DEADLINE : 1 February 2011
Dear colleagues,
Sorry for crossposting but please find enclosed a Call for Papers for
next year's ECPR conference. This CFP is for the panel "Supporter
Networks, Blogs, Tweets, and YouTube Videos: Political Campaigns
Online" in the Political Communication track of the ECPR general
conference. If you are working on uses of social media in political
campaigns please consider submitting a paper.
Details to the submission process can be found here:
<http://www.ecprnet.eu/conferences/general_conference/reykjavik/panel_details.asp?panelid=155>http://www.ecprnet.eu/conferences/general_conference/reykjavik/panel_details.asp?panelid=155
All the best,
Andreas Jungherr
University of Bamberg
Chairs:
Andreas Jungherr - University of Bamberg
Darren Lilleker - University of Bournemouth
Abstract:
Social media tools have become common features in election campaigns
around the world. Still, their adoption varies from country to country
and campaign to campaign. This offers a valuable opportunity for
researchers interested in political communication and political
campaigns. Campaigns exist in specific political, cultural and
technological contexts. These contexts determine the way political
actors use social media tools in their campaigns. By comparing online
campaigns in different countries and of different political leanings
we can learn more about the nature of political communication online
independent of specific local contexts. To this end the panel
"Supporter Networks, Blogs, Tweets, and YouTube Videos: Political
Campaigns Online" invites papers that examine recent political
campaigns and their use of online channels and social media tools in
their specific political, cultural or technological contexts.
Questions that might be addressed are: Which social media tools did
the campaign in question choose to use and why? How were these
decisions grounded, in specific local contexts or advice from
international campaigning professionals? Did the campaign achieve its
goals and how was this evaluated? From a methodological perspective we
are open to different approaches, be it in the form of qualitative
case studies, quantitative analysis or work based on the digital
methods approach. Also we invite papers that connect specific
campaigns to concepts from communication theory, be it for example a
discussion in the context of professionalization, mobilization, the
digital divide or political learning.
