Title
The Butterfly Effect of Social Media and its impact on Public Opinion. The revocation of the mayor of Lima, Peru
Other title
El efecto mariposa de los medios de comunicación social en la opinión pública. La revocatoria de la alcaldesa de Lima (Perú)
Date Issued
01 January 2019
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Universidad Compultense Madrid
Abstract
The main objective of this study is to help to understand how social media influenced the process of revocation to the Mayor of Lima, Susana Villarán, and collaborated with the dissemination of the magnificent strategy of political communication that her team made, attaining to influence public opinion. The methodology used applies a qualitative approach is applied with descriptive scope, and it is considered a non-experimental and longitudinal design, since the information was collected from secondary sources covering the duration of the whole process of revocation. The results show that social media were fundamental for the Mayor to be able to maintain her position until the end of her term. Although the results obtained cannot be generalized, a conceptual model is proposed that emerges from the abstraction of the analyzed case in order to serve as a starting point for further studies on this topic.
Start page
69
End page
80
Volume
25
Issue
1
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Periodismo Ciencias de la información Temas sociales
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85069717344
Source
Estudios Sobre el Mensaje Periodistico
ISSN of the container
11341629
Sources of information: Directorio de Producción Científica Scopus