The media and the 2010 campaign: The television election?

Parliamentary Affairs

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 802-817

  Wring, Dominic ^a   Ward, Stephen ^b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957120400     PISSN: 00312290     EISSN: 14602482     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pa/gsq024     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. Figures from Broadcasting Audience Research Board. There were also other debates featuring various senior frontbench politicians debating their particular issues mainly on BBC during the election. There was also a Chancellors' debate on Channel 4 just prior to the formal campaign.
2. The 2010 Labour leadership election has been in part framed by considerations as to how the five contenders might fare in a live debate situation.
3. Trevor MacDonald meets David Cameron, ITV, 15 March 2010.
4. Private Eye, 13 April 2010.
5. Conservativehome.blogs.com/generalelectionreview.
6. Guardian 18 October 2007. Opik lost his seat in this election, a shock result in part attributed to his personal celebrity.
7. J. Blumler, and D. McQuail, Television in Politics, Faber & Faber, 1968.
8. Campaign 2010 with Jonathan Dimbleby, ITV 15 April 2010.
9. The authors are very grateful to fellow contributor Jane Green for guidance on the impact of debates and for suggesting the following review of the literature, W.L. Beniot et al., A Meta-analysis of the Effects of Viewing US Presidential Debates, Communication Monographs, 70, 4, 2003, 335-350
10. Sun, 30 September 2009.
11. The partisanships of the given newspapers are determined by the statement declaring their allegiance normally published on or near polling day. For more on this see David Deacon and Dominic Wring, 'Patterns of Press Partisanship in the 2010 General Election', British Politics, forthcoming.
12. Daily Telegraph 22 April 2010.
13. Daily Express, 22 April 2010 and Sun, 21 April 2010.
14. Daily Mail, 22 April 2010.
15. Guardian, 23 April 2010.
16. www.timesonline.co.uk, 7 May 2010.
17. Daily Mail, 14 April 2010.
18. D. Deacon and D. Wring, 'Partisan Dealignment and the British Press' in J. Bartle et al. (eds), Political Communications: the British General Election of 2001, Frank Cass, 2002.
19. Figures from Ipsos Mori-the authors are grateful to Helen Coombs for supplying them.
20. G. Wallas, Human Nature in Politics, Constable, 1908;
21. D. Westen, The Political Brain, Public Affairs, 2007.
22. Election Uncovered, Channel 4, 2 May 2010.
23. Daily Telegraph, 2 May 2010.
24. Mail on Sunday, 2 May 2010.
25. A. Rawnsley, The End of the Party, Viking, 2010. Interestingly despite 'Duffygate' Labour still managed to win the highly marginal Rochdale seat.
26. S.J. Ward and R.K. Gibson (1998) 'The First Internet Election? UK Political Parties and Campaigning in Cyberspace' in I. Crewe, B. Gosschalk and J. Bartle (eds), Political Communications: How Labour Won the 1997 General Election. Frank Cass, pp. 93-112;
27. S. Coleman (ed.) Cyberspace Odyssey: Elections in the Age of the Internet, Hansard Society, 2001;
28. S.J. Ward, 'The Internet and 2005 Election: Virtually Irrelevant?' in A. Geddes and J. Tonge (eds), The Nation Decides: The 2005 General Election. Basingstoke, 2005, pp. 188-206.
29. Daily Telegraph, 7 April 2010.
30. Guardian, 1 April 2010.
31. Guardian, 27 April 2010.
32. Glasgow Herald, 2 May 2010.
33. A.A. Haynes and B. Pitts, 'Making an Impression: New Media in the 2008 Presidential Nomination Campaigns', PS: Political Science & Politics, 42, 2009, 53-58.
34. M. Francoli and S.J. Ward, '21st Century Soapboxes? MPs and their Blogs' Information Polity, 13, 2008, 21-39;
35. R.K. Gibson, F. Greffet and S.J. Ward (2009) 'Party Organisational Change and ICTs: The Growth of a Virtual Grassroots?' Paper presented at the 2009 Annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Toronto.
36. A. Williamson, L. Miller and F. Fallon, Behind the Digital Campaign: An Exploration of the Use, Impact and Regulation of Digital Campaigning, Hansard Society, 2010.
37. A. Williamson, L. Miller and F. Fallon, Behind the Digital Campaign: An Exploration of the Use, Impact and Regulation of Digital Campaigning, Hansard Society, 2010, Ibid.
38. S. Coleman, 'Online Campaigning', Parliamentary Affairs, 54, 2001, 679-688
39. J. Crabtree, 'David Cameron's battle to connect', Wired Magazine, March 2010.
40. P. Norris, A Virtuous Circle, Cambridge University Press, 2000.
41. R.K. Gibson and S.J. Ward (forthcoming), 'Political Organizations and Online Campaigning' in H.A. Semetko and M. Scammell (eds), Sage Handbook of Political Communication, Sage.
42. The authors would like to thank Roslynd Southern at the University of Manchester for supplying the data regarding candidates.
43. The Times, 22 February 2010.
44. Thanks to Mark Pack for drawing our attention to this.
45. The authors would like to thank Rachel Gibson and Martja Cantjoch at the University of Manchester for supplying the data in this section. The survey conducted by the polling organisation BRMB was a face-to-face survey in the week following the election.
46. For details see http://www.weblogs.hitwise.com/robin-goad/2010/05/ election-traffic-final-week.html
47. P. Norris and J. Curtice,'Getting the Message Out: A Two-step Model of the Role of the Internet in Campaign Communication Flows During the 2005 British General Election', The Journal of Information Technology and Politics, 4, 2008, 3-13;
48. S. Vissers, 'From Preaching to the Converted to Preaching through the Converted', paper presented to ECPR Joint Research Workshops, Lisbon, 14-19 April 2009.
49. See M. McGregor, 'People Not Technology Are What Wins Elections', Tribunemagazine.co.uk, 23 April 2010.