Twitter e ciberativismo: o movimento social da hashtag #ForaMicarla em Natal-RN

The spatial and temporal fluidity conditioned by the technologies of social interaction online have been allowing that collective actions of protest and activism arise every day in cyberspace - the cyber-activism. If before these actions were located in geographical boundaries, today's demands and mobilizations extrapolate the location, connect to the global, and at the same time, return to the regional through digital virtuality. Within this context of the relationship between digital technology and global flow of sociability, emerges in October 2010 the social movement of the hashtag "#ForaMicarla", which means the dissatisfaction of cibernauts from Natal of Twitter with the current management of the municipality of Natal-RN, Micarla de Sousa (Green Party). We can find in the center of this movement and others who appeared in the world at the same time a technological condition of Twitter, with the hashtag "#". Given this scenario, this research seeks to analyze how the relationship of the agents of movement hashtag "ForaMicarla", based on the principle that it was formed in the Twitter network and is maintained on the platform on a daily basis, it can create a new kind of political culture. Thus, this study discusses theoretically the importance of Twitter and movements that emerge on the platform and through it to understand the social and political demands of the contemporary world and this public sphere, which now seems to include cyberspace

#DressCodePM & Re-Framing The Niqab: News Sources, Hashtag Activism, and Media Representation

This thesis originates from my interest in exploring how minorities are using social media to talk back to mainstream media. This study examines whether hashtags that trend on Twitter may impact how news stories related to minorities are covered in Canadian media. The Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper stated the niqab was “rooted in a culture that is anti-women” on 10 March 2015. The next day #DressCodePM trended in response to the PM’s niqab remarks. Using network gatekeeping theory, this study examines the types of sources quoted in the media stories published on 10 and 11 March 2015. The study’s goal is to explore whether using tweet quotes leads to the representation of a more diverse range of news sources. The study compares the types of sources quoted in stories that covered Harper’s comments without mentioning #DressCodePM versus stories that mention #DressCodePM. This study also uses Tuen A. van Dijk’s methodology of asking “who is speaking, how often and how prominently?” in order to examine whose voices have been privileged and whose voices have been marginalized in covering the niqab in Canadian media from the 1970s and until the days following the PM’s remarks. Network gatekeeping theory is applied in this study to assess whether the gated gained more power after #DressCodePM trended. The case study’s findings indicates that Caucasian male politicians were predominantly used as news sources in covering stories related to the niqab for the past 38 years in the Globe and Mail. The sourcing pattern of favouring politicians continued in Canadian print and online media on 10 March 2015 following Harper’s niqab comments. However, ordinary Canadian women, including Muslim women, were used more often than politicians as news sources in the stories about #DressCodePM that were published on 11 March 2015. The gated media users were able to gain power and attract Canadian Media’s attention by widely spreading #DressCodePM. This study draws attention to the lack of diversity of sources used in Canadian political news stories, yet this study also shows it is possible for the gated media users to amplify their voices through hashtag activism.

#DressCodePM & Re-Framing The Niqab: News Sources, Hashtag Activism, and Media Representation

This thesis originates from my interest in exploring how minorities are using social media to talk back to mainstream media. This study examines whether hashtags that trend on Twitter may impact how news stories related to minorities are covered in Canadian media. The Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper stated the niqab was “rooted in a culture that is anti-women” on 10 March 2015. The next day #DressCodePM trended in response to the PM’s niqab remarks. Using network gatekeeping theory, this study examines the types of sources quoted in the media stories published on 10 and 11 March 2015. The study’s goal is to explore whether using tweet quotes leads to the representation of a more diverse range of news sources. The study compares the types of sources quoted in stories that covered Harper’s comments without mentioning #DressCodePM versus stories that mention #DressCodePM. This study also uses Tuen A. van Dijk’s methodology of asking “who is speaking, how often and how prominently?” in order to examine whose voices have been privileged and whose voices have been marginalized in covering the niqab in Canadian media from the 1970s and until the days following the PM’s remarks. Network gatekeeping theory is applied in this study to assess whether the gated gained more power after #DressCodePM trended. The case study’s findings indicates that Caucasian male politicians were predominantly used as news sources in covering stories related to the niqab for the past 38 years in the Globe and Mail. The sourcing pattern of favouring politicians continued in Canadian print and online media on 10 March 2015 following Harper’s niqab comments. However, ordinary Canadian women, including Muslim women, were used more often than politicians as news sources in the stories about #DressCodePM that were published on 11 March 2015. The gated media users were able to gain power and attract Canadian Media’s attention by widely spreading #DressCodePM. This study draws attention to the lack of diversity of sources used in Canadian political news stories, yet this study also shows it is possible for the gated media users to amplify their voices through hashtag activism.

Twitter e ciberativismo: o movimento social da hashtag #ForaMicarla em Natal-RN

The spatial and temporal fluidity conditioned by the technologies of social interaction online have been allowing that collective actions of protest and activism arise every day in cyberspace - the cyber-activism. If before these actions were located in geographical boundaries, today's demands and mobilizations extrapolate the location, connect to the global, and at the same time, return to the regional through digital virtuality. Within this context of the relationship between digital technology and global flow of sociability, emerges in October 2010 the social movement of the hashtag "#ForaMicarla", which means the dissatisfaction of cibernauts from Natal of Twitter with the current management of the municipality of Natal-RN, Micarla de Sousa (Green Party). We can find in the center of this movement and others who appeared in the world at the same time a technological condition of Twitter, with the hashtag "#". Given this scenario, this research seeks to analyze how the relationship of the agents of movement hashtag "ForaMicarla", based on the principle that it was formed in the Twitter network and is maintained on the platform on a daily basis, it can create a new kind of political culture. Thus, this study discusses theoretically the importance of Twitter and movements that emerge on the platform and through it to understand the social and political demands of the contemporary world and this public sphere, which now seems to include cyberspace

Twitter e ciberativismo: o movimento social da hashtag #ForaMicarla em Natal-RN

The spatial and temporal fluidity conditioned by the technologies of social interaction online have been allowing that collective actions of protest and activism arise every day in cyberspace - the cyber-activism. If before these actions were located in geographical boundaries, today's demands and mobilizations extrapolate the location, connect to the global, and at the same time, return to the regional through digital virtuality. Within this context of the relationship between digital technology and global flow of sociability, emerges in October 2010 the social movement of the hashtag "#ForaMicarla", which means the dissatisfaction of cibernauts from Natal of Twitter with the current management of the municipality of Natal-RN, Micarla de Sousa (Green Party). We can find in the center of this movement and others who appeared in the world at the same time a technological condition of Twitter, with the hashtag "#". Given this scenario, this research seeks to analyze how the relationship of the agents of movement hashtag "ForaMicarla", based on the principle that it was formed in the Twitter network and is maintained on the platform on a daily basis, it can create a new kind of political culture. Thus, this study discusses theoretically the importance of Twitter and movements that emerge on the platform and through it to understand the social and political demands of the contemporary world and this public sphere, which now seems to include cyberspace

O Instagram como Espaço de Construção de Cidades Imaginadas: O Rio de Janeiro como Cidade Virtual

Dissertação de Mestrado em Ciências da Comunicação ‐ Culturas Contemporâneas e Novas Tecnologias

A relational algebra approach to ETL modeling

The MAP-i Doctoral Programme in Informatics, of the Universities of Minho, Aveiro and Porto

La Promoción de libros impresos a través de Twitter : análisis de los casos Ediciones Deusto, Gestión 2000 y Alienta Editorial

El sector editorial a Espanya s’ha vist obligat a canviar el seu model de negoci a partir de la Revolució Digital del S.XXI. Això inclou la utilització de mitjans socials a través dels quals es busca, entre altres coses, una nova forma de promoció dels seus llibres i un apropament a les noves tendències de la comunicació per a una efectiva relació amb els seus lectors. Recolzat en les teories de la comunicació digital, aquest treball té l’objectiu d’explorar la promoció de llibres imprès a Twitter mitjançant el hashtag. Es du a terme utilitzant una metodologia qualitativa que ha permès fer un ajust entre les dades i la realitat actual de l’ús d’aquesta eina dintre del sector editorial, i per tant ofereix algunes bases i teories per a futures investigacions

Modelado, extracción y análisis de información del flujo de datos de Twitter

En este artículo se propone el análisis de las interacciones entre usuarios de Twitter, tanto lo que se genera alrededor de un usuario concreto como el análisis de un hashtag dado durante un periodo de tiempo establecido.

Acción de organizaciones no gubernamentales frente a las semillas genéticamente modificadas en Colombia

Los efectos ambientales, económicos, sociales y culturales generados por las Semillas Genéticamente Modificadas-SGM y su control por empresas transnacionales como Monsanto, han incentivado la acción colectiva liderada por ONGs, tanto internacionalmente como en Colombia. El objetivo principal es analizar cómo la ONG “Semillas” ha incidido en las políticas colombianas relacionadas con la introducción y uso de SGM durante el periodo 2002-2013. Se centra en la Teoría de Redes Transnacionales de Defensa expuesta por M. Keck y K. Sikkink (1998). Además, se analiza el papel de las ONGs ambientales y las corporaciones transnacionales. El argumento central es que al crear vínculos con actores nacionales e internacionales y vincularse con redes y campañas con impacto transnacional, “Semillas” ha posicionado la lucha en contra de las SGM y ha logrado presionar al Estado influyendo parcialmente en sus políticas y leyes, al igual que en su posición y discurso frente al uso de SGM.

Información, periodismo y tecnología: uso de Twitter en el periodismo ecuatoriano

Cada día se incrementa el uso de las tecnologías de información y comunicación en Ecuador. Los periodistas aprovechan las herramientas digitales para obtener o publicar información. La inmediatez que estas suscitan ha dado un giro interesante al momento de informar. En ese contexto, fue importante dar paso a la investigación titulada “Información, periodismo y tecnología: uso de Twitter en el periodismo ecuatoriano”, con objeto de determinar el tipo de información que los periodistas publican en Twitter. De la misma manera, con esta investigación se pudo analizar si estas prácticas pueden devenir en un nuevo género periodístico, además de identificar el tipo de tweets que son noticia. Twitter ha llamado la atención de los periodistas y medios de comunicación por la rapidez de la información; muchas noticias se han conocido primero a través de este microblogging, pues la mayoría de las publicaciones son leads periodísticos con altos contenidos noticiosos. El periodismo digital ha captado a profesionales y audiencias, por la facilidad de leer la noticia y los hechos del momento. Un mapa de medios de comunicación y periodistas en Twitter permitió conocer qué tan usada es esta plataforma digital. El principal punto de atención de este trabajo fue la Ley Orgánica de Comunicación, con el hashtag: #leydecomunicacion. Tomando en cuenta a este se siguió las cuentas de 5 periodistas legislativos, quienes postearon los momentos previos a su aprobación, desde la votación y las implicaciones del debate legislativo. De acuerdo a lo dicho, Twitter es para los periodistas una herramienta digital importante para su trabajo diario. La corta pero precisa información permite incluso ampliar algún tema y desarrollar una investigación periodística. En este trabajo comprobamos finalmente que lo desarrollado en Twitter no puede ser considerado como un género periodístico aunque sí encaja dentro de los microgéneros desarrollados en internet donde destacan por la brevedad de la información pero también por la multimedialidad que permite este microblogging.

Big social data and political sentiment: the tweet stream during the UK General Election 2015 campaign

The General Election for the 56th United Kingdom Parliament was held on 7 May 2015. Tweets related to UK politics, not only those with the specific hashtag ”#GE2015”, have been collected in the period between March 1 and May 31, 2015. The resulting dataset contains over 28 million tweets for a total of 118 GB in uncompressed format or 15 GB in compressed format. This study describes the method that was used to collect the tweets and presents some analysis, including a political sentiment index, and outlines interesting research directions on Big Social Data based on Twitter microblogging.

2014 World Cup live blog: political protestor invades field at US vs Belgium

Retirado do Vice News.

Manifestantes recorrem à Justiça dos EUA contra violência de policiais

Reportagem exibida pelo Jornal da Globo News

Atentado na França teve repercussão mundial também nas redes sociais

Monitoramento das redes sociais realizado pela Diretoria de Análise de Políticas Públicas da FGV mostra a repercussão do ataque ao Charlie Hebdo pelo mundo. O mapa revela que o caso recebeu grande destaque ao longo do dia, com um alto volume de menções em todas as regiões do mundo, mas predominantemente Europa e EUA. De 9h a 17h (horário de Brasília), foram registradas mais de 4,5 milhões de menções ao caso, com picos de mais de 6 mil tuítes por minuto. A hashtag mais mencionada foi #charliehebdo (2 milhoes), seguida de #jesuischarlie ("eu sou charlie" com 700 mil).