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[PRESS] Comment: Youth, social media and the election #GE2017

Post author By Digital Fingerprint
Post date June 7, 2017
17 Comments on [PRESS] Comment: Youth, social media and the election #GE2017

For the 2015 election Dr Bex Lewis, Senior Lecturer in Digital Marketing, examined the role played by social media in the election and considered its influence on younger voters, specifically those within the 18-24 bracket. With the General Election of 2017 tomorrow, she returns to the topic and considers whether much has changed. Read full article, watch the video:

Front page of MMU website:

You can also read the original draft of the document (more links, less edits!).

Tags #GE2017, Democracy, Digital Marketing, Election, Manchester Metropolitan University, Politics, Social Media, Young People

By Digital Fingerprint

Digiexplorer (not guru), Senior Lecturer in Digital Marketing @ Manchester Metropolitan University. Interested in digital literacy and digital culture in the third sector (especially faith). Author of 'Raising Children in a Digital Age', regularly checks hashtag #DigitalParenting.

17 replies on “[PRESS] Comment: Youth, social media and the election #GE2017”

Interesting piece – https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/09/young-people-spoken-jeremy-corbyn-social-media?

Also http://www.independent.co.uk/News/uk/politics/election-results-latest-youth-vote-swings-for-labour-jeremey-corbyn-hung-parliament-a7780966.html?cmpid=facebook-post

Also https://www.marketingweek.com/2017/06/09/general-election-aftermath-labour-conservatives-corbyn/?cmpid=em~newsletter~breaking_news~n~n&utm_medium=em&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=breaking_news&eid=3521412&sid=MW0001

Also https://www.indy100.com/article/jme-grime-for-jeremy-corbyn-stormzy-rap-music-young-vote-electorate-general-election-7783211

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/conservative-social-media-strategy-attack-jeremy-corbyn-labouir-twitter-facebook-video-stormzy-akala-a7784406.html?cmpid=facebook-post

Also http://theconversation.com/grime-launches-a-revolution-in-youth-politics-79236?

YouGov Stats – https://yougov.co.uk/news/2017/06/13/how-britain-voted-2017-general-election/

http://theconversation.com/how-corbyn-cut-through-exclusive-interview-with-a-senior-labour-strategist-79531?

Later piece http://theconversation.com/young-voters-are-pulling-their-weight-politicians-can-no-longer-ignore-them-79515?

And http://theconversation.com/weakandwobbly-how-twitter-revealed-the-mood-that-led-to-a-hung-parliament-79957?

Check http://www.aol.co.uk/news/2017/06/30/tories-urged-to-change-hard-to-win-over-young-voters-after-dis/

Oh labour did it too https://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/heres-how-labour-ran-an-under-the-radar-dark-ads-campaign?utm_term=.iyBQbP9dG#.uvDmA9Oap

See: https://theconversation.com/how-artificial-intelligence-conquered-democracy-77675?

See: https://theconversation.com/young-voters-are-on-the-march-heres-how-to-keep-them-coming-back-for-more-84748?

See also https://theconversation.com/scotland-eyes-a-youthquake-with-online-voting-here-are-some-tips-from-past-pilots-89468?

See https://theconversation.com/youthquake-was-a-myth-but-social-media-campaigning-is-here-to-stay-90875?

and the response – https://theconversation.com/youthquake-was-real-heres-how-we-know-it-was-more-than-a-myth-90970?

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