Category: Politics
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The 2019 EU Elections – British Brexit Balkanization
So here we stand, between a rock and a hard place. With both ardent remainers and hard brexiteers we have seen the political landscape shift enormously underneath us. Within this the Brexit Party have engaged in a very powerful social media campaign, one which has utilised both organic and targeted communications to probe at the…
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Permanent campaigning and Brexit
The USP of social media as a permanent tool is finally being realised by both Labour and the Tories. Given our hyper-political situation due to Brexit, I expect this Christmas period to be one of a battleground online. The @Conservatives just launched 71 new Brexit ads focusing on @jeremycorbyn and the possibility of a second…
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Personality Crisis? Did the “personalisation of politics” lead to UKIP’s rise?
In the May 2014 European elections, Nigel Farage and the UK Independence Party (UKIP from hereon) polled in first place, with 26.6 per cent of the national vote. Despite UKIP’s now ostensible popularity, they are academically under analysed as a political movement. This literature review will examine where I believe there is a major gap…
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Facebook risks starting a war on knowledge
Facebook is closing its doors to researchers in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The latest casualty is the app Netvizz, a research tool used by hundreds of academics to gather public Facebook data, that the social network has recently banned. The app has gathered more than 300 academic citations and has been used to produce studies on everything…
