Internet has found an increasing role in the politics, during the last decade. Today, terms like digital democracy, Internet elections, Internet advertisements (propaganda, social- political Web logging in the internet has become common terms.  Internet is getting replaced for the traditional media in politics. The interactive characteristic of this media has changed it to an unrivaled instrume...

concepts to fully understand the propaganda they encounter every time they turn on their televisions or surf the Internet during an election year. If students are to make informed political decisions as adults, then they must learn to decipher ways politicians manipulate media. The good news is that access to presidential propaganda has never been easier. The Internet, in particular, is a wonde...

The current study explores the phenomena of election propaganda photos. A political slogan is viewed as one most important ways for parties and candidates to communicate with voters, particularly when party identification declining. Political advertising in Iraq began use posters, flyers, other printed materials. present sheds light on how their audiences. It studies Iraqi photos from a pragmat...

This article examines the extent to which media bias is featured in reportage of Ghana’s 2020 Presidential Election Petition. The Petition was filed by main candidate opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama who challenged declaration Electoral Commission (EC) that President Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo incumbent New Patriotic Party (NPP) won election. Using a purposive sam...

In recent times, social media has become a popular medium for many election campaigns. It not only allows candidates to reach out to a large section of the electorate, it is also a potent medium for people to express their opinion on the proposed policies and promises of candidates. Analyzing social media data is challenging as the text can be noisy, sparse and even multilingual. In addition, t...

US voters shared large volumes of polarizing political news and information in the form of links to content from Russian, WikiLeaks and junk news sources. Was this low quality political information distributed evenly around the country, or concentrated in swing states and particular parts of the country? In this data memo we apply a tested dictionary of sources about political news and informat...

Social bots are currently regarded an influential but also somewhat mysterious factor in public discourse and opinion making. They are considered to be capable of massively distributing propaganda in social and online media, and their application is even suspected to be partly responsible for recent election results. Astonishingly, the term social bot is not well defined and different scientifi...