Social Media in Politics

Case Studies on the Political Power of Social Media
2014
ISBN: 978-3-319-04665-5
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 382 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 7214 g

Reihe: Public Administration and Information Technology

This volume sets out to analyse the relation between social media and politics by investigating the power of the internet and more specifically social media, in the political and social discourse. The volume collects original research on the use of social media in political campaigns, electoral marketing, riots and social revolutions, presenting a range of case studies from across the world as well as theoretical and methodological contributions. Examples that explore the use of social media in electoral campaigns include, for instance, studies on the use of Face book in the 2012 US presidential campaign and in the 2011 Turkish general elections. The final section of the book debates the usage of Twitter and other Web 2.0 tools in mobilizing people for riots and revolutions, presenting and analysing recent events in Istanbul and Egypt, among others.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

P¿tru¿, Monica

Patrut, Bogdan

Patrut, Monica

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Propaganda & Kampagnen, Politik & Medien
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Digitale Medien, Internet, Telekommunikation
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Computerkommunikation & -vernetzung Social Media, Semantic Web, Web 2.0
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikation & Medien in der Politik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword.- Preface.-Part I: The Political Power of Social Media.- Part II: Using Social Media in Electoral Marketing.- Part III: Social Media in Mobilizating People for Riots and Revolutions.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Bogdan Patrut is an associate professor of computer science at "Vasile Alecsandri" University of Bacau, Romania. His domains of interest/research are computer science applied to social and political sciences and multi-agent systems applied to accounting education. He is also interested in social media challenges in the new academic environment. He published or edited more than 25 books on programming, algorithms, artificial intelligence, interactive education, and social media. He is also a software developer in EduSoft Ltd., where he developed a software for analyzing political speeches using graph theory, Political Analyst.

Dr. Monica Patrut is senior lecturer of political science at "Vasile Alecsandri" University of Bacau, Romania. Her domains of research are political communication, political marketing and social media in politics and education. She published several academic books on applying information technology in educational, social and political topics. In addition, she wrote papers published in international journals (Public Relations Review, Journal of Media Research, Sfera Politicii) or presented at international conferences on political sciences.