In recent years we have witnessed political parties adopting social media as part of their election campaign strategy to encourage citizen participation and involvement. The purpose of this paper is to investigate what Facebook as a social media platform is perceived to afford political parties in their campaign strategy and how these intentions are reflected in the actual actions during the ca...

The Internet was a major factor in the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign and has become an important tool for political communication and persuasion. Yet, information systems research is generally silent on the role of the Internet in politics. In this paper, we argue that IS is positioned to enhance understanding of the influence of the Internet on politics, and, more specifically, the process o...

The Internet was a major factor in the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign and has become an important tool for political communication and persuasion. Yet, information systems research is generally silent on the role of the Internet in politics. In this paper, we argue that IS is positioned to enhance understanding of the influence of the Internet on politics, and, more specifically, the process o...

The news feeds of two U.S. politicians’ Facebook sites were examined across 22 months leading up to an election 6 in order to explore changes in social-network-mediated public political discourse over time. Changes over time were observed 7 in who was being addressed and in the affective valence of comments. A complex flow of attention between in-group and 8 out-group concerns was observed with...

Does campaign duration affect election outcomes? To date, this question has largely evaded political scientists, but it is reasonable to expect systematic links between campaign length and candidate performance in elections. We hypothesize that longer campaigns would help challengers' electoral fortunes, thereby curbing incumbency advantage and potentially boosting competitiveness in elections....

The ways in which analogy was used in a nonexperimental environment-politics-was investigated. We used the framework developed in analogy research to analyze the selection of analogical sources in political discourse. We took all the analogies reported in newspapers during the final week of a referendum campaign in Canada and analyzed the features of the different analogies used. We identified ...

The aim of this paper is to analyse Twitter activity Prime Ministers Poland and the Czech Republic, Mateusz Morawiecki Andrej Babiš respectively, during 2019 European Parliament election campaign with special focus on their ways creating, imposing reproducing discourse. It examines especially person-alization campaign, namely using election-related activities promote image. Also, im-portance ha...