Camilo Cristancho

• PhD
• PostDoc Position at University of Barcelona

Los grupos de interés están teniendo un rol fundamental en la resolución de los problemas generados por la pandemia COVID-19 porque abordan múltiples asuntos y representan a los grupos sociales en torno a un reto social sin precedentes. Múltiples organizaciones expresan cada día las preocupaciones y demandas de sus constituyentes, forjando de esta...

Media attention is a key political resource for protesters. This implies that journalists are a crucial audience protesters seek to appeal to. We study to what extent features of protest, of journalists and of news organizations, affect journalists' news judgment. We exposed 78 Spanish journalists to vignettes of asylum seeker protests. Four featur...

This article explores the conditions under which female MPs are more likely than male MPs to participate in political debates relating to a range of issues. Building on descriptive representation theory and parliamentary behaviour studies, we examine how the effect of the number of women in parliament, and women's access to leadership positions, on...

Whether people live in echo-chambers when they consume political information online has been the subject of much academic and public debate. This article contributes to this debate combining survey and web-tracking online data from Spain, a country known for its high political parallelism. We find that users spend more time in outlets of their poli...

The aim of this Special Issue is to offer new systematic analyses on European alternative (non)economic solidarity practices since the global financial crisis, that have attracted limited media and scholarly attention. Its seven articles are devoted to multidimensional analyses providing complementary perspectives on alternative action organization...

Solidarity alternatives have emerged as the response of organized social activists to periods of economic hardship all over the world, in different times. This article explores to what extent such activities have emerged across European regions following the financial crisis of 2008. Research has addressed the relationship between the economic cont...

To what extent does the economic crisis affect support for political protest? Since the outburst of the financial crisis in 2008 many protests have been mobilized against national governments and their austerity policies. In some countries, these actions were described in the media as having little support among the general public, while elsewhere...

This chapter describes framing processes of the 15M or Indignados Movement in Spain. We explore the framing processes that underlie mobilization in social media from a framing perspective. Dynamic network analysis of tweets referring to the Indignados from May 2011 and during the following events in 2012 and 2013 provides a description of framing p...

Anti-austerity protest in Spain can be understood in a broad context where the economic crisis evolved in parallel to a political crisis. The study of the political consequences of the economic crisis is currently a relevant topic in Spain concerning the mobilization potential of grievances (Muñoz et al. 2014, Perez-Nievas et al. 2013) and partisan...

En la primavera de 2011 los periodistas se sorprendieron al intentar contactar sin éxito, como en una invasión extraterrestre, con el líder de un contrincante político inesperado y sin precedentes. “Las revoluciones de Facebook” habían llegado, y su naturaleza sin líderes es aún un misterio sin resolver que las ciencias sociales intentan solucionar...

In the spring of 2011 journalists were surprised as they fruitlessly intended to contact, as in an extra-terrestrial invasion, with the leader of an unexpected and unprecedented political challenger. “The Facebook revolutions” had arrived, and their leaderless nature is still an unresolved mystery to which the social sciences intend to contribute....

In this paper we analyze the implications of emerging mobilization patterns based on intensive use of social media and loose organizational affiliation. Based on protest surveys and organizational data for 72 demonstrations from 8 European countries that took place between December 2009 and June 2012, we address three questions. First we assess the...

The 15M demonstration (the origin of the indignados movement in Spain and the seed of the occupy mobilizations) presents some outstanding characteristics that defy the established principles of the collective action paradigm. This article develops some observable implications of the concept of connective action and tests them against the case of th...

In this article, we argue that there is an element of rituality in all political demonstrations. This rituality can be either primarily oriented toward the past and designed to consolidate the configuration of political power-hence official-or oriented towards the future and focused on challenging existing power structures-hence oppositional. We ap...

En este artículo se analiza la exposición a información política a través de Internet, sus condicionantes y algunas de sus potenciales consecuencias. Para ello se utilizan datos procedentes de encuestas representativas de la población española recogidos en 2007, 2008 y 2009. En primer lugar se describe en qué medida los ciudadanos españoles buscan...

This paper analyses online exposure to political information, its causes and some of its potential consequences. For this purpose we use survey data representative of the Spanish population gathered in 2007, 2008 and 2009. First we describe the extent to which Spanish citizens actively search for political information online or receive emails with...

The Catalan nationalist cleavage in Spain has varied along time in terms of its salience and in general support on the issue. Previous research on electoral and identity politics has identified important implications for political behavior. This paper aims at complementing these approaches by considering to what extent do attitudes towards opposing...

The use of Internet for mobilization is slowly growing into an important subject in citizen politics as political use of the internet and online contentious politics are becoming widespread practices. I argue that mobilization needs to be considered further than its role for improving turnout in order to appreciate a greater democratic potential fo...