Social media in a social mobilisation – a shift in Guatemala : A research on how #RenunciaYa influenced a whole nation

2017

Master's thesis Development management UT503 - University of Agder 2017 This research look at the role social media played in a political situation in Guatemala in 2015. Both the President and the Vice-President are now in jail because of a corruption scandal named “la linea”, and because of the joint pressure from #RenunciaYa, university students, newspapers and international government officials. It explores how social media was used to create a social mobilisation by the help of a civic organisation named #RenunciaYa. In addition to looking at social media in social mobilisation, the role of the students and the difference between students at private universities and public universities …