Talk:Social media use in politics

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Potential Items to Add: 1. Talk more about the effects of social media on US elections, beyond US election interference via malice intentions. Instead talk about social media is used by politicians via ads, posts, and trends to sway voters and how social media itself puts less control out of the hands of politicians. Furthermore, look at the effects of each social media platform to see which demographics and groups are affected the most by each platform. I would also like to then potentially compare social media use in different countries within the EU to see how politicians use social media to their advantage. I would also like to compare social media use to other countries with censorship rules.

https://academic.oup.com/joc/article/69/6/650/5681988

https://news.wsu.edu/2019/12/11/wsu-political-scientist-investigates-effects-social-media-uk-politics-bbc/

https://fisherpub.sjfc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1050&context=ur

https://kb.osu.edu/handle/1811/81616

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6436681/

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The article lead includes an introductory sentence that is concise is and clear, however in the sentences following discussing politcal processes and activities the article would benefit if repeating words were removed and sentences were combined to be more concise. Otherwise, I think the lead is strong and not overly detailed. In the background section I noticed a problematic statement that states " most people see social media...". I don't think this is an appropriate sentences for a wiki article because it generalizes. I also noticed that there is a section called "Disinformation" and I think it might be important to also address the issue of misinformation. And extending that thought the topic of microtargeting is relevant to social media in politics because social media platforms amass collections of personal data, sell the data to politcal parties, which they then use curate advertisements/messages to target individual voters. Esk00 (talk) 06:27, 14 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Consider deleting the "Background" section

Most of this information can be found in the main social media article. This page should specifically be focused on social media and politics. If this background information is NOT in the social media article, I recommend adding it there. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Moofinberry (talk • contribs) 22:55, 22 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Possible New Subject

I think another subject that might be interesting is how different political party members engage in social media debates because I had an interesting study by Yu-Ru et al. where they take republican and democrats, put them side by side, then compare/contrast in their wording along with what narratives they tend to push. Agomezgarcia (talk) 00:31, 5 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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US Election section

Benford's Law of Controversy was created by Professor Gregory Benford, an astrophysicist and science fiction writer. The addage 'passion is inversely correlated to information' as a law, is akin to Asiimov's laws i.e. the science fiction writer.

Adding Benford's so called "Law" to an enyclopaedia page on social media in politics is not grounded in any known, published Political Communication, Sociology or Social Media studies journals. If this can be found anywhere I challenge someone to find this.

The Benford's so called "law" should be removed from this page, with better sources found concerning controversy and social media research, of which there is a plethora of research on, that is not grounded in an untested science fiction quote. Flarehayr (talk) 15:51, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The section over all is poor and does not reflect any of the academic literature (of which there is alot) on the subject properly. Another example of this is the usage of a Jordan Peterson quote from a GQ magazine interview???

Jordan Peterson owning a controversial yet successful Youtube channel does not qualify him as an expert on the sociological effects of social media, he is published on political psychological research, but not concerning social media. Jordan Peterson is published on the psychological analysis of alcoholism, personality analysis and to a lesser extent general political psychology, he is not published on political sociology, social media sociology or political communication. This GQ quote is poor and should be removed.

This whole section needs redoing. Flarehayr (talk) 16:01, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]