Political Communication in Britain
Political Communication in Britain
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英国的政治传播
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-319-40934-4_24
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2017
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Ginnis S
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Ginnis S
Steven Ginnis and Carl Miller analyse the impact of microblogging phenomenon Twitter on the General Election. Although unrepresentative of the wider electorate, the forum can be studied as a way of understanding what a growing body of opinion-formers made of the campaign. The chapter researches Twitter’s role in the election through a comprehensive analysis of content in the four months leading up to polling day. A significant number of voters who were also social media participants were either aware of or actually involved in producing campaign related postings. Although there was a large amount of content, a relatively small group of ‘power users’ were responsible for creating content. Consideration is given the work of MPs, different parties and local as distinct from national campaigners.