MPs online: an evaluative study of MPs' use of web sites

Goodchild, Lauren; Oppenheim, Charles; Cleeve, Marigold

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“…Today there are a number of AM and MP web sites and blogs, some of which are using Welsh. In a sample of 50 MP web sites, of the eight who represented a Welsh constituency, one was found to make a full bilingual Welsh/English language provision, whilst another MP wrote of their knowledge of the Welsh language but did not use it on their site (Goodchild et al , 2007, p. 578). The British Computer Society “Best MP Web site Award” for 2007 was given to Adam Price, a Plaid Cymru MP, whose web site is bilingual (British Computer Society, 2007).…”

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Welsh‐language provision on party web sites during the 2007 Welsh Assembly election

Cunliffe

2008

Aslib Proceedings

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent of Welsh-language provision on the web sites of political parties contesting the 2007 Welsh Assembly elections. Design/methodology/approach -Expert inspection was carried out on the web sites of 18 of the 19 parties contesting the election. Goal-directed walkthroughs were conducted on four web sites judged to be making a bilingual provision. Findings -Overall, the Welsh language was highly marginalised. While Welsh-language elements were identified on ten of the 18 web sites, only four web sites attempted to make a bilingual provision. On three of these, a user intending to interact with the web site through the medium of Welsh would still encounter English language content and/or navigation. Only one web site offered a fully Welsh-language experience. Research limitations/implications -This paper only considers the web sites of political parties and presents only a high level analysis. It does not consider the impact of Welsh-language provision on the electorate. Originality/value -This is the first paper to systematically examine Welsh-language provision on party web sites during elections for the National Assembly for Wales. In contrast to many studies of election-related internet activity in the UK, it considers a regional election rather than a UK general election.

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Section: Research Directions and Conclusionmentioning

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Welsh‐language provision on party web sites during the 2007 Welsh Assembly election

Cunliffe

2008

Aslib Proceedings

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“…Besides, the concern with social media for the 2014 election rather than the focus on sites, blogs or forums which had been privileged before was another breakaway from previous work. Finally, despite the coding grids developed in the past by HSS experts (Bastien & Greffet, 2009;Gibson & Ward, 2000;Goodchild, Oppenheim, & Cleeve, 2007;Kluver, Jankowski, Foot, & Schneider, 2007) to organise the collection of data and the reproduction of procedures, the processes involved were generally manual and therefore extremely time-consuming, which explains the reduced number of comparative studies between different countries (S. Coleman, 2006;Hoff, 2004;Lilleker, Koc-Michalska, Schweitzer, & Jacunski, 2011).…”

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Analyzing Digital Politics - Challenges and Experiments in a Dual Perspective

Castel¹,

Vargas-Solar²,

Espinosa-Oviedo³

2020

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Au cours de ces dix dernières années, les réseaux sociaux sont devenus un élément central de la vie politique. Cependant, pour ceux qui s'intéressent à l'analyse des stratégies de communication des partis et des candidats en période électorale, les conséquences de l'introduction d'Internet dans la sphère politique ont été mitigées. En effet, si la recherche, la consultation et l'archivage de documents originaux relatifs à une campagne spécifique sont devenus plus faciles, plus rapides et réalisables à plus grande échelle, ouvrant ainsi un eldorado prometteur pour la recherche dans ce domaine, l'étude des campagnes en ligne a aussi inévitablement introduit de nouveaux défis techniques, méthodologiques et juridiques qui se sont révélés de plus en plus complexes à résoudre pour les chercheurs en sciences humaines et sociales. Le présent document propose donc de fournir un retour d'expérience ainsi qu'une validation expérimentale d'un projet pluridisciplinaire consacré à l'analyse comparative des campagnes politiques sur les réseaux sociaux à l'approche des élections au Parlement européen de 2014 en France et au Royaume-Uni. En plus d'observations formulées du point de vue des humanités sur les problématiques liées à un tel projet, le présent document présente des résultats expérimentaux concernant trois des phases du cycle de vie de la collecte des données : la collecte, le nettoyage et le stockage. Il en résulte une base de données prête à être analysées selon différents angles afin d'aider à traiter le sujet abordé en sciences politiques. ABSTRACT. Social networks have become in the last decade central to political life. However, to those interested in analysing the communication strategies of parties and candidates at election time, the introduction of the Internet into the political sphere has proved a mixed blessing. Indeed, while retrieving, consulting, and archiving original documents pertaining to a specific campaign have become easier, faster, and achievable on a larger scale, thus opening up a promising El Dorado for research in this area, studying online campaigns has also inevitably introduced new technical, methodological and legal challenges which have turned out to be increasingly complex for academics in the humanities and social sciences to solve on their own. This paper therefore proposes to provide feedback on experience and experimental validation from a multidisciplinary project called POLIWEB devoted to the comparative analysis of political campaigns on social media in the run up to the 2014 elections to the European Parliament in France and in the United Kingdom. Together with observations from a humanities' perspective on issues related to such a project, this paper also presents experimental results concerning three of the data collection life cycle phases: collection, cleaning, and storage. The outcome is a data collection ready to be analysed for various purposes meant to address the political science topic under consideration. MOTS-CLÉS. Politique, campagnes, élections, base de données, m...

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“…In the UK, much of the 'peacetime' research has focused on content analyses of elected members' personal websites (e.g., Halstead, 2002;Jackson, 2003;Ward and Lusoli, 2005;Vicente-Merino, 2007;Goodchild et al, 2007). In these studies, whilst the parliamentarians themselves have tended to believe that their website is a useful tool for communicating with their constituents, the nature of this communication has been largely one-way, with few opportunities for constituents to enter into two-way, online dialogue with their representatives.…”

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Members of the Scottish Parliament on Twitter: good constituency men (and women)?

Baxter

Marcella

O'Shea³

2016

Aslib Journal of Information Management

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the use of Twitter by Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) for the provision of constituency-related information, or in support of their constituency service work. Design/methodology/approach – Content analysis of 10,411 tweets sent by the 105 MSPs on Twitter during four weeks in early-2014. Findings – While there was some evidence of MSPs on Twitter acting as a promoter of local community interests and as a conduit for information on local policy issues and events, their tweets were dominated by the wider, national, political agenda and by the Scottish independence debate. Compared with their online behaviour as parliamentary candidates three years earlier, MSPs placed an even greater emphasis on the one-way broadcast of information to their followers. They were reluctant to respond to contentious local policy questions, or to enter into any visible, meaningful, political debate with their constituents. Research limitations/implications – Although the research was conducted seven months before the Scottish independence referendum on 18 September 2014, the independence debate still dominated proceedings on Twitter. It might, therefore, be appropriate to revisit MSPs’ use of Twitter at some point during a truer “peacetime” period. Originality/value – This is the first systematic content analysis of tweets sent by all MSPs on Twitter. It allows the authors to compare their actual Twitter use with that envisaged by the Scottish Parliament, as a way of MSPs communicating about their work and engaging with their constituents.

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MPs online: an evaluative study of MPs' use of web sites

Cited by 4 publications

References 9 publications

Welsh‐language provision on party web sites during the 2007 Welsh Assembly election

Welsh‐language provision on party web sites during the 2007 Welsh Assembly election

Analyzing Digital Politics - Challenges and Experiments in a Dual Perspective

Members of the Scottish Parliament on Twitter: good constituency men (and women)?

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