New publication in the journal Acta Política: Social media and political parties, a distorted mirror?

A new publication in the journal Acta Política from by Rosa Borge, leader of the CNSC group–Trànsic Centre, and from Joan Balcells and Albert Padró-Solanet, members of the GADE group – DIGIT Centre, everyone from the UOC, entitled A distorted mirror? Party cohesion in political parties’ Twitterspheres. (Open Access) The articles tries to answer the question: The internal crisis of the political parties affect its cohesion in the social network? The investigation is based on the study of follower networks (following-follower) and information dissemination (retweets) formed by a sample of more than 4,000 accounts related to the main Spanish political...