Dear all, as asked by several AoIRs, I share the very helpful and inspiring replies I received to my info request about politicians' use of SNS during local elections: *Canada* *George Lessard* suggested to have a look at SNS' use during Yellowknife local elections, such as: - www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2009/10/19/yknife-elex-races.html - lifeintheknife.com/the-signs-of-the-2009-yellowknife-municipal-election/ - www.falvo.ca/ * Germany* *Andreas Jungherr*, Bamberg University, recently wrote a research (chapter in a forthcoming book) on the way German politicians use Twitter. *Israel* *Sharon Haleva-Amir*, University of Haifa, tracked MKs activities over Facebook, which is widely common in Israel. Her findings are in a chapter of a forthcoming book, written in Hebrew (Sharon Haleva-Amir, "Present - Absentees: MK's Usage of Personal Internet Tools", in Erez Cohen & Azi Lev-On (eds.) *Technology, Society and Politics*, Jerusalem: Magnes Press). Among other things, she has discovered that FB was one of many parallel channels electoral candidates used (i.e. youtube, twitter, picasa, national SNS, Flickr, LinkedIn, MySpace etc.). Another finding is that the Israeli Elctoral Candidates Facebook usage was twice as much as their usage of personal websites (50% of MKs - 60 MKs had a personal profile and/or political page in facebook; while personal websites usage was approx 25%). *Italy* *Paolo Massa *suggested to have a look at Mr. Lorenzo Dellai campaign during local elections in Trento, Italy: - www.gnuband.org/2008/11/13/dellai20_italian_politics_in_time_of_web/ *South **Korea* *Han Woo Park*, YeungNam University, is working on the research project “Investigating Internet-based Politics using e-Research Tools”. He published several articles on politicians' use of SNS. *The Netherlands* *Maurice Vergeer*, Radboud University, is investigating politicians' use of Twitter in Holland. *Turkey* *Mutlu Binark* conducted the research “Facebook: As a Social Networking Site: ‘Videor ergo sum’”. The aim is the analysis of social networking sites (SNSs) in order to study social organizations, privacy issue, practices of voyeurism, surveillance, and showing up, virtual relationships, identity practices, individual performances, and representation of this new communication medium in mainstream media. Hope it helps. Please do not hesitate to contact me for any further information. Regards, Daria -- Daria Santucci, Ph.D. University of Torino, Italy skype dariaonline twitter dariatweet 2009/10/19 Daria Santucci <webcampaigning.lab@gmail.com>

Dear all,

I am looking for some interesting case-studies on politicians' use of social networks during local elections. Do you have anything to suggest? Case-studies/researches from all over the world are welcome... thanks!

Regards,

Daria