Bravehearts or tim'rous beasties?

Baxter, Graeme; Marcella, Rita

Abstract

Over the last ten years, the authors have conducted a series of investigations into the use of the Internet by political parties and individual candidates during parliamentary at the Scottish political arena. This paper provides an overview of the results of these studies, and reflects on how new technologies have been adopted by political actors in Scotland in an effort to disseminate information to, and engage with, potential voters.

Citation

BAXTER, G. and MARCELLA, R. 2013. Bravehearts or tim'rous beasties? A decade of research into online election campaigns in Scotland. In Parycek, P. and Edelmann, N. (eds). Proceedings of the 2013 International conference for e-democracy and open government (CeDEM13), 22-24 May 2013, Krems, Austria. 2nd ed. Krems: Edition Donau-Universität [online], pages 75-87. Available from: http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/imperia/md/content/department/gpa/zeg/bilder/cedem/cedem13_2nd_ed_final_version.pdf

• Conference Name: 2013 International conference for e-democracy and open government (CeDEM13)
• Conference Location: Krems, Austria
• Start Date: May 22, 2013
• End Date: May 24, 2013
• Acceptance Date: May 22, 2013
• Online Publication Date: May 22, 2013
• Publication Date: May 24, 2013
• Deposit Date: Oct 21, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 21, 2016
• Publisher: Edition Donau-Universität Krems
• Pages: 75-87
• ISBN: 9783902505316
• Keywords: Internet; Elections; Political parties; Candidates; Scotland
• Public URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10059/1905
• Publisher URL: http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/imperia/md/content/department/gpa/zeg/bilder/cedem/cedem13_2nd_ed_final_version.pdf
• Related Public URLs: http://hdl.handle.net/10059/957