Personalization, social media, and voting
Effects of candidate self-personalization on vote intention
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7501877 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shannon C Mcgregor (0000-0002-3275-0397, The University of Texas at Austin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 1139-1160 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Media & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1461-4448 • E-ISSN: 1461-7315 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1461444816686103 |
| OpenAlex | W2577799532 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 91 |
| References cited | 39 |
Scholars have documented growth in media coverage and popular discourse focusing on politicians’ personal lives— personalization. Candidates use social media and personalization to circumvent mainstream news media, disrupting conventional processes. This personalization arguably increases voters’ reliance on personal characteristics as voting heuristics. An online experiment exposed more than a thousand US adults to personalized or policy/campaigning tweets from a male or female US Senator running for re-election. Candidates who personalized elicited higher evaluations of social presence and parasocial interaction. For female candidates who shared a supported party with a respondent, personalization leads to feelings of perceived presence and parasocial interaction. Ultimately, the feelings of intimacy created by personalized tweets led respondents to express support for personalizing candidates, but this effect is contingent upon the gender and in-party status of the candidate
Advertising · Business · Feeling · Heuristics · Internet privacy · Mainstream · Personalization · Political science · Politics · Respondent · Social media · Voting · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Media Influence and Health · Media Studies and Communication · Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology
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Introduction
Personalized Campaigns in Party-Centred Politics
Personalization, gender, and social media
To Personalize or Depersonalize? When and How Politicians' Personalized Tweets Affect the Public's Reactions
Emotions, Partisanship, and Misperceptions
Beyond The Double Bind
Personalization in e-campaigning
Getting closer
A Tale of Two Theories
Tweeting to Power
A day at the zoo
Seizing the moment
Character Counts
"Mediatization" of Politics
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A Historical Exploration of the Personalisation of Politics in the Print Media
Fear and Loathing across Party Lines
Twitter Style
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Twitter Use by Presidential Primary Candidates During the 2012 Campaign
| Unique citing works | 91 |
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| Citations per year | 10,11 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 91 |