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Social Networks on the Internet: Twitter Coverage of the Exile of the Peruvian Indigenous Leader Alberto Pizango to Nicaragua

Social Networks on the Internet: Twitter Coverage of the Exile of the Peruvian Indigenous Leader Alberto Pizango to Nicaragua

Débora Pereira
Copyright: © 2011 |Pages: 20
ISBN13: 9781609600518|ISBN10: 1609600517|EISBN13: 9781609600532
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-051-8.ch007
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Pereira, Débora. "Social Networks on the Internet: Twitter Coverage of the Exile of the Peruvian Indigenous Leader Alberto Pizango to Nicaragua." ICTs for Mobile and Ubiquitous Urban Infrastructures: Surveillance, Locative Media and Global Networks, edited by Rodrigo J. Firmino, et al., IGI Global, 2011, pp. 108-127. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-051-8.ch007

APA

Pereira, D. (2011). Social Networks on the Internet: Twitter Coverage of the Exile of the Peruvian Indigenous Leader Alberto Pizango to Nicaragua. In R. Firmino, F. Duarte, & C. Ultramari (Eds.), ICTs for Mobile and Ubiquitous Urban Infrastructures: Surveillance, Locative Media and Global Networks (pp. 108-127). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-051-8.ch007

Chicago

Pereira, Débora. "Social Networks on the Internet: Twitter Coverage of the Exile of the Peruvian Indigenous Leader Alberto Pizango to Nicaragua." In ICTs for Mobile and Ubiquitous Urban Infrastructures: Surveillance, Locative Media and Global Networks, edited by Rodrigo J. Firmino, Fabio Duarte, and Clovis Ultramari, 108-127. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2011. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-051-8.ch007

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Abstract

Social Network Analysis – SNA is a hybrid research method used here to systematize a network of relationships around the collective transnational flux of information via the micro-blog service Twitter. The case studied is the exile of Peruvian indigenous leader Alberto Pizango to Nicaragua, and the conflicts between Indians and the military in May and June 2009 in Bagua, in the Amazon. To historically and politically contextualize the object of this case study in the so-called “Network society”, concepts about globalization, ubiquity, and spatial and informational connectivity are employed. The method of Social Network Analysis is described in detail, with attention to the possibilities of visualization and of patterns of connections and identification of ideological values of actors in the network.

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