Elections and Social Networks Around the World

This book analyzes the role of social networks during electoral campaigns around the world, taking into account the non-technological particularities (political, electoral, social, economic, cultural) of the media configurations of different countries.

Erica Guevara is Associate Professor of Communication Studies, and researcher at the Center for the Study of Media, Technologies and Internationalization (CEMTI), at Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis, France. Her main research interests are media and politics in Latin America, with a substantive focus on electoral campaigns, but also the relationships between the media and the state.

Anaïs Theviot is Associate Professor, member of the ARENES Laboratory, and head of the master’s degree in public and political communication at the Université catholique de l’Ouest, France. She is interested in online partisan activism, electoral campaigns, and the effects of digital technologies on political engagement.