Wednesday 26 March 2014

Mexican politics in the social space

What does the relationship between political parties look like in Mexico when it comes to online audiences? We wanted to answer this question, therefore we took to analyzing the Facebook activities of various fanpages for the month of January – just like we did earlier this month with Colombian online politics.

The analysis looked into the online dynamics between and amongst the registered political parties in Mexico. Only fanpages were considered, user or group accounts on Facebook were ignored.
 



The examined data covered:
  • 12 356 posts;
  • 239 884 users who liked posts;
  • 18 972 users who commented on posts.

In order to reveal the dynamics amongst and between political parties, we have included the aggregate network of parties indicating the structure of their overlapping audiences, the timeline exposing the activity of their supporters, and a cross-over audience analysis for each analyzed political page.


Click here to download the full January Facebook analysis of Mexican political parties.


Monday 10 March 2014

Our Colombian online politics analysis made the front page of La Republica

What is the relationship between political parties in Colombia in terms of online audience?
This was the first and foremost question of our mini-research.



Our analysis looked into the dynamics of online political audiences in Colombia by examining the January 2014 activities of 118 Facebook fanpages of various political parties. The aim was not to provide a representative analysis, similar to that of the offline polls, but to offer a glimpse into of the different supporters of these parties.

We've only considered fanpages in the study and ignored user or group accounts. The examined data covered 5 835 posts, 60 067 users who liked posts and 4 947 users who commented on posts.

The analysis includes the aggregate network of parties revealing the hidden structures of online supporters between them; the timeline of parties indicating the activity of their supporters; and a cross-over audience analysis for each analyzed political page.

Click here to download the full Colombian online politics analysis.