Day: 18 June 2017
Democracy
Stormzy 1: The Sun 0 — Three Reasons Why #GE2017 Was the Real Social Media Election
Social media have been playing a part in election campaigns for quite a while now, but this year’s general election may mark a tipping point where for an important part of the electorate traditional media are essentially irrelevant. There’s some proper academic caution in this post – it really is too early to tell – but – but if the trend is confirmed, the implications go very much wider than election campaigns.