In face of public discourses about the negative effects that social media might have on
democracy in Latin America, this article provides a qualitative assessment of existing …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between social media use
and protest participation in Latin America. It advances two questions. First, does social …

More and more, political life in Latin America is playing out on social media. What are the
implications for democracy? Recent elections in Argentina, Brazil, El Salvador, and Mexico …

Slowly approaching the second quarter of the 21st century, research on social media and its
effects over democracy has quickly permeated across various fields in social sciences …

The creation of new forms of digital social media during the first decade of the 21st century
has transformed the ways in which many people communicate and share information …

Recent studies have shown a positive link between frequency of social media use and
political participation. However, there has been no clear elaboration of how using social …

Numerous studies have examined the uses of social media for citizen engagement,
concluding that they act as effective platforms for developing civic skills, promoting bridging …

In this article, we explore the relationship between social media use and participation in
protests in Chile. In October 2019, Chile faced the most massive protests since the country's …

Social media, as a subaltern public sphere (Fraser, 1990), have a democratic function in
providing an alternative platform for minorities and marginalized to defy mainstream …

American social media platforms can affect the political systems of different states in varying
ways. The effect varies both between and within democratic and authoritarian states and …