The 2022 presidential election: what happened on Facebook?

IF 2.2 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE
L. Rullo, Federica Nunziata
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ABSTRACT This article aims to retrace the main stages of the 2022 Italian presidential election through the messages spread within the Web environment. In particular, it investigates the digital communication on Facebook of the main political leaders and parties involved, as a privileged perspective from which to understand contemporary Italian politics. To achieve these objectives, the article is divided into three sections. First, it discusses the main challenges of presidential elections over the last twenty years, by observing how digital disruption has transformed their fundamental dynamics and political actors’ communication strategies. Second, it employs methodological approaches that are based on digital methods and content analysis to explore the digital discourse of both party leaders and their respective parties before, during and after the 2022 election. More specifically, it analyses how they used Facebook as a primary tool to inform and engage with both citizens and mainstream media, as well as to shape political bargaining. Overall, the article argues that, although Italy’s presidential race lacks any formal list of candidates, as the election is largely decided behind closed doors, the spread of digital platforms has to some extent brought the manoeuvring between political forces into public view introducing, to some extent, a new phase of campaigning. Finally, it shows how presidential elections in the Web environment have contributed to presidential personalization in Italy and explores complementary reasons why digital platforms have acquired a new centrality in the Italian political environment.
2022年总统大选:Facebook上发生了什么?
摘要本文旨在通过网络环境中传播的信息追溯2022年意大利总统大选的主要阶段。特别是,它调查了主要政治领导人和相关政党在脸书上的数字交流,作为理解当代意大利政治的一个特权视角。为了实现这些目标,本文分为三个部分。首先,它讨论了过去20年总统选举的主要挑战,通过观察数字破坏如何改变了他们的基本动态和政治行为者的沟通策略。其次,它采用基于数字方法和内容分析的方法论方法,探索2022年大选前后两党领导人及其各自政党的数字话语。更具体地说,它分析了他们如何利用脸书作为主要工具,向公民和主流媒体提供信息和参与,以及塑造政治谈判。总的来说,文章认为,尽管意大利的总统竞选缺乏任何正式的候选人名单,因为选举基本上是闭门决定的,但数字平台的传播在一定程度上使政治力量之间的策略进入了公众视野,在某种程度上引入了新的竞选阶段。最后,它展示了网络环境下的总统选举是如何促进意大利总统个性化的,并探讨了数字平台在意大利政治环境中获得新中心地位的互补原因。
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Contemporary Italian Politics
Contemporary Italian Politics Social Sciences-Political Science and International Relations
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期刊介绍: Contemporary Italian Politics, formerly Bulletin of Italian Politics, is a political science journal aimed at academics and policy makers as well as others with a professional or intellectual interest in the politics of Italy. The journal has two main aims: Firstly, to provide rigorous analysis, in the English language, about the politics of what is one of the European Union’s four largest states in terms of population and Gross Domestic Product. We seek to do this aware that too often those in the English-speaking world looking for incisive analysis and insight into the latest trends and developments in Italian politics are likely to be stymied by two contrasting difficulties. On the one hand, they can turn to the daily and weekly print media. Here they will find information on the latest developments, sure enough; but much of it is likely to lack the incisiveness of academic writing and may even be straightforwardly inaccurate. On the other hand, readers can turn either to general political science journals – but here they will have to face the issue of fragmented information – or to specific journals on Italy – in which case they will find that politics is considered only insofar as it is part of the broader field of modern Italian studies[...] The second aim follows from the first insofar as, in seeking to achieve it, we hope thereby to provide analysis that readers will find genuinely useful. With research funding bodies of all kinds giving increasing emphasis to knowledge transfer and increasingly demanding of applicants that they demonstrate the relevance of what they are doing to non-academic ‘end users’, political scientists have a self-interested motive for attempting a closer engagement with outside practitioners.
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