How Political Candidates' Use of Facebook Relates to the Election Outcomes

Lin, Hsin‐Chen

doi:10.2501/ijmr-2017-004

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“…Apart Person playing the most number of roles V2565 (38450 roles) V2565 (73900 roles) V2565 (37508 roles) V2565 (68624 roles) from these results, research community has also shown that contacts and actions of those contacts of an individual, influence her/his participation and decision-making process respectively in voting on Wikipedia (Lee et al 2012). Furthermore, our results also seems consistant with the findings of (Lin 2017) and (Spierings and Jacobs 2014) about the importance of contacts of a candidate in electoral outcome on other OSNs e.g. Facebook and Twitter.…”

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“…It is explored that importance of contacts of a candidate in terms of number of fans of a candidate on the Facebook in municipal election carried out in Taiwan. It is found that number of online fans of a candidate is positively associated to the election outcomes (Lin 2017). It has been examined, that the number of followers of a candidate positively contributes towards preferential voting against him, provided that candidate is actively participating in OSNs (Spierings and Jacobs 2014).…”

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Personal vs. know-how contacts: which matter more in wiki elections?

Asim

Niazi

Raza

2018

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The use of social media affects the real world as well. As an example, an election candidate's social media coverage can affect the chances of success. As an example, literature has identified that the same can be predicted by the online public discussions of online social network users about a candidate, besides the use of Twitter by a candidate himself. The contacts of a candidate in terms of number of online fans on Facebook, and number of followers on Twitter are found playing a vital role behind his success. Among many other forms of social media, Wikipedia is a very widely used channel. It is a freely available platform for writers all over the world where people can write and edit articles.Some of its users have more technical access for administration. Such users are selected by carrying out the nominating process in online public elections. The online election data are quite interesting in terms of being an emergent outcome of a large-scale self-organized opinion formation process. However, due to dynamical, and non-linear interactions and presence of mutual dependencies between election participants, the analysis of this data can be cumbersome using traditional statistical techniques. Also, the data of these elections are large and it is difficult to find the exact patterns in this data. For this purpose, social network analysis seems a better alternative for the identification of local and global patterns, locating influential nodes and the contacts behind their influence and examining social network dynamics. As a consequence, this study has to rely on specific social network measures to investigate the interactions between election participants and the importance of their contacts.It investigates whether personal contacts matter more than know-how contacts in wiki election nominations and voting participation by using standard tools such as Pajek and Gephi. It further evaluates the significance of a person's contacts in online wiki elections through a number of different graph-based influence identification methods. Additionally, the basic characteristics and cohesive groups in the wiki vote network are explored. This work contributes by discovering the significance of personal contacts over know-how contacts of a person in online elections. It is found that personal contacts, i.e. immediate neighbors (degree centrality) and neighborhood (k-neighbors) of a person have a positive effect on a person's nomination as an administrator and also contribute to the active participation of voters in voting. Moreover, know-how contacts, analyzed by means of measures such as betweenness and closeness centralities, have a relatively insignificant effect on the selection of a person. However, know-how contacts in terms of betweenness centrality for passing information in the network can positively contribute only to the voting process. These contacts also measured in terms of influence domain and PageRank can play a vital role in the selection of an admin.Additionally, such contacts in terms of reachability and br...

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Personal vs. know-how contacts: which matter more in wiki elections?

Asim

Niazi

Raza

2018

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“…Although it is widely thought that Social Networks have a decisive influence on election campaigns, there seems to be no clear evidence that the use of Twitter and Facebook leads to success in elections. Some scholars identify correlations (Livne et al, 2011;LaMarre & Suzuki-Lambrecht, 2013;Gomez, 2014;Lin, 2017) but most scholars deny them (Vergeer et al, 2011;Strandberg, 2013;Huberty, 2015;Miller Noah & Ko Rosa, 2015;Murthy, 2015;Prémont & Millette, 2015;McGregor et al, 2017). Similarly, scholars are divided on the link between the popularity of candidates and political parties on Social Networks and electoral victory.…”

Section: The Effects Of Social Networkmentioning

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Political communication in Social Networks Election campaigns and Digital Data Analysis: A Bibliographic Review

Corchia

2019

SSRN Journal

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The outcomes of a bibliographic review on political communication, in particular electoral communication in social networks, are presented here. The electoral campaigning are a crucial test to verify the transformations of the media system and of the forms and uses of the linguistic acts by dominant actors in public spherecandidates, parties, journalists and Gatekeepers. The aim is to reconstruct the first elements of an analytical model on the transformations of the political public sphere, with which to systematize the results of the main empirical research carried out in recent years, in particular those conducted with a promising methodology: Digital Trace Data Analysis.

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“…The 2‐minute stump speech expressing the candidate's key focus is used throughout the campaign in all types of settings. With the increasing prominence of social media, it is helpful to have one team member whose job is to optimize constituent support and commitment through this fast and effective type of communication using vivid, interactive posts that build connection and relationships . A prominent social media presence has been shown to increase the odds of winning elections.…”

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How to Run for Political Office: A Primer for Midwives and Other Nontraditional Candidates

Hoover

2019

J Midwife Womens Health

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Service in public office is a laudatory civic activity, and nontraditional candidates such as midwives have much to offer in this role. Newcomers to the political process benefit from basic information about how to run a campaign, raise money, utilize effective messaging, deal with political attacks, and seek endorsements and other campaign support. Midwives encounter ethical and legal implications specific to their position of trust as health care providers. In order to demystify the campaign process for novices, this practical guide to the basics of running for local office has been extrapolated from the experience of one midwife candidate in order to decrease potential barriers to others' political engagement and political ambition.

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How Political Candidates' Use of Facebook Relates to the Election Outcomes

Cited by 36 publications

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Personal vs. know-how contacts: which matter more in wiki elections?

Personal vs. know-how contacts: which matter more in wiki elections?

Political communication in Social Networks Election campaigns and Digital Data Analysis: A Bibliographic Review

How to Run for Political Office: A Primer for Midwives and Other Nontraditional Candidates

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