{"id":20851,"date":"2019-12-07T10:03:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T10:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"urn:bbc:podcast:p07xgpzq"},"modified":"2019-12-07T10:03:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T10:03:00","slug":"the-digital-election-how-social-media-is-reshaping-uk-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2019\/12\/07\/the-digital-election-how-social-media-is-reshaping-uk-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"The digital election: How social media is reshaping UK democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"In the UK\u2019s 2019 general election, social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram are playing a more prominent role than in any previous campaign. As the election enters its final stages, political scientist Travis Ridout, co-director of the highly respected Wesleyan Media Project \u2013 travels to the UK to immerses himself in current online activity. He finds out what strategies and techniques are being used to influence \u2013 or manipulate voters \u2013 and considers what lessons from the USA could be influencing the campaign.\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p07xgpzq\">The Documentary Podcast<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the UK\u2019s 2019 general election, social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram are playing a more prominent role than in any previous campaign. As the election enters its final stages, political scientist Travis Ridout, co-dire&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1527,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20851"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1598685,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20851\/revisions\/1598685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}