Technology, social networks, politics and journalism: Plurality or boomerang effect?

This paper provides a qualitative analysis, based on interviews, about the experiences of users in their access to online political information. Along with the Internet, social networks have set a new space not only of political protests and callings, but also of access to information, thus creating a new personal agenda setting, enhanced by interactivity. As a result, social networks represent a new educational channel for part of the population that uses this option for information, and represent a new role in media literacy. The results of this exploratory study show lines of research and materialize seventeen information and communications technologies (ICTs) practices in politics and journalism, as well as a weakening of the media malaise, facing the promotion of citizen participation.