Personalisation on Instagram - A quantitative content analysis of prominent Swedish politicians’ Instagram posts
(2018) SKOK11 20181Department of Strategic Communication
- Abstract
- Personalisation is a concept which is based on the idea that focus is increasingly directed at the individual politician and his or her personal characteristics. Social media, such as Instagram, has revived the concept since the possibilities for personalised political communication have increased. This study aimed to examine if personalised communication among prominent Swedish politicians on Instagram has increased during the current parliamentary term (2014-2018), if personalised communication gains more traction than other types of content on Instagram and, finally, if politicians in-corporate private aspects when conveying political messages on Instagram. To achieve this aim a quantitative content analysis of prominent Swedish... (More)
- Personalisation is a concept which is based on the idea that focus is increasingly directed at the individual politician and his or her personal characteristics. Social media, such as Instagram, has revived the concept since the possibilities for personalised political communication have increased. This study aimed to examine if personalised communication among prominent Swedish politicians on Instagram has increased during the current parliamentary term (2014-2018), if personalised communication gains more traction than other types of content on Instagram and, finally, if politicians in-corporate private aspects when conveying political messages on Instagram. To achieve this aim a quantitative content analysis of prominent Swedish politicians’ Instagram posts (n=1641) was conducted. The findings show that the proportion of personalised posts was large but it had not increased during the current parliamentary term. Furthermore, personalised content was associated with higher levels of popularity and engagement but the study could not provide evidence for this being statistically significant for all politicians at all times. Moreover, the study found that Swedish politicians increasingly are incorporating private aspects when conveying political messages and that these hybrids, as we have named them, are receiving more popularity than political messages that are strictly political. (Less)
- Abstract (Swedish)
- Konceptet personalisering innebär att fokus allt oftare riktas mot individuella politiker och deras personliga egenskaper. Sociala medier, så som Instagram, har gjort konceptet än mer aktuellt då möjligheterna att politiskt kommunicera personligt har ökat genom dessa. Studien ämnade att undersöka om personaliserad kommunikation av framstående svenska politiker på Instagram har ökat under den senaste mandatperioden, om personaliserat innehåll är mer attraktivt än andra innehållstyper på Instagram, samt om framstående svenska politiker inkorporerar privata aspekter när de kommunicerar politiska budskap. För att uppnå detta syfte utfördes en kvantitativ innehållsanalys av svenska politikers instagraminlägg (n=1641). Resultatet visar att... (More)
- Konceptet personalisering innebär att fokus allt oftare riktas mot individuella politiker och deras personliga egenskaper. Sociala medier, så som Instagram, har gjort konceptet än mer aktuellt då möjligheterna att politiskt kommunicera personligt har ökat genom dessa. Studien ämnade att undersöka om personaliserad kommunikation av framstående svenska politiker på Instagram har ökat under den senaste mandatperioden, om personaliserat innehåll är mer attraktivt än andra innehållstyper på Instagram, samt om framstående svenska politiker inkorporerar privata aspekter när de kommunicerar politiska budskap. För att uppnå detta syfte utfördes en kvantitativ innehållsanalys av svenska politikers instagraminlägg (n=1641). Resultatet visar att andelen personligt innehåll på Instagram var stor men fann ingen ökning under den senaste mandatperioden. Personaliserat innehåll var associerat med högre nivåer av popularitet och engagemang men studien kunde inte statistiskt säkerställa att detta skulle gälla alla studerade politiker vid alla tillfällen. Slutligen visade studien att svenska politiker alltmer använder privata aspekter när de kommunicerar politiska meddelanden på Instagram och att dessa hybrider, som vi har valt att namnge dem, genererar mer popularitet än politiska meddelanden som är strikt politiska. (Less)
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- author
- Cöster, Angelica LU and Dahlberg, Victor
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- SKOK11 20181
- year
- 2018
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- digital political communication, strategic communication, personalisation, media logic, social media logics, quantitative content analysis, Instagram, social media, hybrids, swedish politics, swedish politicians
- language
- English
- id
- 8945953
- date added to LUP
- 2018-06-12 09:30:13
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- 2018-06-12 09:30:13
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