Using Twitter to discuss citizen activism: the economic news from leading newspapers of national reference

Abstract

Twitter has become the primary means of public expression and platform on which to build a new way of doing journalism. In the Spanish case, the national reference and covers its contents on the microblogging conversations generate traffic that is a true reflection of a social and political context marked by the economic crisis. Therefore, this study aims to reflect the degree of citizen participation in the information content on Twitter, based on the quantification of their interactions or their menstajes tone. The content analysis presented in this work radiography their use major Spanish newspapers the new social media, notes the importance it attaches to citizenship expressed by sections of economy news and reveals which are the most active posts on the microblogging and therefore, the most popular.