Biblioteca Digital de VanguardiaNew media in political campaign. The case of Madrid regional elections in 2021 on TikTok
Due to the television revolution and the arrival of social networks, political communication has undergonea great transformation, both in Spain and in the rest of the world. The use that parties makeof their corporative profiles on social networks is increasingly tending towards spectacularization a...
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Universidad Politécnica Salesiana (Ecuador)
2022
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| Acceso en línea: | https://universitas.ups.edu.ec/index.php/universitas/article/view/36.2022.09 |
| Sumario: | Due to the television revolution and the arrival of social networks, political communication has undergonea great transformation, both in Spain and in the rest of the world. The use that parties makeof their corporative profiles on social networks is increasingly tending towards spectacularization andtrivialization of content. TikTok has been the latest platform to burst on the political, media and electoralchessboard. This research explores the role that this social network plays in current political communication,as well as the possibilities it offers for so-called spectacularization and the degree of professionalizationwith which the different formations work. The publications made by the candidate parties duringthe campaign and pre-campaign periods of the Madrid 2021 regional elections were taken as sample.This electoral appointment was the first in which TikTok becomes part of the communication strategies.The content analysis is combined through triangulation with in-depth interviews with the different politicalgroups. The results show an experimental use of TikTok as an electoral tool, a strong commitment toconfrontation and trivialization of messages and a better audience response to tendentious and spectacularelements. However, the use of this app remains still unprofessionalized and is not really decisive:what happens on TikTok stays on TikTok. |
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