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Elite-public interaction on twitter: EU issue expansion in the campaign
Authors:ZOLTÁN FAZEKAS  SEBASTIAN ADRIAN POPA  HERMANN SCHMITT  PABLO BARBERÁ  YANNIS THEOCHARIS
Affiliation:1. Department of International Economics Government & Business, Copenhagen Business School, Porcelænshaven 24 A+B, Frederiksberg, 2000 Denmark;2. Politics Department, Newcastle University, United Kingdom

MZES, University of Mannheim, Germany;3. MZES, University of Mannheim, Germany

Politics, University of Manchester, United Kingdom;4. Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Southern California;5. ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Science, University of Bremen, Germany

Abstract:Why do some issues receive more interest from the public, while others do not? This paper develops a theoretical and empirical approach that explains the degree to which issues expand from the elite to the public. We examine how candidates in the 2014 European Parliament elections talked about EU issues, in comparison to other political issues. We rely on data collected from Twitter and use a combination of human coding and machine learning to analyse what facilitates interactions from the public. We find that most political actors did not try to engage with the public about EU issues, and lack of engagement results in less interactions from the general public. Our findings contribute to understanding why EU issues still play a secondary role in European politics, but at the same time highlight what low-cost communicational tools might be useful to overcome this expansion deficit.
Keywords:engagement  issue politicization  EU issues  social media communication  EP elections
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