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Secretos y mentiras: WhatsApp y las redes sociales en las elecciones presidenciales de Brasil en 2018

Esther Solano, Francisco Brito Cruz, Helena Martins, João Brant, Mariana Valente, Rafael Zanatta

Buenos Aires: Centro de Estudios en Libertad de Expresión y Acceso a la Información (CELE) Universidad de Palermo (2019), 19 pp.

"Este artículo tiene como objetivo describir y analizar el uso de las redes sociales, en especial de WhatsApp, en el reciente proceso electoral brasileño, a partir de las siguientes estrategias: Caracterizar el escenario político y el telón de fondo sobre el que se dieron las elecciones, con el ... more

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Making it Personal: The Campaign Battle on Social Media in Indonesia's 2019 Presidential Election

Budi Irawanto

Singapore: ISEAS (2019), 11 pp.

"Ranked fourth in the number of Facebook users in the world in 2018, Indonesia has witnessed increasing social media usage as a strategic platform for political campaigns since the third direct presidential election in 2014. Due to their accessibility and relatively low cost, social media platforms ... more

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Polarisation and Politicisation: The Social Media Strategies of Indian Political Parties

Sangeeta Mahapatra, Johannes Plagemann

Hamburg: German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) (2019), 14 pp.

"Ahead of the general election in April and May 2019, Indian political parties are using social media aggressively to propagate their ideology, mobilise public opinion, set policy agendas, and discredit detractors. Since the 2014 general election, India’s two major political parties – the Bharat ... more

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Elections and Media in Digital Times

Tarlach McGonagle, Maciek Bednarski, Mariana Francese Coutinho, Arthur Zimin

Paris: UNESCO (2019), 67 pp.

"The central focus of this study is the dynamic and complex relationship between elections and (digital) media. This choice of focus is explained by the need to safeguard the integrity and credibility of electoral processes, as well as the role of the news media during election periods, in the face ... more

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Social Media Monitoring During Elections: Cases and Best Practice to Inform Electoral Observation Missions

Rafael Schmuziger Goldzweig, Bruno Lupion, Michael Meyer-Resende

Open Society Foundations (2019), 41 pp.

"The regulatory gap between online and offline political communication and elections is staggering. Even as monitors track broadcast media and advertising, elections are manipulated online. Initial responses by recent international electoral observation missions in Kenya, Georgia and Nigeria – as ... more

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Social Media and Political Behaviour

Delhi: Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) (2019), 70 pp.

"This collaborative report between the Lokniti programme of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung analyzes the growth of online social networking sites and apps in India and their role in shaping political preferences and attitudes in the recently concluded 20 ... more

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Social Media and Elections

Andrew Puddephatt

Montevideo: UNESCO (2019), 27 pp.

"This paper analyses the potential impact of social media on the conduct and outcome of elections both to strengthen political participation and knowledge sharing as well as the more harmful effects. It looks at the various harms particularly those relevant in the context of Latin America. It docume ... more

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Social Media and Politics in Africa: Democracy, Censorship and Security
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Maggie Dwyer, Thomas Molony (eds.)

London: Zed Books (2019), xiii, 299 pp.

"Drawing on over a dozen new empirical case studies – from Kenya to Somalia, South Africa to Tanzania – this collection explores how rapidly growing social media use is reshaping political engagement in Africa. But while social media has often been hailed as a liberating tool, the book demonstra ... more

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Elections 2019: Community Radio Toolkit
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Cape Town: Children’s Radio Foundation (CRF) (2019), 52 pp.

"Section One (Elections 101) deals with the aspects of voter education and election regulations for both citizens and the media. Section Two (Your Community Radio Station at Election Time) suggests ways to reflect local issues in election coverage and how to make the most of the resources you’ve g ... more

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Comunicar lo local: Estrategias electorales y de gobierno en el ámbito local

Gonzalo Arias, Lucas Doldan

Buenos Aires: La Crujía (2019), 110 pp.

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Democracia y protección de datos personales en la era digital

Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Consejo para la Transparencia (2019), 22 pp.

"Las personas basan sus decisiones y participación democrática en la información de la que disponen y si dicha información es deliberadamente manipulada a través del uso indebido de sus datos personales, sus decisiones posteriores podrían no ser genuinas. En el presente documento, los analista ... more

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Cubrimiento electoral y libertad de prensa

Fundación para la Libertad de Prensa (FLIP) (2019), 42 pp.

"Este manual busca ser una herramienta para que los(as) periodistas tengan mayor información acerca de sus derechos y de cómo pueden protegerlos antes, durante y después de los comicios. Asimismo, pretende dar a conocer diferentes temáticas relevantes en el ambiente electoral, como la Agenda 203 ... more

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Manipulación de la información: Noticias falsas en la elección presidencial en México, Julio de 2018

Damián Romero Pérez

México, DF: Master Thesis Infotec Centro de Investigación e Innovación en Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación (2019), 80 pp.

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Disinformation and Electoral Campaigns

Yves-Marie Doublet

Strasbourg: Council of Europe (2019), 40 pp.

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Violence Against Women in Elections Online: A Social Media Analysis Tool

Washington, DC: International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES); USAID (2019), 72 pp.

"Around the world, women frequently experience harassment and violence when they decide to exercise their civil and political rights. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have created new vehicles for violence against women in elections (VAWIE), including violence that takes place on so ... cial media and in private messaging. These forms of violence are compounded by the anonymity and scale that online media platforms provide. VAWIE-Online is a means to silence women who publicly engage in political life through fear, shame and intimidation. This violence is different from the online violence and harassment experienced by politically active men in its underlying intent, its multiplied impact, as well as its frequency, form, and content. The VAWIE-Online Social Media Analysis Tool (VAWIE-Online Tool) offers an adaptable method to measure the gendered aspects and understand the drivers of online election violence against women. The primary purpose of this tool is to identify trends and patterns of online violence around electoral periods. More specifically, the tool will allow users to identify the scope, breadth, and intensity of VAWIE-Online. Using artificial intelligence-based data analysis tools, the VAWIE-Online Tool quantifies and categorizes social media data to identify and distinguish forms of online violence. By incorporating this analysis of online violence into broader analysis of gender in elections, electoral stakeholders can better understand this issue in their respective countries and can begin to address it through their work. This guide is intended for use by civil society organizations (CSOs), election and human rights monitors and observers, and other activist and research groups seeking to analyze online violence against women in elections. It is constructed as a step-by-step tool to introduce users to social media analysis, specifically data mining and sentiment analysis. Although this tool is written to provide an introduction and overview for general users, data mining and sentiment analysis are sophisticated research approaches and users of this guide will find it helpful to work with a team that has experience in data analytics and a background in working on gender-based violence (GBV) and electoral politics." (Page 2) more

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Social Media, Disinformation and Electoral Integrity

Beata Martin-Rozumilowicz, Rast'o Kuzel

Arlington: Institutional Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) (2019), 35 pp.

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International Conference on Fake News and Elections in Asia. Conference Proceedings

Bangkog: Asia Centre (2019), 22 pp.

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Félix Tshisekedi: Devenir président en 50 + 20 jours

Jean-Chrétien Ekambo Duasenge

Paris: L'Harmattan (2019), 262 pp.

"Cet ouvrage donne les détails les plus précis sur la campagne menée par les principaux candidats à l'élection présidentielle 2018 au Congo. Ils ont été suivis chacun de très près, au jour le jour : Fayulu, Kamerhe, Shadary, Tshisekedi. Pendant 50 + 20 jours, leurs actes publics, leurs pro ... more

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Iraqi TV Debates in the Run Up to Elections in May 2018: A Discourse Analysis by MICT

Anja Wollenberg

Berlin: Media in Cooperation and Transition (MiCT) (2018), 34 pp.

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Who Debates, Who Wins? At-Scale Experimental Evidence on Debate Participation in a Liberian Election

Jeremy Bowles, Horacio Larreguy

[no publisher] (2018), 45, 24 pp.

"In this paper we assess the electoral consequences of candidate selection into the supply of widely-disseminated programmatic information in the setting of Liberia, where clientelism is pervasive and the media sector is weak. We partnered with USAID and the NGO Internews to study the impact of rand ... omized elements of a nationwide initiative to hold debates for all 73 House of Representatives seats ahead of the Liberian election of October 2017. Beyond lawmaking, House members in Liberia control access to development funds as well as play key roles in the allocation and implementation of public goods, and thus voters have incentives to care about the policy priorities of the candidates and vote accordingly. However, historically, votes have been bought as often as won (Bowles et al., 2017). In an effort to improve democratic accountability, Internews organized 129 standardized debates, with at least one in each electoral district, to solicit the policy promises of the participating candidates. In the debates, the 59% of candidates who participated were asked a series of questions by moderating journalists on particular issues of local policy relevance, most often relating to district schools, primary healthcare facilities, and infrastructural investments. Rather than large townhall-style debates, the emphasis was on soliciting concrete policy platforms and promises from the candidates that would then be rebroadcast by community radio stations. To shock the supply of policy promises, we randomly varied the intensity of invitation efforts to persuade candidates to participate in the debates. The decision to participate is risky, particularly in clientelistic settings where the returns to programmatic competition can be both limited and highly uncertain. Candidates who ‘win’ a debate may enjoy greater publicity and net electoral gains, but ex ante they risk performing poorly, revealing their policy priorities to be disconnected from their constituents and restricting their ability to target campaign promises to small groups of influential voters. These risks are especially pronounced for the leading candidates (incumbents and their challengers), who enjoy greater resources for campaigning, are adapted to the existing clientelistic equilibrium, and are more likely to be attacked by opponents to gain publicity." (Pages 2-3) more

Social Media and Politics in Africa: Democracy, Censorship and Security Top Insights

Elections 2019: Community Radio Toolkit Key Guidance

Social Media and Politics in Africa: Democracy, Censorship and Security
Top Insights

Elections 2019: Community Radio Toolkit
Key Guidance