Possible Relationships Between Access to Digital Social Networks and Support for Democracy in Latin America

Geélison Ferreira da Silva, S. Pereira Mencato, Luiz Eduardo de Souza Pinto, Rafael Soares Duarte de Moura

Abstract


This article analyzes the association between internet access through digital social networks, such as Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp, and political attitudes identified by the literature as harmful to democracy. These attitudes include not perceiving democracy as the best form of government, dissatisfaction with democracy, distrust of institutions, and a greater perception of corrupt politicians. The hypothesis is tested that digital social networks favor political attitudes harmful to democracy and thus contribute to its recent crisis, using logistic regression from the Latin American Public Opinion Project database (LAPOP, 2018/2019). The results indicate that digital social networks do not directly compromise the preference for democracy.


Keywords


democracy, Internet, political attitudes, digital social networks, Latin America.

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