Twitteo, ¿luego resisto? Movilización popular y redes sociales en Chile: La marea roja de Chiloé (2016)

Abstract

The present study aims to explore the relation between popular mobilization and social media use, from a critical perspective. In order to achieve this objective, Twitter’s coverage about the red tide conflict in Chiloe, an island in the south of Chile, in April 2016 is analyzed. The findings suggest that social media use, in this case study, is mostly directed at sharing information rather than promoting or instructing Twitter users to perform concrete political actions.