Newspapers and Elections: An Empirical Study on the Relationship Bet Ween Electoral Interest and Newspapers in Brazil (2004-2014)

  • Thiago Perez Bernardes de Moraes Universidad Argentina John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Resumen

The media play a key role in democracies, providing elements so that the professional politicians can be inspected and also by providing elements for voters to form their electoral decision. In our study we aim to assess whether in Brazil there is some correlation between the electoral interest and the interest in newspapers. We developed two frequencies of the Beta type on Google Trends, one for the topic newspaper and another for the topic election for a period of 10 years, from 2004 to 2014. Our results show that there is a strong positive correlation between these two tracks of interest (r=0,213, p <0,001), indicating that the voter during election campaigns, searches the newspapers to be informed and make their decision.

Biografía del autor/a

Thiago Perez Bernardes de Moraes, Universidad Argentina John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Doutor em Psicologia Social pela Universidad Argentina John Fitzgerald Kennedy e Docente no Centro Universitário Campos de Andrade, Curitiba (PR), Brasil
Publicado
2016-08-03
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