Political Campaigning In The Information Age

Author : Solo, Ashu M. G.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781466660632

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Political Campaigning in the Information Age by Solo, Ashu M. G. Pdf

Technology and the Internet especially have brought on major changes to politics and are playing an increasingly important role in political campaigns, communications, and messaging. Political Campaigning in the Information Age increases our understanding of aspects and methods for political campaigning, messaging, and communications in the information age. Each chapter analyzes political campaigning, its methods, the effectiveness of these methods, and tools for analyzing these methods. This book will aid political operatives in increasing the effectiveness of political campaigns and communications and will be of use to researchers, political campaign staff, politicians and their staff, political and public policy analysts, political scientists, engineers, computer scientists, journalists, academicians, students, and professionals.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1466660643

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Political Campaigning in the Information Age by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jennifer Stromer-Galley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190694074

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Presidential Campaigning in the Internet Age by Jennifer Stromer-Galley Pdf

As the plugged-in presidential campaign has arguably reached maturity, Presidential Campaigning in the Internet Age challenges popular claims about the democratizing effect of Digital Communication Technologies (DCTs). Analyzing campaign strategies, structures, and tactics from the past six presidential election cycles, Stromer-Galley reveals how, for all their vaunted inclusivity and tantalizing promise of increased two-way communication between candidates and the individuals who support them, DCTs have done little to change the fundamental dynamics of campaigns. The expansion of new technologies has presented candidates with greater opportunities to micro-target potential voters, cheaper and easier ways to raise money, and faster and more innovative ways to respond to opponents. The need for communication control and management, however, has made campaigns slow and loathe to experiment with truly interactive internet communication technologies. Citizen involvement in the campaign historically has been and, as this book shows, continues to be a means to an end: winning the election for the candidate. For all the proliferation of apps to download, polls to click, videos to watch, and messages to forward, the decidedly undemocratic view of controlled interactivity is how most campaigns continue to operate. In the fully revised second edition, Presidential Campaigning in the Internet Age examines election cycles from 1996, when the World Wide Web was first used for presidential campaigning, through 2016 when campaigns had the full power of advertising on social media sites. As the book charts changes in internet communication technologies, it shows how, even as campaigns have moved from a mass mediated to a networked paradigm, the possibilities these shifts in interactivity seem to promise for citizen input and empowerment remain farther than a click away.

Author : Solo, Ashu M. G.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781799803782

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Handbook of Research on Politics in the Computer Age by Solo, Ashu M. G. Pdf

Technology and particularly the Internet have caused many changes in the realm of politics. Aspects of engineering, computer science, mathematics, or natural science can be applied to politics. Politicians and candidates use their own websites and social network profiles to get their message out. Revolutions in many countries in the Middle East and North Africa have started in large part due to social networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter. Social networking has also played a role in protests and riots in numerous countries. The mainstream media no longer has a monopoly on political commentary as anybody can set up a blog or post a video online. Now, political activists can network together online. The Handbook of Research on Politics in the Computer Age is a pivotal reference source that serves to increase the understanding of methods for politics in the computer age, the effectiveness of these methods, and tools for analyzing these methods. The book includes research chapters on different aspects of politics with information technology, engineering, computer science, or math, from 27 researchers at 20 universities and research organizations in Belgium, Brazil, Cape Verde, Egypt, Finland, France, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Nigeria, Norway, Portugal, and the United States of America. Highlighting topics such as online campaigning and fake news, the prospective audience includes, but is not limited to, researchers, political and public policy analysts, political scientists, engineers, computer scientists, political campaign managers and staff, politicians and their staff, political operatives, professors, students, and individuals working in the fields of politics, e-politics, e-government, new media and communication studies, and Internet marketing.

Author : Normann Witzleb,Moira Paterson,Janice Richardson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781000747393

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Big Data, Political Campaigning and the Law by Normann Witzleb,Moira Paterson,Janice Richardson Pdf

In this multidisciplinary book, experts from around the globe examine how data-driven political campaigning works, what challenges it poses for personal privacy and democracy, and how emerging practices should be regulated. The rise of big data analytics in the political process has triggered official investigations in many countries around the world, and become the subject of broad and intense debate. Political parties increasingly rely on data analytics to profile the electorate and to target specific voter groups with individualised messages based on their demographic attributes. Political micro-targeting has become a major factor in modern campaigning, because of its potential to influence opinions, to mobilise supporters and to get out votes. The book explores the legal, philosophical and political dimensions of big data analytics in the electoral process. It demonstrates that the unregulated use of big personal data for political purposes not only infringes voters’ privacy rights, but also has the potential to jeopardise the future of the democratic process, and proposes reforms to address the key regulatory and ethical questions arising from the mining, use and storage of massive amounts of voter data. Providing an interdisciplinary assessment of the use and regulation of big data in the political process, this book will appeal to scholars from law, political science, political philosophy and media studies, policy makers and anyone who cares about democracy in the age of data-driven political campaigning.

Author : Management Association, Information Resources
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 653 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781799872924

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Research Anthology on Fake News, Political Warfare, and Combatting the Spread of Misinformation by Management Association, Information Resources Pdf

With recent headlines around fake news from world leaders and around presidential elections, Twitter and other social media platforms being pressured to detect and label misinformation posted on their platforms, as well as misinformation around COVID-19 and its vaccine, the world has seen an increase in protests, policy changes, and even chaos surrounding this information. This spread of misinformation, when left unchecked, can turn fiction into fact and result in a mass misconception of the truth that shapes opinions, creates false narratives, and impacts multiple facets of society in potentially detrimental ways, indicating a need for the latest research on how the devastating impacts of this trend, how to discern facts from misinformation, as well as more information on technological advancements in fake news detection The Research Anthology on Fake News, Political Warfare, and Combatting the Spread of Misinformation is a compilation of the most comprehensive, previously published, and highly cited research from prestigious institutions including Columbia University and Stanford University, USA, which focuses on understanding fake news, how it spreads, its negative effects, and current solutions being investigated. While highlighting topics such as fake news, trending conspiracy theories, media distrust, political warfare, and detection methods, this book is ideally intended for practitioners, stakeholders, researchers, academicians, and students interested in the continuing surge of fake news and its, at times, dangerous results.

Author : Mark J. Lacy,Peter Wilkin
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0719067944

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Global Politics in the Information Age by Mark J. Lacy,Peter Wilkin Pdf

This work presents a provocative and wide-ranging introduction to the notion that information technologies are creating new formations of power, control and resistance across the planet. The essays--ranging from the language used by the Bush administration to shape the war on terror, the strategies of media management deployed to shape how the war in Iraq was presented in the public sphere, to the attempts to "brand" economic globalization and strategies of resistance developed by the anti-globalization movement--unearth the new transformations that are unfolding in the twenty first century.

Author : Jennifer Stromer-Galley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Digital communications
ISBN : 0190694084

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Presidential Campaigning in the Internet Age by Jennifer Stromer-Galley Pdf

Presidential candidates and their campaigns in the United States are fully invested in the use of social media. Yet, since 1996 presidential campaigns have been experimenting with ways to use digital communication technologies on the Internet to their advantage. This text tells the stories of the practices of campaigning online between 1996 and 2016, looking at winners and also-rans. The stories provide rich details of the factors that contribute to the success or failure of candidates, including the influence of digital media. The stories also show how political campaigns over six election cycles transitioned from the paradigm of mass media campaigning, to networked campaigning, and finally to mass-targeted campaigning.

Author : Guy Lachapelle,Philippe Maarek
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783110413816

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Political Parties in the Digital Age by Guy Lachapelle,Philippe Maarek Pdf

The Internet and „social media“ may initially have been understood as just one more instrument politicians could employ to manage without political parties. However, these media cannot be reduced to being a tool available solely to politicians. The electronic media make reinforcement of the „glocalization“ of the public/political sphere, a process already set in motion with the advent of television, and they can develop the trend even further.

Author : Alex Marland,Thierry Giasson,Anna Lennox Esselment
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774834513

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Permanent Campaigning in Canada by Alex Marland,Thierry Giasson,Anna Lennox Esselment Pdf

Election campaigning never stops. That is the new reality of politics and government in Canada, where everyone from staffers in the Prime Minister’s Office to backbench MPs practise political marketing and communication as though each day were a battle to win the news cycle. Permanent Campaigning in Canada examines the growth and democratic implications of political parties’ relentless search for votes and popularity and what constant electioneering means for governance. This is the first study of a phenomenon – including the use of public resources for partisan gain – that has become embedded in Canadian politics and government.

Author : Gerald Sussman
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1997-09-09
Category : Computers
ISBN : 080395140X

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Communication, Technology, and Politics in the Information Age by Gerald Sussman Pdf

Gerald Sussman offers a detailed critical analysis of the political dimensions of 21st century communication/information technologies, mass media and transnational networks.

Author : Peter John Chen
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781922144409

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Australian Politics in a Digital Age by Peter John Chen Pdf

The first comprehensive volume on the impact of digital media on Australian politics, this book examines the way these technologies shape political communication, alter key public and private institutions, and serve as the new arena in which discursive and expressive political life is performed. -- Publisher's description.

Author : Thomas A. Hollihan
Publisher : Bedford/st Martins
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0312150261

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Uncivil Wars by Thomas A. Hollihan Pdf

- A critical, multidisciplinary approach both engages and informs students. With insights from the field of journalism, sociology, and political science, Uncivil Wars presents students with a complex picture of the practices and consequences of modern political campaigns. Treating issues of voter apathy, unethical practices, public cynicism, and the failure of political campaigns to serve the public good, Hollihan shows students the problems facing contemporary campaigns and urges them to think about possible solutions.- Unique and groundbreaking coverage of political socialization. Using both communication studies and sociological perspectives, Chapter Three studies the ways in which both candidates and voters develop their political values and how the process of political socialization shapes campaigns. Covering the role of families, education, religion, and the media in the formation of political ideology, this text provides students with unique insights into the campaign behavior of both the candidates and the voters.- A critical assessment of the impact of new technologies and how they have shaped contemporary campaigns. With an entire chapter (Chapter Eight) dedicated to the impact of new technologies, including e-mail, candidate Web sites, and computer-driven voter studies, Uncivil Wars shows how technology has both increased the potential for voter participation and politicians' dependence on image over substance.

Author : Samuel C. Woolley,Philip N. Howard
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Digital Poli
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190931407

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Computational Propaganda by Samuel C. Woolley,Philip N. Howard Pdf

Social media platforms do not just circulate political ideas, they support manipulative disinformation campaigns. While some of these disinformation campaigns are carried out directly by individuals, most are waged by software, commonly known as bots, programmed to perform simple, repetitive, robotic tasks. Some social media bots collect and distribute legitimate information, while others communicate with and harass people, manipulate trending algorithms, and inundate systems with spam. Campaigns made up of bots, fake accounts, and trolls can be coordinated by one person, or a small group of people, to give the illusion of large-scale consensus. Some political regimes use political bots to silence opponents and to push official state messaging, to sway the vote during elections, and to defame critics, human rights defenders, civil society groups, and journalists. This book argues that such automation and platform manipulation, amounts to a new political communications mechanism that Samuel Woolley and Philip N. Noward call "computational propaganda." This differs from older styles of propaganda in that it uses algorithms, automation, and human curation to purposefully distribute misleading information over social media networks while it actively learns from and mimicks real people so as to manipulate public opinion across a diverse range of platforms and device networks. This book includes cases of computational propaganda from nine countries (both democratic and authoritarian) and four continents (North and South America, Europe, and Asia), covering propaganda efforts over a wide array of social media platforms and usage in different types of political processes (elections, referenda, and during political crises).

Author : Elaine C. Kamarck,Joseph S. Nye
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004-05-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 081579861X

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Governance.com by Elaine C. Kamarck,Joseph S. Nye Pdf

Advances in information technology are transforming democratic governance. Power over information has become decentralized, fostering new types of community and different roles for government. This volume—developed by the Visions of Governance in the 21st Century program at the Kennedy School of Government—explores the ways in which the information revolution is changing our institutions of governance. Contributors examine the impact of technology on our basic institutions and processes of governance, including representation, community, politics, bureaucracy, and sovereignty. Their essays illuminate many of the promises and challenges of twenty-first century government. The contributors (all from Harvard unless otherwise indicated) include Joseph S. Nye Jr., Arthur Isak Applbaum, Dennis Thompson, William A. Galston (University of Maryland), L. Jean Camp, Pippa Norris, Anna Greenberg, Elaine Ciulla Kamarck, David C. King, Jane Fountain, Jerry Mechling, and Robert O. Keohane (Duke University).