Andreu Casero-Ripollés

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the old and new elements of Podemos' communication and campaign strategies, focusing on three key fronts: (1) the role of communication, (2) mediatization of politics, and (3) use of digital media.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the role of websites and social networks in the online organization of political activism and analyzed the relationships established between the conventional media on the one hand and activists on the other.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the structure of issues and the functions of messages circulated by a populist party in order to determine the presence and incidence of this style's main components, based on a quantitative analysis of the content of the Twitter profiles of the Spanish political party Podemos and its leader Pablo Iglesias, during the 2016 Spanish elections.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe, differentiate, and classify the various forms that monitoring can take in current democracies, including governmental monitoring, shared monitoring, and civic monitoring, focusing on the last by specifying watchdog function, extraction and filtration of secret information, expansion of issues through alternative journalism, and extension of representation beyond parliaments.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyse the strategies and communicative practices developed by political activists on social media in the Spanish context, and reveal that the web 2.0 offers numerous potential for political activism but also sets limits to their action.