Blogs as means of political communication

Authors

  • Joaquim Paulo Serra UBI

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2238-7714.no.2015.102231

Keywords:

Blogs, Political communication, Agenda-setting, Public sphere

Abstract

The paper analyzes and discusses the role of portuguese blogs as a
means of political communication. In our mediatized societies, political activity
is inseparable from media, which constitute a kind of “media parliament” where
everything is decided before the specifically political decision. It is precisely
this “parliament” that blogs seek to influence and thereby the parliament itself
and governmental action; that is, the main influence of blogs fits in what has
been called intermedia agenda-setting. And to the extent that blogs give voice
to many citizens and voices outside the mainstream media, they can be seen as
representing an extension of the public sphere – even if in some cases they are
used as one more tool of the “politics as usual”.

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Author Biography

  • Joaquim Paulo Serra, UBI
    Doutor em Ciências da Comunicação e Professor Catedrático no Departamento de Comunicação e Artes da UBI, onde também é investigador no Labcom.IFP. É autor dos livros A Informação como Utopia (1998), Informação e Sentido: O Estatuto Epistemológico da Informação (2003) e Manual de Teoria da Comunicação (2008), co-autor do livro Informação e Persuasão na Web (2009) e co-organizador de várias outras obras Email: pserra@ubi.pt

Published

2015-06-17

Issue

Section

DOSSIÊ

How to Cite

Serra, J. P. (2015). Blogs as means of political communication. Novos Olhares, 4(1), 150-164. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2238-7714.no.2015.102231