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A Dip into a Deep Well: Online Political Advertisements, Valence, and European Electoral Campaigning
Tekijät: Ruohonen Jukka
Toimittaja: Max van Duijn, Mike Preuss, Viktoria Spaiser, Frank Takes, Suzan Verberne
Konferenssin vakiintunut nimi: Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media
Kustantaja: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Julkaisuvuosi: 2020
Journal: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Kokoomateoksen nimi: Disinformation in Open Online Media Second Multidisciplinary International Symposium, MISDOOM 2020, Leiden, The Netherlands, October 26–27, 2020, Proceedings
Tietokannassa oleva lehden nimi: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Sarjan nimi: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Vuosikerta: 12259
Aloitussivu: 37
Lopetussivu: 51
ISBN: 978-3-030-61840-7
eISBN: 978-3-030-61841-4
ISSN: 0302-9743
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61841-4_3
Rinnakkaistallenteen osoite: https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.10622
Online political advertisements have become an important element in electoral campaigning throughout the world. At the same time, concepts such as disinformation and manipulation have emerged as a global concern. Although these concepts are distinct from online political ads and data-driven electoral campaigning, they tend to share a similar trait related to valence, the intrinsic attractiveness or averseness of a message. Given this background, the paper examines online political ads by using a dataset collected from Google’s transparency reports. The examination is framed to the mid-2019 situation in Europe, including the European Parliament elections in particular. According to the results based on sentiment analysis of the textual ads displayed via Google’s advertisement machinery, (i) most of the political ads have expressed positive sentiments, although these vary greatly between (ii) European countries as well as across (iii) European political parties. In addition to these results, the paper contributes to the timely discussion about data-driven electoral campaigning and its relation to politics and democracy.