Nils Gustafsson
elite networks, political communication & social media
Social Media and Parliamentary Infighting: Digital naturals in the Swedish Riksdag?
Författare
Redaktör
- W. Timothy Coombs
- Jesper Falkheimer
- Mats Heide
- Philip Young
Summary, in English
Research on the use of social network sites by elected politicians has often been narrowed
down to behaviour during election campaigns and using social media as a way of reaching
voters and journalists. This chapter studies the way that members of parliament in the
Swedish Riksdag use social media as a tool for intra-party competition. The analysed data
consist of interviews with 37 parliamentarians from the parliamentary parties in Sweden, a
parliamentary, party-centred democracy. The study shows that rather than simply adoption
or non-adoption of social media based on beliefs about its power to attract voters,
politicians have varying incentives to use and apply social media based on election cycles,
different arenas of influence, rank, cultural differences between parties and individual traits
such as age. It also shows that age is a more important factor in determining social media
style than others. It contains one of the first studies of internal use of social media in
parliamentary parties.
down to behaviour during election campaigns and using social media as a way of reaching
voters and journalists. This chapter studies the way that members of parliament in the
Swedish Riksdag use social media as a tool for intra-party competition. The analysed data
consist of interviews with 37 parliamentarians from the parliamentary parties in Sweden, a
parliamentary, party-centred democracy. The study shows that rather than simply adoption
or non-adoption of social media based on beliefs about its power to attract voters,
politicians have varying incentives to use and apply social media based on election cycles,
different arenas of influence, rank, cultural differences between parties and individual traits
such as age. It also shows that age is a more important factor in determining social media
style than others. It contains one of the first studies of internal use of social media in
parliamentary parties.
Avdelning/ar
- Institutionen för strategisk kommunikation
Publiceringsår
2015
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
95-105
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Strategic Communication, Social Media and Democracy
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Dokumenttyp
Del av eller Kapitel i bok
Förlag
Routledge
Ämne
- Political Science
- Media and Communications
Nyckelord
- social media
- democracy
- political parties
- political communication
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISBN: 978-1-138-84116-1