Dienstag, 11. November 2014, 18:00 - 20:00 iCal

Interpreting Hashtag Politics

ipw lecture

Konferenzraum (A222), Institut für Politikwissenschaft
Universitätsstraße 7/2. Stock, 1010 Wien

Lecture

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Vortragender: Stephen Jeffares (University of Birmingham)

Moderation: Anna Durnová (Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Universität Wien)

 

Abstract: About thousand policy ideas might be posted in an hour but only few of them will express an opinion or attribute meaning. Policy actors coin policy ideas as brand-like concepts. They are magic solutions, labels, keywords and fuzzwords; they spread like viruses, and can be bought and sold. Instrumentally, policy ideas are discourses, roadmaps, smokescreens; they portray idealised visions of the future policy-makers have long created brand-like labels for their policy proposals. However, in an era of social media and rapid digital communication, such practice of cultivating policy ideas is propagating a process of hashtag politics. Understanding hashtag politics requires us to go beyond opinion polls, activity monitoring and automated sentiment measurement. What are the implications of hashtag politics for policy-makers, social media analysts and policy researchers?

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Veranstalter

Institut für Politikwissenschaft

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Kontakt

Anna Durnová
Institut für Politikwissenschaft
+43-1-4277-47729
anna.durnova@univie.ac.at

Erstellt am Dienstag, 04. November 2014, 11:50
Letzte Änderung am Dienstag, 04. November 2014, 14:26