2. PURPOSE FOR THE RESEARCH PAPER
• For future and current generations to understand the influence of social media in
political campaigns
• To realize how big of an impact that social media has on promoting candidates,
and how it can destroy their running.
3. SOCIAL MEDIA’S INFLUENCE ON POLITICS
• Twitter becoming one of the main promoters for political candidates and
campaigns
• Driving force behind the 2016 election
• Also has spawned “Fake News” as well as Facebook
• ”Meme’s” have also created both good and bad promotion for candidates
• Ted Cruz “zodiac killer” and Bernie Sanders cult following
4. RESEARCH QUESTIONS
• RQ1: Who is the demographic most targeted for social media campaigns?
• RQ2: What is the main difference between political campaigns now versus when
social media wasn’t in creation?
• RQ3: What is the overall impact that social media has both positively and
negatively for political campaigns?
5. RESEARCH QUESTION ONE
• Most targeted age group is millennials
• Millennials check their phones and social media 157 times a day
• The goal for social media campaigns is to get this age group more active
politically
• With social media and internet news becoming more popular, it is harder to
figure out a demographic
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7. RESEARCH QUESTION TWO
• Speed and versatility are the two biggest changes in political campaigns versus
20-30 years ago
• Now 43% of American’s get their news from online, 45% from their mobile device
• People can now access anything with the click of a button
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9. RESEARCH QUESTION THREE
• Deeper level on connectivity with a campaign
• Each policy stance, Tweet, etc. is going to be dissected and criticized by the world
• Social media now has a snowball effect, and each post by opposite parties will
have to be further thought out and organized
10. LIMITATIONS
• Time constraint
• Data is always changing, especially regarding social media demographics
• Hard to find completely accurate information
11. FUTURE RESEARCH
• This is a topic that will be researched and analyzed for many more years to come
• Will be interesting to see the different ways social media is used for the next
presidential campaign