Political discourse and social networks: CFK tweets in the 2011 election campaign

Abstract

This article presents some research lines already raised in the degree thesis: The construction of the political dimension in the electoral speech of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner through the messages sent by Twitter during the presidential campaign in 2011. This paper pretended to analyze the construction of the political dimension in the speech of Cristina Fernandez through Twitter messages sent during the presidential campaign in 2011. From a discourse analysis of the tweets posted in the mentioned period and based on the social speeches theory conceptualized by Eliseo Verón, this work tried to inquire about the traces of political senders, in this case Argentine President, in the statement and its relationship with recipients’ speech.