POLITICIAL COMMUNICATION OF LOCAL REPRESENTATIVES FROM CHIAPAS (MEXICO) ON FACEBOOK DURING THE 2018-2021 PERIOD
Abstract
In 2018, the Latinobarómetro Report on public opinion polls reflects the crisis of democracy in Latin America. Less than 25 percent of the population is satisfied with democracy. In Mexico, only 16 per cent are satisfied with democracy, and the percentages of trust in Mexican democratic institutions are low: Congress, 22 per cent; Government, 16 per cent; and political parties, 11 per cent (Latinobarómetro, 2018, pp. 33-55).
The media relationship between citizens and Government through socio-digital platforms has led to social change, with citizen movements that spread by contagion in a world networked by wireless Internet and marked by the rapid viral dissemination of images (Castells,
2012, p. 19). In parallel, with governments that have also sought to make the internet a tool for online propaganda and proselytising (Curran, 2012, p. 50).
This paper aims to analyse the use of Facebook by local deputies of the Sixty-seventh Legislature of the Congress of the State of Chiapas during the five ordinary periods of sessions, in order to answer the following questions: What is the main function that legislators give to Facebook? What topics predominate in the messages that Deputies publish on their Facebook pages? How do they use the resources offered by Facebook to promote interaction and deliberation?
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