The Use of Twitter In 2013 Italian Political Election

Selfies, Policies, or Votes? Political Party Use of Instagram in the 2015 and 2016 Spanish General Elections

“…Interestingly, the trend in the number of publications does not coincide with dates of importance for activity occurring offline. Analysis of the use of Twitter, for example, has displayed that the number of posts on the day of the televised debates was substantially more than on other days (Di Fraia & Missaglia, 2014;Larsson, 2017b). This is not the case in either of the election cycles examined here as shown in Figures 1 and 2.…”

“…As readership of the mainstream printed press has steadily decreased (Stanyer, 2007), political actors have sought to fill the gap in their communication linkages with voters and, as a result, new media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram seem to provide the opportunity to fill this void. While the analysis of Facebook and Twitter has enjoyed a significant amount of attention from political scientists, particularly toward the latter (Di Fraia & Missaglia, 2014;Jürgens & Jungherr, 2015;Lassen & Brown, 2011;Lilleker & Jackson, 2011;Zittel, 2009), evaluations of the use or impact of Instagram have, until very recently (see, for example, Eldin, 2016;Larsson, 2017a;Russman & Svensson, 2016) been very much ignored. Moreover, much of what has been analyzed in relation to Instagram has been centered on how individual candidates use the platform (Lalancette & Raynauld, 2017;Liebhart & Bernhardt, 2017;Muñoz & Tower 2017) with very little being made of how political parties themselves use the application (Filimonov, Russman & Svensson, 2016).…”

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

“…Twitter and, to a lesser extent, Facebook are increasingly present in the electoral campaigns of candidates and parties as a tool to "transmit" their messages, mainly in a top-down way (Jackson & Lilleker, 2011;Peterson, 2012;Adams & McCorkindale, 2013;Amirullah et al, 2013;Di Fraia et al, 2014;Gainous & Wagner, 2014;Pablo et al, 2014;Enli & Naper, 2016;Lukamto & Carson, 2016). There is a general effect of "amplifying" political propaganda (Zhang et al, 2017).…”

New Media and the Reality of Abla Fahita’s Tweets: Is She a Fictitious Character or a Secret Agent?

“…Since then, it has spread in many aspects of life impinging on almost all the socio-economic constituents of our communities. Fraia and Missaglia (2014) say "…twitter … is now the principle social media platform used to create conversational flow about politics, diplomatic, or journalistic issues" (p.69). This "mass-mediatization", as named by Fraia and Missaglia (2014), has not stopped at certain groups and included others.…”

“…Fraia and Missaglia (2014) say "…twitter … is now the principle social media platform used to create conversational flow about politics, diplomatic, or journalistic issues" (p.69). This "mass-mediatization", as named by Fraia and Missaglia (2014), has not stopped at certain groups and included others. On the contrary, old people educated, young illiterates, women, men or even school boys are 'tweeters'.…”