@misc{10481/81603,
year = {2023},
month = {5},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10481/81603},
abstract = {One of the issues facing the field of political behaviour analysis in recent years has been the
transformation of political participation among citizens, in a context of increasing change, profoundly
marked by the spread of a new digital paradigm. Network society has brought with it new forms
of political participation, where different types of participatory citizenship coexist in a process
of increasing interaction which, in turn, creates new morphologies, and where online and offline
modes are reciprocal, generating new patterns of behaviour. Of these different types of participatory
citizenship, that of the disaffected is perhaps among the most important in recent years and, in
particular, since the start of the so-called “Great Recession” around 2008, and the subsequent global
COVID-19 crisis. This recent context can be characterised by a significant increase in political
disaffection, resulting from a loss of trust in institutions and from the constant distancing of a certain
section of the citizenry from politics as a coded punishment of those governments and institutions they
see as ineffective. This paper provides an analysis of citizenship types in Latin America, particularly
that of the disaffected, describing their relationship to the following of political information through
digital media and social networks, and identifying patterns of evolution and development in some
of the trends. Results show that a clear distinction exists between the different types of citizenship
and associated forms of participation, both online and offline, while also describing differences in
both political perceptions and attitudes, and between areas or regions in Latin America. Likewise,
important differences are found according to citizen type in relation to the following of different
social networks, especially among citizens categorised as critical or disaffected},
publisher = {MDPI},
keywords = {Political disaffection},
keywords = {Digital participation},
keywords = {Social Media},
keywords = {Latin America},
title = {Political Disaffection and Digital Political Participation in Latin America: A Comparative Analysis of the Period 2008–2020},
doi = {10.3390/soc13030059},
author = {Cazorla Martín, Ángel and Montabes Pereira, Juan and Hernández Tristán, Mateo Javier},
}