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Stormzy 1: The Sun 0—Three Reasons Why #GE2017 Was the Real Social Media Election
It could be the first election where the right wing tabloids finally ceded their influence…
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Could Voting Advice Applications force politicians to keep their manifesto promises?
A number of studies have shown that VAA use has an impact on the cognitive…
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Is Left-Right still meaningful in politics? Or are we all just winners or losers of globalisation now?
The Left–Right dimension is the most common way of conceptualising ideological difference. But in an…
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Five Pieces You Should Probably Read On: The US Election
Here are five pieces that consider the interaction of social media and democracy—the problems, but…
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Can we predict electoral outcomes from Wikipedia traffic?
Data show that the relative change in page views to the general Wikipedia page on…
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Rethinking Digital Media and Political Change
What are the dangers or new opportunities of digital media?
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Political polarisation on social media: do birds of a feather flock together on Twitter?
Twitter’s connections tend to be less about strong social relationships and more about connecting with…
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Don’t knock clickivism: it represents the political participation aspirations of the modern citizen
Is an action only ‘political’ if it takes place in the mainstream political arena; involving…
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Finnish decision to allow same-sex marriage “shows the power of citizen initiatives”
It is the first piece of “crowdsourced” legislation on its way to becoming law in…
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The life and death of political news: using online data to measure the impact of the audience agenda
Editors must now decide not only what to publish and where, but how long it…
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Predicting elections on Twitter: a different way of thinking about the data
Social media monitoring, which in theory can extract information from tweets and Facebook posts and…
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Presenting the moral imperative: effective storytelling strategies by online campaigning organisations
Existing civil society focused organisations are also being challenged to fundamentally change their approach, to…