Perspective of brazilian research in Information Science on social media and politics

• Autor(a) principal: Carvalho, Angela Maria Grossi de
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: França, Maira Nani, Lopes, Gabriel Henrique de Oliveira
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Informação & Informação
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/informacao/article/view/34847
• topic: Social Networks; Social Media; Information Policies; Information Right; Access to Public Information; Redes Sociales; Medios Sociales; Políticas de Información; Derecho a la Información; Acceso a la Información Pública; Rede Social; Mídias Sociais; Políticas de Informação; Direito à Informação; Acesso à Informação Pública

Introduction: In contemporaneity, political phenomena and social networks (ties) into social media allow us to reflect on how social actors connect to each other, to influence or to relate themselves in society. Objective: Identify Information Science researches contribution on Social Media and Politics topics, covering public policy and manifestation, or protests, or political participation. Methodology: To this end, scientific studies recovered were subjected to bibliometric and chronological content analysis, associating these listed researches to historical facts or current events. Results: The scientific documents have been produced since 2007 and presents an elite group of researchers and epistemic community in formation. The most productive year was 2014, with discussions about role of social media in organization of protest movements, manifestations, political participation, e-government and public campaigns, contributing to the thematic delineation of the area, monitoring of its evolution and its scope. Conclusions: In last ten years, Information Science researches on information, technological and political fields have increased, in its complexity and relevance.