This week I took part in the Hansard Society’s Digital Wave event, a day-long conference as part of Parliament Week which mixed research findings from academics with reports from the 2012 US elections and the views of online campaigners. Here are some of the highlights of the day.
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RT @MartaCuanti You can find and download the academic papers on the CODE project website, here: http://tinyurl.com/8mrdgg7 #digitalwave
— Alastair Lichten (@AlastairLichten)
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“Obama is to the internet what JFK was to telly” #digitalwave
— The Dragon Fairy (@Puffles2010)
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Turnout down by 7% in US 2012 election #digitalwave
— HansardSociety (@HansardSociety)
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“Obama greatly outspent Romney on Spanish language TV” #digitalwave
— The Dragon Fairy (@Puffles2010)
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The numbers Twitter, Obama v Romney #digitalwave 22million v 1.7million http://pic.twitter.com/DPf1lr0k
— The Dragon Fairy (@Puffles2010)
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60-65% of non-white women in the US use smartphones, vs. 33% of white women use smartphones. Obama campaign in #2012 knew this #digitalwave
— Keith M. O’ Brien (@keithmobrien)
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60-65% of black & latin voters using smartphones during US #election. Obama’s #sm push allowed him to reach these groups more #digitalwave
— HansardSociety (@HansardSociety)
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Bruce Bimber received over 134 request, or 20 requests a week from the Obama campaign for $10/$12 dollars #digitalwave
— Keith M. O’ Brien (@keithmobrien)
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US 2012 election described as "nerdiest ever" #socialmedia #digitalwave
— Alexis Bailey (@alexisbail)
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Correlating drink preferences with partisanship: Republicans drink Amstel Light, Liberals: GnT. Guinness exactly non-partisan #digitalwave
— Keith M. O’ Brien (@keithmobrien)
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Obama campaign sent people photos of their friends on Facebook in swing states to get them to mobilise friends to vote #digitalwave
— HansardSociety (@HansardSociety)
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Talking on political consulting divide now in US: "Science is in a contest with intuition for authority in US campaigns." #digitalwave
— Keith M. O’ Brien (@keithmobrien)
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Obama campaign initiated culture of evidence and data collection to strengthen digital campaigns #digitalwave
— HansardSociety (@HansardSociety)
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Typo in the next tweet from me. It’s about the 2011 Danish election, not 2012.
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@Puffles2010 @markpack Remember that in Denmark social networking IS Facebook. Its use is absurd. #DigitalWave
— Jon Worth (@jonworth)
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Studying how keen different candidates are to use social media, the researchers looking at Demnark found that…
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Usage of digital tools in Danish politics – age only factor that creates differences (not gender, edu, incumbency, geography) #digitalwave
— Bente Kalsnes (@benteka)
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Lilleker: "Polish party websites demonstrate widespread use of narrow range of features" #digitalwave
— HansardSociety (@HansardSociety)
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#digitalwave very interesting & unexpected claim from German election campaign that parties digital strategy not affected by each others use
— Alastair Lichten (@AlastairLichten)
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What the German study suggested instead was that the attitude of a candidate towards the internet overall (do they like using it?) influences how much they use it for their political activity. A desire to keep up with rival candidates doesn’t encourage more use.
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“Emails to political parties & candidates don’t get answered” #DigitalWave http://pic.twitter.com/WxHhExb8
— The Dragon Fairy (@Puffles2010)
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#digitalwave 2/3 of sample e-mails to parties and candidates got no response (Vaccari)
— David Newman (@davidrnewman)
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Across 8 countries progressive-left parties overwhelming more likely to respond to citizen’s questions than conservative/right #digitalwave
— Keith M. O’ Brien (@keithmobrien)
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Puffles (*notes*) the presentation on emails was the most intriguing #DigitalWave
— The Dragon Fairy (@Puffles2010)
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RT @25lettori: Great insights on e-campaigning at #digitalwave. My paper is on how parties and candidates (fail to) respond to emails http://drupals.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/ipol/Vaccari_London.pdf
— Jon Worth (@jonworth)
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RT @alexisbail: Personal messages from a real person are what mobilise people #digitalwave
— HansardSociety (@HansardSociety)
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In France in last 10 yrs internet usage gone from 15-75%! Political campaigns adapting v fast to change
#digitalwave— Millicent (@MissMillicent)
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Vedel: Focus in 2012 French elections was to "control online political conversations" #digitalwave
— HansardSociety (@HansardSociety)
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In French 2012 elections each campaign team had groups of people fact-checking during debates and continuing the debate online #digitalwave
— HansardSociety (@HansardSociety)
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#digitalwave I would be very interested 2 see how ban on voter profiling in France affects data analysis of digital campaign
— Alastair Lichten (@AlastairLichten)
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Computers and Freedom Law in France prohibits targeting specific users/ voters #digitalwave
— HansardSociety (@HansardSociety)
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TV in France remains central medium for political engagement. This is also still overwhelmingly the case in UK #digitalwave
— HansardSociety (@HansardSociety)
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Conclusion re use of internet in last French Presidential election #DigitalWave http://flic.kr/p/dvon6w
— Mark Pack (@markpack)
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Michael Turk (prediction): Republicans will take tech much more seriously in 2016 after Orka failure #digitalwave
— Bente Kalsnes (@benteka)
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For more on that Romney tech failure see my blog post Romney’s polling day technology meltdown – Orca.
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Alan Barnard speaking about importance of traditional campaigns. Barnard was Head of Campaigning for Blair from 97-2007 #digitalwave
— HansardSociety (@HansardSociety)
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Barnard: "I don’t believe these (online) channels are what it needs to make people leave their homes and vote" #digitalwave
— HansardSociety (@HansardSociety)
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"what really matters is the unsexy stuff" – @markpack referring to importance of email over websites #digitalwave
— HansardSociety (@HansardSociety)
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Pack: "Local emphasis is really important". It takes 20k votes to win a constituency, so an email list of 10k is very important #digitalwave
— HansardSociety (@HansardSociety)
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Sue Inglish, Head of Political Programmes at BBC: TV is still the "primary mover" #digitalwave
— HansardSociety (@HansardSociety)
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Sue Inglish, Head of Political Programmes Analysis #bbc talks of increased use of "Dual Screening" for General Election 2015 #DigitalWave
— Nigel Rumble (@nigelrumble)
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And some overall thoughts on the day…
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Consistent message at #DigitalWave that laws + culture explain much of how internet used in politics in different countries…
— Mark Pack (@markpack)
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… Yet when people in Brtiain talk about US internet politics the legal + cultural differences get little attention #DigitalWave
— Mark Pack (@markpack)
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Great event on the #digitalwave @HansardSociety what a great ending to your events. Looking forward to next year #parliamentweek
— Victoria Watt-Smith (@VickyWS)
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#DigitalWave coming to a close. Fingertips sore. Thanks to everyone who took part in the on- and offline debate. Excellent event
— HansardSociety (@HansardSociety)
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Full audio of today’s #DigitalWave event will be on Hansard Society website tomorrow afternoon
— HansardSociety (@HansardSociety)
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