CyberSociety and public debate in 140 characters: # unemployment and # corruption

Authors

  • Sonia Santoveña Casal Facultad de Educación, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (España)

Abstract

In this research we have intended to study whether on Twitter, within a period of time, it has been generated some debate concerning unemployment and corruption and thus, analyze the potential of Twitter a conversational center. The sample analyzed was formed by tweets collected from 02/08/2014 to 04/08/2014: 1,483 of #corruption and 543 of #unemployment. It has been confirmed that the social network has been used mainly to share information about both hashtags #paro and # corruption rather than to interact among users, so it has been developed a mainly communication process unidirectional and not bilateral. One of the first ideas that come from the content analysis is the connection between corruption and unemployment. It might be concluded that the study of tweets is a valuable resource to know public opinion regarding socio-political issues.

Keywords

Twitter, Conversational Hub, Unemployment, Corruption

Author Biography

Sonia Santoveña Casal, Facultad de Educación, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (España)

Profesora e investigadora del Dpto. Didáctica, Organización Escolar y Didácticas Especiales, de la Facultad de Educación (UNED).

Su trayectoria investigadora se ha centrado en el análisis de la metodología didáctica desarrollada en entornos virtuales de aprendizaje, con especial incidencia en las buenas prácticas digitales, ampliándola actualmente al campo de las redes sociales y los modelos de relación generados en la Sociedad del Conocimiento.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/athenea.1416

Published

2015-11-03

How to Cite

Santoveña Casal, S. (2015). CyberSociety and public debate in 140 characters: # unemployment and # corruption. Athenea Digital. Revista De Pensamiento E investigación Social, 15(3), 47–84. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/athenea.1416

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