Social media and political communication

• Autores: Martin Karlsson, Joachim Åström
• Localización: Journal of language and politics, ISSN 1569-2159, Vol. 17, Nº. 2, 2018, págs. 305-323
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • As the Internet has come to play a greater role in politics, there has been a growing scholarly interest in how digital and social media are changing politics. The competition between the innovation and normalization hypotheses has been at the center of the debate. This article sets out to identify evidence of innovation and normalization in terms of how politicians communicate in- and the level of influence they are attaining within the political blogosphere. The analyses conducted show paradoxical results as we find that those groups of politicians who are utilizing political communication in the blogosphere in more innovative and progressive ways – mirroring the hopes and expectations about how social media might influence politicians and political communication – have weaker positions within the blog network compared to other politicians.