‘Follow the closing of the campaign on streaming’: The use of Twitter by Spanish political parties during the 2014 European elections

The results of the elections to the European Parliament of May 25, 2014 marked a before and an after for Spanish politics. This influential European campaign took place at a moment when internet use was well established as a tool, with political parties and candidates actively using social media. Th...

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Autores: Ramos-Serrano, Marina, Fernández Gómez, Jorge David, Pineda, Antonio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/154225
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/154225
https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444816660730
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Interactivity
Social Media
Twitter
Election Campaigns
Internet and Politics
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Sumario:The results of the elections to the European Parliament of May 25, 2014 marked a before and an after for Spanish politics. This influential European campaign took place at a moment when internet use was well established as a tool, with political parties and candidates actively using social media. This paper aims to research whether Spanish parties are using Twitter to develop interactive communication, or simply for broadcasting messages. Thus, the Twitter activity of various political parties during the 2014 European campaign is content-analysed. Results indicate that activity seems to depend on ideology, that parties are revealed to be committed to unidirectional communication/broadcasting, and that debate on Twitter is fundamentally between the politicians themselves. On a theoretical level, our data are in line with the idea that the normalisation hypothesis tends to prevail.