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Espiral (Guadalajara)
Print version ISSN 1665-0565
Abstract
TORRES NABEL, Luis César. Dissemination of conspiring beliefs in the blogosphere: The presidential election of 2006. Espiral (Guadalaj.) [online]. 2011, vol.18, n.50, pp.141-182. ISSN 1665-0565.
This article explains some findings on the belief that in the presidential election of 2006 in Mexico an electoral fraud was committed and that was the basis of impeachments on part of the officially losing parties and of a whole movement of resistance to the elected government. The raw materials of the findings are informative, based on the beliefs published in newspaper of national circulation, radio broadcasts and mainly in the personal electronic binnacle network (blogs) known as blogosphere. The article proposes an approach to the keys of the dissemination in the blogosphere of these beliefs and the method of doing it is by means of the social network analysis.
Keywords : conspiring beliefs; blogosphere; electoral processes; social network analysis.