Database Searches and Key Terms:
The databases I chose to search are Gale In Context: Global Issues and EBSCOhost: Communication & Mass Media Complete.
Gale In Context: Global Issues
Search Term: Social Media and Elections
Results: 190
Article Reference & Annotation:
This is the article that I found that I believe is the closest fit to what I am researching. It essentially catalogs how social media has slowly shifted into being a major campaign tool, and how that shift has effectively turned it into propaganda. Rather than specifically discussing the 2016 or 2020 elections like other articles I noticed under this search term, it deals with social media far more broadly as a concept and how that affects politics.
The article broadly explains how social media has shifted into its key role in politics around the globe and throughout the years, going back as far as 2004. It then proceeds to catalog dates and events to paint a picture of social media’s evolution in society and eventual transfer into a tool for propaganda.
Search Term: Social Media
Results: 640
Article Reference:
Search Term: Facebook Election
Results: (No Academic Journals) 1,058 News Articles
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EBSCOhost: Communication & Mass Media Complete
Search Term: Social Media Elections
Results: 710
Article Reference:
Boatwright, B., Mazer, J. P., & Beach, S. (2019). The 2016 U.S. Presidential Election and Transition Events: A Social Media Volume and Sentiment Analysis. Southern Communication Journal, 84(3), 196–209. https://doi-org.ezproxy.fhsu.edu/10.1080/1041794X.2019.1566398
Search Term: Social Media Propaganda
Results: 210
Article Reference:
Seo, H. (2014). Visual Propaganda in the Age of Social Media: An Empirical Analysis of Twitter Images During the 2012 Israeli–Hamas Conflict. Visual Communication Quarterly, 21(3), 150–161. https://doi-org.ezproxy.fhsu.edu/10.1080/15551393.2014.955501
Search Term: Election Interference
Results: 80
Article Reference:
JUSTICE, J. W., & BRICKER, B. J. (2019). Hacked: Defining the 2016 Presidential Election in the Liberal Media. Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 22(3), 389–420. https://doi-org.ezproxy.fhsu.edu/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.22.3.0389