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Jul 25, 2018

A day of tweets in the Congress of the Republic of Peru

Posted in Politics, Congressman, Open-Government, Open-Data, Data-Visualization, Data-Journalism

The tweet seems to be the quickest way to communicate any other issue if it is in the case of the public question the same one that has been entrusted to politicians by citizens.

But is it possible to manage the political discourse from the sphere of tweets, re-tweets, hashtag, media, url and others? Do they reach 240 characters to sustain and derive a public debate regarding a specific issue, local, national, international or global?

Do we witness an exacerbation of that second orality that Walter Ong explained in his book the “technology of the written word”? Or is it that we should keep present today more than ever the premise of McLuhan, “the medium is language”?

##Note: In the image, the green points are the congressmen and the red ones, the users. Among them the relationships are established through tweets, re-tweets, hashtag, among others.

Manuel Vargas Alegría is an apprentice of the philosophy of technology to apply it in the design of public policies oriented to education. As such, he works on constructing questions that orient a sense to the tasks of public management as well as private activity. Feel free to contact him if you need help to ask critical questions about the meaning of the existence of technology in your organization, public or private.