Personalization has become a central concept in discussions on how political news, and
election coverage in particular, has changed over time. The general belief is that the focus of …

The term “personalization” in politics evokes media pictures of French presidents who,
freshly divorced, whisper sweet nothings to former top-models, or of German Ministers of …

The goal of this article is to place the role that social media plays in collective action within a
more general theoretical structure, using the events of the Arab Spring as a case study. The …

Can too much participation harm democracy? Democratic theory places great importance
upon the conduct of elections, but it is not often recognized that the electoral game takes …

What do Beppe Grillo, Silvio Berlusconi, Emmanuel Macron (and also Donald Trump) have
in common? They are prime examples of the personalization of politics and the decline of …

With the weakening of the structural determinants of politics in Western democracies, it is
commonly assumed that individual politicians and politicians as individuals have come to …

With the integration of social media in political communication repertoires, politicians now
permanently campaign for support online. By promoting their personal agenda, politicians …

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 …

This study investigates the content characteristics of Twitter during an election campaign,
and the relationship between candidates' style of online campaigning (ie, politically …

This article describes two opposing types of political personalization: centralizing and
decentralizing personalization. The first implies the centralization of political power in the …