TikTok, already widely used before the pandemic, boomed during the quarantine that locked
down large parts of the world, reaching 2 billion downloads and 800 million monthly active …

Social media play an increasingly important part in the communication strategies of political
campaigns by reflecting information about the policy preferences and opinions of political …

While plenty of research has provided important insights into the uses of the Internet by
politicians during elections, a relatively scarce amount of work has looked into these uses …

Many claims have been made regarding the influence of social media like Facebook on
activities undertaken by political actors. While the study of online political communication …

This paper analyses strategic thinking around election campaign communication in a rapidly
evolving media environment, characterized by the rise of digital communication channels …

While a comparably large amount of research has looked into the uses of Twitter at the
hands of politicians, relatively little work has been done how Facebook is being used in this …

While plenty of research have provided useful insights into political parties' use of Twitter,
comparably few efforts have focused on the arguably more popular Facebook service. This …

In this article, we present the new online database Politicians on Social Media (https://www.
politiciansonsocialmedia. com), which is intended for both academics and the public. This …

This article examines political elites and citizens' use of the Web during the 2007 and 2012
French presidential campaigns particularly with the aim of testing the normalization and …

Although conceptual efforts have often suggested that the Internet harbors considerable
possibilities to revolutionize political participation, empirical studies have often presented …