¿Cómo usan los parlamentos las redes sociales? Un estudio comparado y longitudinal aplicado a países de América y Europa (2010, 2015 y 2017)

Santiago  Giraldo-Luque; Isabel  Villegas-Simón; Ricardo  Carniel Bugs

doi:10.4185/RLCS-2017-1219

Authors

Santiago Giraldo-Luque Autonomous University of Barcelona https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0024-7081
Isabel Villegas-Simón Autonomous University of Barcelona https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3064-6876
Ricardo Carniel Bugs Autonomous University of Barcelona http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9303-9515

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4185/RLCS-2017-1219

Keywords:

Social media, Parliaments, Information, Deliberation, Participation, Democracy

Abstract

The article analyses how parliaments use social media through the study of the representative chambers of Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, United States, Spain, France, Italy, United Kingdom and Sweden. Methodology: Using a content analysis method developed in 2010, 2015 and 2017, the text presents the evolution and the paths of the social media use of the selected parliaments. Results and conclusions: Results show a progression in the informative parliamentary use of social media, but they highlight few advances in the creation of deliberative or participative arenas in social platforms. The paper identifies parliamentary actions oriented to integrate the changing media ecosystem, linked to social media, but the institutional intention is limited to the presence and the impact inside the media framework, more than in the promotion of the social media mediated participation.

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Author Biographies

Santiago Giraldo-Luque, Autonomous University of Barcelona

Professor of the Department of Journalism of UAB and Academic Coordinator of the University’s Master’s Degree of Research on Communication and Journalism of UAB. He is also Academic Coordinator of the Post-Graduate Degree on Data Journalism of Universitat de Vic.

His research lines are mediatic alphabetization and the development of instruments for its conceptualization, analysis and measurement; the construction of indicators of electronic participation in public decision-making processes; impact of social networks and ICTs in the social mobilization, and analysis of journalistic trends regarding the use of Internet. H Index: 5.

Isabel Villegas-Simón, Autonomous University of Barcelona

Graduated in Audiovisual Communication by Universidad Carlos III of Madrid, and with a master’s degree in Research on Journalism and Communication by Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. Currently performs a doctoral dissertation about television formats of fiction and the process of social cultural adaptation. She has performed two research stays in the University of Roehampton (London) and Universidad de Málaga (Spain). She also has worked in funded research projects related to filmic and mediatic alphabetization, scientific dissemination on television and citizen participation in the digital era.

Ricardo Carniel Bugs, Autonomous University of Barcelona

Ricardo Carniel Bugs is professor of the department of Journalism of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), where is also staff coordinator of the Master’s Degree Erasmus Mundus “Crossing the Mediterranean: towards Investment and Integration (MIM)”, organized jointly by the universities Ca’Foscari Venezia and Paul-Valéry Montpellier. Member of the Laboratori de Prospectiva i Recerca en Comunicació, Cultura i Cooperació (LAPREC) where he performs research in areas such as policies of communication, media analysis and digital communication. Doctor in Communication and Journalism by UAB and journalist by Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul, Brazil. H Index: 3.

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