Voting and Social Media

Saxion Hogescholen in Eschede and Deventer are doing research in the usage of social media during the election time in the Netherlands. Researchers and students want to know how politicians make use of network sites in their campaigns. Therefore, they also want to know which influences these websites have on the votes. The Saxion school has started this research in March and will continue the investigation for the new elections. Results will be shown in July.

Actually this is a great opportunity to find out in what part of social media plays a role during the election time. It is possible that a social website such as Hyves plays a more important role than, for instance, a social active website such as Twitter. Moreover, doing this research will also indicate which political party is most popular to these social media target group.
Furthermore, I think that when the politicians will become the results of this research they will certainly promote in a better or worse way on the internet. For more information, keep up to date with this website: http://www.rtvoost.nl/nieuws/