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Political Communication and Twitter in Greece: Jumps on the Bandwagon or an Enhancement of the Political Dialogue?

Political Communication and Twitter in Greece: Jumps on the Bandwagon or an Enhancement of the Political Dialogue?

Stamatis Poulakidakos, Anastasia Veneti
Copyright: © 2016 |Pages: 28
ISBN13: 9781466698796|ISBN10: 1466698799|EISBN13: 9781466698802
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9879-6.ch007
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Poulakidakos, Stamatis, and Anastasia Veneti. "Political Communication and Twitter in Greece: Jumps on the Bandwagon or an Enhancement of the Political Dialogue?." (R)evolutionizing Political Communication through Social Media, edited by Tomaž Deželan and Igor Vobič, IGI Global, 2016, pp. 119-146. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9879-6.ch007

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Poulakidakos, S. & Veneti, A. (2016). Political Communication and Twitter in Greece: Jumps on the Bandwagon or an Enhancement of the Political Dialogue?. In T. Deželan & I. Vobič (Eds.), (R)evolutionizing Political Communication through Social Media (pp. 119-146). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9879-6.ch007

Chicago

Poulakidakos, Stamatis, and Anastasia Veneti. "Political Communication and Twitter in Greece: Jumps on the Bandwagon or an Enhancement of the Political Dialogue?." In (R)evolutionizing Political Communication through Social Media, edited by Tomaž Deželan and Igor Vobič, 119-146. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2016. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9879-6.ch007

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Abstract

Social media already serve as a new place for the development of a “public sphere”, hence the exchange of argumentation on issues of public interest. More specifically, Twitter has been rather frequently used by politicians and parties in their attempt to establish a new way of communicating with the electorate. Drawing on the concepts of public sphere and propaganda and by conducting content and thematic analysis on the tweets of the two biggest Greek political parties, New Democracy (ND) and the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), this chapter examines Twitter as a platform of information dissemination and dialogue. The aspiration of this study is to contribute to a growing volume of research that seeks to examine the potential of microblogging to animate political communication and to increase political participation.

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