How Important is Twitter to Local Elections in Brazil? A Case Study of Fortaleza City Council

Abstract

Finally, except for small left-wing parties, there appears to be no relationship between party affiliation and e-campaigns. 1997;CHAIA et al., 2002;FIGUEIREDO, 1991;POPKIN, 1994;PRZEWORSKI et al., 2003;TELLES et al., 2009). KeywordsA significant part of these topics are tied to the mass media, as most information and images about politics available to constituents are provided by mass communication channels (GAMSON, 1992;GOMES, 2004;HACKER, 2004;MIGUEL, 2000;SCHUDSON, 1995;SELLERS, 2010;SKIDMORE, 1993;SWANSON and MANCINI, 1996). More recently, the internet has brought important changes to political campaigns (ALDÉ and MARQUES, 2015;ENLI and SKOGERBO, 2013;HOWARD, 2005;KARLSEN, 2010), wherein candidates adopt digital media as a political campaign strategy to introduce a different interactive scenario in which citizens could enjoy the opportunity of having access to multiple sources of information, questioning candidates in a public arena and creating independent projects that demand answers from parties and coalitions (BIMBER and

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Institutional isomorphism in corporate Twitter discourse on citizenship and immigration in India and the United States

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