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Interaction on Instagram? Glimpses from the 2014 Swedish Elections
WKW Univ Appl Sci Management & Commun, Dept Commun Mkt & Sales, FHWien, Vienna, Austria.
Malmö högskola, Faculty of Culture and Society (KS), School of Arts and Communication (K3).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5097-6218
2017 (English)In: International Journal of E-Politics, ISSN 1947-9131, E-ISSN 1947-914X, Vol. 8, no 1, p. 50-66Article in journal (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This article directs attention to the use of Instagram by political parties in the Swedish national elections in 2014. It investigates how political parties used Instagram – a platform that is centered around images – when engaging in interaction with their followers on the platform. Therefore, the article analyses Instagram images including their captions and comments (posts) that Swedish parties published four weeks prior to Election Day. A particular focus is on the deliberative potential of Instagram. The results suggest that not much changes on Instagram compared to other social media platforms: Political parties hardly used Instagram to interact with their followers and the few interactions taking place on parties Instagram accounts did not contribute to the exchange of relevant and substantive information about politics (i.e., deliberation). Interaction and deliberation is also not enhanced by the images.

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IGI Global, 2017. Vol. 8, no 1, p. 50-66
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Instagram, Social Media, Interaction, Deliberation, Online Campaigning, Sweden, Political Parties, Content Analysis
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Social Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-1271DOI: 10.4018/IJEP.2017010104ISI: 000446510100005Local ID: 22317OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-1271DiVA, id: diva2:1397999
Available from: 2020-02-27 Created: 2020-02-27 Last updated: 2024-06-17Bibliographically approved

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