scholarly journals Towards a Critical Understanding of Social Networks for the Feminist Movement: Twitter and the Women’s Strike

Tripodos ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 91-109
Author(s):  
Dafne Calvo ◽  
Eva Campos-Domínguez ◽  
Iris Simón-Astudillo
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Real Potential ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Critical Elements ◽  
Policy Measures ◽  
Critical Understanding ◽  
First Time

The intensive use of digital platforms by the feminist movement has been identified as one of its main characteristics. Numerous studies address the tactical use of social networks by this movement, especially on 8 March in Spain. This paper studies the action repertoires of different actors who participated in the 2019 Women’s Strike conversation, including automated accounts. Empirical results demonstrate that Twitter is not an exclusive field for the feminist movement. Along with activists who promoted and informed the Women’s Strike, political parties proposed concrete policy measures, and conservative factions criticized the movement calling for demobilization. In this sense, for the first time in these M8 mobilizations, bots participated in this polarisation of the debate through partisan hashtags and the dissemination of fake news. The investigation thus confirms that automation techniques and contradictory flows of power are critical elements to understand the real potential of social networks for feminist social change.

scholarly journals Podemos in the Regional Elections 2015: Online Campaign Strategies in Castile and León

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dafne Calvo ◽  
Cristina Renedo Farpón ◽  
María Díez- Garrido
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Campaign Strategies ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Regional Elections ◽  
Complete Transformation

 Internet has revolutionized many aspects in the way that political parties communicate. The Network has induced a complete transformation of the political strategies used during election campaigns to spread their message to the electorate. Politicians use social networks and digital platforms to promote their messages and to communicate with citizens during these periods of time. Facebook has proven to be one of the most effective networks in this regard. The party Podemos was born in 2014 in Spain, surrounded by a deep economic, institutional and political crisis. This political party promises to be a real hope to the negative situation of the country. In the recent years, Podemos has aroused the interest of social scientists because of the innovative way they use social networks. This paper explores the cybercampaign strategies that Podemos used during the 2015 Castile and León regional elections, a region where the population is very different from the party’s average voter. To this end, a quantitative analysis of their activity on Facebook and their website was made during the regional election campaign. The results of this study allow us to observe an ordinary use of the digital tools by Podemos that highlights the engagement achieved with users in Facebook. 

scholarly journals Mediatisation and Rallies during the 2019 Valencian Regional Election: Between ‘media logic’ and ‘political logic’

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 51-66
Author(s):  
Alvar Peris Blanes ◽  
Guillermo López García ◽  
Lorena Cano Orón ◽  
Vicente Fenoll
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Quantitative Methodology ◽  
Autonomous Community ◽  
Know How ◽  
Media Logic ◽  
Media Systems ◽  
The One ◽  
Regional Elections ◽  
First Time

This paper analyses how political rallies develop in an age of intense mediatisation in which politicians and media influence one another. In this connection, we look at the Regional Elections held in the Valencian Autonomous Community in April 2019. For the first time, these coincided with a General Election, so that even more was at stake than usual. We wanted to know how political rallies were designed and what impact they had on both social networks and on television. The data were obtained through a qualitative observational analysis of the key rallies of the main parties taking part in the elections (PP, PSOE, Compromís, Ciudadanos, Unidas Podemos, and Vox). We combined that approach with a quantitative methodology for content analysis of the various rally postings made by parties and their leaders on their official Facebook and Twitter accounts. We also studied À Punt’s TV coverage of the same rallies in its news. On the one hand, the results indicate that election rallies continue to be highly ritualised events. Political parties carefully plan their rallies, always mindful of how these will be reported in today’s highly fragmented media systems — especially in social networks. On the other hand, our study suggests that information on rallies is still tightly controlled by the parties — something that is commonplace in Spanish election campaigns.

scholarly journals NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND THE CURRENT COMMUNICATIONS MODEL IN THE 2018 BRAZILIAN ELECTIONS

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 1056
Author(s):  
Edilene Lôbo ◽  
José Luiz Bolzan de Morais
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Free Thought ◽  
The Impact

This article considers the impact of new technologies in the 2018 Brazilian elections, and investigates the possibilities of changes due to the prominent use of social networks to directly connect citizens and candidates, without the customary intervention of political parties and traditional media. It also questions the role of fake news in the electoral process, and the means to fight it, without undermining free thought, as an essential human right for the practice of citizenship in the new digital age.

scholarly journals Elecciones Generales y redes sociales en el caso de España, 2011 General Elections and social networks in the case of Spain, 2011

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 144-149
Author(s):  
Bruno Castillejo ◽  
Dimitrina J Semova
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Redes Sociales ◽  
General Elections ◽  
Election Results ◽  
Personal Accounts ◽  
The One ◽  
Popular Party ◽  
First Time

General Elections of November 20, 2011 marked a turning point in the use of social networks in Spain for political purposes: on the one hand, was the first time the major parties decided to use social networks in their election campaigns, and on the other, all studies show that small parties won on this field. Given that “the smalls” reached unexpected good election results, therefore we must examine the question of a possible relationship between votes won and presence in social networks. It is also important that the vast majority of messages against politicians came from users participants in the 15-M Movement (“The Outraged”). From their personal accounts they proposed different hashtags attacking the two major political parties: the Popular Party (PP) and the Socialist Party (PSOE).

scholarly journals New technologies, Social Media and Democracy

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (41) ◽  
pp. 253-274
Author(s):  
Edilene Lôbo ◽  
José Luis Bolzan de Morais
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Free Thought ◽  
The Impact

This article aims to consider the impact of new technologies in the Brazilian elections of 2018, questioning about the possibilities of its transformation with the prominent use of social networks to directly connect citizens and candidates, without the customary intervention of political parties and traditional media. It also aims to discuss the role of fake news in the electoral process and the means to fight it, so it does not denature the free thought formation as a human right essential to the practice of citizenship in the new digital age.

scholarly journals BJP Vs Opposition Parties on Twitter: Social Media Strategies for Political Mobilisation During 2018 Karnataka and Telangana Assembly Elections

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (11S2) ◽  
pp. 476-484
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
South India ◽  
Political Campaigns ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Young Voters ◽  
Regional Parties ◽  
Twitter Data ◽  
Equal Importance ◽  
First Time

BJP’s 2014 Lok Sabha win under Narendra Modi was a watershed moment for politicians and social media users alike as it would change the very nature of political dissemination and its consumption. The extensive use of platforms like Twitter, Facebook etc. is reported to have played a crucial role in shaping the minds of first-time voters in favour of BJP. The post-2014 scenario in the country witnessed all main political parties embracing social media and gave it equal importance as compared to traditional tools of communication like newspapers, radio and TV. Twitter has now become one of the favourite tools of politicians for disseminating and interacting with social media users and creating a favourable impression among new and young voters. Though BJP is still the biggest political force on social media in India, the change in digital strategies of other political parties like Congress and Rahul Gandhi also reflected in their rising Twitter engagement levels since 2017. Congress and other regional parties had to rework their strategy and take on BJP’s aggressive political campaigns on digital platforms. The study is aimed to document how some regional parties and prominent leaders in south India transformed themselves as an attractive voting proposition among the electorate during the 2018 assembly elections. This paper analyses comparative Twitter data of BJP, Congress, their top state leadership in Karnataka and Telangana along with leaders of regional parties like HD Kumaraswamy of the Janata Dal (Secular) and KT Rama Rao of the Telangana Rashtriya Samithi (TRS) during the 2018 Karnataka and Telangana assembly elections. It also includes an exhaustive analysis of official Twitter handles of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on metrics like number of tweets, likes, replies with overall volume and engagement during the election campaigns. The paper aims to present a new understanding of how Twitter is being used as a tool for communication by political parties.

scholarly journals Realistic Aspects of Simulation Models for Fake News Epidemics over Social Networks

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 76
Author(s):  
Quintino Francesco Lotito ◽  
Davide Zanella ◽  
Paolo Casari
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Simulation Models ◽  
Epidemic Models ◽  
Time Varying ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Network Access ◽  
Spreading Process ◽  
Network Topologies ◽  
Access Patterns

The pervasiveness of online social networks has reshaped the way people access information. Online social networks make it common for users to inform themselves online and share news among their peers, but also favor the spreading of both reliable and fake news alike. Because fake news may have a profound impact on the society at large, realistically simulating their spreading process helps evaluate the most effective countermeasures to adopt. It is customary to model the spreading of fake news via the same epidemic models used for common diseases; however, these models often miss concepts and dynamics that are peculiar to fake news spreading. In this paper, we fill this gap by enriching typical epidemic models for fake news spreading with network topologies and dynamics that are typical of realistic social networks. Specifically, we introduce agents with the role of influencers and bots in the model and consider the effects of dynamical network access patterns, time-varying engagement, and different degrees of trust in the sources of circulating information. These factors concur with making the simulations more realistic. Among other results, we show that influencers that share fake news help the spreading process reach nodes that would otherwise remain unaffected. Moreover, we emphasize that bots dramatically speed up the spreading process and that time-varying engagement and network access change the effectiveness of fake news spreading.

scholarly journals Are there similarities between the Corona and the climate crisis?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert C. Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Decision Procedures ◽  
Free Rider ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Short Paper ◽  
Political Decision ◽  
Look Back ◽  
Policy Measures ◽  
Climate Crisis

AbstractIn this short paper, I look back at the early stages of the Corona crisis, around early February 2020, and compare the situation with the climate crisis. Although these two problems unfold on a completely different timescale (weeks in the case of Corona, decades in the case of climate change), I find some rather striking similarities between these two problems, related with issues such as uncertainty, free-rider incentives, and disincentives of politicians to adequately address the respective issue with early, farsighted and possibly harsh policy measures. I then argue that for complex problems with certain characteristics, it may be necessary to establish novel political decision procedures that sidestep the normal, day-to-day political proceedings. These would be procedures that actively involve experts, and lower the involvement of political parties as far as possible to minimize the decision-makers’ disincentives.

Fake News im Wahlkampf

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Flint
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Election Campaigns ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Forming Process ◽  
Private Companies ◽  
The Future

The urgency of regulating fake news on social networks regarding election campaigns is more evident than ever. This poses considerable difficulties for legislative practice. It is important to consider the fundamental rights of the parties involved without the state's influence on the formation of public opinion becoming too great. The current options of reacting to fake news do not suffice to ensure a free opinion-forming process. This publication makes an innovative proposal as to how social networks – especially Facebook – can be regulated in the future in such a way that the discourse is strengthened and the alarming influence of private companies on the formation of opinion is limited.

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