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Recent years have witnessed the rapid proliferation of a new class of information technologies, commonly known as social media, which support interpersonal communication and collaboration using Internet-based platforms. In social media, political communication has become increasingly focused on personalities and personal traits of politicians. Politicians and political parties need a constant presence on these platforms to promote their image and maintain interactive, real-time communication with their supporters and potential voters. There is a plenty of literature on how political actors use social media to gain their benefits all around globe but no study has been conducted to highlight the usage of social media under the umbrella of strategic political communication, online public relations and reputation and relationship cultivation and management. This paper intends to highlight different theoretical foundations to analyse the usage of social media for political purposes. This paper is establishing a relationship between the producers, message and consumers as Facebook and Twitter are considered to be more direct mean of two-way communication. Political Public Relations focus on reputation cultivation and controlled candidate communication in the political process. For political purposes, the political actors are managing their reputation on social media by measuring audience engagement on the posts and tweets.

Savera Shami, Ayesha Ashfaq. (2018) Strategic Political Communication, Public Relations, Reputation Management & Relationship Cultivation through Social Media, Journal of the Research Society of Pakistan, Volume 55, Issue 2.
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