How do digital election campaigns work?

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- Dec 16, 2022
- 4 min
Do echo chambers really exist on social media? The case for, and against.


- Dec 16, 2022
- 4 min
How will AI help governments govern and what threats does it bring?


- Dec 11, 2022
- 7 min
How can we protect elections from the negative influences of social media?


- Mar 23, 2021
- 11 min
How many Facebook followers do the leader and party pages of the UK have? (2010-2021)


- Nov 9, 2020
- 1 min
Tristan Hotham, founder of the Social Media Research Centre on BBC World News


- Jul 19, 2020
- 1 min
Black Lives Matter: decentralised leadership and the problems of online organising


- Jul 19, 2020
- 1 min
Boris Johnson Was Electoral Marmite But The Conservative Campaign Used Him Cleverly

- Jun 19, 2020
- 4 min
2019 the Brexit election? The use of Brexit in party Facebook advertisements


- Dec 16, 2019
- 2 min
Labour’s northern pivot in their advertising — how it happened and failed


- Dec 16, 2019
- 9 min
Copy, edit, upload. The hybrid media system in action across the 2019 General Election


- Dec 12, 2019
- 5 min
‘Edit the Win’— How parties reusing broadcaster content fans the flames of polarisation

- Dec 11, 2019
- 4 min
What topics did the parties' 2019 targeted adverts cover?

- Dec 7, 2019
- 4 min
Brexit, NHS and leadership dominate, what topics are the parties using in their 2019 targeted ads?

- Dec 5, 2019
- 4 min
We need to talk about A/B testing: Brexit, attack ads and the election campaign


- Dec 5, 2019
- 7 min
Is Workington Man actually Workington Woman?

- Nov 26, 2019
- 1 min
BORISWAVE グジに 2


- Nov 12, 2019
- 5 min
BORISWAVE グジに — How did Vaporwave end up as a Tory party aesthetic during the 2019 General Election?

- Nov 12, 2019
- 11 min
What is A/B testing? Examples from the Liberal Democrats during the 2019 general election


- Sep 6, 2019
- 3 min
The meme-ification of politics