This study observes two relevant issues in today's media ecosystem: incivility in online news comments and media bias during election periods. By analyzing 84 stories and 4670 comments published during the 2017 presidential ...

Freedom of expression is a fundamental right that allows a person to convey their thoughts on various aspects of their lives, including politics. The practice of this fundamental right lays the foundations of a democratic ...

Through the application of machine learning techniques, this paper aims to estimate the importance of messages with ideological load during the elections held in Spain on May 24th, 2015 posted by Twitter’s users, as well ...

This research analyzes the flux of content and narrative axis that support the lack of trust on the Brazilian electoral system. The study is based on a corpus of 1,426,687 posts published on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter ...

This paper analyzes the role of social media in electoral processes and contemporary political life. We analyze Costa Rica’s 2018 presidential election from an agenda-setting perspective, studying the media, the political ...

Throughout the last years, the Internet has become an important tool and its use it has been increasing. This use reached the elections even though. Analyzing which relations between mass media and elections and, then, ...