We’ll take one example: Barrack Obama’s Breakthrough with his Digital Campaign Communications in 2012. His Objectives The Statistic The Data The Facts The Findings of Audit Processes (of this campaign)

1. Let’s Talk #2: Social Media and Its
Impact on Politics
The Presidential Campaign
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2. Outline
• We’ll take one example: Barrack Obama’s
Breakthrough with his Digital Campaign
Communications in 2012.
– His Objectives
– The Statistic
– The Data
– The Facts
– The Findings of Audit Processes (of this campaign)
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3. • Mobilize supporters
• Engage undecided voters
• Shape the conversation around his re-election
His Objectives
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5. Which data are needed by Obama’s campaign
team to support his objectives?
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6. The Statistics
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8. Which data are needed by Obama’s campaign
team?
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9. The Data
• Communication channels
• Who listened to them – the distribution and range of audiences
• Audiences’ responses – who, what, how, and which post got more
responses
• (Hot) topic people were talking about - what voters showed the
most interest in
• Number of posts were posted by each party
• What kind of socmed contents were posted by both Obama and his
competitor, Romney.
“the two camps talk about that issue in distinctly different ways. Romney’s
discussion focuses on jobs. Obama’s discussion of the economy is partly
philosophical, a discourse on the importance of the middle class and
competing visions for the future.”
- PEW RESEARCH CENTER: JOURNALISM & MEDIA STAFF, 2012.
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10. The Facts
“Obama’s digital content also engendered more
response from the public-twice the number of shares,
views and comments of his posts.”
“Visitors to Obama’s website are offered
opportunities to join 18 different constituency groups,
among them African-Americans, women, LGBT,
Latinos, veterans/military families or young
Americans.”
- PEW RESEARCH CENTER: JOURNALISM & MEDIA STAFF, 2012.
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11. The Action(s) - Obama
• From 2008 go beyond the candidates adding social
media channels
• Obama turned to Twitter Ads to own the election
conversations at every step of his campaign.
• During every televised presidential debate, Obama
created a two-screen experience using Twitter.
• The Obama campaign localized its digital messaging
significantly, adding state-by-state content pages filled
with local information.
• Obama eliminated a role for the mainstream press.
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12. Meanwhile, his competitor…
• The Romney website contains a page
dedicated to accounts about the candidate
from the mainstream news media, albeit only
those speaking positively of Romney or
negatively of Obama.
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13. The Finding(s) from Audit Processes
• Obama’s campaign has made far more use of direct digital
messaging than Romney’s.
• The campaign is about the economy, but what that means
differs depending on to whom one is listening.
• The economy may have dominated both candidates’
digital messaging, but it was not what voters showed the
most interest in.
• Neither campaign made much use of the social aspect of
social media.
• Campaign websites remain the central hub of digital
political messaging.
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14. New Job: Social Media Auditor
• Examine your social media profiles
– Locate and document all your social media profiles, official and
unofficial
– Check for completion of all details on these profiles and for
consistency in imagery and message
– Follow up on your goals and compare performance today to
performance one and two years ago
• Examine those who do it well
– Find 4 to 8 niche influencers and examine how they manage their
brand on social media
– Observe imagery and branding on each of their profiles
– Measure key metrics like followers and engagement
• Make an action plan for improvements and goals for your profiles
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16. Google ID’s Findings for Indonesia 2014
Presidential Campaign
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20. The Social Media Trend Continues…
The use of social media by public figures. You name it…
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201511251562.html
Source: http://nasional.tempo.co/
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21. “The 2016 presidential election in the US is
shaping up to be the most social yet, as
candidates use Facebook, Twitter and even
Snapchat to connect with voters.”
- What Can We Learn From Presidential Candidates on Twitter?, http://
adweek.com
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22. Thank you.
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