Prorogation Online: Partisans Carve up Canadian Social Media

Key findings from our study of social media and the Canadian political blogosphere since Harper’s prorogation (December 30-January 12):

• Unlike last year’s coalition crisis, Conservative bloggers have largely abandoned promoting Facebook groups. 83% of all links to Facebook in the blogosphere came from Liberal (49%) or NDP (34%) bloggers.
• Tories meanwhile spent considerably more time referencing Wikipedia entries on a diverse range of issues, though curiously very few relating to Canadian politics or the parliament. (see chart below)
• Non-partisan bloggers dominated Twitter to highlight anti-prorogation organizing. (see chart below)

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