Twitter como herramienta de comunicación científica en España: principales agentes y redes de comunicación
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The study of the main agents, communication
networks and information flows on Twitter
is an emerging research topic. It has been
applied in areas such as political communication,
sports or tourism, but not in science
communication. The present work is focused
on detecting and measuring the main agents
and communication networks about science
on Twitter through the Network Theory. The
109 personal and institutional users who are
acting as science influencers in Spain are
identified. This network presents itself as a
stable and compact community. The most
productive profiles are the personal ones,
which indicates that the activity on Twitter
depends more on an interest and an individual
commitment than on having a communication
team. A use of Twitter is detected, not
so much focused on the diffusion of contents
and opinions on science, but rather on the
promotion of products and events of dissemination.
A restricted analysis of the hashtags
has made possible to verify the strong link between the tweets and the national and
international science news. It also shows the
special interest that Atapuerca arouses in the
conversations about science on Twitter in
Spain