Social networking site usage and participation in protest activities in 17 Latin American countries

Masías, Víctor Hugo; Hecking, Tobias; Hoppe, Ulrich

doi:10.1016/j.tele.2018.05.010

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“…In contrast with warnings of radical transformation in democratic politics, the surveyed scholarship points to stability instead of change. Social media use appears not to increase turnout, and complements rather than replaces traditional demographic and political factors explaining social participation (Masías et al, 2018; Navia & Ulriksen Lira, 2017). Within collective action, social media can change the ways in which strategies for mobilization are conceived (Cardoso et al, 2016), but nonetheless continue to coexist with offline modes of participation (Harlow & Harp, 2012).…”

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confidence: 97%

“…Most studies under analysis have examined three types of uses: electoral campaigns (Corrales Mejías, 2015; Filer & Fredheim, 2017; Long, 2018; Santana & Huerta Cánepa, 2019); social movements and participation (Harlow, 2012; Hoskins, 2013; Masías et al, 2018; Valenzuela et al, 2016); and electronic government (Aguirre Sala, 2014; Gálvez-Rodríguez et al, 2018; Giraldo-Luque et al, 2017; Riorda & Conrero, 2017).…”

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Minimal Effects, Maximum Panic: Social Media and Democracy in Latin America

Mitchelstein

Matassi

Boczkowski

2020

Social Media + Society

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In face of public discourses about the negative effects that social media might have on democracy in Latin America, this article provides a qualitative assessment of existing scholarship about the uses, actors, and effects of platforms for democratic life. Our findings suggest that, first, campaigning, collective action, and electronic government are the main political uses of platforms. Second, politicians and office holders, social movements, news producers, and citizens are the main actors who utilize them for political purposes. Third, there are two main positive effects of these platforms for the democratic process—enabling social engagement and information diffusion—and two main negative ones—the presence of disinformation, and the spread of extremism and hate speech. A common denominator across positive and negative effects is that platforms appear to have minimal effects that amplify pre-existing patterns rather than create them de novo.

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confidence: 97%

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Minimal Effects, Maximum Panic: Social Media and Democracy in Latin America

Mitchelstein

Matassi

Boczkowski

2020

Social Media + Society

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“…Las categorías referentes al análisis del contenido publicado por cada perfil permiten una aproximación a la tipología del contenido que se publica en estos espacios; lo que nos brinda una idea de la implicación de estos perfiles en la conformación de movimientos sociales. El hecho de que el contenido publicado en el periodo analizado esté centrado casi en su totalidad en el movimiento social, dejando de lado otras temáticas, confirmaría la idea de que las redes sociales constituyen una plataforma consistente para articular movimientos sociales, ya que suponen espacios que coadyuvan tanto a difundir información como a documentar y mostrar contenido multimedia que testimonie las actividades de la movilización social, ya sea dentro o fuera de la red (Baym, 2015;Kruikemeier y Shehata, 2016;Masías, Hecking y Hoppe, 2018;Skoric et al, 2011). Generando, además, impacto emocional a través de los documentos fotográficos y audiovisuales, que se convierten en instrumentos motivacionales para los usuarios (Cmeciu y Coman, 2016).…”

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“…Publicaciones de la última década muestran los efectos positivos de la utilización de las redes sociales, constatando que se produce un fuerte vínculo entre el uso de estas y la participación en las protestas (Boulianne, 2017;Tince, Liang y He, 2017;Gan, Lee y Li, 2017;Masías, Hecking y Hoppe, 2018;Kim y Chen, 2016;Salzman, 2015a;2015b;Valenzuela, 2013).…”

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Redes sociales como espacios comunicativos de articulación de movimientos sociales: Revolución de los Frijoleros (Guatemala)

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Gil-Ramírez²,

Esparcia³

2021

Chasqui

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Esta investigación determina cuál es el papel que juegan las redes sociales en la organización del movimiento social durante la "Revolución de los Frijoleros" en Guatemala en 2020. A través de un enfoque mixto que combina el análisis de contenido y el análisis crítico del discurso, se analizan cuatro perfiles representativos en la conformación del movimiento en Facebook y Twitter. Los resultados apuntan a que ambas plataformas tienen efectos positivos en la movilización ciudadana, conformándose como espacios de disidencia, de articulación del movimiento y de organización de acciones-protesta.

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“…Similar studies have also dealt with how Twitter affordances can help citizens organize to relieve emergency zones (Earle et al, 2010;Hughes & Palen, 2009;Potts, 2014;Vieweg et al, 2010). Another social use that Twitter affordances provide relate to how "Twitter is conductive to protest behavior by effectively communicating weak-tie networks" (Bondes & Schucher, 2014;Gerbaudo, 2012;Hassanpour, 2014 Sun, 2013;Masías et al, 2018;Sullivan, 2013;Valenzuela et al, 2018). Several studies have focused on the connections that the Twitter platform can provide.…”

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Online Dialogue And Interaction Disruption. A Latin American Government’s Use Of Twitter Affordances To Dissolve Online Criticism

Dávalos

2020

RCP

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Few academic studies have focused on how Latin American governments operate online. Political communication studies focused on social media interactions have overwhelmingly dedicated efforts to understand how regular citizens interact and behave online. Through the analysis of hashtags and other online strategies that were used during Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto’s (EPN) term to critique or manifest unconformity regarding part of the government’s performance, this study observes how members of a Latin American democratic regime weaponized a social media platform to dissipate criticism. More specifically, it proposes that the manipulation of social media affordances can debilitate essential democratic attributes like freedom of expression. Using a qualitative approach, consisting of observation, textual analysis, and online ethnography, findings show that some Mexican government’s manipulation of inconvenient Twitter conversations could impact or even disrupt potential offline crises. Another objective of the presented research is to set a baseline for future efforts focused on how Latin American democratic regimes behave and generate digital communication on social media platforms.

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Social networking site usage and participation in protest activities in 17 Latin American countries

Cited by 10 publications

References 37 publications

Minimal Effects, Maximum Panic: Social Media and Democracy in Latin America

Minimal Effects, Maximum Panic: Social Media and Democracy in Latin America

Redes sociales como espacios comunicativos de articulación de movimientos sociales: Revolución de los Frijoleros (Guatemala)

Online Dialogue And Interaction Disruption. A Latin American Government’s Use Of Twitter Affordances To Dissolve Online Criticism

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