Tag: Europe
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Angrier, or just more expressive?
Angry reactions on European party pages roughly doubled from 2016 to 2020, but so did emoji of every kind. A new paper from my doctoral data asks where the anger really was.
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Can Facebook engagement forecast an election?
Across 31 European elections, parties’ shares of Facebook engagement missed the vote by 9.6 points on average, against 1.8 for the final polls. A new paper from my doctoral data asks what engagement does and does not tell us.
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Spain’s governing parties were the quietest on Facebook
In Spain, the parties that led the country’s governments drew a fraction of their vote on Facebook, while the challengers drew two to three times theirs. A new paper uses my doctoral CrowdTangle data to look at leaders, party pages and elections from 2015 to 2020.
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Loudest at the edges: Belgian politicians on Facebook before the 2019 election
Before Belgium’s 2019 election, Vlaams Belang politicians’ Facebook pages drew 48% of all interactions on 121 politicians’ pages, against 12% of the vote. A new paper maps where the engagement gathered.
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The bigger Facebook page lost: Greece, SYRIZA and New Democracy
Before Greece’s 2019 national election, SYRIZA and Tsipras drew 61% of the interactions on five parties’ Facebook pages against 36% of the vote. A new paper asks why the bigger page lost.
