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Author : Robert K. Goidel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Digital media
ISBN : OCLC:1349254762
Author : Kirby Goidel
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780807139530
The 2008 presidential election provided a "perfect storm" for pollsters. A significant portion of the population had exchanged their landlines for cellphones, which made them harder to survey. Additionally, a potential Bradley effect -- in which white voters misrepresent their intentions of voting for or against a black candidate -- skewed predictions, and aggressive voter registration and mobilization campaigns by Barack Obama combined to challenge conventional understandings about how to measure and report public preferences. In the wake of these significant changes, Political Polling in the Digital Age, edited by Kirby Goidel, offers timely and insightful interpretations of the impact these trends will have on polling. In this groundbreaking collection, contributors place recent developments in public-opinion polling into a broader historical context, examine how to construct accurate meanings from public-opinion surveys, and analyze the future of public-opinion polling. Notable contributors include Mark Blumenthal, editor and publisher of Pollster.com; Anna Greenberg, a leading Democratic pollster; and Scott Keeter, director of survey research for the Pew Research Center. In an era of increasingly personalized and interactive communications, accurate political polling is more difficult and also more important. Political Polling in the Digital Age presents fresh perspectives and relevant tactics that demystify the variable world of opinion taking.
Author : Elaine C. Kamarck,Darrell M. West
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815738305
How American elections are increasingly vulnerable—and what must be done to protect them Until recently, most Americans could assume that elections, at all levels of government, were reasonably clean and well managed—most of the time. Yes, there were exceptions: some states and localities were notorious for occasional election-rigging, losers often complained that winners somehow had unfair advantages, and money increasingly distorted the electoral process. But even when voters did not like the results, the overall system of elections did not seem nearly as corrupt or warped as in many other countries. That positive view of American politics now seems outdated, even naïve. This new book by Elaine Kamarck and Darrell West shows how American elections have been compromised by what used to be called “dirty tricks” and how those tricks are becoming even more complex and dangerous the deeper we get into the digital age. It shows how old-fashioned vote-rigging at polling stations has been overtaken by much more sophisticated system-wide campaigns, from Russia’s massive campaign to influence the 2016 presidential election through social media to influence campaigns yet to come. Dirty Tricks in the Digital Age looks not just at the past but also toward the future, examining how American elections can be protected from abuse, both domestic and foreign. State governments have primary responsibility for elections in the United States, but the federal government also must play a major role in shaping the system for how Americans cast their votes. The book explores what political leaders are doing and must do to protect elections—and how they can overcome the current toxic political climate to do so. It outlines five concrete steps that state and federal leaders must take to secure the future of American democracy. Dirty Tricks in the Digital Age is a valuable resource for scholars, students, journalists, politicians, and voters—indeed, anyone interested in securing the most basic element of democracy.
Author : Mhiripiri, Nhamo A.,Chari, Tendai
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781522520962
The growing presence of digital technologies has caused significant changes in the protection of digital rights. With the ubiquity of these modern technologies, there is an increasing need for advanced media and rights protection. Media Law, Ethics, and Policy in the Digital Age is a key resource on the challenges, opportunities, issues, controversies, and contradictions of digital technologies in relation to media law and ethics and examines occurrences in different socio-political and economic realities. Highlighting multidisciplinary studies on cybercrime, invasion of privacy, and muckraking, this publication is an ideal reference source for policymakers, academicians, researchers, advanced-level students, government officials, and active media practitioners.
Author : Samiksha Shukla,Kritica Bisht,Kapil Tiwari,Shahid Bashir
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789819976775
The book is a comprehensive guide that explores the concept of data economy and its implications in today's world. The book discusses the principles and components of the ecosystem, the challenges and opportunities presented by data monetization, and the potential risks related to data privacy. Real-life examples and case studies are included to understand the concepts better. The book is suitable for individuals in data science, economics, business, and technology and for students, academics, and policymakers. It is an excellent read for anyone interested in the data economy.
Author : Andreas Jungherr,Gonzalo Rivero,Daniel Gayo-Avello
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781108419406
Provides academics, journalists, and general readers with bird's-eye view of data-driven practices and their impact in politics and media.
Author : Peter John Chen
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781922144409
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 : Management Association, Information Resources
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 1022 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781799830207
Global interest in African studies has been rapidly growing as researchers realize the importance of understanding the impact African communities can have on the economy, development, education, and more. As the use, acceptance, and popularity of African knowledge increases, it is crucial to explore how this community-based knowledge provides deeper insights, understanding, and influence on such things as decision making and problem solving. African Studies: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice examines the politics, culture, language, history, socio-economic development, methodologies, and contemporary experiences of African peoples from around the world. Highlighting a range of topics such as indigenous knowledge, developing countries, and public administration, this publication is an ideal reference source for sociologists, policymakers, anthropologists, government officials, economists, instructors, researchers, academicians, and graduate-level students in a variety of fields.
Author : Barbara A. Bardes,Robert W. Oldendick
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442261891
The fifth edition of Public Opinion: Measuring the American Mind provides a comprehensive, accessible introduction to public opinion in the United States and describes how public opinion data are collected, how they are used, and the role they play in the U.S. political system. Bardes and Oldendick introduce students to the history of polling and explain the factors a good consumer of polls should know in order to critically evaluate public opinion data. Public Opinion: Measuring the American Mind is the only text to devote significant space to the history of polling, the use of polling in America today, and to explain the methods used for survey research. In addition, the authors engage students by providing in-depth coverage of public opinion on such issues as political ideology, health care, race, and foreign policy, as well as an update and discussion of the major changes that have taken place on controversial issues such as gay marriage, gun control, and immigration. Updated to include the latest data from the American National Election Study and the General Social Surveys in 2012 and 2014, this lively, engaging text combines a comprehensive grounding in the nuts and bolts of the field with relevant, real-world examples.
Author : Guy Lachapelle,Philippe Maarek
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783110423730
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 : Nic Cheeseman,Brian Klaas
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300235210
An engrossing analysis of the pseudo-democratic methods employed by despots around the world to retain control Contrary to what is commonly believed, authoritarian leaders who agree to hold elections are generally able to remain in power longer than autocrats who refuse to allow the populace to vote. In this engaging and provocative book, Nic Cheeseman and Brian Klaas expose the limitations of national elections as a means of promoting democratization, and reveal the six essential strategies that dictators use to undermine the electoral process in order to guarantee victory for themselves. Based on their firsthand experiences as election watchers and their hundreds of interviews with presidents, prime ministers, diplomats, election officials, and conspirators, Cheeseman and Klaas document instances of election rigging from Argentina to Zimbabwe, including notable examples from Brazil, India, Nigeria, Russia, and the United States—touching on the 2016 election. This eye-opening study offers a sobering overview of corrupted professional politics, while providing fertile intellectual ground for the development of new solutions for protecting democracy from authoritarian subversion.
Author : Andrea Ceron,Luigi Curini,Stefano Maria Iacus
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317134145
The importance of social media as a way to monitor an electoral campaign is well established. Day-by-day, hour-by-hour evaluation of the evolution of online ideas and opinion allows observers and scholars to monitor trends and momentum in public opinion well before traditional polls. However, there are difficulties in recording and analyzing often brief, unverified comments while the unequal age, gender, social and racial representation among social media users can produce inaccurate forecasts of final polls. Reviewing the different techniques employed using social media to nowcast and forecast elections, this book assesses its achievements and limitations while presenting a new technique of "sentiment analysis" to improve upon them. The authors carry out a meta-analysis of the existing literature to show the conditions under which social media-based electoral forecasts prove most accurate while new case studies from France, the United States and Italy demonstrate how much more accurate "sentiment analysis" can prove.
Author : Rosalee A. Clawson,Zoe M. Oxley
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781544390154
Clawson and Oxley link the enduring normative questions of democratic theory to existing empirical research on public opinion. Organized around a series of questions—In a democratic society, what should be the relationship between citizens and their government? Are citizens’ opinions pliable? Are they knowledgeable, attentive, and informed?—the text explores the tension between ideals and their practice. Each chapter focuses on exemplary studies, explaining not only the conclusion of the research, but how it was conducted, so students gain a richer understanding of the research process and see methods applied in context.
Author : Alex Marland
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774827782
Changes in technology and media consumption are transforming the way people communicate about politics. Are they also changing the way politicians communicate to the public? Political Communication in Canada examines the way political parties, politicians, interest groups, the media, and citizens are using new tactics, tools, and channels to disseminate information, and also investigates the implications of these changes. Drawing on recent examples, contributors review such things as the branding of the New Democratic Party, how Stephen Harper’s image is managed, and politicians’ use of Twitter. They also discuss the evolving role of political journalism, including media coverage of politics and how Canadians use the Internet for political discussions. In an era when political communication – from political marketing to citizen journalism – is of vital importance to the workings of government, this timely volume provides insight into the future of Canadian democracy.
Author : Oscar Barberà,Giulia Sandri,Patricia Correa,Juan Rodríguez-Teruel
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030786687
This book analyzes how mainstream and new parties are building their digital platforms and transitioning from traditional (offline) organizations into the digital world. The authors present an innovative empirical exploration of the democratic consequences and technical challenges of the digitalization of party organizations from a comparative perspective. They provide an original account of how party digital platforms are regulated and used, and a crucial discussion of the main technological and democratic issues that political parties face in their digital transition. Further, the authors assess the consequences of these digitalization processes for political participation and party membership, as well as the impact on party organizational models and electoral campaign potential. The book looks into one of the less-studied aspects of digital democracy, also presenting empirical evidence and case studies. It presents different parties and their adoption of digital participation platforms, from the Pirate Parties in Northern Europe to Podemos in Spain, La France Insoumise in France, the Five Stars Movement in Italy, or the German Greens. Therefore, the book is a must-read for scholars of political science, policy-makers, and practitioners, interested in a better understanding of the transition of political parties into the digital world.
