Online political marketing campaign: a systematic review

Journal title SOCIOLOGIA DELLA COMUNICAZIONE
Author/s M. Irene Prete, Antonio Mileti, Mattia Bianco, Gianluigi Guido
Publishing Year 2018 Issue 2018/55
Language Italian Pages 23 P. 48-70 File size 271 KB
DOI 10.3280/SC2018-055004
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The authors provide a review of studies on the media currently offered by web 2.0, used in election campaigns in many countries, published from 2003 to 2017 in the following thematic journals: Comunicazione Politica, Information, Communi-cation & Society, Journal of Communication, Journal of Communication Man-agement, Journal of Political Marketing, Online Information Review, Policy and Internet, and Political Communication. Results show that digital tools like social media and microblogging platforms ensure a higher voter involvement, allowing to quickly reaching a young age audience, and to establish a two-way relationship. Conversely, web sites, blogs and forums are used primarily by adult users, have a lower level of immediacy of communication and generate a one-way relationship. Finally, Facebook and Twitter represent the most used tools in the political com-munication of the democratic countries.

Keywords: Online political campaign; political marketing, online political com-munication, social media, social marketing, digital information.

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M. Irene Prete, Antonio Mileti, Mattia Bianco, Gianluigi Guido, Le campagne di marketing politico online: una rassegna sistematica della letteratura in "SOCIOLOGIA DELLA COMUNICAZIONE " 55/2018, pp 48-70, DOI: 10.3280/SC2018-055004