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<journal-id>2182-3030</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[CIDADES, Comunidades e Territórios]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[CIDADES]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>2182-3030</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[DINÂMIA'CET-IUL, Centro de Estudos sobre a Mudança Socioeconómica e o Território]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S2182-30302025000200003</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15847/cct.38473</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Technopower on Twitter platform]]></article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Egler]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Tamara Tania Cohen]]></given-names>
</name>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Pereira]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Thiago Costa]]></given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Salmenton]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Juan Manuel]]></given-names>
</name>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Cohen]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Diana Micheline]]></given-names>
</name>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Instituto de Pesquisa e Planejamento Urbano e Regional ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Brazil</country>
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<aff id="Af2">
<institution><![CDATA[,Retired researcher  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Brazil</country>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>07</month>
<year>2025</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>07</month>
<year>2025</year>
</pub-date>
<numero>49</numero>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>13</lpage>
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<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S2182-30302025000200003&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S2182-30302025000200003&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S2182-30302025000200003&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract The objective is to analyze the narratives flowing on Big Tech platforms that form social networks and define collective subjectivities. Therefore, research was carried out on the Twitter Platform with the aim of identifying its technical and social functioning, the formation of technological networks, the enunciation of narratives associated with political principles in the context of the elections for the Presidency of the Republic of Brazil, in 2022. The methodology developed in this study, as shown in this article, produces graphs that represent networks, and quantitative data on influencers, their narratives, tweets and retweets. To analyze the technopolitical network, it was necessary to examine two items. Firstly, the influencers&#8217; physical dimension, including technical equipment, and mathematical data. Secondly, the social dimension involves the formation of techno-political networks associated with certain political events. To analyze how the polarization of society occurred, between the extreme authoritarian side and the democratic left side. Both fields produce a conflict associated with two conceptions of the world being carried out in a rhizomatic way in the world space. The analysis of technopolitical networks is urgent to illuminate public regulatory policies, in protection of democratic institutions and to focus on the formulation and implementation of public policies for the regulation of socio-technical networks, to place limits on the exercise of information technology corporations, their platforms and techno-political networks that are destroying the foundations of democracy.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="pt"><p><![CDATA[Resumo O objetivo é analisar as narrativas que fluem nas plataformas das Big Techs que formam redes sociais e definem subjetividades coletivas. Para tanto, foi realizada uma pesquisa na Plataforma Twitter com o objetivo de identificar seu funcionamento técnico e social, a formação de redes tecnológicas, a enunciação de narrativas associadas a princípios políticos no contexto das eleições para a Presidência da República do Brasil, em 2022. A metodologia desenvolvida neste estudo, como demonstrado neste artigo, produz grafos que representam redes e dados quantitativos sobre influenciadores, suas narrativas, tweets e retuítes. Para analisar a rede tecnopolítica, foi necessário examinar dois itens. Primeiramente, a dimensão física dos influenciadores, incluindo equipamentos técnicos, e dados matemáticos. Em segundo lugar, a dimensão social envolve a formação de redes tecnopolíticas associadas a determinados eventos políticos. Analisar como ocorreu a polarização da sociedade, entre o lado autoritário extremo e a esquerda democrática. Ambos os campos produzem um conflito associado a duas concepções de mundo sendo realizadas de forma rizomática no espaço mundial. A análise das redes tecnopolíticas é urgente para iluminar as políticas públicas de regulação, em proteção das instituições democráticas e para focar na formulação e implementação de políticas públicas de regulação das redes sociotécnicas, para colocar limites ao exercício das corporações de tecnologia da informação, suas plataformas e redes tecnopolíticas que estão destruindo os fundamentos da democracia.]]></p></abstract>
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