Social Media and Political Accountability: Bridging the Gap between Citizens and Politicians By Andrea CeronEnglish | PDF | 2017 | 243 Pages | ISBN : 331952626X | 4.2 MB
This book illustrates how social media platforms enable us to understand everyday politics and evaluates the extent to which they can foster accountability, transparency and responsiveness. The first part focuses on accountability and tests whether the offline behavior of politicians is consistent with their online declarations, showing that textual analysis of politicians’ messages is useful to explain phenomena such as endorsements, party splits and appointments to cabinet.