Political communication on social media is the topic of this dissertation. The Internet and
social media platforms have provided participants in the public sphere with new ways to …

This study uses network analysis to examine Twitter's level of autonomy from external
influences, being the political and the media field. The conceptual framework builds upon …

The goal of this paper is to obtain the model for political participation on social network sites
in Europe with a focus on European politics. We want to find out if and how European …

This article draws upon the literature on comparative political institutions in order to re-
examine the logic of Twitter usage during campaign periods, now that social media has …

This article introduces the Twitter Parliamentarian Database (TPD), a multi-source and
manually validated database of parliamentarians on Twitter. The TPD includes …

The ability to share, access, and connect facts and opinions among like-minded (and not so)
citizens has encouraged wholesale political adoption of platforms like Twitter and Facebook …

Politicians have been criticized for not exploiting the deliberative potential of social media
platforms. We complement previous definitions of politicians' success on social media …

In the current information environment that is increasingly defined by digital technologies,
this dissertation focuses on exploring the political implications of citizens' everyday …

The internet and social media are having a profound effect on British politics: it will re-shape
the way elections are won and lost, how policy is made, and how people get involved in …

Scholars and commentators have debated whether lower-threshold forms of political
engagement on social media should be treated as being conducive to higher-threshold …