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.

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Despite theoretical commonalities, very little empirical research has focused on far-right “movement parties” as collective actors operating both in the protest and the electoral arenas. The article redresses this inconsistency by exploring the organizational and strategic configuration of two far-right collective actors—the Hungarian Jobbik and the Italian CasaPound.

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Political Strategies and Social Movements in Latin America. The Zapatistas and Bolivian Cocaleros

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Cosmos

The Centre on Social Movement Studies