Abstract

ALIAGA LODTMANN, Cluber Fernado. Political Struggle on Twitter’s Cyberspace. Political Parties in Peru (2019-2020). Opin. jurid. [online]. 2021, vol.20, n.42, pp.485-508.  Epub May 19, 2021. ISSN 1692-2530.  https://doi.org/10.22395/ojum.v20n42a20.

The objective of this work was to know the way in which the political struggle developed in the cyberspace social network Twitter in the period June 2019 - June 2020, determining the level of adherence of the population, effectiveness in the achievement of new followers, level of informative production, effectiveness and type of the disseminated messages, apparent objectives, most recurrent themes, deduced alliances, and the map of conflict of the political parties. It begins with a brief review of the theory and related previous research. The results show an asymmetric, irregular and not homogeneous development of the struggle of the Peruvian political parties. The main characteristics of the political struggle in in the Peruvian cyberspace are identified through the use of the Twitter social network by 10 of the 24 political parties registered with the JNE as of June 2019. Of the 10 selected parties, four have not registered communicative activity (PAP, AP, SP and PPC); two, little activity (FP and PM); two, medium activity (PNP and FA) and two, high activity (APP and C). The PNP and FP are the most confrontational, while the majority try to avoid obvious antagonism, and one (PM) avoids criticism or comments against parties or political leaders.

Keywords : Twitter; political communication; cyber politics; social networks; internet.

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