Digitalization of public relations has offered new tools and changed the approaches and methods of communication with targeted public, as well as the rules for establishing and maintaining relations with them. While social media does not change the general principles of public relations, they help developing a more strategic, two-way, interactive and socially responsible approach with its significantly faster communication in comparison to other channels. This is also reflected in political communication.
Modern political communication uses a diverse set of methods to influence voters' opinion and convince them to participate in the election. The assignment focuses on the pre-election time online performance of the two most successful parties in the 2018 National Assembly Elections in Slovenia. The Slovenian Democratic Party and the List of Marjan Šarec have been observed on Facebook, by far the most popular social media site in Slovenia, with the aim to study the connection between the parties’ pre-election tradition and quantity and quality of their online performance.
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