Web 2.0 and Politics: The 2008 U.S. Presidential Election and an E-Politics Research Agenda

By Sunil Wattal, David Schuff, Munir Mandviwalla, Christine B. Williams. MIS Q., 2010

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Subfields: Communication, Political Science and International Relations, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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Using social media to enhance citizen engagement with local government: Twitter or Facebook? (2018, background): “…Kent and Taylor to explain the use of social networks as strategic tools with which to foster communication and dialogue and to improve citizens’ satisfaction and commitment, by means of social networks (Bonsón and Ratkai, 2013; Bonsón et al., 2017; Sáez-Martín et al., 2015; Wattal et al., 2010).”
What's Different about Social Media Networks? A Framework and Research Agenda (2014, background): “SNA has enjoyed increasing popularity in organizational research during recent years; and its focus on human social interactions makes it well suited to support investigations of social media technologies (Ransbotham et al. 2012; Wattal et al. 2010).”
Social media and political communication: a social media analytics framework (2012, background): “In this way, different metrics of the concept of centrality and prestige can be applied to measure influence (e.g., degree, betweenness or eigenvector centrality; degree, proximity or rank prestige) (Freeman et al. 1989; Wasserman and Faust 1994; Scott and Carrington 2011).”
Political Communication and Influence through Microblogging--An Empirical Analysis of Sentiment in Twitter Messages and Retweet Behavior (2012, background): “The most prominent example is Barack Obama who successfully employed social media within his last election campaign [38].”
The Needs-Affordances-Features Perspective for the Use of Social Media (2018, unknown): “…Suh et al. 2011); through sharing their pictures, videos, links, experiences of life and work (Aggarwal et al. 2012), and political viewpoints (Wattal et al. 2010), among others; through revealing their group identities (e.g., joining online communities) and through with whom they associate…”
Advances in Social Media Research: Past, Present and Future (2017, background): “Also, just about three studies (Wattal et al. 2010; Dewan and Ramaprasad 2014; Miranda et al. 2016) dedicated their efforts to comparing traditional media with social media .”
Social Media Analytics (2014, background): “In the political domain, social media are believed to have the potential to increase political participation by citizens and voters (Wattal et al. 2010).”
Emotions and Information Diffusion in Social Media—Sentiment of Microblogs and Sharing Behavior (2013, background): “0 technologies and associated social media as sociotechnical systems on individuals, organizations, and society [74].”