Journal article
Congressmen in the age of social network sites: Brazilian representatives and Twitter use
First Monday, Vol.19(5)
05/05/2014
DOI: 10.5210/fm.v19i5.5022
Abstract
This paper investigates the factors that influence how members of the Brazilian House of Representatives adopt Twitter as part of their political communication strategy. Our intention is to understand the main variables that lead legislators to invest time and resources in microblogging. This quantitative study examined all of the 457 official congressional accounts registered on Twitter. These accounts were monitored weekly between February 2012 and February 2013. After empirically exploring the data, this work reflects on the results thanks in part to an examination of the literature on the intersection of the Internet and politics. The results indicate correlations between the use of Twitter and attributes like age and occupation of leadership positions.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Congressmen in the age of social network sites: Brazilian representatives and Twitter use
- Creators
- Francisco Paulo Jamil Almeida Marques - Universidade Federal do CearáJakson Alves de AquinoEdna Miola - Universidade Federal de Sergipe
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- First Monday, Vol.19(5)
- DOI
- 10.5210/fm.v19i5.5022
- ISSN
- 1396-0466
- eISSN
- 1396-0466
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/05/2014
- Academic Unit
- Center for Social Science Innovation; School of Journalism and Mass Communication
- Record Identifier
- 9984772266302771
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