Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the rhetoric and reality of the impact of political blogs in the specific context of American politics, where online, mainstream media and academic accounts suggest blogs have had significant impacts on political communication. Design/Methodology/Approach: This paper examines three high profile events in which blogging has been implicated as part...

BACKGROUND The Kingdon model, based on the convergence of three streams (problem, policy, and politics) and the opening of a policy window, analyses the process by which a health issue is placed on the political agenda. We used this model to document the political agenda-setting process of the newborn hearing screening programme in Belgium. METHODS A qualitative study based on a document revi...

In this study, we propose a new approach to perform political discourse analysis in social media platforms based on widely used categorisation schema the field of science, namely, Comparative Manifestos Project's category schema. This has been traditionally content manifestos, giving code that indicates domain or each phrases manifestos. Therefore, work application technique Twitter, using as t...