New platform, old habits? Candidates’ use of Twitter during the 2010 British and Dutch general election campaigns
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 British and Dutch Parliamentary candidates used Twitter during the 2010 general elections. We found that Dutch politicians were more likely to use Twitter than UK candidates and on average tweeted over twice as much as their British counterparts. Dutch candidates were also more likely to embrace the interactive potential of Twitter, and it appeared that the public responded to this by engaging in further dialogue. We attrib... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2016 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Graham , T , Jackson , D & Broersma , M 2016 , ' New platform, old habits? Candidates’ use of Twitter during the 2010 British and Dutch general election campaigns ' , New Media and Society , vol. 18 , no. 5 , pp. 765-783 . https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444814546728 |
Schlagwörter: | Comparative research / United Kingdom / Twitter / social media / politicians / Netherlands / Internet / elections / Election Campaign / CAMPAIGNS / Political parties / E-Democracy / Digital Politics / Digital Democracy / Democratic Representation / Internet Studies / POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Studies / New Media / Digital Media / RECIPROCITY / Citizen Engagement / INTERACTIVITY / Members of Parliament |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26824754 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://hdl.handle.net/11370/20c5139f-5066-45a4-b325-8c4fbf27a259 |