Online Information Review: Volume 40 Issue 5

Campaigns and conflict on social media: a literature snapshot

Shelley Boulianne

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the themes identified in the submissions to this volume. The findings are contextualized in recent scholarship on these themes.

Coherent campaigns? Campaign broadcast and social messaging

Leticia Bode, David S. Lassen, Young Mie Kim, Dhavan V. Shah, Erika Franklin Fowler, Travis Ridout, Michael Franz

Despite the growing use of social media by politicians, especially during election campaigns, research on the integration of these media into broader campaign communication…

Party differences in political content on social media

Emily Vraga

Social networking sites (SNS) increasingly serve as a source of political content for Americans. The purpose of this paper is to clarify the relationships between types of…

Utilizing Facebook pages of the political parties to automatically predict the political orientation of Facebook users

Esther David, Maayan Zhitomirsky-Geffet, Moshe Koppel, Hodaya Uzan

Social network sites have been widely adopted by politicians in the last election campaigns. To increase the effectiveness of these campaigns the potential electorate is to be…

Making friends and enemies on social media: the case of gun policy organizations

Melissa Merry

The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of interest groups in the formation of online echo chambers and to determine whether interest groups’ use of social media…

Congressional social media communications: evaluating Senate Twitter usage

Jacob R. Straus, Raymond T. Williams, Colleen J. Shogan, Matthew E. Glassman

The purpose of this paper is to understand why some Senators choose to use Twitter more frequently than others. Building on past research, which explored causal factors leading to…

Do women only talk about “female issues”? Gender and issue discussion on Twitter

Heather Evans

Recent research has shown that female US House candidates were more likely to talk about so-called “female issues” on Twitter during the 2012 election (Evans and Clark, 2015). In…

The relationship between online campaigning and political involvement

Sanne Kruikemeier, Guda van Noort, Rens Vliegenthart, Claes H. de Vreese

The purpose of this paper is to examine the causal relationship between interactive and personal campaigning on social media and political involvement, and the mechanisms that…

Social media in Latin America: deepening or bridging gaps in protest participation?

Sebastián Valenzuela, Nicolás M. Somma, Andrés Scherman, Arturo Arriagada

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between social media use and protest participation in Latin America. It advances two questions. First, does social media…

Internet freedom and social media effects: democracy and citizen attitudes in Latin America

Jason Gainous, Kevin Wagner, Tricia Gray

The purpose of this paper is to theorize the heightened exposure to information via the internet can lead citizens to be more critical about political conditions in their…