Pursuing Change or Pursuing Credit? Litigation and Credit Claiming on Social Media

IF 0.8 Q2 LAW
Anna Gunderson, Kirsten Widner, M. Macdonald
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Abstract

Social media provides an inexpensive way for interest groups to inform and mobilize large audiences, but it is puzzling why organizations would spend time posting about activities like litigation that do not depend on public opinion or mobilization. We argue there are two reasons interest groups post about judicial advocacy on social media. First, organizations provide information about the courts on social media to build credibility and recognition as a trusted source of information. We hypothesize that membership groups will be less likely to use social media in this way than non-membership public interest organizations. Second, organizations use social media to claim credit for activity in the courts in order to increase their public and financial support. We expect that this strategy will be used most frequently by legal organizations. Using an original dataset of millions of tweets and Facebook posts by interest groups, we find support for these expectations.
追求改变还是追求信用?社交媒体上的诉讼和信用索赔
社交媒体为利益集团提供了一种廉价的方式来告知和动员大量受众,但令人困惑的是,为什么组织会花时间发布诉讼等不依赖公众舆论或动员的活动。我们认为,利益集团在社交媒体上发布司法宣传有两个原因。首先,各组织在社交媒体上提供有关法院的信息,以建立可信度,并被公认为值得信赖的信息来源。我们假设,与非会员制公共利益组织相比,会员制团体不太可能以这种方式使用社交媒体。其次,各组织利用社交媒体向法院申请活动的信用,以增加其公共和财政支持。我们预计,法律组织将最频繁地使用这一策略。使用兴趣团体数百万条推文和Facebook帖子的原始数据集,我们发现这些期望得到了支持。
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