8 results on '"Xenos, Michael A."'
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2. Ukrainian nationalist parties and connective action: an analysis of electoral campaigning and social media sentiments.
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Doroshenko, Larisa, Schneider, Tetyana, Kofanov, Dmitrii, Xenos, Michael A., Scheufele, Dietram A., and Brossard, Dominique
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POLITICAL campaigns ,CONTENT analysis ,SOCIAL media ,SOCIAL media in business ,POLITICAL parties - Abstract
This paper combines human- and computer-mediated content analysis to advance the understanding of how far-right parties are using new media to mobilize their supporters in the transitioning Ukrainian democracy. This study's theoretical approach employs the framework of connective action logic; results suggest that young and challenger parties are more adoptive of this logic, and provide opportunities for personalized engagement to their supporters. Moreover, use of interactive technologies by the studied parties also goes hand in hand with a smaller proportion of opinionated messages in their Twitter network, in spite of the inherent polarizing nature of these parties. Implications of these findings for research on future political campaigns conclude this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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3. Understanding variations in user response to social media campaigns: A study of Facebook posts in the 2010 US elections.
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Xenos, Michael A., Macafee, Timothy, and Pole, Antoinette
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UNITED States elections , *SOCIAL media & politics , *POLITICAL campaigns , *COMPUTER network resources ,UNITED States Congressional elections ,UNITED States gubernatorial elections - Abstract
Political candidates increasingly have incorporated social media tools like Facebook into their campaigns. Such tools enable supporters to interact directly and easily with campaigns, creating an immediate and relatively informal way for users to respond to candidate messages and publicly display their support. Previous research has explored how campaigns have used social media, or how the use of social media may be related to political engagement. In this study, we provide a systematic analysis of variations in user response to candidate messaging through Facebook. Our results shed new light on the dynamics of online campaigning through social media and engagement with supporters through digital media. Specifically, our findings show that variations in the tone, timing, and content of posts, as distinct from contextual factors, are significantly related to how users respond through “likes” and comments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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4. Politicians, celebrities and social media: a case of informalisation?
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Manning, Nathan, Penfold-Mounce, Ruth, Loader, Brian D., Vromen, Ariadne, and Xenos, Michael
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POLITICAL campaigns ,PRACTICAL politics ,SOCIAL classes ,TRUTHFULNESS & falsehood ,POLITICIANS ,SOCIAL media - Abstract
With electoral politics no longer organised by social class, politicians increasingly seek to relate to a broad spectrum of citizens and part of their relatability is conjured through more casual, informal performances aimed at cultivating authenticity. The various platforms of social media promote forms of authentic communication by blurring the public/private divide, creating ‘spontaneous’ and instant access to ‘real life’. This article seeks to investigate the informalisation thesis by applying it to data from young people aged 16–21 years in Australia, the UK and the USA, asked about the way politicians and celebrities use social media. Findings reveal respondents’ desire for more authentic and accessible politicians, but this was in direct tension with traditional views and expectations of politicians needing to be professional, informed and worthy of respect. Informalisation amongst politicians is evident and welcomed by young citizens but persistent traditional views means it also threatens their credibility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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5. Politics As Usual or PoliticsUnusual? Position-Taking and Issue Dialogue on Campaign WebSites.
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Xenos, Michael and Foot, Kirsten
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WEBSITES , *INTERNET , *POLITICAL campaigns , *PRACTICAL politics , *POLITICAL candidates - Abstract
In the 2002 midterm election cycle, scholarly and casual observers of online politics noted the extent to which use of the Internet as a campaign tool for political candidates has become familiar and widespread. As the use of the Web by candidates increases, so too does the significance of scholarly debates over whether the Web is having a discernable impact on the political behaviors of office seekers and voters. Many consider the web to be nothing more than an additional medium alongside others in which established patterns of political behavior and information flows are played out anew, while others contend that the special characteristics of the Web hold the potential to produce fundamentally different patterns of political behavior than those found offline. Fortunately, the increasing prevalence of candidate Web sites also increases our ability to test these competing claims on the basis of structured observation of politics online. In this paper, we shed some light on this debate by analyzing the occurrence of position taking and issue dialogue on campaign Web sites. Though some of our analysis confirms the idea that the Web has done little to revolutionize campaigning, we also identify a number of ways in which the individual messages and overall political information environment created by candidates and available to voters through the Web in the 2002 midterms did not conform to the usual patterns found in the offline world of print and broadcast communication surrounding candidate issue stances. We conclude by discussing the implications of these findings for future research on information technology and politics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2004
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6. Candidates' Web Practices in the 2002 U.S. House, Senate, and Gubernatorial Elections.
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Foot, Kirsten, Schneider, Steven M., Xenos, Michael, and Dougherty, Meghan
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POLITICAL campaigns ,UNITED States elections ,POLITICAL planning ,INTERNET in political campaigns ,TECHNOLOGICAL innovations ,POLITICAL affiliation ,POLITICAL science ,COMPUTER network resources - Abstract
This study focuses on the extent to which U.S. campaigns are adapting traditional campaign strategies to the Web and/or developing innovative strategies that employ some of the particular affordances of Web technologies and on how well campaign characteristics, such as incumbency and major party affiliation, and/or race characteristics, such as statewide office and competitiveness, explain the level of a campaign's adaptation of or innovation with Web technologies. Adapting traditional campaigning proved to be far more common than developing innovative strategies. The findings suggest that additional aspects of campaigns' structure and organizational processes need to be studied in order to understand campaigns' Web technology adoption strategies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009
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7. PRIMING EFFECTS OF LATE-NIGHT COMEDY.
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Moy, Patricia, Xenos, Michael A., and Hess, Verena K.
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COMEDY , *SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC factors , *MASS media , *PRESIDENTIAL elections , *POLITICAL campaigns , *PRIMING (Psychology) , *TELEVISION viewers - Abstract
Having become fully integrated into the contemporary political landscape, infotainment-oriented media extend Americans' traditional news (e.g. newspaper, radio, and television) to include a greater number of sources for political information, and in some cases, political mobilization. Given the increasing prominence of infotainment-oriented media in contemporary politics, this study addresses the effects of one particular type of info-tainment—late-night comedy—during the 2000 presidential campaign. Specifically, we are interested in whether watching late-night comedy shows influences viewers' evaluations of the candidates who have appeared on these shows; in particular, we investigate priming as the mechanism by which such influences occur. Findings from the 2000 National Annenberg Election Survey (N = 11,482) indicate that evaluations of candidates are based in part on respondents' sociodemographics, perceptions of candidates to handle certain issues, and their character traits. There was a main effect of watching late-night comedy on evaluations of candidates; more importantly, viewers were more likely than nonviewers to base their evaluations of George W. Bush on character traits after he appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
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8. Politics As Usual, or Politics Unusual? Position Taking and Dialogue on Campaign Websites in the 2002 U.S. Elections.
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Xenos, Michael A. and Foot, Kirsten A.
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WORLD Wide Web , *BIOPOLITICS (Sociobiology) , *MULTIMEDIA systems , *ELECTIONS , *WEBSITES , *BROADCASTING industry , *POLITICAL campaigns - Abstract
Many consider the World Wide Web to be nothing more than an additional medium alongside others in which established patterns of political behavior and information flows are played out anew others contend that the special characteristics of the Web hold the potential to produce fundamentally different patterns of political behavior than those found off line. This article analyzes the occurrence of position taking and issue dialogue on campaign websites associated with a random sample of 200 races from the Us. 2002 election cycle. Though this study found some similarities between online and offline campaigning, it also identified ways in which the individual messages and overall political information environment created by candidates and available to voters through the Web in 2002 did not conform to the usual patterns found in the offline world of print and broadcast communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2005
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