Tag: Party leaders
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Facebook kept pace with public attention. It didn’t lead it.
Comparing Facebook engagement for British parties and leaders with Wikipedia reading and Google searches from 2015 to 2020, the big spikes mostly came on the same day, with no reliable leader, and none of the three came close to the polls.
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Did Europe rally round its leaders on Facebook in the first Covid-19 wave?
When lockdowns began across Europe in 2020, governing parties and heads of government drew more attention on Facebook, but so did the opposition. A new paper using 81,372 posts from 147 pages finds a real but modest and short-lived rally.
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Who carries the party on Facebook in Sweden?
Jimmie Åkesson’s share of the Sweden Democrats’ Facebook engagement fell from 41% in 2015 to 13% by 2020, while Annie Lööf’s share of the Centre Party’s rose. A new paper uses my doctoral CrowdTangle data to compare leaders, party pages and votes.
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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.
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New leader, new crowd: what happened to Labour’s Facebook comments under Corbyn
234,579 comments on Labour’s Facebook page, the same weeks of 2015 and 2016. Under Corbyn the comment section got slightly less toxic, a partly new crowd turned up, and the argument moved from UKIP to Europe.
