Comunicação e participação política no facebook: Análise dos comentários em páginas de parlamentares brasileiros

Abstract

Due to their relational and collaborative features and options, social networks as Facebook provide new spaces for political communication and interaction, especially referred to information exchange. This study presents a content categorization for political participation, based on the comments posted on Brazilian representatives. A total of 450 comments on nine north-eastern politicians' official profiles were analysed. The proposed scheme is composed by five categories and 14 subcategories created by a methodological application of the Grounded Theory, according to the literal, organizational, by-user and cultural levels used in the classification planning for social networks monitoring projects.