Social media and citizen mobilisation in the biometric voter registration (BVR) process in Zimbabwe:

Mwonzora, Gift

Title: Social media and citizen mobilisation in the biometric voter registration (BVR) process in Zimbabwe:
Creator: Mwonzora, Gift
Date Issued: 2020
Date: 2020
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/178953
Identifier: vital:40104
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2020.1746753
Description: Considerable research has, in recent years, focused on the utility of social media platforms in political campaigns in both developed and developing countries, but there has not been significant analysis of social media use in voter registration campaigns. In seeking to address this lacuna in the literature, this article examines the use and efficacy of social media networking sites (SNS), namely Facebook and Twitter, in mobilising, informing and educating citizens to participate in a new system of biometric voter registration implemented in Zimbabwe. The article draws on a qualitative research methodology. The article contends that social media use amplified political knowledge of the Zimbabwean electorate ahead of the 2018 national election as exemplified in the upsurge of voter registrants under the biometric voter registration system.
Format: 8 pages
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: Journal of Contemporary African Studies
Relation: Mwonzora, G., 2020. Social media and citizen mobilisation in the biometric voter registration (BVR) process in Zimbabwe. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 38(1)pp.103-120
Relation: Journal of Contemporary African Studies volume 38 number 1 103 120 2020 1469-9397
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