We examine the evidence of growing social media use among political elites in low-and middle-income countries, including in places where the proportion of actual voters on social media is small. We propose three ways to view this phenomenon of– first, as signaling, second, as a means for politicians to access elite populations, and third as a way to circumvent mainstream media and exercise direct control over political communication.
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Pal, J., & Gonawela, A. (2016). Political social media in the Global South. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 9844 LNCS, pp. 587–593). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45234-0_52
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