“Tamo junto?” Parlamentares e mídias sociais: uma tipologia dos padrões de atuação de deputados federais no facebook

Abstract

This article aims to develop a typology about the appropriation that federal congressmen make on Facebook, and the kind of interrelation they have developed with citizens, which we label as the cyber base. Two indexes were constructed: the Parliamentary Activation Index and the Cyber-Base Activation Index. They were elaborated by analysing the posts and comments received by 20 Federal congressmen on their Facebook during one week. The main conclusion is that there are four types of patterns about the parliamentarians’ relationship with the cyber base in this social media: 1) pages with high political performance; 2) pages with medium political performance in which only the parliamentarian activates it; 3) pages with medium political performance in which only the cyber base activates it and 4) pages with low political performance. This study contributes to the understanding of how the process of interconnection between representatives and represented mediated by Facebook, takes place.