A Dip Into a Deep Well: Online Political Advertisements, Valence, and European Electoral Campaigning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2001.10622v2
• Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2020 12:53:36 GMT
• Title: A Dip Into a Deep Well: Online Political Advertisements, Valence, and European Electoral Campaigning
• Authors: Jukka Ruohonen
• Abstract summary: The paper examines online political ads by using a dataset collected from Google's transparency reports. According to the results, most of the political ads have expressed positive sentiments.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: 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.

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