Recently, widely reported studies assessed messages sent to UK female MPs online and
concluded that they suffer high levels of abuse. However, these studies tended to focus on …

The political use of social media is a well-established field of research. We perform a content
analysis of the messages posted on Instagram—one of the fastest growing social networking …

Negative campaigning has long concerned scholars because of the potential effects on the
electorate and on democracy. Most scholarship has focused on single-election studies in the …

This article focuses on the under-researched topic of the use of Twitter by members of
parliament (MPs) in Latin America. There have not yet been any thorough comparative …

This research paper employed Ideological Discourse Analysis (IDA) to study the use of the
Macedonian Name Dispute (MND) on the websites of the eight most prominent candidates …

This article looks at the equalization/normalization problem through the lens of campaign
spending and investigates the effect of expenses for digital tools on the electoral result of …

Studies of online campaigning have consistently demonstrated a positive impact on
electoral success, but it remains unclear how this occurs. Some find the content and style of …

Political parties have gone digital. Political scientists in countries around the world have
diagnosed the rise of the digital party and traced parties' adoption of digital technology …

This paper analyses the investment in digital tools and the allocation of communication
expenses in a Global South country with an uneven digital penetration rate. Data were …

This article examines the use of social media during the 2021 Mexican legislative election.
Political candidates were contacted through the email addresses they had listed and sent a …