Social Media and Politics

Calderaro, Andrea

doi:10.4135/9781526416513.n46

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“…Social media has given users, especially nonprofessionals, access to ready-made tools that make it easier than ever for them to generate and exchange information, organize trending and explosive events, find others who share their interests, collaborate to produce work together to produce information, insight, and knowledge, and expand on the work and contributions of others to develop original and novel ideas (Broersma, Marcel, and Graham, 2016). The perception, configuration and functioning (structural patterns, information dissemination, and regulated streams) of networks have inherent political biases, lack neutrality, and can undermine democracy in terms of their conception, usage, and regulations (Calderaro, 2018). These factors are inevitably biased because of the values of specific stakeholders that control others' behavior on social media acting in accordance with their values of social media as egalitarian, impartial, objective, and democratic went hand in hand with this ability.…”

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“…Social media has a powerful ability to influence public opinion and alter not only the message but also values, misuse of power, and the nature of political struggle. According to Calderaro (2018), there is a lot of interest among people regarding the impact of social media and other internet communication platforms on political activity.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Social Media and Political Propaganda: A double-edged Sword for Democratic Consolidation in Nigeria

Goddy Uwa,

Christianah Ronke

2023

IJSSMR

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Social media serves as a powerful tool for politicians to engage with voters and drive the conversation in their favor. Still, the authenticity and accuracy of online information can be questionable as there are currently no mechanisms in place to regulate or sanction the spread of false or misleading information on social media, making it even more challenging to combat the proliferation of political propaganda. Also, the prevalent availability and lack of mechanisms to checkmate it allows individuals and political actors to spread misleading information which causes a significant problem. Therefore, the trust of this paper was to examine the role of social media platforms specifically Facebook and Twitter, as well as the gaps and challenges in identifying the dissemination and amplification of political propaganda in Nigeria. The study utilized qualitative research and was analyzed descriptively. The study revealed that social media promotes political propaganda and manipulates the perception of the electorate which changes the outcome of elections. Ultimately, the paper argues that a comprehensive approach is needed to regulate the spread of political propaganda on social media platforms in Nigeria, which include; the creation of digital literacy programs that focuses on media literacy and online etiquette, deeper cooperation between the Nigerian government and social media platforms to curb the spread of political propaganda, the establishment of legal frameworks to punish offenders, mitigating political propaganda are some of the recommendations highlighted in this study.

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Section: The Interplay Between Social Media and Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Media and Political Propaganda: A double-edged Sword for Democratic Consolidation in Nigeria

Goddy Uwa,

Christianah Ronke

2023

IJSSMR

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“…Politicians get opportunities to interact with the public and improve their political communication. Different politicians and their groups are interlinked, openly representing their personalities and opinion (Calderaro, 2018). Turnšek and Jankowski (2012) examined the use of social media for political purposes and found that YouTube was among one of the most preferred SNS by politicians.…”

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“…However, such exercise might be not fully found in many Arab countries as in the western world, although social media is highly preferred in the Arab region (Elareshi & Ziani, 2019). It could be due to the lack of Arab professional campaign skills in using digital media (Ahmed et al, 2016;Calderaro, 2018;Karlsen & Enjolras, 2016), and how to apply such platform in online political communication that is also emphasised by McGregor and Mourao (2016).…”

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Using Online Platforms for Political Communication in Bahrain Election Campaigns

Elareshi¹,

Habes²,

Ali³

et al. 2021

JSSH

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The rise of SNS facilitated politicians with new opportunities to communicate directly with voters. Especially during election campaigns. Twitter provides female politicians with a space to exercise their political tasks beyond traditional media, especially in some Arab countries. Based on the framing theory, this study aims to identify how the female politicians in Bahrain utilised Twitter to present themselves for Parliamentary election campaigns in 2018. The researchers scrutinised the phenomenon using a thematic analysis of n = 263 tweets posted by two Bahraini female candidates. Results revealed that although politicians largely preferred Twitter in election campaigns to reinforce support and mobilisation for political engagement, two selected candidates lacked interaction with their supporters. Thus, the researchers concluded that the Bahraini female politicians have a long way to represent themselves in digital media politics as men widely benefit from personalisation more than females.

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“…In Shirky's view, social media provides ample space for everyone to convey their ideas and opinions to show their voice through social media [4]. It is generally assumed that social media plays a crucial role in disseminating political groups' information and claims [5].…”

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How Does Social Media Affect Money Politics Campaign Rejection in the 2020 Regional Head General Election Social Media? A Case Study of Indonesia

Misran

Nurmandi

Mutiarin

et al. 2021

Advances in Digital Science

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The integrity of the regional head elections process in Indonesia has become a concern for the government and the Indonesian people. Thus, to realize regional head elections with integrity, the implementation must be free from various types of violations such as election malpractice. One of the election violations that often appear in every regional head election is the practice of money politics. This paper intends to explain the election supervisory body in preventing money politics in regional head election contestation. This research's data sources included: website, Twitter, and previous research related to money politics. The data were obtained using the Ncapture feature in the Nvivo 12 plus where the Ncapture feature is a web browser extension developed to capture web content in the form of the website content, social media, and other document content such as scientific articles and a collection of opinions from observers about money politics in Indonesia. This paper reveals that social media is a new transformation for election supervisory bodies to disseminate and prevent money politics. The authors also need to emphasize that this time is money politics itself because democracy/general election parties in any part of the world require money/capital both by the organizers and election participants themselves, so a common understanding is needed. What and how money politics can be categorized as an action. Election violations and even fall into the category of election crimes. This paper is reviewed based on an analysis of scientific articles and each election organizer's official Twitter accounts.

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Social Media and Politics

Cited by 16 publications

References 38 publications

Social Media and Political Propaganda: A double-edged Sword for Democratic Consolidation in Nigeria

Social Media and Political Propaganda: A double-edged Sword for Democratic Consolidation in Nigeria

Using Online Platforms for Political Communication in Bahrain Election Campaigns

How Does Social Media Affect Money Politics Campaign Rejection in the 2020 Regional Head General Election Social Media? A Case Study of Indonesia

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