La correlación mutua entre el ciberespacio, la política y lo político. El caso de las elecciones presidenciales mexicanas de 2006, 2012 y 2018

Abstract

Currently, cyberspace and the internet are practically all over the world, even in countries of medium and low development, this penetration capacity has led and has generated substantial changes in the capacities and exercise of power by state and non-state actors, as well as also within society; However, cyberspace itself is conditioned by the political exercise of political entities.

This tension translates into new tools used in old practices or new practices driven by cyberspace and adapted to a specific context and interests.

The case of the federal elections in Mexico over three presidential periods gives an account of the aforementioned relationship, since it shows the symbiosis between cyberspace and the political and social system, with all its technical limitations, its interests behind and a series of political exercise guidelines of Mexico, which coincide with the limitation of options offered by cyberspace.

Also, the outcome in the last federal election (2018), and the conclusion of this paper, shows the non-correlation with the linearity of a possible argument that simplifies the cyberspace-political relationship in the form of “greater capacity and investment in cyberspace = better results or greater ability to determine results ”.