Os usos e apropriações do Twitter no processo de construção das notícias: o caso das eleições presidenciais de 2010

Abstract

The 2010 elections entered into the history of political communication as the first in which candidates could use other digital platforms that were not websites. The content published by politicians, press assistants and Internet users on social networks ended up being appropriate and transformed in news by the press. This research wishes to better understand how the internet, and more specifically the Twitter, has interfered and changed the production mode in the journalistic coverage of the elections and what were it s effects on published reports. We will try to analyze how newspapers "Folha de S.Paulo" and "O Globo" used Twitter posts in coverage of the presidential campaign. Our intention is to value if these newspapers tried to capture the behavior of Internet users on microblog or only have reproduced tweets from candidates, press assistants and other notable sources. We also intend to examine characteristics of the posts published in these papers and to create categories to identify which issues mentioned in the microblog attracted interest of press.