News and Research articles on Data-driven campaigning

Volume 8, Issue 4

Data-driven political campaigns in practice: understanding and regulating diverse data-driven campaigns

Katharine Dommett, University of Sheffield
PUBLISHED ON: 31 Dec 2019 DOI: 10.14763/2019.4.1432

Discussing three factors that characterise the activities of political campaigners, this article demonstrates variations in who is using data in campaigns, what the sources of campaign data are, and how data informs communication.

KEYWORDS: Data-driven campaigning, Micro-targeting, Regulation, Elections, Democracy
Volume 8, Issue 4

On the edge of glory (…or catastrophe): regulation, transparency and party democracy in data-driven campaigning in Québec

Eric Montigny, Université Laval
Philippe Dubois, Université Laval
Thierry Giasson, Université Laval
PUBLISHED ON: 31 Dec 2019 DOI: 10.14763/2019.4.1441

This article identifies factors that could explain the increasing pressure to regulate Québec’s political parties’ uses of digital voter information.

KEYWORDS: Data-driven campaigning, Québec, Intra-party change, Privacy, Online campaigns