Electoral political communication in the digital age. The 2015 electoral campaign in México City

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Salvador Jose Percastre Mendizabal
Gerardo Luis Dorantes y Aguilar

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With the arrival of the era of information society, there is an academic debate on the impact of ICTs in politics. This work explores a discussion of the conceptual and analytical framework for digital political communication in democracy, which is a starting point and then analyzes the use and presence of different political parties and coalitions on digital social networks during the campaign of 2015 in Mexico City and compares the electoral results of the main political groups, to reach conclusions on the results obtained in the framework of the theoretical discussion. Basic elements for the analysis of the digital context in election campaigns and the role of Information Technology and Communication, Internet, specifically digital media and online social networks are provided.

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Percastre Mendizabal, Salvador Jose, and Gerardo Luis Dorantes y Aguilar. 2016. “Electoral Political Communication in the Digital Age. The 2015 Electoral Campaign in México City”. Vivat Academia. Journal of Communication, no. 137 (December):36-56. https://doi.org/10.15178/va.2016.137.36-56.
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Salvador Jose Percastre Mendizabal, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

José Salvador Percastre Mendizabal: PhD in Communication, line of research: Political Communication, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona. Attached to the Unitat of Investigació in Comunicació Audiovisual, Department of Communication, Campus de la Comunicació-Poblenou UPF. Member of the Latin American Association of Researchers in Election Campaigns, headquartered at the University Research Institute, Ortega y Gasset (Madrid) and the European Communication Research and Association headquartered in Brussels.

Postgraduate stay, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Complutense University of Madrid. Master in Global Development Studies, specialty: Political Science, Autonomous University of Baja California; academic program of master's degree and doctoral degree in research orientation (National Register of Postgraduate Quality, National Council of Science and Technology-Mexico). Diploma course in Political Communication and Public Opinion: Center for Social Studies and Public Opinion (Mexico). Bachelor of Communication Sciences, specialty: Political Communication (Honorable Mention), National Autonomous University of Mexico. He has been a university professor.
ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0002-5947-5102, REDIRIS: salvadorjose.percastre01@estudiant.upf.edu, RESEARCH GATE: researchgate.net/profile/Salvador_Percastre.

Gerardo Luis Dorantes y Aguilar, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). México

Doctor of Political and Social Sciences (UNAM). Doctor of Economics (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes) Paris. Postdoctoral studies at the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico. National researcher professor with a "C" permanent career (FCPyS-UNAM). SNI-1. Visiting Professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Research line: digital political communication. Leader of two university projects for inquiry (PAPIIT and PAPIME) on Digital Democracy. Head of the Research Laboratory on Digital Communication of FCPyS-UNAM.


Recent publications: Groups of power and agenda building in state institutionalization, UAEM, México, 2012; The political participation of the university community in decision making in the UAEM Mexico, 2013; 2012 Elections: Chronicle of an announced conflict, UNAM, Mexico, 2013. Author and co-author of 15 books on political communication. Permanent member of the American Political Science Association; the International Association of Mass Communication Research; LHASA, ALAIC and AMIC.

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