As mídias sociais nas eleições 2012 no Brasil

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cada biênio, muitos analistas de mídias sociais e cientistas políticos ficam aguardando um "boom" das mídias sociais online no Brasil, semelhante ao que ajudou na eleição de Barack Obama há quatro anos nos Eua. No entanto, em que pese o cenário tupiniquim ser ainda diverso do americano, é forçoso afirmar que já não há como imaginar uma eleição no Brasil sem a Internet e suas diversas mídias, como também que a exigência que se pretendeu dar por aqui à força delas, mascara o real alcance que já têm. [cohttp://terramagazine.terra.com.br/emersondamasceno/blog/2012/10/30/as-midias-sociais-nas-eleicoes-2012/ntinua..]

Pew: Event: Politics in a Networked Era

If you’re in the Washington area this Thursday evening, join us for a special event at the Pew Research Center with Pew Internet founder and director Lee Rainie. With Election Day around the corner, Rainie will discuss with Pew Research Center President Andrew Kohut how politics has changed in an era of perpetual connectedness. Rainie will draw upon the latest research from Pew Internet and insights from his new book, Networked: The New Social Operating System, in exploring how the rise of the internet, cellphones and social media have reshaped campaigns and voter engagement with them. More generally, Rainie will trace how digital technology has helped change the social and political life of “networked individuals” by allowing people to act in large, loosely knit social networks.

PEW: Presidential Campaign Donations in the Digital Age

In total, 13% of all adults have made a contribution to one of the presidential candidates in this year’s election, and we presented these donors with a series of follow-up questions asking them how they made their contributions. Their answers indicate that offline methods (such as donating in person or via regular mail) remain the most common way that Americans contribute to political campaigns, but that online contributions represent a significant portion of the total. At the moment, donations directly from cell phones make up only a small component of the political giving universe.

Read or download the full report: http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/Election-2012-Donations.aspx