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Author Russmann, Uta, author

Title Using content analysis to explore negative user expressions on political parties' Facebook pages / Uta Russmann
Published London : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2019
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SAGE Research Methods. Cases
Summary This study uses quantitative content analysis to examine negative user expressions on political parties' Facebook pages and political parties' reactions to them. Social media platforms like Facebook are the "new neighborhood pubs." Citizens often use these new public forums to talk about their anger and lack of faith in politics. In the present case, I explain how and why I used content analysis to explore and identify negative user expressions and political parties' reactions to them and discuss the key stages and elements of my research project. I describe and reflect on theory-driven category building and developing a codebook, data gathering and drawing an appropriate sample of Facebook data, the coding process with training coders, as well as aspects of data analysis and interpretation. For my particular study, I analyzed the Facebook pages of seven political parties during the 2013 Austrian national election campaign. Overall, almost half of the 2,584 analyzed voter comments on the parties' official Facebook pages contain a negative expression. Nevertheless, the political parties did not react to these. The presented study gives the reader an idea of how to approach and conduct quantitative content analysis
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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SUBJECT Facebook (Electronic resource) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2007076967 -- Use studies. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003007726
Subject Content analysis (Communication)
Online social networks -- Political aspects -- Research.
Quantitative research -- Methodology.
Genre/Form Use studies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1526469677
9781526469670 (ebook)