Victor Sampedro Blanco – “The Digital Public Sphere in Spain (2004-2016). An alternative and counter-hegemonic Public Space?”

On April 4th at 3 pm, Prof. Victor Sampedro Blanco (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid) will present a paper entitled “The Digital Public Sphere in Spain (2004-2016). An alternative and counter-hegemonic Public Space?”.

Victor Sampedro Blanco is Professor of Public Opinion and Political Communication at URJC (Madrid) and Invited Researcher of Communication and Politics (UPF, Barcelona). He has also been a guest lecturer at UFF (Rio de Janeiro), UFBA (Salvador, Brazil), UPF and UAB (Barcelona), Univ. Iberoamericana (Mexico), UCM and UAM (Madrid), PUC Paulo, Brazil). He is Regular Coordinator of the Political Communication Working Groups at the Congresses of the Spanish Political Science Association and founding partner of ACOP (Political Communication Association).

He has written more than ten books on campaigns and elections, new technologies and communication, social and electoral mobilization, collective identities and media, new genres of political information, and numerous articles in journals such as Journal of Communication; Media, Cuture & Society; International Journal of Press and Politics.

News

14/09/2018

Andrea Pirro appointed as new editor of East European Politics

Andrea Pirro has been recently appointed as new editor of the journal East European Politics published by Taylor and Francis.

31/08/2018

Volkswagen foundation Grant 2018 for Manuela Caiani

Manuela Caiani has been awarded the Volkswagen Grant 2018 for the research project Popular Music as a Medium for the Mainstreaming of Populist Ideologies in Europe, that will be directed by Mario Dunkel (University Carl von Ossietzky of Oldenburg, Germany).

30/07/2018

ERC Starting Grant 2018 for Alice Mattoni

Alice Mattoni, Research Fellow at COSMOS and Assistant Professor at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the Scuola Normale Superiore, has been awarded the ERC Starting Grant 2018 for the research project BIT-ACT: Bottom-up initiative and anti-corruption technologies: how citizens use ICTs to fight corruption.

Publications

Journal Article - 2018

New Technologies as a Neglected Social Movement Outcome: The Case of Activism against Animal Experimentation

Manès Weisskircher

Based on novel empirical research, this paper analyzes a crucial and understudied case of a movement pushing for new technologies: the animal rights movement and its efforts to push for alternatives to animal experimentation.

Journal Article - 2018

Mobilizing in transnational contentious spaces: linking relations, emotions and space in migrant activism

Elias Steinhilper

The article illustrates how the transnational spaces most migrants inhabit can be politicized and transformed into particular social formations, for which the term ‘transnational contentious spaces’ is suggested.

Cosmos

The Centre on Social Movement Studies