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 Health in the 2018 Italian general election

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (Supplement_4) ◽  
Author(s):  
S Guicciardi ◽  
M Quargnolo ◽  
G Moser ◽  
R D’Avenia ◽  
F Toth ◽  
...  
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.

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

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.

scholarly journals Affect Analysis of Multilingual Tweets for Predicting Voting Behavior

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.

scholarly journals ROLES OF NEW MEDIA IN INDIA POLITICAL LANDSCAPE

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (18) ◽  
pp. 26-42
Author(s):  
Nurul Hidayah Hamid ◽  
Awan Ismail
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Human Life ◽  
General Election ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Bharatiya Janata Party ◽  
The Impact

Today, new media especially social media became an important tool in human life from providing information, communication; discuss an issue to mobilize people. People can do whatever they want just by using social media every time for 24 hours and everywhere regardless of time or place. Moreover, new media either Facebook, Twitter or Youtube use by everyone including politicians these days to share their agenda, besides other methods. In India, the use of new media mainly Twitter seen play an important in Delhi General Election 2014. For example, most of the election participant such as Narendra Modi or and their parties, Bharatiya Janata Party (BPJ) seen using new media extensively in their online campaign to attract the voter. Thus, the purpose of this research is to understand the roles of new media on politic in India and how politician uses Facebook, Twitter or Youtube in their online campaign and spread out agenda. For this purpose, an in-depth interview (qualitative) was used to get the findings on the impact of new media in politics. There is few media organization staff and former worker partook in an in-depth interview. In the end, this study found that new media, of course, can affect people especially when it is being used frequently.

scholarly journals Form of Hate Speech Comments on Najwa Shihab Youtube Channels in The General Election Campaign of President and Vice President of The Republic of Indonesia 2019

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 254-263
Author(s):  
Tsalisa Yuliyanti ◽  
Subyantoro Subyantoro ◽  
Rahayu Pristiwati
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Vice President ◽  
General Election ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
The Republic

Emerging and spreading hate speech online was a growing phenomenon in social media on youtube. Najwa Shihab was a youtube channel that contains shows and comments on political issues in Indonesia, one of them was the 2019 presidential election campaign. The form of hate speech in comments in the Najwa Shihab Channels was forming grammatical construction and construction of the meaning of one hate speech with other utterances. The purpose of this study was to analyze the illocutionary speech acts on hate speech and to analyze hate speech based on the rule of law in Indonesia. The analysis resulted in hate speech on the Najwa Shihab youtube channel audience comments in the General Election campaign in the discourse of the President and Vice President of the Republic of Indonesia in 2019. The approach that used in this study was a theoretical approach, namely a forensic linguistic approach by utilizing pragmatics for data analysis, and a methodological approach, namely a qualitative descriptive approach. The data on hate speech that was analyzed was a fragment of the audience's comments on two programs, namely Mata Najwa and Catatan Najwa. The results showed that there were nine forms of hate speech. Two forms of hate speech were considered to be the style of speech that was widely used by the public in delivering comments on social media. The forms of the speech were "Form of Hate Speech, Assertive Speech - Insult" and "Form of Hate Speech, Assertive Speech - Defamation".  The existence of this form of speech can be a reference for the community to process opinions first before conveying it on social media. It's legally can be used as an offense in cases of hate speech.

scholarly journals Corruption in the "First Order": Predicting the influence of scandal on voting behaviour and media perceptions during a General Election

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Amanda Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
News Media ◽  
General Election ◽  
Party Leader ◽  
News Article ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Voting Behaviour ◽  
The Media

<p><b>This thesis investigates responses in voting behaviour and media perceptions to the presence of media scandals about politicians and associated political parties during the 2017 New Zealand general election. A repeated measures design was used wherein 351 participants were recruited before the start of the election campaign, primarily from an Introductory Psychology course at Victoria University of Wellington. Follow-up surveys were conducted at three time points throughout the two month campaign. Participants were randomly allocated into one of two conditions for each follow-up survey. Half the participants were given a real news article to read about a media scandal, the other half read an article about a policy platform by the same political party. At the end of the election campaign, participants were asked about their voting behaviours. A second study was conducted after Labour Party leader, Jacinda Ardern, was announced Prime Minister with participants recruited via social media sites ‘Twitter’ and ‘Facebook’. In this study, 153 participants recalled information about scandals that were present in the media during the election campaign.</b></p> <p>Results showed that political scandals in news media do have an influence on voter perceptions, but not in an easily predictable way. Prior perceptions of political parties were the best predictors of who participants intended to vote for. Participants responded most strongly to public policy articles rather than scandal information, particularly those more knowledgeable of New Zealand’s political system, and therefore likely more engaged with politics in general. Further, there was evidence that information presented in the media influenced how participants viewed political parties that were not involved in the scandal, which is an important under a proportional voting system like MMP which requires understanding of the relationships between parties.</p> <p>Evidence was also found for a backlash effect towards the media wherein participants who were exposed to scandal information would displayed a decrease in trust towards the general media, consistent with the idea that one reason why voters may not respond negatively to scandal information reflects the decision that the source of the information is not credible. Future research should consider more targeted analysis on the different sources of news media, especially new media like blogs, social media, and entertainment news.</p>

What social media activities reveal about election results? The use of Facebook during the 2015 general election campaign in Croatia

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 327-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Bagić Babac ◽  
Vedran Podobnik
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Significant Rise ◽  
General Election ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Media Campaigns ◽  
Content Type

Purpose Due to the significant rise in the use of social media in recent years, the purpose of this paper is to investigate who, how and why participates in creating content at political social networking websites utilising a content analysis of posts and comments published on Facebook during the 2015 general election campaign in Croatia. It shows consequences of a transition from traditional to social media campaigns and the effectiveness of social media at activating and moving public opinion during the general election campaign. Design/methodology/approach This study uses a data collection through a social media website, a classification of data set items by content attributes and a statistical analysis of the classified data. Findings Building on an empirical data set from Croatia, this study reveals that different political parties implement different election campaign strategies on social media to influence citizens who, consequently, respond differently to each of them. The results indicate that political messages with positive emotions evocate positive response from citizens, while neutral content is more likely to invoke negative comments and criticism, and support to the opponent. Another implication of the results is that two-way and tolerant communication of political actors increases citizen engagement, whereas unidirectional communication decreases it. Originality/value This paper provides an original insight into qualitative content analysis of posts and user comments published on Facebook during the 2015 general election campaign in Croatia.

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