Graham, T orcid.org/0000-0002-5634-7623, Jackson, D and Broersma, M (2016) New platform, old habits? Candidates’ use of Twitter during the 2010 British and Dutch general election campaigns. New Media and Society, 18 (5). pp. 765-783. ISSN 1461-4448
Abstract
Twitter has become one of the most important online spaces for political communication practice and research. Through a hand-coded content analysis, this study compares how British and Dutch Parliamentary candidates used Twitter during the 2010 general elections. We found that Dutch politicians were more likely to use Twitter than UK candidates and on average tweeted over twice as much as their British counterparts. Dutch candidates were also more likely to embrace the interactive potential of Twitter, and it appeared that the public responded to this by engaging in further dialogue. We attribute the more conservative approach of British candidates compared to the Netherlands to historic differences in the appropriation of social media by national elites, and differing levels of discipline imposed from the central party machines.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2014. This is an author produced version of a paper published in New Media & Society. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Elections; Election campaign; Twitter; Political Communication; Social media; Content analysis; Internet research; Internet studies; Politics; United Kingdom; Netherlands; Politicians; MPs |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Media & Communication (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 29 Mar 2017 10:56 |
Last Modified: | 01 Dec 2020 11:42 |
Published Version: | http://nms.sagepub.com/content/18/5/765 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/1461444814546728 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:113492 |