New Media and Social Media in the Political Communication

Abstract: This study presents the 2009 Romanian presidential elections and the way in which the candidates interacted with the new communication technologies. After the first research conducted on the 2004 online electoral campaigns, we noticed that, in Romania, the participation (the number of people knowing how to read and write, or the number of those effectively participating at the poll) is just as small as it was after the mass internet was introduced and after the number of internet subscribers increased. We observed that the websites and blogs with the highest traffic are the entertainment dedicated ones, the tabloids, and not the cultural ones, not the quality online press. This research intends to clear up whether in R candidates or the extremist candidates the research called Electoral Communication in Romania after 1989. Old and New Technologies i Presidential Campaigns which is part of the post and political applied sciences. Post the field of the socio-human and political sci