S. Jeffares

Interpreting Hashtag Politics

Policy Ideas in an Era of Social Media

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Why do policy actors create branded policy ideas like Big Society and does launching them on Twitter extend or curtail their life? This book reveals how policy analysis can adapt in an increasingly mediatised to offer interpretive insights into the life and death of policy ideas in an era of hashtag politics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-35773-1
• 2014
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 145mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 381g
• ISBN-13: 9781137357731
• ISBN-10: 1137357738
• Artikelnr.: 40495453

Autorenporträt

Stephen Jeffares is a lecturer at INLOGOV, School of Government and Society, University of Birmingham UK. He is co-author of Hybrid Governance with Chris Skelcher and Helen Sullivan. His work draws on text analytics and Q methodology to understand changing debates surrounding public policy and public services.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Policy Ideas and Hashtag Politics 2. Theorising Policy Ideas 3. The Lifecycle of Policy Ideas 4. Identifying Policy Viewpoints 5. Social Media and Policy Practices 6. Capturing the Digital Footprint of Policy Discussion 7. Interpreting Social Media Data 8. The Future of Hashtag Politics