Motivated by the conjecture that traditional political communication patterns and strategies are broken within social network sites, this paper investigates presence of Portuguese parties on Facebook during a year with two major elections (European Legislative), both from posting activity aspect user engagement. The following research questions formulated: Is it possible to identify distinctive...

Introduction As recently as three decades ago, the use of experimental methods was a rarity in the disciplines of political science, sociology, and communications. Beginning in the early 1980s, a surge of interest in the interdisciplinary field of political psychology set in motion a trickle of experimental methods into several sub-fields of political science, including political communication....

This study examines effects of political cynicism and efficacy on online political engagement of Sri Lankan undergraduates. A survey was conducted among 155 Sri Lankan undergraduates that support the views of the Inter-University Student Federation (IUSF), an evidently anti-government student movement that claims to be dedicated to protecting free education in the country. Initial analysis show...

The integration of social media in political communication has expanded significantly over recent years. This article focuses on how politicians are using Facebook electoral campaigns. main objective is to analyse the different functions ascribed this digital platform communication. present research studies usage by parties Lebanon during parliamentary election 2018 based quantitative content a...

I ndigenous peoples in Latin America dispatched the twentieth century as they did the eighteenth, with a wave of social mobilizations that frightened elites and dramatically altered the political possibilities for a democratizing and modernizing continent. In the 1780s, the Aymara, Quechua, and mestizo armies of Túpaj Katari and Túpac Amaru initiated what some have called the “first war of inde...

This paper will examine the influence of radio political campaign messages on the electorates’ voting behavior in Kano – Nigeria, with a focus on the 2015 general elections. It seeks to ascertain the extent that the electorates in Kano – Nigeria were exposed to radio political campaign messages, as well as the extent to which such messages influenced their voting decisions. Equally, the study c...

Scholars, jurists, and citizens have long been concerned with the question of whether donations lead to an undue distortion of lawmakers’ behavior. After decades of research, methodological shortcomings have prevented a clearer understanding of the role of campaign donations on political outcomes from emerging. I begin with a methodological critique of observational research’s attempts to answe...

Online social media are complementing and in some cases replacing person-to-person social interaction and redefining the diffusion of information. In particular, microblogs have become crucial grounds on which public relations, marketing, and political battles are fought. We introduce an extensible framework that will enable the real-time analysis of meme diffusion in social media by mining, vi...

The information technology’s applications in cyberspace (the internet) are currently dominated by social media. The author investigates and explores the advantages of social media implementation of any political party in Indonesian general legislative elections 2014. There are twelve national political parties participating in the election as contestants plus three local political parties in Ac...