How important is Twitter to local elections in Brazil? A case study of Fortaleza city council

It analyzes 27 Twitter accounts managed by Fortaleza's city councilors who ran for reelection in October 2012. The study aimed to discover the importance of Twitter in the councilors' campaign strategies: what kind of messages were sent by the councilors who adopted digital communication s...

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Principais autores: Marques, Francisco Paulo Jamil, Mont'Alverne, Camila
Outros Autores: Tribunal Superior Eleitoral
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: English
Publicado em: 2021
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spelling oai:bdjur.stj.jus.br.col_bdtse_4134:oai:localhost:bdtse-90712024-10-14 How important is Twitter to local elections in Brazil? A case study of Fortaleza city council Marques, Francisco Paulo Jamil Mont'Alverne, Camila Tribunal Superior Eleitoral Eleição Campanha eleitoral Vereador Twitter It analyzes 27 Twitter accounts managed by Fortaleza's city councilors who ran for reelection in October 2012. The study aimed to discover the importance of Twitter in the councilors' campaign strategies: what kind of messages were sent by the councilors who adopted digital communication strategies to their followers, and the relationship between party affiliation and e-campaigns. The article shows that communitarian sociability, understood as face-to-face relations or interactions among individuals, affects how the internet is used in local campaigns, since there is no direct relationship between electoral success and the heavy use of Twitter by candidates, at least in proportional local elections (which are defined as cases in which candidates do not necessarily need to reach the votes of a majority of constituents, but only a part of them). However, those who adopt a digital communication strategy use it to broadcast their political platforms and promote their campaign events. Finally, except for small left-wing parties, there appears to be no relationship between party affiliation and e-campaigns. 2021-08-19T19:23:45Z 2021-08-19T19:23:45Z 2016 Artigo MARQUES, Francisco Paulo Jamil; MONT'ALVERNE, Camila. How important is Twitter to local elections in Brazil? A case study of Fortaleza city council. Brazilian Political Science Review, São Paulo, v. 10, n. 3, p. 1-35, 2016. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1981-38212016000300005. http://bibliotecadigital.tse.jus.br/xmlui/handle/bdtse/9071 en <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.pt_BR"><img alt="Licença Creative Commons" style="border-width:0" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-sa/4.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />Este item está licenciado com uma Licença <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.pt_BR">Creative Commons Atribuição-CompartilhaIgual 4.0 Internacional</a>. 35 p.
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topic Eleição
Campanha eleitoral
Vereador
Twitter
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Campanha eleitoral
Vereador
Twitter
Marques, Francisco Paulo Jamil
Mont'Alverne, Camila
How important is Twitter to local elections in Brazil? A case study of Fortaleza city council
description It analyzes 27 Twitter accounts managed by Fortaleza's city councilors who ran for reelection in October 2012. The study aimed to discover the importance of Twitter in the councilors' campaign strategies: what kind of messages were sent by the councilors who adopted digital communication strategies to their followers, and the relationship between party affiliation and e-campaigns. The article shows that communitarian sociability, understood as face-to-face relations or interactions among individuals, affects how the internet is used in local campaigns, since there is no direct relationship between electoral success and the heavy use of Twitter by candidates, at least in proportional local elections (which are defined as cases in which candidates do not necessarily need to reach the votes of a majority of constituents, but only a part of them). However, those who adopt a digital communication strategy use it to broadcast their political platforms and promote their campaign events. Finally, except for small left-wing parties, there appears to be no relationship between party affiliation and e-campaigns.
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Mont'Alverne, Camila
title How important is Twitter to local elections in Brazil? A case study of Fortaleza city council
title_short How important is Twitter to local elections in Brazil? A case study of Fortaleza city council
title_full How important is Twitter to local elections in Brazil? A case study of Fortaleza city council
title_fullStr How important is Twitter to local elections in Brazil? A case study of Fortaleza city council
title_full_unstemmed How important is Twitter to local elections in Brazil? A case study of Fortaleza city council
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