Abstract

ARGUELLO PAZMINO, Sofía  and  HURTADO ARROBA, Edison. Virtual Public Arenas on Twitter and Religious Politicization in Ecuador. Estud. sociol [online]. 2024, vol.42, e2329.  Epub May 24, 2024. ISSN 2448-6442.  https://doi.org/10.24201/es.2024v42.e2329.

Although politics is not diluted in social media, resources for collective action and innovation of repertoires of political contention are marked by emerging interactions in the digital polis. This article analyzes a case of political activism on the legalization of same-sex civil marriage in Ecuador, leaded by prolife religious collective actors and undertaken on Twitter in June 2019. We formulate and use analytical model on politicization mechanisms in virtual public arenas. We pinpoint three moments in this process: identification, framing and definition of the situation, and political work for advocacy. Religious politicization is described using quantitative and qualitative information.

Keywords : religious politicization; virtual public arenas; same-sex marriage; Twitter; Ecuador; repertoires of contention.