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SUMMARY:Populist Dynamics in the Hashtag Landscape: A Comparative Study of the European Parliamentary Elections
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CONTACT:Frau Julia Fleck (Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research)
DESCRIPTION:Frau Julia Fleck (Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research)
Populist Dynamics in the Hashtag Landscape: A Comparative Study of the European Parliamentary Elections
51st Käte Hamburger Lecture with Emilia Palonen
Is it possible to study discursive politics through social media rather than surveys and mere election results, was the challenge taken in spring 2019. The lecture is about a multi-country, multi-methods study of the European Parliament elections in 2019 (Herkman and Palonen, eds. forthcoming) where with collaborators around Europe contributed with analysis of Twitter data.

The aim of the study has been to find out what kinds of political dynamics take place in the European parliamentary elections, which in many countries are also second-order elections. Political campaigning is about generating a temporary us and also contesting others, and in the study three different populist dynamics were found. Using the term of “hashtag landscape”, the lecture outlines how such a multi-methods analysis that uses both manual and AI assisted coding, can be helpful in comparative research.
Tuesday, 30. May 2023
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