Identification and analysis of the opinion leaders around the figure of Hugo Chávez on Twitter

Deltell, Luis; Congosto Martínez, María Luz; Claes, Florencia; Osteso, José Miguel

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Identification and analysis of the opinion leaders around the figure of Hugo Chávez on Twitter

dc.affiliation.dpto	UC3M. Departamento de Ingeniería Telemática	es
dc.contributor.author	Deltell, Luis	es
dc.contributor.author	Congosto Martínez, María Luz	es
dc.contributor.author	Claes, Florencia	es
dc.contributor.author	Osteso, José Miguel	es
dc.date.accessioned	2015-09-23T08:52:09Z
dc.date.available	2015-09-23T08:52:09Z
dc.date.issued	2013
dc.description.abstract	This article presents the results of an interdisciplinary research carried out by several universities and various departments specializing in different subjects and fields of study. Objetives. The aims are to identify the opinion leaders around the figure of Hugo Chávez on Twitter during the time of the sample, analyze user behavior in the microblogging space, and demonstrate whether full cyberdemocracy or mass self-communication are currently taking place. Results. The research has monitored all tweets which included the identifiers Chávez, Chavez, @chávez, @chavez on Twitter and has analyzed the daily flow of tweets from January 5 to April 13 2013 (UTC/ GMT – 4). Thus, with 19,943,709 tweets and 8,450,049 users, we have created the largest corpus of messages about a Latin-American political issue in Spanish ever presented by scientific research. Conclusions. This article demonstrates now full cyberdemocracy or mass self-communication are not currently taking place.	en
dc.description.status	Publicado	es
dc.format.extent	23
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitation	Revista Latina de Comunicación Social (2013). 68, 696-718.	es
dc.identifier.doi	10.4185/RLCS-2013-997en
dc.identifier.issn	1138-5820
dc.identifier.publicationfirstpage	696
dc.identifier.publicationlastpage	718
dc.identifier.publicationtitle	Revista latina de comunicación social	es
dc.identifier.publicationvolume	68	es
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10016/21607
dc.identifier.uxxi	AR/0000017248
dc.language.iso	eng	es
dc.publisher	Universidad de La Laguna. Laboratorio de tecnologías de la información y nuevos análisis de comunicación social	es
dc.relation.isversionof	http://hdl.handle.net/10016/21606
dc.relation.publisherversion	http://dx.doi.org/10.4185/RLCS-2013-997en	es
dc.rights	Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España	*
dc.rights.accessRights	open access	es
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/	*
dc.subject.eciencia	Telecomunicaciones	es
dc.subject.other	Twitter	es
dc.subject.other	Opinion Leader	en
dc.subject.other	Venezuela	es
dc.subject.other	Hugo Chávez	en
dc.subject.other	Social Network	en
dc.title	Identification and analysis of the opinion leaders around the figure of Hugo Chávez on Twitter	en
dc.type	research article	*
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