Communication Studies, and Researcher at the Center for the Study of Media, Technologies and Internationalization (CEMTI), at Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis, France. Her main research interests are media and politics in Latin America, with a substantive focus not only on electoral campaigns but also on the relationships between the media and the state.

Anaïs Theviot is Associate Professor, member of the ARENES Laboratory, and Head of the master’s degree in Public and Political Communication at the Université catholique de l’Ouest, France. She is interested in online partisan activism, electoral campaigns, and the effects of digital technologies on political engagement.