Interactivity in Twitter: Effects of party identity on the evaluation of political candidates and on their vote intentions

The purpose of this work is to analyze the extent that users’ party identification affects the way in which they evaluate a political candidate from interacting with her followers in Twitter. The results of an experimental design showed that high-identified users –in contrast to low-identified ones–...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Alvídrez, Salvador
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD DE GUADALAJARA
Repositorio:Comunicación y Sociedad
Idioma:español
inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:comunicacionysociedad.cucsh.udg.mx:article/6416
Acceso en línea:https://www.comunicacionysociedad.cucsh.udg.mx/index.php/comsoc/article/view/6416
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Interactivity
party identity
Twitter
social identity
online political participation
Interactividad
identidad partidista
identidad social
participación política online
Descripción
Sumario:The purpose of this work is to analyze the extent that users’ party identification affects the way in which they evaluate a political candidate from interacting with her followers in Twitter. The results of an experimental design showed that high-identified users –in contrast to low-identified ones– assessed their in-group candidate better when her interactivity level was higher.