Social Media and Election Campaigns: Key Tendencies and Ways Forward

By Gunn Sara Enli

Book Overview

This book aims to further research in the fields of social media and political communication by looking at stable democracies without current political turmoil, small countries as well as large continents, and minor political parties as well as major ones. Contributors address how politicians and citizens utilize social media, using state-of-the-art methodology and drawing on a combination of qualitative and quantitative analyses. The book explores emerging practices of the mediation of politics, campaign communication, and issues of citizenship and democracy as expressed on social media. This book was originally published as a special issue of Information, Communication & Society.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138085359
• ISBN13: 9781138085350
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"