Campaigns Go Social: Are Facebook, YouTube and Twitter Changing Elections?

Stephanie Edgerly; Leticia Bode; Young Mie Kim; Dhavan V. Shah

doi:10.4324/9780203109052-14

Campaigns Go Social: Are Facebook, YouTube and Twitter Changing Elections?

Stephanie Edgerly, Leticia Bode, Young Mie Kim, Dhavan V. Shah

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Over the past decades, the landscape of politics has drastically changed with mass adoption of digital technology. The terms “campaigning online, " “digital election campaigns, " “Facebook election, " “digital politics, " “e-democracy, " and the like have frequently appeared in public discourse to describe the transformation that contemporary politics has undergone. Central to this transformation is the active use of digital media by election campaigns.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	New Directions in Media and Politics
Publisher	Taylor and Francis
Pages	82-99
Number of pages	18
ISBN (Electronic)	9781136268304
ISBN (Print)	9780415537322
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203109052-14
State	Published - Jan 1 2013

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