When populists become popular: comparing Facebook use by the right-wing movement Pegida and German political parties

Stier, Sebastian; Posch, Lisa; Bleier, Arnim; Strohmaier, Markus

doi:10.1080/1369118x.2017.1328519

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“…Following Mariani et al [85] and Stier et al [86], Facebook data was obtained using software developed ad hoc for this type of study (Facebook model). This software is prepared for the massive extraction of data and the treatment of Big Data, and has the necessary permission from Facebook to access its databases.…”

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Unpacking the Drivers of Stakeholder Engagement in Sustainable Water Management: NGOs and the Use of Facebook

Alonso-Cañadas

Galán-Valdivieso

Saraite-Sariene

et al. 2019

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The number of people worldwide without access to safe drinking water or adequate sanitation is an unresolved and growing concern, with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) playing an important role in mitigating the effects of water shortage. These organizations utilize the communication mechanisms at their disposal, such as social media, to help spread their social message and to achieve the commitment of society to their cause. In this context and based on dialogic and the resource dependence theory framework, the main aim of this research is to analyze how organizational structure, resource allocation and communication policies of NGOs focused on water management influence the online commitment of their stakeholders. Exploratory results show that these NGOs are not taking enough advantage of social media to engage with their potential donors and volunteers because of the remarkable difference between the management of Facebook posts and users’ behavior. Using multivariate lineal regression, our findings show that certain structural (namely, size, reputation and board size), economic (fundraising expenses) and social media (number of Facebook fans) characteristics positively influence stakeholder engagement, while administrative spending and a broad presence in many social networks straitens the ability of these type of NGOs to attract and retain stakeholders’ commitment through social media.

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Section: Data Collection Toolmentioning

confidence: 99%

Unpacking the Drivers of Stakeholder Engagement in Sustainable Water Management: NGOs and the Use of Facebook

Alonso-Cañadas

Galán-Valdivieso

Saraite-Sariene

et al. 2019

Water

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“…For example, in Germany, the anti-Islamic grassroots movement PEGIDA shares a considerable Facebook user base and set of issue frames with the Alternative für Deutschland party. (Stier, Posch, Bleier, & Strohmaier, 2017). Early stages of the movement-party relationship suggested that the party grew by mirroring selective messages of the movement (Rucht, in press).…”

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The democratic interface: technology, political organization, and diverging patterns of electoral representation

Bennett

Segerberg

Knüpfer

2017

Information, Communication & Society

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“…Facebook is the online social network site with the greatest reach in most countries and it is considered an important platform for political communication. Scholars investigated, for example, how political parties communicate on Facebook (Arzheimer, 2015;Magin, Podschuweit, Haßler, & Russmann, 2016;Stier et al, 2018;Stier, Posch, Bleier, & Strohmaier, 2017), how users interact with posts from media organizations' pages (Schmidt et al, 2017), or which (media) sources were referred to by parties and their followers on political pages (Bachl, 2018).…”

Section: An Evaluation Of Retrospective Content Collection On Facebookmentioning

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“…The posts were retrieved in July 2014. The sampling period of Stier et al (2017) was December 2014 to August 2016, all content was collected at the end of the sampling period. Schmidt et al (2017) proceeded similarly for their sampling period of six years (January 2010 to December 2015).…”

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An Evaluation of Retrospective Facebook Content Collection

Bachl¹

2018

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The content on Facebook pages is obviously subject to changes. However, there is often a considerable time lag between the sampling period and the collection date in studies on public Facebook communication. The present evaluation study aims to assess whether-and if so, how-problematic this common practice is in terms of unavailable content. I investigated whether a sample of content items, which were posted to 408 German political Facebook pages in March 2017, could be retrospectively collected in June 2017, September 2017, and March 2018. 27% of the 132,068 test items were no longer accessible after 12 months. The deletion of complete pages was rare, but some prominent pages were not available retrospectively. Posts by the pages themselves were far more likely to be available compared to content, which was posted by private accounts to the pages. There were only small differences between the political parties, but there was substantial variation between the distinct pages. I conclude with a discussion of implications for single research projects (applying timely data collection whenever possible) and for communication research and related disciplines (considering institutionalized data collection efforts).

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When populists become popular: comparing Facebook use by the right-wing movement Pegida and German political parties

Cited by 124 publications

References 22 publications

Unpacking the Drivers of Stakeholder Engagement in Sustainable Water Management: NGOs and the Use of Facebook

Unpacking the Drivers of Stakeholder Engagement in Sustainable Water Management: NGOs and the Use of Facebook

The democratic interface: technology, political organization, and diverging patterns of electoral representation

An Evaluation of Retrospective Facebook Content Collection

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