Uneasy self-promotion and tactics of patience: Finnish MPs’ ambivalent feelings about personalised politics on social media

IF 1.5 2区社会学 Q1 CULTURAL STUDIES

International Journal of Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-24 DOI:10.1177/13678779221120028

Mona Mannevuo

引用次数: 1

Abstract

This article examines Finnish politicians’ ambivalent attachments to social media – specifically Facebook and Twitter – in candidate-centred, personalised politics. The analysis draws on 20 semi-structured interviews with members of parliament (MPs) to investigate the tactics of adaptation and adjustment politicians develop in a work setting that precludes digital detox. To investigate the MPs’ contradictory feelings, the analysis builds on cultural and media theory to contextualise the porous border between the personal and the political that exists on social media. The analysis revolves around four interconnected themes: uneasiness of self-promotion, Facebook’s ordinariness, Twitter as a necessary evil, and tactics of patience MPs utilise when they encounter various forms of online harassment. The article suggests that in parliamentary research, social media should be considered an ambivalent social glue that holds things together rather than merely a platform for self-promotion.

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令人不安的自我推销和耐心策略:芬兰议员对社交媒体上的个性化政治的矛盾情绪

这篇文章探讨了芬兰政客在以候选人为中心的个性化政治中对社交媒体，特别是脸书和推特的矛盾依恋。该分析借鉴了对国会议员的20次半结构化采访，以调查政客们在排除数字排毒的工作环境中制定的适应和调整策略。为了调查议员们的矛盾情绪，该分析建立在文化和媒体理论的基础上，将社交媒体上存在的个人和政治之间的多孔边界置于情境中。该分析围绕着四个相互关联的主题展开：自我推销的不安、脸书的平凡、推特是一种必要的邪恶，以及议员们在遇到各种形式的网络骚扰时使用的耐心策略。这篇文章建议，在议会研究中，社交媒体应该被视为一种矛盾的社会粘合剂，将事物结合在一起，而不仅仅是一个自我宣传的平台。

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International Journal of Cultural Studies Multiple-

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4.20

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9.50%

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