Microblogging electoral: la estrategia comunicativa de Podemos y Ciudadanos en Twitter en las campañas electorales del 20D y el 26J

Abstract

The general elections of December 20th of 2015 (20D) and June 26th of 2016 (26J) have conditioned and transformed the Spanish political scenario, leading to a stage of polarization, pacts and instability, so much so that between 2015 and 2019 the Spaniards have voted in four general elections. The objective of this work is to analyze the communicative strategy: themes, types of messages, interaction with other users, among other variables than the two political parties that emerged strongly on the national political scene in the general elections of 20D (Podemos and Ciudadanos) carried out on Twitter in both election periods. The research is carried out with mixed, quantitative and qualitative methodology, using social network analysis and content analysis (significance of the political message and thematization) as investigative techniques. Through the use of the Top Discussion Indicator (TDI) virality criterion, a total of 121 tweets were analyzed that met the requirement of having a high degree of virality. The results maintain that the self-propaganda and counter-campaign messages are the most widespread, so the parties don’t take advantage of Twitter's discursive possibilities to generate a debate with citizens.

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