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Paper toader gutu
1. Social Media in Academia: Research and Teaching SMART 2014
Timișoara, Romania, September 18-21 2014
Voter Mobilization on Facebook.
Data from the 2012 Romanian Parliamentary Elections and the 2014
Euro-parliamentary Elections
Florența TOADER *
National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest
Dorina GUȚU
National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest
* Beneficiary of the project „Doctoral and postdoctoral scholarships for young reserachers in political sciences,
administrative sciences, communication sciences and sociology”, project co-funded by the European Union through the
European Social Fund, Operational and Sectorial Program for Developing Human Resources 2007-2013.
2. Main goals of the paper
• to examine the communicational strategies used by Romanian politicians on Facebook in
order to mobilize voters during the 2012 parliamentary elections and the 2014 Euro-parliamentary
campaign;
• to examine in what extent social media sites (SNS) are effectively used by Romanian
politicians to mobilize their followers.
Method
• a qualitative method: dispositive analysis (Nell, 1999; Focault, 1997; Caborn, 2007;
Bussolini, 2010; Beciu, 2011; Springer and Clinton, 2013).
• it was used to reveal the way candidates interact with followers and the discursive
techniques used for voter mobilization on Facebook. As a dispositive, Facebook
combines the communicational plan of the politician with the specific of Facebook
communication and the political communication practices established in the Romanian
context.
3. The premise
• Facebook is a dispositive, as it offers politicians the opportunity to combine different
communicational resources: text, image, sound, photography, video to generate a specific
interactional space and a discursive identity.
Data corpus – 2012 parliamentary campaign
(Facebook pages)
• Victor Ponta (the leader of the governing coalition, The Social-Liberal Union - SLU,
and prime minister of Romania);
• Crin Antonescu (leader of SLU);
• Vasile Blaga (the leader of the main opposition party, The Democratic-Liberal Party
– DLP, an leader of „Fair Romania” Alliance - FRA);
• Mihai-Răzvan Ungureanu (leader of the Civic Force Party – CFP, and leader of
„Fair Romania” Alliance - FRA).
4. Data corpus – 2014 Euro-parliamentary campaign
(Facebook pages)
• Corina Crețu (vice-president of the Social Democrat Party, and vice-president of
the Socialist Group in the European Parliament);
• Norica Nicolai (member of the National Liberal Party and member of the European
Parliament, vice-chair in the Subcommittee on Security and Defence);
• Theodor Stolojan (member of the Democrat Liberal Party, member of the
European Parliament);
• Cristian Preda (member of the Popular Movement Party, and member of the
European Parliament).
Time frames
November 8th – December 9th, 2012 and April 25th – May 25th, 2014
5. Interactivity of Facebook
• Romanian politicians hardly use the web 2.0 features of this social network. Among all the
analysed politicians, only Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu, Victor Ponta, and to a lesser extent
Vasile Blaga invited followers to ask questions about the campaign.
• Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu was the only candidate who organized question and answer
sessions on his Facebook page, where he answered voters’ questions in real-time.
• Followers were seldom invited to get involved in the online campaign by sharing politicians’
campaign materials (photographs, badges, statuses, go out to vote messages). This tactic
was rarely used during the 2012 parliamentary campaign and completely lacked in 2014.
• The usage of such techniques shows the intention of some candidates to influence over
their followers and to create a bond with voters by reducing the social and physical
distance between them, or by trying to create unity among specific ideas of their campaign.
6. The silent Facebook communication effect
• A unique trend regarding interactivity revealed by this study is that sometimes, the lack of
interactivity of a politician’s page also translates in sparse messages designed for Facebook
communication only.
• Either candidates prefer to reiterate statements made in traditional media, by citing them on
Facebook, or skip writing messages altogether and just post pictures and videos from
events, or share other colleagues’ statements and Facebook posts, without adding their own
interpretation.
• These are strategies largely used by politicians such as Crin Antonescu or Theodor Stolojan,
who create a communicational paradox. Even though they were very active online during
the campaign, by sharing several posts a day, they were absent from the discussion,
creating the silent Facebook communication effect: the interaction with voters is minimal and
Facebook is only an accessory communication outlet for the campaign.
7. Types of communication
• politicians resort to a web 1.5 (Jackson and Lilleker, 2009) type of
communication, where they share political messages, but limit interactivity in
order to avoid critiques and conflict. Facebook political communication becomes
one-directional, and the opportunity to share go aut the vote messages is
affected.
Dear friends, with justice, with honesty, with honour, until the end, no mercy! (Crin Antonescu,
2012 parliamentary elections)
We are waiting for you at the polls on the 25th of May! (Corina Crețu, 2014 euro-parliamentary
campaign)
Vote PNL, the party that celebrates tomorrow 139 years of existence, the party who brought
Romania home – in Europe! (Norica Nicolai, 2014 euro-parliamentary campaign)
• politicians intent to identify with voters, and thus promoting an us versus them
type of discourse (especially during the 2012 parliamentary campaign):
I am one of the 7,4 Romanian citizens who voted “yes” to the referendum. (Crin Antonescu,
2012 parliamentary campaign)
8. General trends
• Even though such strategies are used both during 2012 and the 2014 electoral
campaigns, the politicians had a more passionate discourse during the parliamentary
elections (2012). This might be explained by the different stakes the two campaigns
had. Political actors might feel a bigger motivation to fight for a place in the Romanian
Parliament than in the European Parliament.
• Another possible explanation is that some politicians do not count as much on online
electoral communication, and use it as an auxiliary form of communication. This might
also explain the leaning of candidates for the 2014 European elections to extensively
promote on Facebook elements and messages specific to the offline campaign.
• Facebook is only partly used as an efficient communication tool, that helps promote
interaction with voters. While some politicians (Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu, Victor Ponta)
try to directly interact with supporters or to mobilize voters through their Facebook pages,
the general trend is towards a more reserved and one directional communication.
9. References on Facebook to events or significants experiences
Participare la evenimente religioase
Mesaje mobilizatoare (go out to vote)
Aprecieri la adresa alagatorilor
Aprecieri la adresa colegilor de partid/alianta
Referiri la realizari ale cetatenilor din Romania
Referiri la personalitati din Romania (oameni politici,…
Referiri la evenimente culturale/sportive
Mesaje cu ocazia zilei nationale
0,0% 5,0% 10,0%15,0%20,0%25,0%30,0%35,0%40,0%45,0%50,0%
Mesaje cu ocazia sarbatorilor religioase
Victor Ponta Crin Antonescu Vasile Blaga Daniel Constantin Aurelian Pavelescu Mihai-Răzvan Ungureanu
Politician
Tema (%)
Victor Ponta Crin Antonescu Daniel Constantin Vasile Blaga Mihai R. Ungureanu Aurelian Pavelescu
Mesaje cu ocazia sărbătorilor religioase
2,5 2,2 1,9 0,0 0,7 2,0
Mesaje cu ocazia zilei naționale 5,6 1,5 5,7 7,1 0,7 2,0
Referiri la evenimente culturale/sportive
0,0 0,0 0,0 0,0 2,8 0,0
Referiri la personalități din Romania
(oameni politici, de cultura, sportivi) 2,5 0,0 3,8 0,0 0,0 2,0
Referiri la realizări ale cetățenilor din
Romania 1,8 0,0 0,0 0,0 0,0 0,0
Aprecieri la adresa colegilor de
partid/alianță 2,5 1,5 1,9 0,0 0,7 2,0
Aprecieri la adresa alegătorilor
3,1 2,9 0,0 0,0 1,4 6,1
Mesaje mobilizatoare (go out to vote)
6,8 14,7 5,7 0,0 5,6 12,2
Participare la evenimente religioase
2,5 0,0 0,0 0,0 0,0 0,0
Total 27,3 22,8 18,9 7,1 11,8 26,5
10. Conclusions
• Facebook is a resource used to diseminate go out to vote messages. However, it is not
used at its full potential.
• Romanian politicians employ Facebook mostly to share information about their campaign;
• voter interaction technique are commonly reduced to go out to vote messages;
• interaction with voters is frequently just mimicked by the reiteration of messages and
campaign actions specific to the offline realm. A so called silent Facebook communication
effect emerges, where politicians are very active on Facebook, but fail to also generate
fresh content, adequate to this medium. They either promote political stands made for
traditional media, or describe their campaign events in a non-engaged manner.
11. Conclusions (2)
• While the results of this study show a few relevant patterns of Facebook use in Romanian
politics, they cannot be generalized to the entire Romanian political landscape. The
comparative analysis between the two electoral campaigns show differences in the
communication of leadership values during elections with different stakes and voter
turnouts.
• Still, for a longitudinal and more comprehensive set of results, the corpus should be
extended and the study must continue with the analysis of future Facebook electoral
campaigns.