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Political Campaigning in the Information Age

Editor:  Ashu M. G. Solo (Maverick Technologies America Inc., USA)
ISBN13:  9781466660625; ISBN10:  1466660627; EISBN13:  9781466660632

URL:  http://www.igi-global.com/book/political-campaigning-information-age/99490

Technology and particularly the Internet have brought about many changes in political campaigning.  Politicians and candidates use their own websites and social network profiles to get their message out.  Aspects of engineering, computer science, or mathematics can be applied to political campaigning and political communications.

Political Campaigning in the Information Age, edited by Ashu M. G. Solo and published by IGI Global, includes 20 research chapters from 33 researchers at universities and research institutions in 15 countries on different aspects of political campaigning and political communications with information technology, engineering, computer science, or math.  This book strongly increases our understanding of methods for political campaigning and political communications in the information age, the effectiveness of these methods, and tools for analyzing these methods.

Chapter 1
Relationship between Social Media and Political Parties: The Case of Turkey  (pages 1-31)
Kamil Demirhan

Chapter 2
Social Media in Political Public Relations: The Cases of the Portuguese Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the Socialist Party (PS) in the 2009 Parliamentary Campaign  (pages 32-50)
Sónia Pedro Sebastião, Alice Donat Trindade

Chapter 3
Amplification and Virtual Back-Patting: The Rationalities of Social Media Uses in the Nina Larsson Web Campaign  (pages 51-65)
Jakob Svensson

Chapter 4
A Europe Wide Web?: Political Parties' Websites in the 2009 European Parliament Elections  (pages 66-87)
Cristian Vaccari

Chapter 5
New Media in the Process of Shaping Local Democracy: The Case of Poland  (pages 88-109)
Ilona Biernacka-Ligieza

Chapter 6
Online Political Marketing: The Use of Facebook in the 2010 Greek Municipal Elections  (pages 110-127)
Georgios Lappas, Prodromos Yannas, Amalia Triantafillidou, Alexandros Kleftodimos

Chapter 7
Microblogging and the News: Political Elites and the Ultimate Retweet  (pages 128-147)
Kevin Wallsten

Chapter 8
Reframing Audience: Co-Motion at #SOTU  (pages 148-164)
G. R. Boynton, Glenn W. Richardson Jr.

Chapter 9
Sources and Formats of Campaign Information on YouTube  (pages 165-178)
Robert Klotz

Chapter 10
Do Web Campaigns by Party Leaders Enhance the Images of Party Leaders Held by Voters?: Experimental Evidence from Finland  (pages 179-196)
Tom Carlson, Göran Djupsund, Kim Strandberg

Chapter 11
Using Presidential Popularity for Understanding the Relationship between President Bush and Congressional Republicans' Online Campaigning: A Preliminary Examination of Representative Websites for the 2002, 2004, 2006, and 2008 Elections  (pages 197-209)
Christopher Latimer

Chapter 12
A Diachronic Analysis of Portuguese Digital Campaigning  (pages 210-225)
Rui Alexandre Novais, Álvaro Cúria

Chapter 13
The New Interdisciplinary Fields of Political Engineering and Computational Politics  (pages 226-232)
Ashu M. G. Solo

Chapter 14
The New Interdisciplinary Fields of Public Policy Engineering and Computational Public Policy  (pages 233-238)
Ashu M. G. Solo

Chapter 15
Type-One Fuzzy Logic for Quantitatively Defining Imprecise Linguistic Terms in Politics and Public Policy  (pages 239-255)
Ashu M. G. Solo, Madan M. Gupta, Noriyasu Homma, Zeng-Guang Hou

Chapter 16
Interval Type-Two Fuzzy Logic for Quantitatively Defining Imprecise Linguistic Terms in Politics and Public Policy  (pages 256-264)
Ashu M. G. Solo

Chapter 17
Using Graph Theory Software for Political Discourse Analysis  (pages 265-286)
Bogdan Pătruţ, Monica Pătruţ, Camelia Cmeciu

Chapter 18
Online Election Campaigning: Exploring Supply and Demand during the France 2012 Presidential Election  (pages 287-304)
Darren G. Lilleker, Karolina Koc-Michalska

Chapter 19
Hungarian MPs' Response Propensity to Emails  (pages 305-317)
Norbert Merkovity

Chapter 20
Mapping Research Methodology in Online Political Communication  (pages 318-335)
Rosanna De Rosa, Valentina Reda, Tommaso Ederoclite