Rhetoric, Political Ideology and the Peace Process in Colombia: A Twitter® Analysis

Barreto, Idaly; Medina-Arboleda, Iván Felipe; Zambrano-Hernández, Sonia; Cameselle, José Manuel Sabucedo; Blanco-Abarca, Amalio; Lair, Eric

doi:10.1080/1057610x.2019.1615256

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“…The ethos of conflict is justifying belief that society develops in a violent conflict, to adapt to hostile conditions. When the conflict is of long duration and intensity, as in the Colombian case, an ethos is configured as a transversal axis of social life (Barreto-Galeano et al, 2019; Bar-Tal, 1998, 2000) that allows them to survive in the midst of highly stressful conditions (Bar-Tal, 2000; Lavi et al, 2014). Some beliefs contained in the ethos of the conflict are as follows: (a) justification of goals of the endo-group; (b) personal security and national survival; (c) delegitimization and dehumanization of opponents; (d) positive collective self-esteem with an ethnocentric tendency; (e) victimization of the endo-group that presents itself as the victim of the conflict; (f) patriotism that reflects attachment to the country through loyalty, care, and sacrifice; (g) unity focused on joining forces in the face of an external threat; and (h) peace as the ultimate goal of society (Bar-Tal, 2000, 2007, 2013; Bar-Tal et al, 2012).…”

Section: Intractable Conflictsmentioning

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Unfreezing of the conflict due to the peace agreement with FARC–EP in Colombia: Signature (2016) and implementation (2018).

Revelo¹,

Barreto²

2022

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

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The signing of the peace agreement between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (FARC–EP) guerrilla in 2016 symbolized a de-escalation of the conflict. But, in addition to the political will of the parties previously in conflict, it is necessary to transform the psychosocial infrastructure of the culture of conflict. To analyze this dynamic, beliefs and emotions that constitute barriers to peace, and those that allow for an unfreezing, were studied in narratives of 1,231 Colombians at two different moments in time: the signing of the agreement in 2016, and its implementation in 2018. The results show the following: (a) an unfreezing during the signing, through instigating and mediating beliefs, (b) presence of conflict ethos in a differentiated way during the two moments, (c) change in the language of the hindering beliefs, according to dominant political narratives of each moment, and (d) tendency to freeze during implementation, supported by hindering beliefs, based on the context of social and political polarization.

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Section: Intractable Conflictsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Unfreezing of the conflict due to the peace agreement with FARC–EP in Colombia: Signature (2016) and implementation (2018).

Revelo¹,

Barreto²

2022

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

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“…Therefore, political communication on Twitter has been used to make normative claims that justify politicians' ideological positions (Jakob, 2020); and to undermine institutional trust through the use of derogatory language toward the media and political opponents in Trump's political campaign (Ross and Rivers, 2018). Similarly, authoritarian regimes use social media to discredit the opposition in Azerbaijan (Pearce, 2015), for glorifying politicians in power and denigrating their adversaries in Pakistan (Masroor et al, 2019), and for delegitimizing political adversaries and gaining support of military interventions in Colombia (Barreto-Galeano et al, 2019).…”

Section: Political Discourse Social Media and Ideologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Political discourses, ideologies, and online coalitions in the Brazilian Congress on Twitter during 2019

García-Sánchez¹,

Benetti²,

Higa³

et al. 2021

New Media & Society

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The aim of this research is to describe the pattern of interactions of Brazilian legislators on Twitter during 2019 in the construction of political discourses. Based on 20,076 replies during 2019, posted on Twitter by 514 Brazilian legislators, we conducted descriptive analysis of legislators’ Twitter profiles, social network analyses from their interactions, and content analysis of the messages. We found that (1) there are large disparities between legislators in the use of Twitter; (2) the pattern of interactions depicted five clusters defined by political affinities; (3) each cluster had different features regarding their composition and impact; (4) the centrality of the legislators within the network was positively associated with public endorsement on Twitter; and (5) the topics of messages within the clusters reinforce discourses aligned to political ideologies. We argue that the pattern of interactions on Twitter allows to identify online coalitions that reinforce particular discourses within the Brazilian parliament.

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“…Utilizando el modelo de Barreto-Galeano et al (2019), se clasificaron los actores en diferentes niveles, identificando cuatro niveles diferentes (véase Tabla 1). En el primer nivel encontramos a la sociedad (56.06%), donde se ubican principalmente ciudadanos y organizaciones privadas (relacionadas con la educación y la salud).…”

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Fact-checking on Twitter: An analysis of the hashtag #StopBulos

Lobato¹,

Velandia-Morales

Rodríguez

et al. 2021

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The fact-checking is an important tool to improve the quality of the information that circulates in virtual networks. Although there are different fact-checking verification agencies, we also found some more informal strategies such as the use of the hashtag #Stopbulos. Thus, this research aims to characterize the #StopBulos hashtag on Twitter as a way to verify information and control the spread of fake news. The results showed that there was diversity among users and the themes of the tweets that included this hashtag, while the main function was to deny fake news. However, it was found that those who achieved greater dissemination were the users with the largest number of followers and institutional character. The implications of using the #StopBulos hashtag as a tool to identify false information on social networks are discussed. Keywords: fake news, post-truth, post-news, social media, network societies

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Rhetoric, Political Ideology and the Peace Process in Colombia: A Twitter® Analysis

Abstract: Análisis del discursoen torno a los diálogos de paz 2

Cited by 11 publications

References 3 publications

Unfreezing of the conflict due to the peace agreement with FARC–EP in Colombia: Signature (2016) and implementation (2018).

Unfreezing of the conflict due to the peace agreement with FARC–EP in Colombia: Signature (2016) and implementation (2018).

Political discourses, ideologies, and online coalitions in the Brazilian Congress on Twitter during 2019

Fact-checking on Twitter: An analysis of the hashtag #StopBulos

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