Digital Agenda-Setting: Measuring mainstream and social media influence during the UK 2015 election campaign

Martin John Edwards Moore; Gordon Neil Ramsay

Digital Agenda-Setting: Measuring mainstream and social media influence during the UK 2015 election campaign

Martin John Edwards Moore, Gordon Neil Ramsay

Policy Institute at King's

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This paper examines the setting up and managing of ‘Election Unspun’, an experimental news content analysis project, and its main findings. In the end, the project collected every tweet from more than 3,000 political actors and influencers, analysed the national newspapers’ coverage and websites of ITV News, Sky News and Channel 4 News and the UK versions of the Huffington Post and Buzzfeed Politics during the 2015 general election campaign in the UK. It concludes that, despite the plethora of media platforms available, 2015 was a top down, stage-managed campaign. From the statements, tweets and party political material published by the parties, the party leaders, and the candidates it was clear that both the Conservatives and Labour were eager to talk about the economy, and the press largely followed their lead.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	21-29
Journal	Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics
Volume	13
Issue number	1
Publication status	Published - 2016

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