Informing the Public: How Party Communication Builds Opportunity Structures

Popa, Sebastian Adrian; Fazekas, Zoltán; Braun, Daniela; Leidecker-Sandmann, Melanie

doi:10.1080/10584609.2019.1666942

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“…Combining different types of data provides also a far more refined insight on how political information and content impacts individuals differently (Popa et al, 2020;Scharkow et al, 2020;Wells & Thorson, 2017), possibly exacerbating already existing inequalities in political information of high quality. Designs employing digital trace and individual level data are, similarly, able to answer a number of new questions related to political communication during electoral campaigns.…”

Section: Asking Better Questions: the Potential Of Css In Political Cmentioning

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Computational Social Science and the Study of Political Communication

Theocharis

Jungherr

2020

Political Communication

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The challenge of disentangling political communication processes and their effects has grown with the complexity of the new political information environment. But so have scientists' toolsets and capacities to better study and understand them. We map the challenges and opportunities of developing, synthesizing, and applying data collection and analysis techniques relying primarily on computational methods and tools to answer substantive theory-driven questions in the field of political communication. We foreground the theoretical, empirical, and institutional opportunities and challenges of Computational Communication Science (CCS) that are relevant to the political communication community. We also assess understandings of CCS and highlight challenges associated with data and resource requirements, as well as those connected with the theory and semantics of digital signals. With an eye to existing practices, we elaborate on the key role of infrastructures, academic institutions, ethics, and training in computational methods. Finally, we present the six full articles and two forum contributions of this special issue illustrating methodological innovation, as well as the theoretical, practical, and institutional relevance and challenges for realizing the potential of computational methods in political communication..

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Section: Asking Better Questions: the Potential Of Css In Political Cmentioning

confidence: 99%

Computational Social Science and the Study of Political Communication

Theocharis

Jungherr

2020

Political Communication

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“…Providing politically relevant information "is regarded as one of the core functions of political parties as they should help citizens in evaluating the complex and remote world of politics" (Popa et al, 2020).…”

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“…Nevertheless, most European voters have relatively little knowledge about the plans and positions of political parties -especially regarding EU politics and policies (Hurrelmann et al, 2015;Maier, 2009;Popa et al, 2020;Westle, 2013) -and they do not always build their voting decisions rationally (e.g., Downs, 1957;Kepplinger and Maurer, 2005). The reason for this could, on one hand, lie with the voters themselves: they might use political information only sparsely or selectively, process it incompletely, and forget the information received (e.g., Downs, 1957;Lodge et al, 1995;Kepplinger and Daschmann, 1997).…”

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“…The first is party communication (such as political parties' election manifestos, election posters and spots, press releases, etc.). However, numerous studies have shown that voters rarely use political sources of information because they require an active recipient (e.g., Maurer, 2009;Kepplinger and Maurer, 2005;Ohr and Schrott, 2001;Popa et al, 2020). The second is mass media coverage.…”

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“…The second is mass media coverage. Traditional mass media report daily on political events, and citizens often use this political information (see e.g., Maurer, 2009;Maier, 2009;Popa et al, 2020;Schulz, 2011). Furthermore, recipients may receive political information "accidentally" when consuming mass media without actively searching for it.…”

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Communicating Political Positions on European Issues: A Comparison of Parties and Newspapers in Seven Countries

Leidecker-Sandmann

Eugster

2020

Political Studies Review

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This article starts from the observation that most voters know relatively little about positions and plans of political parties, especially when European Union politics is concerned. One reason for this could be that the main sources for political information, party communication and mass media coverage, provide voters only little concrete information about positions and plans of political parties. We ask how concretely, respectively vaguely, political parties and mass media communicate political positions prior to the 2014 European Parliament elections. We conducted a quantitative content analysis of all European Union–related press releases from 46 national political parties and of all European Union–related articles of 14 national quality newspapers from 7 European countries 12 weeks before the 2014 European Parliament elections. Our analysis shows that press releases as well as media coverage contain more concrete political positions on European Union issues than vague political statements. Other than expected, newspaper coverage provided the public with less concrete information than political actors did. Nevertheless, countries vary with regard to the extent to which party communication or newspaper coverage contain vague statements. We cannot find empirical support that the communication of concrete political positions depends on a party’s “extremity” of issue position or on the type of issue.

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Reactions and Implications: How Do the Elite and the Public Respond to Polls?

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Informing the Public: How Party Communication Builds Opportunity Structures

Cited by 35 publications

References 59 publications

Computational Social Science and the Study of Political Communication

Computational Social Science and the Study of Political Communication

Communicating Political Positions on European Issues: A Comparison of Parties and Newspapers in Seven Countries

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