Publications by Fellows: Vihang Jumle and Vignesh K. Rajahmani: Political Projections and Social Media in India

In a new post for the LSE blog, our Fellow Vihang Jumle and Vignesh K. Rajahmani analyse hashtags from India’s general elections of 2019.

As social media continues to impact popular political discourse across the world, how do such platforms determine and/or alter the discourse? Vihang Jumle and Vignesh K. Rajahmani analyse hashtags from India’s general elections of 2019 to argue how ‘discursive political projections’ on Twitter (now X) created symbolic imageries of political leaders, and the wider implications of such practices for democracy.

Read the post here.