Social Media and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe 1st edition by Pawel Surowiec ISBN 0367875012 978-0367875015

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ISBN 10: 0367875012
ISBN 13: 978-0367875015
Author: Pawel Surowiec

Social media are increasingly revolutionising the ways in which political communication works, and their importance for engaging citizens in politics and public affairs is well understood by political actors. This book surveys current developments in social media and politics in a range of Central and Eastern European countries, including Ukraine and Russia. It explores the process of adoption of social media by politicians, journalists and civic activists, examines the impact of the different social and cultural backgrounds of the countries studied, and discusses specific political situations, such as the 2012 protests in Moscow and the 2014 EuroMaidan events in Ukraine, where social media played an important role. The book concludes by addressing how the relationship between social media and politics is likely to develop and how it might affect the still relatively new democracies in the region.

Social Media and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe 1st Table of contents:

PART I: Political parties, actors and social media

1. Who is afraid of the platforms? Adoption of and strategies for use of social media by politicians in the Czech Republic

Politicians on social networking sites: key discourses and areas of enquiry

Social media in Czech society and Czech politics

Candidates on social media during the 2013 elections

Methodology

Selected results

Conclusions

Notes

References

2. The 2014 presidential elections campaign in Romania: connecting with civic-ness on Facebook

Introduction

Social media and key features of political campaigning

Web 2.0 and Romanian politics

The 2014 elections: the ‘Facebook presidency’

Discussion

Conclusions

Note

References

3. Towards self-mediatization of politics: parliamentarians’ use of Facebook and Twitter in Croatia and Hungary

Introduction

From mediatization to self-mediatization of politics

The internet and the social networking sites in the politics of Croatia and Hungary

Research methodology

Sample and data

Results

Discussion and conclusions

Acknowledgement

Notes

References

4. Personalization of political communication in social media: the 2014 Slovenian national election campaign

Introduction

Professionalization of political communication and personalization of politics

Towards the increased role of social media in Slovenian election campaigning

Methodologies

Use of Twitter in 2014 campaign for the Slovenian Parliament

Discussion

Conclusions

Notes

References

5. Professionalization and intentional disengagement: Facebook campaigning in the Bulgarian local elections in 2015

Internet and politics in Bulgarian context

Research methodology

Methods

Results

Summary of the results

Conclusions

Appendix

Notes

References

Official party Facebook pages

PART II: Social movements, interest and professional groups and social media

6. We have been to Bolotnaya: Russian protests, the online public sphere and the discourse of division

Introduction

Theorizing civil society and the public sphere in Russia

Online social media and participatory democracy

Internet, Facebook and the Russian protest

Data and method

Rhetoric of division: ‘us’ versus ‘them’

Use of pronouns: ‘us’ versus ‘everyone’

Figures of speech: constructing ‘the other’

Discussion

Notes

References

7. The networked public sphere and Ukrainian journalists

Background and aim of the chapter

Social media and political communication in Ukraine

Literature review

Methodology

Findings and discussion

Conclusion

Note

References

8. Branding Poland online: propagating and resisting nation branding on Facebook

Introduction

Soft power, social media and nation branding

Nation branding online: towards digital democratization or illusions of democratic participation?

Methodology

Findings

Analysis

Summary

Conclusions

Acknowledgments

Notes

References

9. The dilemmas of social media-enabled civic activism: the case of sexual minorities in Lithuania

Introduction

The country context

Methodology

Overview of patterns of social media use

Dilemmas of online public engagement of sexual minorities in Lithuania

Civic activism, sexual minorities and cyber-optimism

Conclusions

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