Campaigning and contestation: Comments on politicians’ Facebook pages during the 2011 Danish general election campaign

This article is a critical study of the Facebook pages of politicians as public spheres using Dahlberg’s notion of contestation. A method is implemented inspired by qualitative content analysis and including focus groups in order to study citizen comments on eight main political candidates’ Facebook...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sander Andreas Schwartz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2015-12-01
Series:Social Media + Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305115622480