Media in Context and the 2019 General Election: How Traditional and Social Media Shape Elections and Governing

鲍里斯约翰逊召集了一次选举，这是英国选民在不到五年的时间里第五次在全国民意调查中投出偏好。埃克塞特的媒体在上下文团队一直在捕捉媒体内容在这些活动。这笔赠款将使我们和其他使用我们存款与英国数据服务的数据的人，有进一步的机会评估和了解社交和传统媒体在英国政治中的影响。这一机会出现在英国政治的关键时刻，一个国家因新的脱欧分裂而分裂;更极端的政党，其温和派因取消选举和退休而被“掏空”;越来越敌对的环境伴随着不文明和政治辩论的“粗糙化”;以及由紧缩政策驱动的地方关注日益突出。传统和社会领域的错误信息和未经检查的索赔的可能性媒体平台是加剧担忧的叠加因素。该研究将：1）对过去五年英国政治中传统媒体和社交媒体在全国和超国家选举中的作用进行全面分析; 2）以我们的主要调查结果为基础，更加关注地方媒体及其在全国选举中的作用，特别是其与地方议员和候选人的看法以及选举中的突出问题的联系; 3）研究实际和感知的不文明行为对当代英国政治和政治行为的影响; 4）确定我们纵向媒体数据中的差距，收集存在差距的额外数据，并协调我们的传统和社交媒体选举新闻报道数据库。

Boris Johnson called an election that represents the fifth time British voters will cast a preference in a national poll in less than five years. The Exeter based Media in Context team has been capturing media content during these campaigns. This grant will allow us, and others who use the data we deposit with the UK Data Service, a further opportunity to assess and understand the influence of social and traditional media in British politics. This opportunity comes at a critical point in British politics, with a country divided by the new Brexit cleavage; more extreme parties whose moderates have been "hollowed out" by deselections and retirements; an increasingly hostile environment accompanied by incivility and a "coarsening" of political debate; and growing salience of local concerns driven by austerity politics.The potential of misinformation and unchecked claims across traditional and social media platforms is an overlying factor that intensifies concern. The research will: 1) provide a comprehensive analysis of the role of traditional and social media in national and supra-national elections over the past five years in British politics; 2) build on our key findings with a closer focus on local media and its role in national elections, in particular its links to perceptions of local MPs and candidates and to the salient issues in elections; 3) examine the impact of actual and perceived incivility on perceptions of contemporary British politics and on political behaviour; 4) identify gaps in our longitudinal media data, collect additional data where gaps exist, and harmonise our database of traditional and social media election news coverage.