{"id":1013,"date":"2012-09-11T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T13:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/?p=1013"},"modified":"2012-09-11T22:06:04","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T02:06:04","slug":"the-role-of-social-media-in-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/11\/the-role-of-social-media-in-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"The Role of Social Media in Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/social-media-politics.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1018 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/social-media-politics.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"518\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/social-media-politics.png 518w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/social-media-politics-300x254.png 300w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/social-media-politics-353x300.png 353w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The role of social media in the political arena has increased considerably as of lately. During the Democratic National Convention, last week, it was clear that social media was an important channel for disseminating information as events were taking place. According to the online site <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2012\/09\/04\/michelle-obamas-speech-brings-in-28k-tweets-per-minute-destroys-mitt-romney\/\">TechCrunch<\/a>, first lady Michelle Obama&#8217;s speech had generated 28 thousand tweets per minute.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/pewinternet.org\/Reports\/2012\/Politics-on-SNS\/Summary-of-Findings.aspx\">report<\/a> published by the Pew Research Center, based on a survey on social network site users, states that Democrats are more likely to consider the use of social media important or very important in keeping up with political news, recruiting people for their cause, discussing political issues with other people and finding other people who share their political views, compared to their Republican or Independent counterparts.<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='The Role of Social Media in Politics' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/11\/the-role-of-social-media-in-politics\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='The Role of Social Media in Politics' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/11\/the-role-of-social-media-in-politics\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='The Role of Social Media in Politics' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/11\/the-role-of-social-media-in-politics\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='The Role of Social Media in Politics' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/11\/the-role-of-social-media-in-politics\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The role of social media in the political arena has increased considerably as of lately. During the Democratic National Convention, last week, it was clear that social media was an important channel for disseminating information as events were taking place. According to the online site TechCrunch, first lady Michelle Obama&#8217;s speech had generated 28 thousand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='The Role of Social Media in Politics' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/11\/the-role-of-social-media-in-politics\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='The Role of Social Media in Politics' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/11\/the-role-of-social-media-in-politics\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='The Role of Social Media in Politics' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/11\/the-role-of-social-media-in-politics\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='The Role of Social Media in Politics' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/11\/the-role-of-social-media-in-politics\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,253,14],"tags":[312,357,355,358,356,314,313,353,354],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions\/1022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}