New Epolitics.com contributor Dr. Jeff Swift is the author of “Digital Community Organizing: Why Political Power Must be Shared, Not Stored”, which outlines practical strategies for using digital media to build powerful networks. The...
New Epolitics.com contributor Ben Kaplan is the founder and CEO of PR Hacker. Read more on his blog. Becoming The First Viral President: How Trump Won The Race To The White House When Donald Trump sent a thunderbolt to the Democratic and Republican...
Aiden Livingston is the founder of Casting.AI and the author of the upcoming book, “Build a Bot Workshop — A Guide For Creating The Next Generation of Ai Startupsâ€. For a counterpoint, see my more-skeptical note at the end. Ever wonder why...
Stuck in line at the polls? Relieve your boredom on Facebook. Unsure who’s running for anything other than president? Hello, Mr. Google. American voters will pull out their phones millions of times on Election Day, giving candidates hungry for...
If you can pull yourself away from desperately refreshing political news websites today, head over to Campaigns and Elections for a longer view of our political landscape. In this month’s Technology Bytes, we step back and think about the...
Check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts from the 2016 presidential campaigns! The data is via our friends at CrowdTangle, and remember that these aren’t the top-performing posts in ABSOLUTE terms, since that would...
I wrote this in June, right after Brexit passed. Reposted now, five days before Election Day, with foreboding. Brexit! In our latest sign of populist political dissatisfaction, the British chose last night to leave the European Union. Voters in...
A year ago, we covered the debut of the Clinton campaign’s Twitter posse. Now that we’re in debate season, we get to watch her rally the troops. Pre-debate, her team sends out preparatory messages, like this one that arrived today...
Watch those hands, Robbie! Via Shaun Dakin, important news about Trump’s and Clinton’s social-media support around the last presidential debate: A University of Oxford study indicates [Trump] may have had some help in the form of pro...
Today’s excellent-as-always Daily 202 includes an illustration of how a single influential person can shift the online discussion: “The chart below [Ed. note: reprinted above] shows the spike in mentions of a “rigged”...