Ruiloba-Núñez, Juana María Goenaga Ruiz de Zuazu, María
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Frontiers in Political Science
Electoral campaigns are particularly significant moments for identifying the available political options. Social media campaigns have become universal, and every candidate seeks to showcase their proposals and distinct political personality. The main goal of this article is to examine electoral political communication on social media platforms thro...
Mendiburo-Seguel, Andrés Olah, Andrew R. Paez, Dario Navia, Patricio
Published in
Frontiers in Political Science
Both the Theory of Affective Intelligence and the Expectancy Violation Theory suggest emotions are crucial in supporting political candidates. However, despite the considerable existing evidence on this topic, the impact of humor-induced emotions has been less explored. In this study, we examine whether positive and negative emotions mediate the ef...
Beacken, Gabrielle
Online antisemitism rears its head during times of political instability, especially during contentious elections. This paper uses the 2022 Pennsylvania Gubernational governor race as a case study to examine what political topics spur antisemitic expression on Twitter. Both rich political and antisemitism discourses are offered by this election tha...
Steinfeld, Nili Lev-on, Azi
Published in
Frontiers in Communication
Exploring the nexus between digital media and citizens’ exposure to diverse political views is imperative for understanding contemporary democratic engagement. This study builds upon Mutz and Martin’s (2001) seminal research, integrating digital communication channels previously unexamined. Our findings suggest that the interpersonal character of m...
Widholm, Andreas Ekman, Mattias
Published in
Nordicom Review
The digital transformations of contemporary media systems have had severe consequences for democracy and public debates. This introductory article addresses key challenges of what we refer to as varieties of “digital disintegration” within democratic societies. The eight contributions in the special issue are thematised in three parts. The first pa...
Ekman, Mattias Widholm, Andreas
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Nordicom Review
Political communication has taken new and complex forms within the contemporary hybrid media system. In this article, we examine how political campaigning that draws on television news forms utilises the increasingly blurred boundaries between news journalism and politics online. We assess the digital television news channel Riks, which during the ...
Domínguez-García, Ricardo Velasco-Molpeceres, Ana Pérez-Curiel, Concha
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Frontiers in Communication
Disinformation is one of the main challenges faced by modern democratic societies, becoming a crucial focus of study in political communication. Terms such as lie, falsehood, hoax, disinformation, or post-truth have become part of the daily language of the media, featured in numerous scientific studies, and entered political discourse. With the aim...
Koc-Michalska, Karolina Lilleker, Darren Baden, Christian Guzek, Damian Bene, Marton Doroshenko, Larissa Gregor, Miloš Scoric, Marko
CEE countries faced significant political, economic, social, and technological transformations over the last four decades. Democratic processes, after relative stabilisation, tremble again around polarizing values, populist leaders, or nationalistic ideologies. Online communication, especially social media platforms, play a vital role in shaping ho...
Thouverez, Ludivine
Cette contribution s’intéresse à l’utilisation de l’image dans la stratégie de communication mise en place par le mouvement souverainiste catalan Tsunami Democràtic à l’automne 2019. Fondée sur les apports théoriques de Michael Halliday en linguistique systémique fonctionnelle et de Gunther Kress et Theo van Leeuwen en communication visuelle, cette...
Sola Pueyo, Javier de Pascual Santisteve, Ainara
Introduction: The growth in the use of social networks and their advantages have turned Twitter into a crucial channel for political communication during campaign periods. The present research aims to analyze the use of this microblogging platform by the two main Spanish political parties, the Popular Party and the Socialist Party, in the case of t...
