Twitter and Elections Around the World

Richard Davis is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Office of Civic Engagement at Brigham Young University, USA. His research concentrates on political communication, new media, and judicial communication. Christina Holtz-Bacha is Professor of Communications at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. Her research and instruction focus on political communication and strategic communication as well as German and European media policy. Marion Just is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College, USA, and an associate of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Professor Just's current research projects concern political campaigns, psychological aspects of voting, patterns of news, politics on the internet, and media coverage of women leaders.

• IntroductionMarion Just and Christina Holtz-BachaPart I: Election Journalism1. Did Twitter Kill the Boys on the Bus? A Report from the Romney Campaign in 2012Peter Hamby2. Tweeting to the Press? Political Twitter Activity on Offline Media in the 2013 German Election CampaignChristina Holtz-Bacha and Reimar Zeh3. U.S. Political Journalists’ Use of Twitter: Lessons From 2012 and a Look AheadLogan Molyneux, Rachel R. Mourao, and Mark Coddington4. Media Coverage of an Election Campaign on Twitter: The Case of Belgium in the EU ElectionsEvelien D’heer and Pieter Verdegem Part II: The Audience5. Communication with Constituents in 140 Characters: How Members of Congress Used Twitter to Get Out the Vote in 2014 Heather K. Evans6. South Korean Citizens’ Political Information Sharing on Twitter During the 2012 General ElectionJisue Lee, Hohyon Ryu, Lorri Mon, and Sung Jae ParkPart III: Parties, Candidates, and Campaigns7. Message Repetition in Social Media: Presidential Candidate Twitter Feeds in the 2012 U.S. General ElectionKate Kenski and Bethany A. Conway8. Campaigning on Twitter: The Use of Social Media in the 2014 European Elections in ItalySara Bentivegna and Rita Marchetti9. Candidate Use of Twitter and the Intersection of Gender, Party, and Position in the Race: A Comparison of Competitive Male/Female Senate Races in 2012 and 2014Marion R. Just, Ann N. Crigler, and Rose A. Owen10. Who Gets to Say #Are You Better Off? Promoted Trends and Bashtagging in the 2012 U.S. Presidential ElectionJoel Penney11. Parties, Leaders, and Online Personalization: Twitter in Canadian Electoral PoliticsTamara A. Small12. Social Media Coming of Age: Developing Patterns of Congressional Twitter Use, 2007-2014David S. Lassen and Leticia Bode13. From a Tweet to a Seat: Twitter, Media Visibility, and Electoral SupportReimar ZehConclusion Richard Davis

'This is a wide-ranging and stimulating collection of essays about how Twitter changes the context for news and journalism, campaigns for office, and citizens’own experiences of public life. The contributors employ a variety of methods to paint intriguing portraits of social media in politics around the world.' - Bruce Bimber, University of California, Santa Barbara - 'Twitter and Elections Around the World has put together a group of top-notch scholars to produce a timely, meaningful, and consequential collection of essays. This is the only book out there that explores the cross-national political implications of Twitter with such breadth and depth. It will guide researchers for years to come. – Jason Gainous, coauthor of Tweeting to Power