El ecosistema app en las elecciones estadounidenses de 2020: entre la información y el politainment

Abstract

This article analyzes the contribution of mobile device applications to political discourse in the US presidential election between Joe Biden and Donald Trump in 2020. The sample consisted of 101 applications (apps) and the analysis was based on a qualitative methodology that examined the popularity and discourse features of these apps. The results reflect a wide range of developments that oscillate between commercial interest and a form of blurred political engagement located somewhere across entertainment, parody and virality.

Games as Political Actors in Digital Journalism

“…This "significative break," in Bogost's terms, intensified since the 2015 US presidential election when a wide range of newsgames appeared on mobile devices, "becoming an integral part of political discourse strategies" where "the boundaries between satire, humor, and primitive insult are blurred" (Meier, 2018, p. 431). This build-up of the political sphere in the mobile ecosystem has been developed in recent research about politicians (Quevedo-Redondo et al, 2021) and political processes (Gil-Torres et al, 2022).…”