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Political Campaigning in the Information Age

Political Campaigning in the Information Age

Ashu M. G. Solo (Maverick Technologies America Inc., USA)
Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 359
ISBN13: 9781466660625|ISBN10: 1466660627|EISBN13: 9781466660632
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-6062-5
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Technology and the Internet especially have brought on major changes to politics and are playing an increasingly important role in political campaigns, communications, and messaging.

Political Campaigning in the Information Age increases our understanding of aspects and methods for political campaigning, messaging, and communications in the information age. Each chapter analyzes political campaigning, its methods, the effectiveness of these methods, and tools for analyzing these methods. This book will aid political operatives in increasing the effectiveness of political campaigns and communications and will be of use to researchers, political campaign staff, politicians and their staff, political and public policy analysts, political scientists, engineers, computer scientists, journalists, academicians, students, and professionals.

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Front Materials
Title Page
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Copyright Page
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Advances in Human and Social Aspects of Technology (AHSAT) Book Series
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Editorial Advisory Board and List of Reviewers
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Preface
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Chapters
Chapter 1
Kamil Demirhan (Hacettepe University, Turkey)
This chapter analyzes the capacity of social media usage and the social media strategies of political parties that became the members of Turkish Parliament after 2011 election. The social media usage increases in parallel to the...
Relationship between Social Media and Political Parties: The Case of Turkey
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Chapter 2
Sónia Pedro Sebastião (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal), Alice Donat Trindade (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
This chapter demonstrates how Web social media can be used in different ways to create more personalized or more impersonal messages in political public relations campaigns. When everyone is awakening to the potential of these social...
Social Media in Political Public Relations: The Cases of the Portuguese Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the Socialist Party (PS) in the 2009 Parliamentary Campaign
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Chapter 3
Jakob Svensson (Uppsala University, Sweden)
This chapter explores the rationalities of politicians' social media uses in Web-campaigning in a party-based democracy. This is done from an in-depth case study of a Swedish politician, Nina Larsson, who with the help of a PR...
Amplification and Virtual Back-Patting: The Rationalities of Social Media Uses in the Nina Larsson Web Campaign
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Chapter 4
Cristian Vaccari (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK & University of Bologna, Italy)
This chapter investigates the characteristics of parties' Websites during the campaign for the 2009 European Parliament elections. The study focuses on 5 Western and Southern European countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and...
A Europe Wide Web?: Political Parties' Websites in the 2009 European Parliament Elections
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Chapter 5
Ilona Biernacka-Ligieza (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Poland)
This chapter is an analysis of the voting campaigns in Poland before the local elections in 2002, 2006, and 2010. The 2002 election was chosen as the starting point of the analysis because of the following facts: 1) those were the...
New Media in the Process of Shaping Local Democracy: The Case of Poland
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Chapter 6
Georgios Lappas (Technological Education Institute of Western Macedonia, Greece), Prodromos Yannas (Technological Education Institute of Piraeus, Greece), Amalia Triantafillidou (Technological Education Institute of Western Macedonia, Greece), Alexandros Kleftodimos (Technological Education Institute of Western Macedonia, Greece)
Web 2.0 has transformed user involvement and has created more active, more engaged, more participative, and more demanding users, citizens, and voters. This chapter explores the use of Facebook by candidates during the November 2010...
Online Political Marketing: The Use of Facebook in the 2010 Greek Municipal Elections
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Chapter 7
Kevin Wallsten (California State University – Long Beach, USA)
A particularly important question that has yet to be addressed about microblogging is the extent to which tweeting from politicians influences the traditional media's news coverage. This chapter seeks to address this oversight by...
Microblogging and the News: Political Elites and the Ultimate Retweet
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Chapter 8
G. R. Boynton (University of Iowa, USA), Glenn W. Richardson Jr. (Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Analysis of the audiences for the state of the union addresses on Twitter from 2010-2012 provides analytical leverage in unpacking the concept of audience, which has largely inhabited an analytical “black box,” seen as of critical...
Reframing Audience: Co-Motion at #SOTU
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Chapter 9
Robert Klotz (University of Southern Maine, USA)
This chapter empirically, longitudinally, and systematically examines U.S. Senate campaign information on YouTube over three election cycles. The Internet broadcast yourself world of YouTube offers some sharp contrasts to the...
Sources and Formats of Campaign Information on YouTube
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Chapter 10
Tom Carlson (Åbo Akademi University, Finland), Göran Djupsund (Åbo Akademi University, Finland), Kim Strandberg (Åbo Akademi University, Finland)
This chapter examines whether exposure to the personal Websites and blogs of party leaders during an election campaign affects the perceptions held by voters regarding the traits of party leaders. Additionally, the effects of Website...
Do Web Campaigns by Party Leaders Enhance the Images of Party Leaders Held by Voters?: Experimental Evidence from Finland
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Chapter 11
Christopher Latimer (Framingham State University, USA)
This chapter is an assessment of the growing use of the Internet by congressional campaigns in the United States to determine whether candidates' Websites are affected by presidential popularity. There is previous research...
Using Presidential Popularity for Understanding the Relationship between President Bush and Congressional Republicans' Online Campaigning: A Preliminary Examination of Representative Websites for the 2002, 2004, 2006, and 2008 Elections
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Chapter 12
Rui Alexandre Novais (University of Porto, Portugal & University of Minho, Portugal & University of Liverpool, UK), Álvaro Cúria (University of Porto, Portugal & New University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Bearing in mind the dearth of inquiry about new media and political campaigns in Portugal, this chapter proposes an unprecedented cross-cutting analysis of the nature of online communication during the period of explosion of the...
A Diachronic Analysis of Portuguese Digital Campaigning
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Chapter 13
Ashu M. G. Solo (Maverick Technologies America Inc., USA)
This chapter describes two new interdisciplinary fields defined by Ashu M. G. Solo called “political engineering” and “computational politics.” Political engineering is the application of engineering, computer science, mathematics...
The New Interdisciplinary Fields of Political Engineering and Computational Politics
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Chapter 14
Ashu M. G. Solo (Maverick Technologies America Inc., USA)
This chapter describes two new interdisciplinary fields defined by Ashu M. G. Solo called “public policy engineering” and “computational public policy.” Public policy engineering is the application of engineering, computer science...
The New Interdisciplinary Fields of Public Policy Engineering and Computational Public Policy
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Chapter 15
Ashu M. G. Solo (Maverick Technologies America Inc., USA), Madan M. Gupta (University of Saskatchewan, Canada), Noriyasu Homma (Tohoku University, Japan), Zeng-Guang Hou (The Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
During a presidential forum in the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign, the moderator, Pastor Rick Warren, wanted Senator John McCain and then-Senator Barack Obama to define “rich” with a specific number. Warren wanted to know at what...
Type-One Fuzzy Logic for Quantitatively Defining Imprecise Linguistic Terms in Politics and Public Policy
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Chapter 16
Ashu M. G. Solo (Maverick Technologies America Inc., USA)
The previous chapter describes the use of type-one fuzzy logic for quantitatively defining imprecise linguistic terms in politics and public policy. This chapter shows the use of interval type-two fuzzy logic for this purpose and the...
Interval Type-Two Fuzzy Logic for Quantitatively Defining Imprecise Linguistic Terms in Politics and Public Policy
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Chapter 17
Bogdan Pătruţ (Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacău, Romania), Monica Pătruţ (Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacău, Romania), Camelia Cmeciu (Danubius University of Galaţi, Romania)
In this chapter, the authors show how, using graph theory, one can make a content analysis of political discourse. The premises of this analysis are: we have a corpus of speech of each party or candidate, as empirical data; speeches...
Using Graph Theory Software for Political Discourse Analysis
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Chapter 18
Darren G. Lilleker (Bournemouth University, UK), Karolina Koc-Michalska (SciencesCom – Audencia Group, France)
Studies of online campaigning tend to focus on the supply side: the way political parties communicate and campaign using the Internet. This chapter explores the online presences of the main candidates and their parties who stood in...
Online Election Campaigning: Exploring Supply and Demand during the France 2012 Presidential Election
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Chapter 19
Norbert Merkovity (University of Szeged, Hungary)
Within the framework of empirical research, the authors sent an email to every member of the Hungarian Parliament. They wanted to know how many representatives would answer their letter within a one-week period. As a next step, they...
Hungarian MPs' Response Propensity to Emails
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Chapter 20
Rosanna De Rosa (University of Naples, Federico II, Italy), Valentina Reda (University of Naples, Federico II, Italy), Tommaso Ederoclite (University of Naples, Federico II, Italy)
The Web and the Internet in general, initially conceived as research tools, have now become a proper research subject. As has been the case for the press, the radio, and the television, Social Sciences have developed a specific...
Mapping Research Methodology in Online Political Communication
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Back Materials
Compilation of References
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About the Contributors
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Index
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