This article analyzes the political communication applied to the social network TikTok, digital scenario of electoral intervention in the inter-party consultations for the Colombian presidency 2022; for this purpose, a review of 19 TikTok videos that visualize or criticize the proposals of some candidates of the coalitions Equipo por Colombia, Pacto Histórico and Centro Esperanza is presented. During the study, it became evident that the latest social networks, mainly TikTok, had an electoral debut in attracting votes for the presidency, allowing some candidates to incorporate it within the strategies to promote political marketing. Likewise, theoretical models related to TikTok are examined, such as challenge videos, videos with special effects and music videos or montages; also eight categories of videos: video games, choreography or music videos, videos of conventional scenes, funny ...

10 April 2016 will be the presidential election in Peru. The media will cover the activities of the leading candidates and rummage in their resumes. In this process, the press will be tempted to use propaganda techniques, a category traditionally associated with political actors. For example, they may appeal to stereotypes, express their opinion through seemingly independent sources and select facts to build an ideological discourse. For its part the press agents of candidates and political marketing experts are hunting for journalists.

The purpose of this paper is to provide a theoretical approach to the notion of political counter-narrative. Given the novelty of this narrative technique, its causes are first addressed: moral absolutism, affective polarization, informational chaos, uncertainty, and digital tribalism. Then, the counter-narrative is defined as a semantic structure that, regardless of temporality, seeks to destroy the symbolic capital of the adversary. Subsequently, its main features –reactivity, negativity, emotiveness, stereotyping, and permanence– are detailed, as are its functions –linking wills through opposition, drawing clear identity boundaries, being emotionally rewarding, and simplifying reality–. In closing, a review of the main findings is provided, and various lines of research are proposed, such as observing the resonance and application of this technique by citizens and the possibil...