... 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...

...). After the 2021 Knesset elections, which followed four complex elections within the preceding 2.5 years, and without the possibility of forming a stable government, Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid jointly formed a rotation government. The rotation agreement did not last long: Bennett served as prime...

...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...

... at: jason.gainous@louisville.edu 30 08 2017 14 03 2018 03 04 2018 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Elections Social media Equalization/normalization Political campaigns Since the introduction of the internet, scholars...

... Facebook Protest Twitter Politics Elections At the citizen level, early research demonstrated that females were more likely than males to use Facebook (Gainous and Wagner, 2014 ; Perrin, 2015 ; Wells and Link, 2014). Murthy et al. (2016) find that males are more likely...

...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...