“The Facebook Election: New Media and the 2008 Election Campaign” Special Symposium

2009 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 375-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Johnson ◽  
Dave Perlmutter
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
2008 Election ◽  
Special Symposium

scholarly journals Religion and the New Media: Discourses and Debates in the 2018 Fiji General Election Campaign

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Ryle ◽  
Jope Tarai
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Religion And Politics ◽  
General Election ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Media Discourses ◽  
Secular State

This article explores discourses and debates on secularism, religion, and politics in social media in connection with the 2018 Fiji general election campaign, and in interviews with leading figures in churches and religious organisations. It discusses how people responded to these issues. It shows that there is still a pervasive lack of clarity in the Fijian population as to what the terms Christian state, secular state, secularism, and secularisation mean, how people understand, discuss, and debate them, and how this lack of clarity was used politically during the campaign.

scholarly journals Using a Gaming Site to Teach Campaign Strategies in the 2012 US Presidential Election

2014 ◽  
Vol 47 (02) ◽  
pp. 502-508
Author(s):  
Paul R. Abramson ◽  
Alon P. Kraitzman
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Student Participation ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Electoral Rules ◽  
Campaign Strategies ◽  
Campaigns And Elections ◽  
Political Outcomes ◽  
Us Presidential Election ◽  
2008 Election

ABSTRACTDuring the six weeks before the 2012 elections, we conducted a contest for the 54 students enrolled in an upper-division political science course on campaigns and elections. We modified and improved on a similar contest conducted by the first-named author (Abramson 2010) during the 2008 election campaign. Using contract prices posted byIntrade.com, an electronic gaming market in Dublin, we asked students to choose among 10 political outcomes. The contest was designed to help students learn about campaign strategies, understand how electoral rules affect political outcomes, and encourage them to talk about the campaign. We discuss ways we improved on Abramson’s 2008 contest and show that student participation increased substantially.

scholarly journals Playing possum: Straws in the wind of the blogosphere

2008 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Nash
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Special Reference ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Federal Election ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Opinion Polls

This article discusses the blog Possum Pollytics that became very well regarded by its readers, other bloggers and journalists over the course of the 2007 Australian federal election campaign, and examines it for harbingers of the impact of new media on journalists and their publics. The article commences with an account of the main features of the blog, with special reference to its analysis of the voting trends evident in the pre-election opinion polls. It then discusses two issues with respect to the challenge posed by new media uses to professional journalism: firstly, the way that the anonymity highlights the challenge by some bloggers on behalf of publics to the brandname mastheads and journalistic personalities, particularly in the challenging circumstances of no business model for new media; and secondly, that Habermas’ early theorising of the public sphere might re-emerge as a valuable way to understand the current developments.

The Postracial Saint: On Barack Obama

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent W. Lloyd
Keyword(s):  
Black Politics ◽  
Barack Obama ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Concepts And Categories ◽  
2008 Election ◽  
Black President

All saints are, in a sense, post-racial. By definition, saints transcend worldly concepts and categories, but in doing so they draw on the specificity of their worldly features. During the 2008 election campaign and in the early days of his presidency, Barack Obama was represented as saintly. Was this merely a metaphor, or is there something about the theological structure of sainthood that captures Obama’s representation (and self-presentation)? By moving back and forth between analysis of Obama’s image and reflection on sainthood, this chapter attempts to move both conversations about black politics and about sainthood forward, helping us racially inflect our understanding of saints and helping us theologically deepen our understanding of the first black president.

scholarly journals Role of alternative media in the US 2016 presidential election campaign.

nauka.me ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Denis Yaremov
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Presidential Elections ◽  
Alternative Media ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
The Us ◽  
Political Praxis ◽  
Presidential Election Campaign

This article examines the phenomenon of modern alternative media being used during US presidential elections in 2016 as a propaganda tool in order to mobilize widespread political support from groups previously considered fringe. It also aims to clearly define terms such as "alternative media" and "new media" in the context of modern political praxis.

Special Issue on “New Media and Social Psychology”

2006 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-57
Author(s):  
Bernad Batinic ◽  
Anja Goeritz
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
New Media ◽  
Special Issue
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