Policy Considerations on Facebook: Agendas, Coherence, and Communication Patterns in the 2011 Danish Parliamentary Elections
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Policy Considerations on Facebook : Agendas, Coherence, and Communication Patterns in the 2011 Danish Parliamentary Elections. / van Dalen, Arjen; Fazekas, Zoltan; Klemmensen, Robert; Hansen, Kasper Møller.
In: Journal of Information Technology & Politics, Vol. 12, No. 3, 2015, p. 303-324.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Policy Considerations on Facebook
T2 - Agendas, Coherence, and Communication Patterns in the 2011 Danish Parliamentary Elections
AU - van Dalen, Arjen
AU - Fazekas, Zoltan
AU - Klemmensen, Robert
AU - Hansen, Kasper Møller
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Given the importance of issue competition in aWest European context and the growing use of Facebook in elections, this paper studies how politicians use Facebook to shape the campaign agenda.We analyze the issues addressed in 6,388 Facebook posts by candidates in the Danish 2011 parliamentary election. A limited share of Facebook updates is dedicated to issues. The Facebook agenda did not respond to standings in the polls, nor to the media agenda or public agenda. Comparing issue engagement of new candidates and rerunning candidates we find that the Facebook campaign agenda is not simply politics as usual.
AB - Given the importance of issue competition in aWest European context and the growing use of Facebook in elections, this paper studies how politicians use Facebook to shape the campaign agenda.We analyze the issues addressed in 6,388 Facebook posts by candidates in the Danish 2011 parliamentary election. A limited share of Facebook updates is dedicated to issues. The Facebook agenda did not respond to standings in the polls, nor to the media agenda or public agenda. Comparing issue engagement of new candidates and rerunning candidates we find that the Facebook campaign agenda is not simply politics as usual.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - issues
KW - political campaign
KW - Agenda setting
KW - automated content analysis
KW - elections
KW - Facebook
KW - individualization
U2 - 10.1080/19331681.2015.1061398
DO - 10.1080/19331681.2015.1061398
M3 - Journal article
VL - 12
SP - 303
EP - 324
JO - Journal of Information Technology & Politics
JF - Journal of Information Technology & Politics
SN - 1933-1681
IS - 3
ER -
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