Partidos conectivos durante la pandemia. La estrategia de comunicación de Podemos en Twitter

  1. De Marco, Stefano
  2. Guevara Gil, Juan Antonio
  3. Martínez Torralba, Ángela
  4. García-Ceca Sánchez, Celia
  5. Echániz Jiménez, Alejandro
  6. Palese, Rosario
Revista:
Empiria: Revista de metodología de ciencias sociales

ISSN: 1139-5737

Ano de publicación: 2022

Título do exemplar: El Big data en las ciencias sociales

Número: 53

Páxinas: 121-145

Tipo: Artigo

DOI: 10.5944/EMPIRIA.53.2022.32615 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

Outras publicacións en: Empiria: Revista de metodología de ciencias sociales

Resumo

From a communicational point of view, connective parties are based on horizontal and bidirectional structure of conversational flows between the elite of the formation and the party activists. This is possible because they delegate part of their organization to digital and online platforms. In this paper we use the Spanish party Unidas-Podemos as a case of study of connective parties. Drawing upon the Twitter response and interaction rate between Spanish representatives and citizens, this research analyzes the external communicative aspect of the main Spanish political parties during the Lockdown caused by COVID-19. The results show that the external communication patterns of Unidas-Podemos respond to vertical criteria, typical of conventional parties.

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