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dc.contributor.authorRobertson, Christopher
dc.contributor.authorRoberts, Simon Gwyn
dc.contributor.editorLeón-Solís, Fernando
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-24T13:28:55Z
dc.date.available2024-09-24T13:28:55Z
dc.date.issued2024-07-28
dc.identifierhttps://chesterrep.openrepository.com/bitstream/handle/10034/629040/CRSGRPANDEMICCHAPTER2023.pdf?sequence=3
dc.identifier.citationRobertson, C., & Roberts, S. G. (2024). Welsh Devolution and the politics of the COVID-19 pandemic: Evolving social media strategies. In F. León-Solís (Ed.), The Nation in the Time of the Pandemic (pp. 197-214). Palgrave Macmillan.en_US
dc.identifier.isbn9783031566615en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/978-3-031-56662-2_10en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10034/629040
dc.description.abstractThis chapter examines the expansion of a nascent political movement, tracing its use of social media, notably Twitter, to generate engagement and mobilise a wider network by exploiting the dynamic inherent in the platform. Yes Cymru was formally launched in 2016. Modelled on the Scottish ‘Yes’ campaign, to the extent of adopting near-identical iconography, it was given additional focus by the Brexit vote later that year, and another spike in engagement followed the December 2019 UK general election. The wider (UK) political context has shifted considerably, with the movement attempting to mobilise the increasingly prevalent view that the tectonic plates of British politics are shifting to such an extent that previously unthinkable concepts now seem feasible. By appropriating empirical research conducted utilising the social network analysis software ‘NodeXL’ and debating these findings in line with Denis Balsom’s (The National question again: Welsh political identity in the 1980s. Gomer, 1985) ostensibly outmoded ‘Three Wales Model’, this chapter examines the politics of the COVID-19 pandemic in Wales both quantitatively and qualitatively. Moreover, it explores how Yes Cymru attempted to garner support for Welsh independence amidst the pandemic, in contrast to groups such as Abolish the Welsh Assembly who sought to generate closer ties to Westminster through staking anti-devolution claims.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipUnfundeden_US
dc.publisherPalgrave Macmillanen_US
dc.relation.urlhttps://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-56662-2_10en_US
dc.subjectCoronavirusesen_US
dc.subjectCOVID-19en_US
dc.subjectPandemicen_US
dc.subjectDevolutionen_US
dc.subjectWalesen_US
dc.subjectSocial mediaen_US
dc.titleWelsh Devolution and the Politics of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evolving Social Media Strategiesen_US
dc.typeBook chapteren_US
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Leeds; University of Chesteren_US
dc.date.updated2024-09-23T11:59:56Z
dc.title.bookThe Nation in the Time of the Pandemicen_US
dc.date.accepted2024
rioxxterms.identifier.projectUnfundeden_US
rioxxterms.versionAMen_US
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2025-07-28
rioxxterms.typeBook chapter
dc.source.beginpage197-214
dc.date.deposited2024-09-24en_US


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