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The Digital Architectures of Social Media : Comparing Political Campaigning on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat in the 2016 U.S. Election

Bossetta, Michael LU (2018) In Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 95(2). p.471-496
Abstract
The present study argues that political communication on social media is mediated by a platform’s digital architecture—the technical protocols that enable, constrain, and shape user behavior in a virtual space. A framework for understanding digital architectures is introduced, and four platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat) are compared along the typology. Using the 2016 U.S. election as a case, interviews with three Republican digital strategists are combined with social media data to qualify the study’s theoretical claim that a platform’s network structure, functionality, algorithmic filtering, and datafication model affect political campaign strategy on social media.
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political communication, affordances, primaries, digital marketing
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Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
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95
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2
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471 - 496
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SAGE Publications
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1077-6990
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English
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