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This article investigates the usage of blogs in electoral campaigns in Sweden, a country characterized by strong political parties and a party centered form of representative democracy. The central argument is that blogs are utilized in different ways by different parties. The empirical analysis based on a survey among over 600 blogging politicians indicates a vast difference in uptake and usage of blogs between the right- and left wing politicians. The results indicate that ideological positions towards individualism and collectivism matters for the practice of blogging.
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Åström, J., Karlsson, M. (2011). Left and Right in the Blogosphere: Ideological Differences in Online Campaigning. In: Tambouris, E., Macintosh, A., de Bruijn, H. (eds) Electronic Participation. ePart 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6847. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23333-3_2
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