Internet, política e representação: o uso de redes sociais por candidatos a deputado estadual em Sergipe (2018)

• Ano de defesa: 2019
• Autor(a) principal: Barbosa, Saulo Vinicius Souza
• Orientador(a): Petrarca, Fernanda Rios
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Pós-Graduação em Sociologia
• Palavras-chave em Português: Sociologia política; Redes sociais; Candidatos políticos; Campanha eleitoral; Eleições; Profissionalização da política; Representação
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Elections; Social media; Political professionalization; Representation
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CIENCIAS HUMANAS::SOCIOLOGIA
• Link de acesso: http://ri.ufs.br/jspui/handle/riufs/11788

The object of this dissertation is the use of social media by candidates for state deputy in Sergipe in the 2018 elections. The paper analyzes the relationship between social position, political career, visibility and use of social medias. It is based on a database built from data reported to the TSE by the 329 candidates plus the numbers of followers owned on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube. The research is divided into two stages. The first one, of a quantitative nature, consists of a multiple correspondence analysis in which it was sought to understand how the possession of a high number of followers is related to electoral success and which socio-political trajectories benefit electorally from this resource. The second was the qualitative examination of the use of the social networks of four elected candidates. Thus, this following results was founded: (I) existence of candidate stratification by follower’s number; (II) the strong relationship between high number of followers and electoral success; (III) the concentration of the number of followers among professional politicians, experienced and belonging to the groups that dominate state politics; (IV) candidates use social networks to build a bond of representation with a certain portion of the electorate, which is not a break with offline political practices. All this leads to the conclusion that social networks are an important political resource; however, they are not necessarily promoting a renewal of the political field.