Digital citizenship and participation through twitter: The case of provincial capital municipalities in Ecuador (2009–2019)

Narcisa Jessenia Medranda Morales; Victoria Dalila Palacios Mieles; Daniel Barredo Ibáñez; Camila Pérez Lagos

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-40690-5_65

Digital citizenship and participation through twitter: The case of provincial capital municipalities in Ecuador (2009–2019)

Narcisa Jessenia Medranda Morales
, Victoria Dalila Palacios Mieles
, Daniel Barredo Ibáñez
, Camila Pérez Lagos

Research Group on Communication Development and Politics (GICODEPO)

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

3 Scopus citations

Abstract

Within the framework of citizen empowerment generated by technological development, social media turn out to be a powerful tool of communication and socialization. That is the reason why governmental entities have turned their look towards the unlimited possibilities that some virtual platforms and applications offer. In that sense, this article provides a general vision regarding participation routines of Ecuadorian users through Twitter. To this goal, a monitoring process has been carried out over eight main municipalities in this Andean republic. The results indicate that users actively interact on Twitter accounts belonging to public municipal organizations, spreading information through retweet. Thus, this social network has become an interesting citizen discussion space promoting a larger democratic evolution.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Information Technology and Systems - Proceedings of ICITS 2020
Editors	Álvaro Rocha, Carlos Ferrás, Carlos Enrique Montenegro Marin, Víctor Hugo Medina García
Publisher	Springer
Pages	681-692
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Print)	9783030406899
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40690-5_65
State	Published - 1 Jan 2020
Event	International Conference on Information Technology and Systems, ICITS 2020 - Bogota, Colombia Duration: 5 Feb 2020 → 7 Feb 2020

Publication series

Name	Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
Volume	1137 AISC
ISSN (Print)	2194-5357
ISSN (Electronic)	2194-5365

Conference

Conference	International Conference on Information Technology and Systems, ICITS 2020
Country/Territory	Colombia
City	Bogota
Period	5/02/20 → 7/02/20

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Publisher Copyright:
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020.

Keywords

Content analysis
Digital citizenship
Politics
Social networks
Twitter

CACES Knowledge Areas

123A Journalism and Communication

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Morales, N. J. M., Mieles, V. D. P., Ibáñez, D. B., & Lagos, C. P. (2020). Digital citizenship and participation through twitter: The case of provincial capital municipalities in Ecuador (2009–2019). In Á. Rocha, C. Ferrás, C. E. Montenegro Marin, & V. H. Medina García (Eds.), Information Technology and Systems - Proceedings of ICITS 2020 (pp. 681-692). (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing; Vol. 1137 AISC). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40690-5_65

Morales, Narcisa Jessenia Medranda ; Mieles, Victoria Dalila Palacios ; Ibáñez, Daniel Barredo et al. / Digital citizenship and participation through twitter : The case of provincial capital municipalities in Ecuador (2009–2019). Information Technology and Systems - Proceedings of ICITS 2020. editor / Álvaro Rocha ; Carlos Ferrás ; Carlos Enrique Montenegro Marin ; Víctor Hugo Medina García. Springer, 2020. pp. 681-692 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing).

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Morales, NJM, Mieles, VDP, Ibáñez, DB & Lagos, CP 2020, Digital citizenship and participation through twitter: The case of provincial capital municipalities in Ecuador (2009–2019). in Á Rocha, C Ferrás, CE Montenegro Marin & VH Medina García (eds), Information Technology and Systems - Proceedings of ICITS 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol. 1137 AISC, Springer, pp. 681-692, International Conference on Information Technology and Systems, ICITS 2020, Bogota, Colombia, 5/02/20. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40690-5_65

Digital citizenship and participation through twitter: The case of provincial capital municipalities in Ecuador (2009–2019). / Morales, Narcisa Jessenia Medranda; Mieles, Victoria Dalila Palacios; Ibáñez, Daniel Barredo et al.
Information Technology and Systems - Proceedings of ICITS 2020. ed. / Álvaro Rocha; Carlos Ferrás; Carlos Enrique Montenegro Marin; Víctor Hugo Medina García. Springer, 2020. p. 681-692 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing; Vol. 1137 AISC).

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Morales NJM, Mieles VDP, Ibáñez DB, Lagos CP. Digital citizenship and participation through twitter: The case of provincial capital municipalities in Ecuador (2009–2019). In Rocha Á, Ferrás C, Montenegro Marin CE, Medina García VH, editors, Information Technology and Systems - Proceedings of ICITS 2020. Springer. 2020. p. 681-692. (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing). doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-40690-5_65

Digital citizenship and participation through twitter: The case of provincial capital municipalities in Ecuador (2009–2019)

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Qualitative and Quantitative Methodologies for the Treatment of Public Information in the Municipalities of Ecuador

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