La red como espacio para la militancia política: tecnología y participación en campaña electoral

Combining participatory action research and emerging ways of collective action to promote institutional change toward social commitment: Groundings, strategies, and implications of an experience

“…These activists develop flexible and intermittent actions that may, in turn, be in a state of "latency" in those periods when collective action is not perceived as possible or necessary. In this way, participation would be irregular and would shift between manifest and latent modes, in which the autonomy of the citizenry to enter and exit in the participatory processes is clear (Pudal, 2011;Sánchez Duarte, 2016). This allows collaborating punctually with concrete proposals, even without a specific commitment, crossing the boundaries of various movements and causes (Subirats, 2015a(Subirats, , 2015b.…”

“…In turn, both the philosophy of the movements themselves and the demands of the context promote the alternation of different people in the roles of dynamization and organization. The organization of collective action does not depend on specific actors, nor on the participation of a particular group of persons; on the contrary, it is organized conjointly in temporary situations that require it, with the resources of the individuals who are present (Coodinadora La Uni en La Calle, 2013;Sánchez Duarte, 2016).…”

Polarization and Spectacle in the Spanish Political Talk Show ‘La Sexta Noche’ During the 2019 European Elections

“…We must associate this phenomenon with the process of re-politicization that Spanish society has undergone, or a good part of it, due to the economic crisis and the cases of corruption that have spilled over from the main political parties. This growing collective awareness took shape in 2011 with the "15M" movement, when many citizens occupied the main cities' squares in a way analogous to similar experiences of citizens' emancipation occurring in other parts of the world such as the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street (Sánchez-Duarte, 2016). This willingness from citizens to actively participate in the public sphere would not have happened without the emergence of social media, especially Facebook and Twitter, as instruments of mass communication thanks to their horizontal nature and capacity for mobilization.…”

Historia, evolución, audiencia y agenda temática de los debates electorales televisados en España dentro del contexto europeo

“…La política y el contexto español actual, marcado por la ruptura del bipartidismo y el auge nuevos líderes y estrategias de comunicación política en red (Casero-Ripollés, Feenstra y Tormey, 2016; Sánchez Duarte, 2016;Del Olmo y Ruiz, 2016;Rodríguez Andrés, 2016) posicionan el debate como una herramienta clave, tanto para partidos políticos como para la sociedad civil, y un espacio audiovisual ideal para ejercer la democracia de nuestros días.…”