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FREIRE CASTELLO, Nicolás. WHY TWITTER IS THE POLITICAL DIGITAL TERRITORY. Polis [online]. 2019, vol.15, n.2, pp.39-74.  Epub 11-Set-2020. ISSN 2594-0686.  https://doi.org/10.24275/uam/izt/dcsh/polis/2019v15n2/freire.

The study of political communication that occurs from social networks has focused almost exclusively on the effectiveness of these platforms as electoral tools. However, the understanding of what we can understand as a public and political digital place, from which inputs can be obtained to improve the decision and design processes and monitoring of public policies, seems to be still unattended. This study aims to argue the existence of a “digital political territory”, where it is not only possible to deploy political action, but it is also possible to find -recognize and analyze, by means of big data techniques- deliberative elements of the politic discussion, which could serve as inputs for public action sand decisions (beyond merely electoral ones). For this we identified six specific characteristics, whose cumulative presence would make up the digital political territory, and we argued that it would only be on Twitter where we can find those characteristics.

Palavras-chave : Twitter; Social Networks; Political Communication; political digitalization; digital political territory.

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