Internet e geografia eleitoral: presença online e interatividade em meio aos deputados da Assembleia Legislativa de Minas Gerais

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to study the possible links between the appropriation of digital tools by parliamentarians during their mandates and the geographical and electoral characteristics of their bases. All analytical effort was supported mainly by a database produced between the years 2012 and 2014, whose object was the Legislative Assembly of Minas Gerais 77 state legislators from the 17th legislature (2010 and 2014); this database, specifically shows data of presence, time of use and interactivity of parliamentarians concerned with the citizens. Besides it had the support of a second database powered by information provided by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics GE and by the Parliament in study; this one deals with the number of municipalities in which each legislator received votes and how many votes he received from each of these locations, in order to determine the individual results of each case in the index calculation of geographical variables of dominance and dispersion that once crossed they demarcate behavior profiles according to the literature of the field. The results of the analysis show that there are no examples of parliamentary described by high electoral geographic dispersion among all studied, and that in general the deputies classified as dominant tend to be less embedded in social media than the shared type even in little correlation. The findings of this study suggest that those weak founf correlations in the analyzes represent the particular situation of the studied legislature; in other parliaments the distribution of dominance and dispersion will also be unique, and so their relationship to the use of digital communication as well