Showing papers in "Journal of Information Technology & Politics in 2020"
TL;DR: Islamophobic hate speech on social media is a growing concern in contemporary Western politics and society as discussed by the authors, and it can inflict considerable harm on any victims who are targeted, create a sense of fear and cause considerable harm.
Abstract: Islamophobic hate speech on social media is a growing concern in contemporary Western politics and society. It can inflict considerable harm on any victims who are targeted, create a sense of fear ...
84 citations
TL;DR: Fake news has trumped up attention across cultures from the United States Elections to the Arab Spring as discussed by the authors, and political marketers have long used the language of fear and persuasion in their messagi...
Abstract: Fake news has trumped up attention across cultures from the United States Elections to the Arab Spring. While political marketers have long used the language of fear and persuasion in their messagi...
80 citations
TL;DR: The authors investigate the effects of sentiment and issue saliency on emotionally labeled responses to posts from political actors on Facebook (i.e., Reactions) using an automated content analysis of Fac...
Abstract: We investigate the effects of sentiment and issue salience on emotionally labeled responses to posts from political actors on Facebook (i.e., Reactions). We use an automated content analysis of Fac...
49 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors confront some of the difficulties that temporality poses for the study of digital politics, where previous articles have discussed the unique methodological challenges for digi-graphs.
Abstract: This article confronts some of the difficulties that temporality poses for the study of digital politics. Where previous articles have discussed the unique methodological challenges for dig...
22 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how Facebook is used by political parties during elections to extend or accelerate their reach within the electorate and how successful these efforts are, and compare the content and style of parties' Facebook posts during the 2014 European parliament elections, and how this affects followers' responses in terms of liking, sharing and commenting on the posts.
Abstract: This paper examines how Facebook is used by political parties during elections to extend or accelerate their reach within the electorate and how successful these efforts are. Specifically, we compare the content and style of parties’ Facebook posts during the 2014 European parliament elections, and how this affects followers’ responses in terms of liking, sharing and commenting on the posts. Our findings reveal while that the timing and visual content of posts are important in increasing voters’ attention, interactivity matters most. Responsive party posts on Facebooks are significantly more likely to be shared, liked, and commented on by users. Given that follower reactions, particularly sharing, helps to increase the visibility of party communication through indirect or two-step flow communication (online and offline), these findings are important in advancing our understanding of how and why social media campaigns are able to influence voters and thus affect election outcomes. For parties themselves the results provide some useful insights into what makes for an ‘effective’ Facebook campaign in terms of how they can accelerate the reach of their communication.
20 citations
TL;DR: This paper examined how the UK political organization Momentum uses social media within its campaigning, drawing on a mixed-method research design, combining interviews with activists in Portsmou, Portugal.
Abstract: This article examines how the UK political organization Momentum uses social media within its campaigning. Drawing on a mixed-method research design, combining interviews with activists in Portsmou...
16 citations
TL;DR: When social networking sites based in authoritarian states expand transnationally, digital media environments create soft power resources for these states as discussed by the authors, rather than being an intrusion into natio-...
Abstract: When social networking sites based in authoritarian states expand transnationally, digital media environments create soft power resources for these states. Rather than being an intrusion into natio...
15 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore ways of creating and strengthening e-democracy on the local government level by means of e-participatory budgeting projects and analyze the existing realm of work on e-government.
Abstract: In this paper, we explore ways of creating and strengthening e-democracy on the local government level by means of e-participatory budgeting projects. Having analyzed the existing realm of work on ...
15 citations
TL;DR: Digital communication technologies have been considered as empowering tools for activists advancing socio-political causes or challenging oppression in Zimbabwe as discussed by the authors, but digital activism is still considered as a powerful tool for social change.
Abstract: Digital communication technologies have been considered as empowering tools for activists advancing socio-political causes or challenging oppression. In Zimbabwe, digital activism is still consider...
14 citations
TL;DR: The authors place the cognitive elaboration model on news gathering and political behavior within the dual-processing elaboration likelihood model to derive hypotheses about the effects of inci cation on political behavior.
Abstract: This study places the “cognitive elaboration model” on news gathering and political behavior within the dual-processing “elaboration likelihood model” to derive hypotheses about the effects of inci...
13 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors claim that e-government-enabled transparency through websites may be conditioned by political and social factors, and that being more transparent while conducting its acti...
Abstract: Recent literature on transparency claims that e-government-enabled transparency through websites may be conditioned by political and social factors. Being more transparent while conducting its acti...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted interviews with leaders and staff of both legacy and digitally native organizations to reveal that legacy NGOs face growing competition from digitally-native organizations and that legacy organizations with professiona...
Abstract: Legacy advocacy organizations face growing competition from digitally native organizations. Interviews with leaders and staff of both types of organizations reveal that legacy NGOs with professiona...
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of social media on the discourse within an issue community have been studied, focusing on the use of Twitter for intra-group member mobilization, but not on its use for intragroup mobilization.
Abstract: Recent research of interest groups’ use of Twitter focuses on its use for intra-group member mobilization. Less has been said about social media’s effects on the discourse within an issue community...
TL;DR: In this article, a gap regarding knowledge about the diffusion of e-participation projects actually implemented in local contexts is identified, and an approach that allows for collecting exhaustively exhaustiv...
Abstract: Research shows a gap regarding knowledge about the diffusion of e-participation projects actually implemented in local contexts. This study provides an approach that allows for collecting exhaustiv...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors assert that their innovative use of data-driven practices is at the heart of their people-powered decision-making models, and associate them with data-centric practices.
Abstract: Digital membership organizations assert that their innovative use of data-driven practices is at the heart of their people-powered decision-making models. These data-driven practices, and associate...
TL;DR: Design science and Weick’s theorizing approach are used to develop a systems-oriented E-government strategy formulation framework at local government level, for a digital citizen engagement initiative called Project X.
Abstract: Digital initiatives are known to support service delivery and citizen engagement, however effective implementation is limited in resource-constrained municipalities in South Africa. One prevalent r...
TL;DR: It is proved that automatic translation of multilingual newspaper documents deters neither human nor computer classification of political concepts and that humans can code translated text as well as they can code untranslated prose in their mother tongue.
Abstract: This paper proves that automatic translation of multilingual newspaper documents deters neither human nor computer classification of political concepts. We show how theory-driven coding of newspape...
TL;DR: This article used a supervised machine-learning approach to analyze the agendas of major newspapers in China, Japan, and the United States, and disambiguated the agenda of the newspapers.
Abstract: Anchored by the network agenda setting (NAS) model, this study uses a supervised machine-learning approach to analyze the agendas of major newspapers in China, Japan, and the United States, and dis...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the digital storytelling practice of story banking in U.S. grassroots advocacy organizations through the examination of LinkedIn data and find that it has become increasingly popular among U.
Abstract: This article interrogates digital “story banking,” a storytelling practice that has become increasingly popular among U.S. grassroots advocacy organizations. Through the examination of LinkedIn dat...
TL;DR: The authors framed the political obligation social media companies like Twitter and Facebook have in a democratic society by casting the public sphere as a common-pool re-pool, which is similar to our approach.
Abstract: This paper takes a unique approach to framing the political obligation social media companies like Twitter and Facebook have in a democratic society by casting the public sphere as a common-pool re...
TL;DR: This paper examined tax justice advocacy (e.g., around multinational corporate tax avoidance) in the UK and Australia between 2010 and 2018 to understand how digital advocacy organizations relate to tax avoidance.
Abstract: This paper examines tax justice advocacy (e.g., around multinational corporate tax avoidance) in the UK and Australia between 2010 and 2018 to understand how digital advocacy organizations relate t...
TL;DR: This article analyzed political talk in comments on news about nonpublic affairs and drew on content and discourse analyses of comments on the news published by the news publisher to analyze the third spaces of the comments.
Abstract: This paper builds on recent work on “third spaces” to analyze political talk in comments on news about nonpublic affairs. It draws on content and discourse analyses of comments on news published by...
TL;DR: This paper extended prior findings examining traditional with cross-national time-series data analyses in sequences of Granger causality tests to examine the democratizing effects of internet and mobile computing on social media.
Abstract: This study extended prior findings examining traditional with cross-national time-series data analyses in sequences of Granger causality tests to examine the democratizing effects of internet and m...
TL;DR: There was more discussion of e-mails and e-mail servers in the 2016 election than any previous campaign as mentioned in this paper. Yet, practically no attention was paid to the actual emails distributed by campaigns.
Abstract: There was more discussion of e-mails and e-mail servers in the 2016 election than any previous campaign. Yet, practically no attention was paid to the actual e-mails distributed by campaigns themse...
TL;DR: In this article, the difference in e-participation (or online public participation) across countries using a conceptual model that is quantitatively analyzed using panel data is explained. The mode...
Abstract: This paper aims at explaining the difference in e-participation (or online public participation) across countries using a conceptual model that is quantitatively analyzed using panel data. The mode...
TL;DR: This article examined the role of political cynicism in emotions, online campaign information seeking, and online political expression, using data from a two-wave online panel survey conducted before the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Abstract: This study examines the role of political cynicism in emotions, online campaign information seeking, and online political expression. Data from a two-wave online panel survey conducted before the 2...
TL;DR: For social media to be beneficial for democracy, citizens have to actively expose themselves to political information to become informed and politically active as discussed by the authors, and to foster such political exposure, i...
Abstract: For social media to be beneficial for democracy, citizens have to actively expose themselves to political information to become informed and politically active. To foster such political exposure, i...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore how digitally-native advocacy organizations evolve and whether they influence the organizational norms of other NGOs and advocacy groups, and propose a special issue that explores the evolution of advocacy organizations.
Abstract: This special issue explores how digitally-native advocacy organizations evolve and whether they influence the organizational norms of other NGOs and advocacy groups. The volume offers three contrib...
TL;DR: Online technologies are viewed as a potential equalizer of opportunities for marginalized groups because they may help reduce inequality and oppression through their educational, social and profess... as discussed by the authors,...
Abstract: Online technologies are viewed as a potential equalizer of opportunities for marginalized groups because they may help reduce inequality and oppression through their educational, social and profess...
TL;DR: The authors studied whether people's exposure to online quiz questions about politics could pique people's interest in political news and politics, and found that exposure to these questions could increase interest in politics.
Abstract: This study sought to understand whether people’s exposure to online quiz questions about politics could pique people’s interest in political news and politics. An online experiment (N = 585) showed...