Social Media and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe

ISBN-13: 9780367875015 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 208 str.

Pawel Surowiec; Vaclav Stětka

Opis

This book surveys current developments in social media and politics in a range of Central and Eastern European countries, including Russia. It highlights how the application of social media in politics is still at an early stage, examines the impact of social media, and discusses political situations where social media played an important r

Spis treści

Foreword

Introduction: social media, politics and democracy in post-transition Central and Eastern Europe

Part I – Political parties, actors and social media

Chapter 1: Who is afraid of the platforms? Adoption of and strategies for use of social media by politicians in the Czech Republic

Chapter 2: The 2014 presidential elections campaign in Romania: connecting with civic-ness on Facebook

Chapter 3: Towards self-mediatization of politics: parliamentarians' use of Facebook and Twitter in Croatia and Hungary

Chapter 4: Personalization of political communication in social media: the 2014 Slovenian national election campaign 

Chapter 5: Professionalization and intentional disengagement: Facebook campaigning in the Bulgarian local elections in 2015

Part II: Social movements, interest and professional groups and social media

Chapter 6: We have been to Bolotnaya: Russian protests, the online public sphere and the discourse of division

Chapter 7: The networked public sphere and Ukrainian journalists

Chapter 8: Branding Poland online: propagating and resisting nation branding on Facebook 

Chapter 9: The dilemmas of social media-enabled civic activism: the case of sexual minorities in Lithuania

Conclusions

O autorze

Paweł Surowiec is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Media and Communication at Bournemouth University, UK.

Václav Štětka is Lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University, UK.