Reckoning with the digital turn in electoral geography

Abstract

The sub-discipline of electoral geography contains research threads that draw on different theoretical, philosophical, and methodological traditions. I link these threads to the ‘digital turn’ that is occurring in the electoral landscape and in the discipline of geography itself. The use of digital technology is increasingly shaping electioneering and data regimes, providing new conceptual challenges concerning the spatial mediation and subsequent knowledge politics of voting and campaigning. Responding to these challenges requires not only building on the subfield’s tradition of interdisciplinarity but also on strengthening intra-disciplinary dialogue, in particular working across the quantitative–qualitative divide.

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“…Once again, Shin (2015) directs attention to the subject and underscores the need to fully comprehend the connection between these technologies and electoral geography. Similarly, Temple (2023) follows two cases on electoral propaganda and digital developments in the UK and US elections, focusing on what the use of digital technology and the increasingly digitized electoral environment will bring for electoral geography and, perhaps, the possibility of ending some of its approaches.…”