Title
Political discourses, ideologies, and online coalitions in the Brazilian Congress on Twitter during 2019
Date Issued
01 January 2021
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
SAGE Publications Ltd
Abstract
The aim of this research is to describe the pattern of interactions of Brazilian legislators on Twitter during 2019 in the construction of political discourses. Based on 20,076 replies during 2019, posted on Twitter by 514 Brazilian legislators, we conducted descriptive analysis of legislators’ Twitter profiles, social network analyses from their interactions, and content analysis of the messages. We found that (1) there are large disparities between legislators in the use of Twitter; (2) the pattern of interactions depicted five clusters defined by political affinities; (3) each cluster had different features regarding their composition and impact; (4) the centrality of the legislators within the network was positively associated with public endorsement on Twitter; and (5) the topics of messages within the clusters reinforce discourses aligned to political ideologies. We argue that the pattern of interactions on Twitter allows to identify online coalitions that reinforce particular discourses within the Brazilian parliament.
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencia política
Sociología
Temas sociales
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85107310458
Source
New Media and Society
ISSN of the container
14614448
Sponsor(s)
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by FAPESP under grants No. 2019/10046-4;2019/10560-0;2019/11114-3, linked to the CEPID/FAPESP project “Building Democracy in daily-life” (No. 2013/07923-7).
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