Young people’s experiences of political membership: from political parties to Facebook groups

Ekström, Mats; Sveningsson, Malin

doi:10.1080/1369118x.2017.1358294

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“…Most Western democracies are facing declining interest in politics and decreasing party membership, especially among young people (Ekström;Sveningsson, 2019;Moeller et al, 2014). To revitalize their relationship with citizens, political parties have turned to the potential of new media (Bimber, 2014).…”

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What are political parties doing on TikTok? The Spanish case

Cervi

Lladó

2021

EPI

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TikTok, already widely used before the pandemic, boomed during the quarantine that locked down large parts of the world, reaching 2 billion downloads and 800 million monthly active users worldwide by the end of 2020. Of these 800 million users, 41% are aged between 16 and 24 years. This social network, widely known for its entertainment videos, is increasingly becoming a place for political discussion and therefore a unique opportunity for political actors to (re)connect with young people. Acknowledging that the political uses of TikTok are still understudied, this paper aims to explore whether and how Spanish political parties are including TikTok as part of their communication strategy. Through an affordance-centered content analysis of all the posts published by the five most important Spanish political parties (PP, PSOE, Ciudadanos, Podemos, and Vox), the current results show that, although all Spanish political parties have adopted this platform, their usage is unequal. From a quantitative perspective, PP was the first party to open a TikTok account, but its usage has been discontinuous; Podemos and Ciudadanos are the parties that publish the most and most constantly, while Vox has only published nine posts and the PSOE one. Nonetheless, from a qualitative perspective, Podemos and Vox generate more engagement and seem to understand and exploit TikTok’s specific affordances better. The findings allow it to be concluded that, although globally Spanish political parties do not fully exploit the platform’s affordances and tend to use it as a unilateral tool for promotion, the most engaging posts are those favoring interaction and geared toward politainment.

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What are political parties doing on TikTok? The Spanish case

Cervi

Lladó

2021

EPI

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“…On the other hand, from the perspective of social impact, the second group SNS studies analyses the external factors such as interest groups, civil society and public opinion leading to the users individual and collective behaviors in society as such the critical and cultural studies and intercultural communication. The SNS studies have increased recently because social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram can play an increasingly important role in shaping political communication in various parts of the world (Stieglitz & Dang-Xuan, 2012;Tumasjan et al, 2011;Ekström & Sveningsson, 2017;Bode & Dalrymple, 2014;Song et al, 2014). Political communication studies are one of the dominant themes in our work as well as in similar trend researchers.…”

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Research and Trends in the Field of Social Media from 2012 to 2016: A Content Analysis of Studies in Selected Journals

Bakan¹,

Han²

2019

Estud. Mensaje Period.

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This paper aims at making a trend analysis of 1142 studies in the field of social media that were published in 12 SSCI journals from 2012 to 2016. Citation and content analyses were used to investigate the trends. Among the 4391 articles published in these journals, 1142 articles were identified as being related to the topic of social media. In the analysis, first, these articles were crossanalyzed by published years, journal, research topic, and citation count. Next, these articles on different sub-topics were analyzed according to their research settings, participants, research design types, and research methods.

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“…In general, members of a political party are more likely to vote in elections than non-members (Tătar 2013). While political party membership is generally low among youth (Ekström and Sveningsson 2019), it tends to be even lower among young people who are neither in employment, nor in education or training. Thus, vulnerable youth are less likely to participate in the actions of political organizations or parties.…”

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“…An increasing number of studies show that the overall decline of electoral participation across Europe mainly concentrates among the youth (Sloam 2014, Ekström and Sveningsson 2019, Grasso 2018, Briggs 2017. This raises concerns about the future of representative democracies.…”

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Multiple Exclusions: Civic and Political Disengagement of Vulnerable Youth in the European Union

Tatar

Apateanu

2019

SSRN Journal

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Declining levels of youth participation in conventional politics raise concerns about the future of representative democracies. Based on statistical analyses of public opinion survey data, this paper examines youth civic and political disengagement as symptoms of social exclusion. Our findings point out that youth are a heterogeneous group and vulnerable young people living in the European Union face the risk of multiple exclusions that mutually reinforce each other: from the labor market, from education and from the democratic life of their societies. Thus, youth who are neither in education, nor in employment or training (NEET) tend to be the most politically marginalized group of young people in European democracies. Acknowledging the interplay between various dimensions of youth social exclusion provides valuable theoretical, methodological and policy insights for reducing youth marginalization and breaking the vicious circle that perpetuates it.

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Young people’s experiences of political membership: from political parties to Facebook groups

Cited by 21 publications

References 33 publications

What are political parties doing on TikTok? The Spanish case

What are political parties doing on TikTok? The Spanish case

Research and Trends in the Field of Social Media from 2012 to 2016: A Content Analysis of Studies in Selected Journals

Multiple Exclusions: Civic and Political Disengagement of Vulnerable Youth in the European Union

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