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The political agenda in an electoral context has multiple supports on which to be built: besides traditional media, social networks have adopted a leading role in the strategies of the parties. The current research analyzes for 28 days the official Twitter accounts of the two main presidential candidates in Argentina, Peru, Ecuador, Honduras and Chile, during the elections held in Latin America in the 2015-2017 period. The thematic agendas of the candidates and the countries are exposed through the use of a quantitative methodology, content analysis and the use of tools such as Python Twint, NVivo and SPSS, whilst Spearman’s Rho coefficient was applied for the extraction of correlations. In conclusion, the absence of a particular digital agenda in Latin America has been inferred, within a coherent thematic behavior through the left-right axis and the national politics.

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The populist phenomenon has acquired great relevance during the last decade. The emergence of new populist actors and the consolidation of the use of social media such as Twitter are transforming the field of political communication. The objective of this paper is to know the agenda set by the leaders of the main European populist political parties on Twitter, as well as the strategy they use and the user interaction achieved. The sample consists of the 2,310 tweets published by the leaders of Podemos, the 5 Stelle Movement, France’s National Front and UKIP during three random time periods. The results show a low degree of thematic fragmentation, the launch of proposals instead of attracting voters, and the existence of a strong negative correlation between the number of published tweets and user interest.

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The populist phenomenon has acquired great relevance during the last decade. The emergence of new populist actors and the consolidation of the use of social media such as Twitter are transforming the field of political communication. The objective of this paper is to know the agenda set by the leaders of the main European populist political parties on Twitter, as well as the strategy they use and the user interaction achieved. The sample consists of the 2,310 tweets published by the leaders of Podemos, the 5 Stelle Movement, France’s National Front and UKIP during three random time periods. The results show a low degree of thematic fragmentation, the launch of proposals instead of attracting voters, and the existence of a strong negative correlation between the number of published tweets and user interest.

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The series of issues for debate which our public representatives consider important is normally referred to as the “political agenda”. This agenda, when compared to the priorities of the media (“media agenda”) and those of the general public (“public” and “private” agendas), is much more difficult to measure. This article uses a methodology to ascertain the thematic break-down of the political agenda based on the analysis of three different scenarios of political communication during the Spanish general elections held in April 2019: the electoral programs of the parties, the use of Twitter and electoral debates. This contribution uses the methodology of content analysis to study the agenda of the main issues in the electoral programs and televised debates in addition to how politicians used the social network Twitter to deal with the agenda issues.

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El objetivo de este estudio es evaluar cómo la prensa digital española aborda las informaciones relativas a la homeopatía. Para llevar a cabo la investigación, se ha desarrollado un análisis de contenido de los artículos publicados sobre homeopatía entre 1 de enero de 2012 y 31 de diciembre de 2016 en los tres diarios digitales de información general y ámbito nacional más leídos: El Mundo, El País y ABC. La búsqueda ha recuperado 115 artículos. Los resultados revelan que la noticia es el género informativo más empleado, prevaleciendo el enfoque de controversia y conflicto como encuadre principal. Se antepone el valor noticia de impacto frente al análisis del fenómeno y de sus riesgos para la salud.

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xtabstractWhen we look at the world around us, we see the physical world and we interpret this physical world. We can view the features of this physical world in several ways. What we can also do, which among other things, distinguishes us from animals, is pretend. Pretend this world is different from what we see; pretend that we are different from what we are. Let’s do so and play some ‘make believe’.