Has the digital environment been democratized?
Digital uses in the non-electoral period of government parties vs. opposition parties in European countries and the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.25029/od.2020.261.19Keywords:
Digital democracy, Government, Opposition, Non-election period, Europe, CPLPAbstract
This article focuses on the digital uses in democracies in Europe and the CPLP of political parties that carry out government functions and the opposition in a non-electoral environment. Under a mixed theoretical and methodological approach, the results show that opposition parties use the participatory paradigm more and government parties use the information paradigm. The most significant differences between the government and the opposition parties lie in the type of content, the actors and the themes. Between Europe and the CPLP, the main differences lie in the objectives implicit to the uses. Democracy reveals trends in digital uses.
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