Social media is now ubiquitously used by political campaigns, but less attention has been
given to public discussions that take place on candidates' free public accounts on social …

In the 2016 US Presidential election, some candidates used to automated accounts, or bots,
to boost their social media presence and followership. Categorizing all automated accounts …

To date, little attention has been paid to the temporal nature of campaigns as they respond
to events or react to the different stages of a political election--what we define as strategic …

The use of digital technologies by political campaigns has been a topic of scholarly concern
for over two decades. However, these studies have been mostly focused on analyzing the …

1 Dunaway, Johanna, Kathleen Searles, Erika Franklin Fowler, and Travis Ridout.
Forthcoming. The Effects of Political Advertisin Page 1 1 Dunaway, Johanna, Kathleen …

Campaigns' access to technology, the strategic methods they employ, and the effects of their
political messaging are in flux in the contemporary media environment. In an overview of …

With candidates using social media sites like Facebook and Twitter as part of their campaign
strategies, social scientists are trying to understand the diffusion of political messages. Viral …