Tag: Facebook reactions

• After the votes are counted: what happens to parties’ Facebook audiences

  

  Engagement peaked in the campaign, fell by about 40% afterwards, and anger rose on the pages of parties left in opposition.

  Tristan Hotham

  Research papers

  Election campaigns, elections, Europe, Facebook, Facebook reactions, Online engagement, political parties, Social Media

• Shared more, liked less?

  

  Facebook’s 2018 News Feed change did not cut the engagement European parties got. It changed what their audiences did: they shared more.

  Tristan Hotham

  Research papers

  Europe, Facebook, Facebook reactions, Online engagement, Platform design, Social Media

• Do women leaders get angrier reactions?

  

  Women’s Facebook pages drew half the angry reactions of men’s. Then I compared like with like, and the gap disappeared.

  Tristan Hotham

  Research papers

  Chance test, Facebook, Facebook reactions, Party leaders, political parties, Social Media, Women and gender

• 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.

  Tristan Hotham

  Research papers

  Europe, Facebook, Facebook reactions, Online engagement, political parties, Social Media