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In person icon ICTs, Changes in Electoral Politics and Political Parties

Political Parties
Communication
Electoral Behaviour
S149
Giulia Sandri
Université Libre de Bruxelles

In person icon Building: (Building D) Faculty of Law, Administration & Economics , Floor: 2nd floor, Room: 2.02

Wednesday 13:00 - 14:40 CEST (04/09/2019)

Abstract

Information and Communication Technologies’ (ICTs) impacts on political parties is a growing research avenue. So far, most of the academic attention has been focused on party competition and campaigning, while the intra-organizational dimensions have been somewhat under-researched (Gibson and Ward, 1998; Margetts, 2006; Ward and Gibson, 2009; Hartleb, 2013; Chadwick and Stromer-Galley, 2016; Bennett, Segerberg and Knüpfer, 2018). In the same vein, most of the research has so far concentrated with mainstream parties’ transition to the digital age, while the literature on new or emerging parties and ICTs has somewhat been attracted less attention (Hartleb, 2013; della Porta et al., 2017; Morlino and Raniolo, 2017). This panel focuses therefore on the change in traditional party organization through digital technology, and more specifically on the growing use of digital modes of decision-making, campaigning and communication in both mainstream parties and new parties. The main purpose of this panel is to analyse how mainstream and new parties are building their e-platforms and transitioning from traditional (offline) organizations into the digital world. Potential papers could cover single empirical in-depth case studies that might focus on how ICTs are shaping parties’ main intra-organizational dimensions (communication, electoral campaigning, deliberation, decision making, membership, etc.), but also papers focusing on comparative case studies and more theoretically oriented papers linking political communication studies with political parties’ formation and institutionalization theories, and intra-party democracy debates.

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