Social Media in the Constituent Interaction and Mobility: Case Study in the 2017 Jakarta-Indonesia Governor General Election Campaign

The 2019 simultaneous general election formed discourse in society with massive information seeking, rapid information dissemination and discussions related to the general election. Before the election starts, every candidate has the opportunity to campaign. The campaign is an opportunity that is always given to pairs of presidential and legislative candidates. This study aims to describe the search for information about elections by first-time voters and their perceptions regarding campaign props. This study uses a qualitative approach using a case study strategy. The data collection technique used in-depth interviews with four first-time voters who live in Depok, West Java. Based on the results of coding and thematic analysis that has been carried out, there are four main themes that have emerged regarding the search for election information among first-time voters. The four main themes are political engagement, banners as campaign props, social media and information seeking. This study concludes that early voters use social media and campaign props as information source for the election decision.

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Health in the 2018 Italian general election

European Journal of Public Health ◽

10.1093/eurpub/ckz185.780 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 29 (Supplement_4) ◽

Author(s):

S Guicciardi ◽

M Quargnolo ◽

G Moser ◽

R D’Avenia ◽

F Toth ◽

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Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Policy Development ◽

Implementation Strategies ◽

General Election ◽

Election Campaign ◽

Health Issues ◽

Social Relevance ◽

Self Sufficiency ◽

Health Related ◽

General Elections

Abstract Background General elections represent a peculiar moment in which clear positions on relevant topics are more likely to emerge. Therefore, they may serve as a reference point to monitor policy development and to verify decision makers’ accountability. The aim of this study is to systematically examine the proposals on health issues in the manifestos of the 38 parties running in the 2018 Italian general election, comparing them with the contents shared on social media. Methods All the electoral manifestos published on the websites of each party and of the Italian Ministry of the Interior were collected and independently assessed by four evaluators. A list of 48 health themes grouped into 13 main domains into was then consensually created and used to classify the reported proposals. Parties’ official social media accounts (Facebook and Twitter) were subsequently screened for selected keywords to determine the frequency and the content of health-related posts. Results Thirty out of 38 parties included a specific section on health in their programmes or generally addressed healthcare topics. The most covered themes were health promotion and lifestyles, self-sufficiency of fragile populations, management of private healthcare and health workforce, although implementation strategies varied greatly and only in a few cases it was possible to compare them. On social media, health related posts represented less than 1% of the contents shared by any party during the election campaign. Conclusions In the 2018 Italian election campaign the majority of the parties’ manifestos explicitly addressed health issues but, apart from a few exceptions, significant differences were present in the themes and in the proposed solutions, mostly generic. On social media health was almost neglected. Despite its social relevance, health played a marginal role in the 2018 Italian election campaign.

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Christianising Edgar Chagwa Lungu: The Christian nation, social media presidential photography and 2016 election campaign

STJ | Stellenbosch Theological Journal ◽

10.17570/stj.2018.v4n1.a11 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Chammah J Kaunda

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Political Theory ◽

Political Ideology ◽

Political Power ◽

Moral Authority ◽

General Election ◽

Election Campaign ◽

Political Campaign ◽

2016 Election ◽

Christian Nation

This article investigates how the declaration of Zambia as a Christian nation (hereafter the Declaration), presidential photography and social media intersected during Edgar Lungu’s political campaign in the general election of 2016. It is framed within a missio-political theory to analyse qualitative material collected from January 2016 to February 2018 in Zambia. The missio-ethnography approach as an empirical missiological research which sought to analyse how the Declaration discourse has developed into a political ideology used to legitimized Lungu’s political power and moral authority among some Pentecostal-Charismatic religious sector.

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Information Seeking Behaviour of Senior High School Student on General Election in Indonesia

Record and Library Journal ◽

10.20473/rlj.v1i2.1178 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 150

Author(s):

Margareta Aulia Rahman

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

Qualitative Research ◽

Social Media ◽

Political Parties ◽

Information Seeking ◽

Senior High School ◽

General Election ◽

Promotion Strategy ◽

Election Commission

The development of information technology affects students in searching and finding information, particularly information regarding the General Election. Theexplosion of information on mass media about the elections resulted impact (both positive and negative) to the potential voters. Nowadays, media plays role as a tool for political parties to lead public opinion to support their parties. Based on the data provided by General Election Commission (KPU) in 2014, 20% of voters were identified as students (teens). This is a qualitative research with case study methodwhich aims to gain insight about interpretation, understanding, perceptions and feelings of teenage voters’ behavior in searching and finding information about general election in Indonesia year 2014. The data were collected by conducting interview and observation. Informants (six persons) in this study were students, aged 17-18 years, who studying in government senior high school in Depok. The results of this study indicates that informants using social media to keep update about general election. Besides, they also gain information from their parents and close friends. Unfortunatelly, they were not able to identify which information which are correct or not, so they rely on people around them to make sure whether they did right decision. Therefore, this study also suggest that KPU needs to develop promotion strategy that suitable for teens about general election.

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Affect Analysis of Multilingual Tweets for Predicting Voting Behavior

International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering - Special Issue ◽

10.35940/ijitee.b7742.129219 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 1768-1771

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Voting Behavior ◽

English Language ◽

Research Study ◽

Learning Algorithm ◽

Hybrid Approach ◽

General Election ◽

Election Campaign ◽

Language Data ◽

Regional Languages

Social media has been proved as wild card for its role in election campaign across the globe. It has been used for general election of India in year 2014 and year 2019 by political parties for election campaign. Thus social media provides opportunity for electoral prediction. Users from India use regional languages in addition to English language on social media. Multilingual data likely to give better prediction compared to single language data. Affect analysis gives deeper insight compared to sentiment analysis. This research study aims to predict voting behavior for 2019 general election of India using affect analysis of multilingual tweets. Three languages namely English, Hindi and Gujarati are used for this study. Volume-based method and machine learning algorithm based method are two approaches widely used in literature for electoral prediction. In this research study hybrid approach is used along with consideration of ratio of positive count and negative count of tweets. Experiment result shows efficacy of the proposed approach.

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

The Journal of Pacific Studies ◽

10.33318/jpacs.2020.40(2)-4 ◽

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.

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