Digital Intermediaries and Political Communication

Abstract

This panel focuses on the role of digital intermediaries like search engines, social media, and messaging applications in political communication (including campaign communications, mediated politics, and news coverage of politics). It deals with how intermediaries influence how people find and access political information and how platforms structure political action online. It includes papers dealing with new players like search engines, social media, micro-blogging platforms, and messaging apps as well as how they intersect with established formal and informal political institutions like campaigns, elections, political parties, and news media.

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Tightening the OODA Loop: Police Militarization, Race, and Algorithmic Surveillance	View Paper Details
Platformed publishing? The rise of digital intermediaries and the transformation of online journalism	View Paper Details
WhatsApp...ening to political discussion in Europe? Instant messaging services and political engagement in Italy, the United Kingdom and Germany	View Paper Details
Focus points of political attention: Collective curating on Twitter during the 2013 federal election in Germany	View Paper Details
Echo Chambers or Opinion Crossroads? Comparative Analysis of Structure and Influencers in Twitter-based discussions on inter-ethnic Conflicts in the USA, Germany, France, and Russia	View Paper Details