Development of shared methodologies for the analysis of networked political practices

• Grant number: 14/50354-6
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: May 01, 2015
• End date: April 30, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science - Political Behavior
• Agreement: Australian Technology Network of Universities (ATN)
• Principal Investigator: Rosemary Segurado
• Grantee: Rosemary Segurado
• Principal researcher abroad: Jean Burgess
• Institution abroad: Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Sociais. Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Understanding that one of the main characteristics of the new ways of political participation is the use of communication and information technology aiming political engagement, Australia and Brazil cooperation project has the main goal to elaborate a joint methodology to analyze political practices developed in networks. Understanding that the incorporation of digital tools in political processes provides a set of changes on traditional spaces for discussion, on the instances of elaboration and deliberation, allowing the innovation on the ways of the actor’s participation and is necessary theoretical and methodological procedures of interdisciplinary character to cover the complexity of this social-political phenomenon of the contemporaneity. (AU)