Usos do Big Data em campanhas eleitorais

Abstract

This thesis focuses on the uses that contemporary election campaigns have made of big data, from datificação of information phenomenon and adoption of new practices to achievement of voters derived therefrom. The work begins discussing the information and technology from the Informational Society (Castells).Features then the datificação phenomenon from the availability and use of digital social media and mobile devices. Conceptualizes and features the big data from different theoretical and practical dimensions, presenting the big data impacts on surveillance, monitoring and use of personal information of digital social media environments. Discusses the features of the current election campaigns and the concepts of electoral marketing. Presents election campaigns centered on data, illustrating the example of the American election campaign of Barack Obama 2012. In empirical research investigates how data Brazilian companies work with big data in election campaigns. Search different views of experts on the subject. It is observed directly a Brazilian election campaign in the 2014 election that focuses its strategies on the use of big data. It is considered the big data as a little-used process, but with great expectations, contributing to the targeted and microsegmentadas actions of communication between candidates and voters.