Cyberactivism, twitter and elections in Venezuela. Research
This is the abstract of the latest project we have been doing, is about cyberactivism, venezuelan elections and Twitter. If some of you are interested or working with similar categories, please, let us know. We have some methodological issues to solve. More about the investigation program here (in spanish) www.apropiacion.blogspot.com *Abstract* This research aims to describe the routines developed by the users of twitter during the Venezuelan elections. It relies on the contributions of Boyd (2005), Masten and Plowman (2003) and FAO (2011) related to digital ethnography and passive observation and study methods and techniques appropriate for the work that seeks to shape and characterize participants a specific community, we also considered the research of Gonzalez (2005) and Rheingold (2002) about cyberactivism, and smart mobs. Data collection was performed with the tool The Archivist, and was the processed with the statistical software named CAVanaTuit. Among the first results we noted that the Venezuelans have developed a series of practices, games and behaviors that run regularly during the electoral day , it was observed that people become digital reporters during the establishment of voting centers, voting and the vote count. Among the most used tags, besides #26S, we found and organize by frequency of appearance: #Venezuela, #Cuba, #ElNacional, #cosasquepasaranantesdelboletÃn #fuerafocas. During the morning of 27S, the twitter’s Venezuelans positioned 8 of 10 trending topics in the global section on Twitter. * * *Key words*: Twitter, Venezuelan elections, ciberactivism, digital ethnography, #26S Daniela ARtigas Avila Assistant professor at Unica <http://www.unica.edu.ve> / content web coordinator at LUZ Web <http://www.luz.edu.ve> @danielaart <http://twitter.com/#/danielaart>
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Daniela Artigas Avila