RT Journal Article T1 Identification and analysis of the opinion leaders around the figure of Hugo Chávez on Twitter A1 Deltell, Luis A1 Congosto Martínez, María Luz A1 Claes, Florencia A1 Osteso, José Miguel AB 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. PB Universidad de La Laguna. Laboratorio de tecnologías de la información y nuevos análisis de comunicación social SN 1138-5820 YR 2013 FD 2013 LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/21607 UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/21607 LA eng DS e-Archivo RD 3 jul. 2024