Both countries kept their scores in 2010 and 2015 (1 point), but in 2017 have weakened their commitments to a social network such as Facebook, where citizens made comments that —linked could be implemented as consumables on parliamentary discussions and agendas— of inclusion of participation results mediated by social networks in the system or the decision making agenda. 4.4. Evolution of the use of social networks The use of social networks by studied parliaments during the years denotes an increase in 2017 both in the numbers of networks used as well as the numbers of users in every network. The pathway can be understood considering three stages. The first one linked to the shy and scarcely controlled presence of networks (2010) and characterized by two conditions. On one hand, the need to be in social networks marked by the open presence of many contents and comments, although with little impact in users. On the other hand, a denial of the opening of participation spaces through networks, associated to the scarce effective control over its platforms. A second stage, related to the specific of the networks use considering its difficult control and the loss of its utopic framework conceived as public spheres (2015). And a third stage, of consolidation (2017), where an informative strategy is traced with some interaction tools, and that achieves to increase the impact of networks in the number of users. Table 8 shows the evolution of the use of networks for studied parliaments. Table 8. Social networks analyzed by every country of the sample and number of users (2010, 2015 and 2017)* Representative Social Social networks Social networks 2017 Country Chambers networks 2010 2015 Facebook (17672) Senate of the No social Facebook (6407) Twitter (189313) Nation networks found Twitter (74400) YouTube (4435) Instagram (3192) Argentina Facebook (3970) Chamber of No social No social Twitter (6461) Deputies of the networks found networks found YouTube (12364) Nation Instagram (739) Twitter Senate Twitter Twitter (31254) YouTube (116) Instagram (538) Chile Facebook (2825) Honorable Facebook Twitter (108326) Chamber of Twitter (ND) Twitter YouTube (675) Deputies Flickr (36) Facebook (38435) Senate of the Facebook Facebook Twitter (266047) Colombia Republic of Twitter Twitter (205893) YouTube (3498) Colombia LinkedIn LinkedIn (336) Instagram (4229)
Both countries kept their scores in 2010 and 2015 (1 point), but in 2017 have weakened their commitments —linked to a social network such as Facebook, where citizens made comments that could be implemented as consumables on parliamentary discussions and agendas— of inclusion of participation results mediated by social networks in the system or the decision making agenda. 4.4. Evolution of the use of social networks The use of social networks by studied parliaments during the years denotes an increase in 2017 both in the numbers of networks used as well as the numbers of users in every network. The pathway can be understood considering three stages. The first one linked to the shy and scarcely controlled presence of networks (2010) and characterized by two conditions. On one hand, the need to be in social networks marked by the open presence of many contents and comments, although with little impact in users. On the other hand, a denial of the opening of participation spaces through networks, associated to the scarce effective control over its platforms. A second stage, related to the specific of the networks use considering its difficult control and the loss of its utopic framework conceived as public spheres (2015). And a third stage, of consolidation (2017), where an informative strategy is traced with some interaction tools, and that achieves to increase the impact of networks in the number of users. Table 8 shows the evolution of the use of networks for studied parliaments. Table 8. Social networks analyzed by every country of the sample and number of users (2010, 2015 and 2017)* Country Representative Chambers Social networks 2010 Social networks 2015 Social networks 2017 Argentina Senate of the Nation No social networks found Facebook (6407) Twitter (74400) Facebook (17672) Twitter (189313) YouTube (4435) Instagram (3192) Chamber of Deputies of the Nation No social networks found No social networks found Facebook (3970) Twitter (6461) YouTube (12364) Instagram (739) Chile Senate Twitter Twitter (31254) Twitter YouTube (116) Instagram (538) Honorable Chamber of Deputies Facebook Twitter Twitter (ND) Facebook (2825) Twitter (108326) YouTube (675) Flickr (36) Colombia Senate of the Republic of Colombia Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Twitter (205893) LinkedIn (336) Facebook (38435) Twitter (266047) YouTube (3498) Instagram (4229)
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