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2023 Year in Review! Social Media and Politics, with Dr. Anamaria Dutceac Segesten
2023 Year in Review! Social Media and Politics, with Dr. Anamaria Dutceac Segesten
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Length:
97 minutes
Released:
Dec 23, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
The 8th Annual Social Media and Politics Year in Review! This year, we cover the platforms' year in review reports, AI for political communication, the creator economy, and EU concerns around disinformation and cyberattacks. Here are links to resources discussed in the episode, and see you in 2024!Platform Reports:MetaInstagramTikTokRedditPinterestSnapTwitchGoogleYouTubePornhub InsightsJimmie Åkesson's Arabic Deepfake
Released:
Dec 23, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Social Media and Political Youth Organizations in Denmark, with Emilie Demant: Emilie Demant, social media coordinator for Venstres Ungdom, shares her insights into how a Danish political youth organization is using social media to engage young voters with politics. We discuss how Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, and Twitter are each used differently to communicate politics with young Danes, as well as what types of user-generated content Emilie receives when managing these social media accounts. Emilie highlights the visual element of social media by stressing that memes, GIFs, and videos drive the most engagement on social media, and here digital marketing and graphic design play a key role. We also discuss the differences between a youth political organization and the parent political party, Venstre, and what that means for their social media use. Although exhibiting different rules of political communication on social media (especially on Snapchat), interestingly, both Venstre and Ve by Social Media and Politics