Abstract: To date the Internet has apparently had limited impact on changing ‘politics as usual ’ in election campaigns. Parties often fail to make imaginative use of the medium, while relatively few people use it to acquire information about an election. However, while it may be the case that only political activists use the Internet to acquire information about an election, these activists may then disseminate that information more widely because they are particularly likely to talk about the election to their fellow citizens. We find evidence that such a two-step flow of information may well have occurred during the 2005 British election
The 2010 UK election was billed as the internet election, the social media election. From Twitter to...
The idea of an ‘internet election’ was initially put forward in 1997. However, there is little evide...
Political campaigns are increasingly making use of new media tools to both broadcast messages to and...
To date the Internet has apparently had limited impact on changing 'politics as usual' in election c...
The Internet has been to date used as a space for simple promotion by political parties; websites pr...
It is now over 20 years since political parties began to move online and fight elections using new i...
This paper uses original survey data from the 2010 UK General Election to examine two central questi...
Studies of web use during elections have focused mainly on the content of websites and the major fac...
www.rhul.ac.uk/politics-and-IR This paper argues that a comparative approach to analysing the relati...
Draft of latter chapter; contains information likely to be cut from the final print versionThis pape...
The arrival of the internet, especially social media, was thought by many to offer a chance at democ...
This article is a comparative analysis of British and American parties and candidate election campai...
Social media are said to have the potential to transform relationships between political parties, ca...
Election campaigning tends to be synonymous with top-down, persuasive and propaganda-style communica...
Campaigners are increasingly citing the Web as an important election tool for candidates and parties...
The 2010 UK election was billed as the internet election, the social media election. From Twitter to...
The idea of an ‘internet election’ was initially put forward in 1997. However, there is little evide...
Political campaigns are increasingly making use of new media tools to both broadcast messages to and...
To date the Internet has apparently had limited impact on changing 'politics as usual' in election c...
The Internet has been to date used as a space for simple promotion by political parties; websites pr...
It is now over 20 years since political parties began to move online and fight elections using new i...
This paper uses original survey data from the 2010 UK General Election to examine two central questi...
Studies of web use during elections have focused mainly on the content of websites and the major fac...
www.rhul.ac.uk/politics-and-IR This paper argues that a comparative approach to analysing the relati...
Draft of latter chapter; contains information likely to be cut from the final print versionThis pape...
The arrival of the internet, especially social media, was thought by many to offer a chance at democ...
This article is a comparative analysis of British and American parties and candidate election campai...
Social media are said to have the potential to transform relationships between political parties, ca...
Election campaigning tends to be synonymous with top-down, persuasive and propaganda-style communica...
Campaigners are increasingly citing the Web as an important election tool for candidates and parties...
The 2010 UK election was billed as the internet election, the social media election. From Twitter to...
The idea of an ‘internet election’ was initially put forward in 1997. However, there is little evide...
Political campaigns are increasingly making use of new media tools to both broadcast messages to and...