Social Media and Politics Expert | Social Media Research Consultant | Digital Campaigns
My thesis “How do parties use Facebook and what does it offer to their campaigns?” is now out, it examines UK parties Facebook campaigns from 2010-2018 including the 2015 and 2017 general elections in huge detail.
The election saw the parties utilise an array of advertising tools, 2019 was not just a Facebook election as in 2017. This is an extensive analysis of the what, where, when and how of the parties digital campaigns.
Satellite campaigns have been discussed as core parts of parties online campaigns. However, they are not well conceptualised or understood. I have developed a new working paper within which I analyse satellite campaign group Momentum and the Labour Party Facebook campaign.
Twitter Fleets are not necessary, nobody on the network was calling for them, and their implementation shows that Twitter has more interest in following the crowd than genuinely innovating. Instead, what we now have is social networks innovating from a position of desperation, focused on ‘keeping up with the Joneses’.
Summary Trump has won in the head to head battle between his personal Facebook page and Biden‘s across all engagementContinue Reading
