La campaña peruana en Twitter. Análisis de la polarización afectiva durante la segunda vuelta de las elecciones generales 2021

Juan Ponte Torrel

doi:10.7764/cdi.53.49539

Authors

Juan Ponte Torrel Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7764/cdi.53.49539

Keywords:

electoral campaigns, Twitter, feelings, polarization, presidential elections, Peru

Abstract

Twitter is one of the digital spaces that generates great attraction for political candidates during elections due to its usefulness to disseminate proposals and generate conjunctural debates. This research aims to analyze the affective polarization in feelings and emotions generated by the mentions of the presidential candidates –Pedro Castillo and Keiko Fujimori– during the second round of the 2021 general elections in Peru. The data source prepared by the Monitoring of Social Networks of the National Directorate of Education and Citizen Civic Training of the National Elections Jury was used. A total of 1,202,297 tweets were analyzed with R statistical software. Results show that affective polarization occurs in the extreme feelings of users towards the candidates, and the emotional loads even tend to temporary instability of support or rejection.

Author Biography

Juan Ponte Torrel, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos

Political scientist from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Lima, Peru) and master's degree in Applied Statistics from the Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina (Lima, Peru). Researcher in Quantitative Methodologies in the Research Team of the National Directorate of Citizen Education and Civic Training (DNEF) of the National Elections Jury (JNE). He has published, with the seal of the Editorial Fund of the JNE, in co-authorship with Henry Ayala and Penélope Brou, the book An extraordinary election. Analysis of the Extraordinary Congressional Elections 2020 (2021).

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