{"title":"Categorizing political campaign messages on social media using supervised machine learning","authors":"Jennifer Stromer-Galley, Patrícia G. C. Rossini","doi":"10.1080/19331681.2023.2231436","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19331681.2023.2231436","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":425390,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Information Technology & Politics","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130837728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"When politics is personal: Curating safe spaces through disconnection on instant messaging platforms","authors":"Qinfeng Zhu, M. Skoric","doi":"10.1080/19331681.2023.2231938","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19331681.2023.2231938","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":425390,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Information Technology & Politics","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126330704","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Generic or Specific Search Terms: What Do Citizens Type in the Google Search Bar to Obtain Political Information?","authors":"Guillaume Zumofen","doi":"10.1080/19331681.2023.2221681","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19331681.2023.2221681","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":425390,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Information Technology & Politics","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126378845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The audience logic in election news reporting on Facebook: what drives audience engagement in transitional democracies of Albania and Kosovo?","authors":"L. Camaj, Erlis Çela, Gjylie Rexha","doi":"10.1080/19331681.2023.2227847","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19331681.2023.2227847","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study provides insights on how journalists in the Western Balkans conceptualize and practice audience engagement during electoral campaigns. Taking a holistic approach, we first explore audience demand and news supply of strategic and negative election news on Facebook, then turn to news editors to explore what type of audience logic drives their reporting. Our data confirm previous findings about audience demand for strategic news but contradict the predominance of audience negativity bias in the context of Southeast Europe. These findings support generic trends in how social media audiences engage with political information, but also emphasize the importance of the socio-political context as a determinant of audience engagement with online news. Interview data identified an alignment between journalists’ imagined readership preferences with the reality, yet reporting patterns on Facebook do not entirely follow engagement trends. Together, these findings suggest that journalism culture developed in this region is more nuanced than previously defined, while news editors embrace new technologies to serve the commercial needs and audience strengthening logics in parallel during electoral campaigns.","PeriodicalId":425390,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Information Technology & Politics","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133301322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Dobber, S. Kruikemeier, Fabio Votta, N. Helberger, Ellen P. Goodman
{"title":"The effect of traffic light veracity labels on perceptions of political advertising source and message credibility on social media","authors":"T. Dobber, S. Kruikemeier, Fabio Votta, N. Helberger, Ellen P. Goodman","doi":"10.1080/19331681.2023.2224316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19331681.2023.2224316","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":425390,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Information Technology & Politics","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129070761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interactive Election Campaigns on Social Media? Flow of Political Information Among Journalists and Politicians as an Element of the Communication Strategy of Political Actors","authors":"Kinga Adamczewska","doi":"10.1080/19331681.2023.2222717","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19331681.2023.2222717","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study examined politicians’ communication strategies with journalists in Poland within the context of the flow of information on social media (Facebook and Twitter). The main questions posed in the article concerned which entities used which patterns of information flow, and whether during election campaigns, politicians communicated with journalists on social media by reacting to the latter’s published posts. The study focused on pre-electoral periods of two consecutive parliamentary elections in Poland conducted in 2015 and 2019. The results showed that politicians rarely reacted to journalists’ Twitter posts. If they did, they most often used reactive communication. Additionally, political actors from opposition parties more intensely used information flow patterns with a higher level of interactivity in 2019 than in 2015.","PeriodicalId":425390,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Information Technology & Politics","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115144819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social media in black lives matter movement: amplifying or reducing gaps in protest participation?","authors":"Sangwon Lee, Saifuddin Ahmed","doi":"10.1080/19331681.2023.2223210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19331681.2023.2223210","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":425390,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Information Technology & Politics","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125876207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lenka Vochocová, Jana Rosenfeldová, Anna Vancsó, Annamária Neag
{"title":"Soros’s soldiers, slackers, and pioneers with no expertise? Discursive exclusion of environmental youth activists from the digital public sphere in Hungary and Czechia","authors":"Lenka Vochocová, Jana Rosenfeldová, Anna Vancsó, Annamária Neag","doi":"10.1080/19331681.2023.2220318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19331681.2023.2220318","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Our paper fills the gap in research on online public representations of politically active youth by focusing on the discursive representations of Fridays for Future, a youth-led climate movement, in user generated content in Czechia and Hungary. By employing the childism approach, we aim to contribute to a better understanding of the exclusion of youth from the public sphere. Our qualitative analysis identified two exclusionary strategies: 1) normative roles attributed to youth; 2) labeling youth for allegedly holding aberrant values. We stress both similarities and differences in the two countries of Central and Eastern Europe, reflecting this region’s historico-political features.","PeriodicalId":425390,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Information Technology & Politics","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133087771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social media, quality of democracy, and citizen satisfaction with democracy in central and eastern Europe","authors":"M. Placek","doi":"10.1080/19331681.2023.2220319","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19331681.2023.2220319","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The last decade has been tumultuous for democracy in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). While the beginning of the 21st century saw many post-communist countries in the region democratize and become full members of the European Union, the last 10 years have been wrought with stagnation and democratic backsliding. By the 2020s, some of the strongest democratizers in the region had experienced significant issues. This study attempts to answer two questions related to whether social media users’ satisfaction with democracy relies on a country’s quality of democracy. The first question explores this relationship in the overall context of democracy, while the second examines the relationship with democratic backsliding. The findings show that social media use correlates with higher satisfaction with democracy when their country’s democracy is more robust. Furthermore, as backsliding occurs, social media use is correlated with lower satisfaction with democracy.","PeriodicalId":425390,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Information Technology & Politics","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129192607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lennart Maschmeyer, A. Abrahams, Peter Pomerantsev, V. Yermolenko
{"title":"Donetsk don’t tell – ‘hybrid war’ in Ukraine and the limits of social media influence operations","authors":"Lennart Maschmeyer, A. Abrahams, Peter Pomerantsev, V. Yermolenko","doi":"10.1080/19331681.2023.2211969","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19331681.2023.2211969","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":425390,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Information Technology & Politics","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116639957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}