Twitter use in election campaigns: A systematic literature review

A Jungherr - Journal of information technology & politics, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Twitter has become a pervasive tool in election campaigns. Candidates, parties, journalists,
and a steadily increasing share of the public are using Twitter to comment on, interact …

Big data: Methodological challenges and approaches for sociological analysis

R Tinati, S Halford, L Carr, C Pope - Sociology, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
The emergence of Big Data is both promising and challenging for social research. This
article suggests that realising this promise has been restricted by the methods applied in …

Twitter as arena for the authentic outsider: exploring the social media campaigns of Trump and Clinton in the 2016 US presidential election

G Enli - European journal of communication, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
In the 2016 US presidential election campaign, social media platforms were increasingly
used as direct sources of news, bypassing the editorial media. With the candidates' millions …

The digital architectures of social media: Comparing political campaigning on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat in the 2016 US election

M Bossetta - Journalism & mass communication quarterly, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
The present study argues that political communication on social media is mediated by a
platform's digital architecture—the technical protocols that enable, constrain, and shape user …

The emergence of network media logic in political communication: A theoretical approach

U Klinger, J Svensson - New media & society, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article we propose a concept of network media logic in order to discuss how online
social media platforms change political communication without resorting to technological …

[HTML][HTML] The role of administrative data in the big data revolution in social science research

R Connelly, CJ Playford, V Gayle, C Dibben - Social science research, 2016 - Elsevier
The term big data is currently a buzzword in social science, however its precise meaning is
ambiguous. In this paper we focus on administrative data which is a distinctive form of big …

Celebrity's self-disclosure on Twitter and parasocial relationships: A mediating role of social presence

J Kim, H Song - Computers in Human Behavior, 2016 - Elsevier
This study investigated how celebrities' self-disclosure on personal social media accounts,
particularly Twitter, affects fans' perceptions. An online survey was utilized among a sample …

Between broadcasting political messages and interacting with voters: The use of Twitter during the 2010 UK general election campaign

T Graham, M Broersma, K Hazelhoff… - Information …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Politicians across Western democracies are increasingly adopting and experimenting with
Twitter, particularly during election time. The purpose of this article is to investigate how …

New platform, old habits? Candidates' use of Twitter during the 2010 British and Dutch general election campaigns

T Graham, D Jackson, M Broersma - New media & society, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Twitter has become one of the most important online spaces for political communication
practice and research. Through a hand-coded content analysis, this study compares how …

Picturing the party: Instagram and party campaigning in the 2014 Swedish elections

K Filimonov, U Russmann… - Social media+ …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
This article explores Swedish parties' activities on Instagram during the 2014 elections.
Understanding party campaign communication as highly strategic, that is, communication to …