... routine and election periods, this study focuses on how political communication and public responsiveness change across repeated election cycles under sustained crisis conditions. Design/methodology/approach Using computational methods, we examined more than 8,000 posts published by leading Israeli...

... 20 01 2024 25 02 2024 13 04 2024 15 04 2024 15 04 2024 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Facebook Elections Social media Online campaigns Political identity After the 2021 Knesset elections, which...

...Tal Samuel-Azran; Moran Yarchi Purpose The study aims to examine the validity of the gender affinity effect on social media throughout election campaigns. Design/methodology/approach This paper examines the role of gender in political discourse, using citizens' conversations on Facebook...

...Gal Yavetz Purpose Social media has been widely adopted by politicians and political parties during elections and routine times and has been discussed before. However, research in the field has so far not addressed how a political leader's private or official social media account affects...

..., we test, among other things, whether those candidates with low spending able to combat high-spending candidates with an influential SM campaign. The data included both measures of SM influence (Klout scores) and candidate/district level electoral data from the 2012 and 2016 US congressional elections...

... during elections in 2010 and 2012 (Bode et al., 2016 , Table 1; Evans, 2016 , Table 2). However, other studies of this time period have found differences (Enli and Naper, 2016 ; Gainous and Wagner, 2014). New research has evolved into exploring differences in ideology, rather than partisanship...

...Tal Samuel-Azran; Moran Yarchi; Gadi Wolfsfeld Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the mapping of the social media discourse involving politicians and their followers during election campaigns, the authors examined Israeli politicians’ Aristotelian rhetoric on Facebook and its...

... presidential election. The analysis of the candidates’ pages consisted of three phases: the identification of the different elements of the Aristotelian language of persuasion, the identification of the subjects that appear on the posts, and the identification of additional roles that the Facebook pages play...

... patterns between campaign blogs and web sites during Taiwan's 2008 general election, with the aim of exploring whether the blogging phenomenon can improve the process of online political communication. Design/methodology/approach The study used a content analysis approach, the web style analysis method...

... the number of errors made by both the voters and the electoral administrators, and allow for easier adoption of uniform standards in the ballot format, since it could be transmitted via the internet from a central election agency to all local and regional polling places. Bridging the digital divide...