Informação política, campanha negativa e eleições: o conteúdo das campanhas presidenciais de 2010 no Twitter

Abstract

This paper saims at present a theoretical discussion concerning the democractic principle of objective rights and rational choice and its intrinsic relation with the provision of public interest type of information, particularly those provi-ded by political campaigns in digital environments. Therefore, messages published by the three 2010 ́s main presidential cam-paigns on Twitter were analyzed concerning the pre-campaign period and the first and the second round of 2010 Brazilian election.