Oscar Luengo

University of Granada | UGR

The strategy of jihadist groups is based on objectives that are sometimes global. Specifically, many of these groups argue that Muslims, wherever they live, should fight for the establishment of an Islamic state or, at least, for such a state to be possible elsewhere. Therefore, taking advantage of the emergence of the Internet, they initiated an e...

This article analyzes Twitter messages, in Spanish and English, during the development of the last conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the historical Nagorno-Karabakh region. This conflict, along with the issues about Abkhazia and South Ossetia, is one of the most important crises in the South Caucasus. Two algorithms designed for processi...

The main objective of this article is to provide a consistent knowledge base on the possible media securitization process of the Spanish press when reporting on the Syrian conflict. To this end, an automated analysis has been carried out, through the SVM supervised algorithm, with the aim of measuring the use of human drama and security frames duri...

Social media has significantly transformed how political discussions and deliberations occur, mainly by providing a digital realm for the public sphere. This study aims to analyse the extent of polarised opinions across Spain, Italy and the United Kingdom regarding COVID-19 during 2020 within social media. To do this, we examined YouTube comments (...

Education laws involve, for all political parties, one of the most visible flagships of their ideological project. In this regard, different governments have made legislative modifica-tions to introduce orientations in this field closer to their partisan interests. Therefore, following existing models of political communication, in Southern Europea...

Las redes sociales han transformado de forma muy significativa la forma en la que se produce el diálogo político, impulsando una configuración digital de la esfera pública. El presente artículo tiene como objetivo el análisis de la deliberación producida en las redes sociales, con un especial énfasis en la polarización. Tomando como referencia los...

This chapter aims to analyze the different patterns of access to political and electoral information among Spanish voters during the campaign of the general elections in April 2019. To this end, a statistical analysis has been carried out using the post-electoral survey of the Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas of the April 2019 general electio...

This paper refers to the discussion on the impact of new technologies on political participation with a special emphasis put on ICT’s influence on the electoral process. The main research problem approached is associated with the ways of political participation in Europe in a comparative perspective but paying particular attention to the Polish cas...

Citizens of today’s democracies, especially in the Western world, have more opportunities than ever before to engage in public affairs, as a consequence of the technological developments observed in the last decade in the field of communications.

In recent years, scholars have been increasingly concerned by the attempted manipulation associated with false information in traditional mass media and the Internet (one of the emergent Global Commons). In fact, a new terminology has become popular, like the increasing use of the term "Fake News". These attempts of manipulation have been associate...

This research investigates links between the Euro Crisis and populism and asks whether there are patterns of populism in different election campaigns, namely is there country-specific populist rhetoric or similar anti-elite criticisms? Through content analysis, we examine the mainstream media coverage of populist and non-populist actors in the coun...

This book explores the digital transformations of democracy and democratic societies. It examines the various challenges posed by these transformations in the context of political practice and to theoreticians of democracy and political communication. The authors present studies from different countries, related to various effects of digitalizati...

This article assesses the possible populist discourse contagion experienced by the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) due to the irruption of Podemos. To this end, a content analysis has been carried out on a selection of PSOE manifestos for national and European elections, published between 2004 and 2019. The results show that the evolution o...

In recent years, we have witnessed an increasing consolidation of different realms where citizens can deliberate and discuss a variety of topics of general interest, including politics. The comments on news posts in online media are a good example. The first theoretical contributions called attention to the potential of those spaces to build a heal...

The aim of this research is to identify the different electoral scenarios of success for anti-establishment political parties in Western Europe. To this end, a fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis has been carried out in 26 national elections of European countries held between 2010 and 2015. Hypotheses from the demand side and supply side hav...

The general elections in December 2015 had no precedent in the recent democratic history of Spain. They witnessed many changes—in voting behaviour, the configuration of party systems, the development of new political actors, and the consolidation of new cleavages and subsequent campaign issues. Therefore, since 2015, the political context has devel...

El objetivo de este artículo es analizar los escenarios electorales favorables para los partidos populistas en Europa Occidental tras la crisis económica. Para ello, se ha aplicado un rastreo sistemático comparado (comparative process tracing) a una selección de casos (España 2011-15, Reino Unido 2010-15 y Suecia 2010-14) como fase posterior a un a...

Con esta afirmación, "los terroristas quieren a mucha gente observando y a mucha gente atenta, pero no un montón de gente muerta" 1 , uno de los más lúcido s expertos en terrorismo y violencia política, Brian Michael Jenkins, destacaba hace casi tres décadas la idea de que los terroristas están más interesados en la publicidad que en los asesinatos...

Populism has become a widespread phenomenon across Western Europe, especially after the economic crisis of 2008. However, we can still observe some confusion in the academy and the media about the definition of populism, which has led to a very contested and vague use of the term. This article aims to contribute to the conceptual clarification of p...

Adolfo Calatrava, doctor en Ciencia Política, es profesor de la Universidad Antonio de Nebrija y director del Master Gestión de Riesgos en Conflictos. Ha sido profesor en la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid y en la Universidad de Granada. También investigador visitante en la London School of Economics y en la Cardiff University. Sus líneas principa...

This article analyses the electoral polls published during the previous days to elections in several countries from a comparative perspective. The countries were Austria, Iceland, Ireland, Moldova, Portugal, Scotland, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain and the United States, where elections took place in 2016. In the study, which included 65 different polls,...

The consolidation of the Internet as not only a media outlet, but also a multifunctional platform , has put into question the traditional relationship between media and political participation. The latest political developments in Spain, such as the 15-M movement or the success of Podemos, show that new technologies increase the options for new and...

The consolidation of the Internet as not only a media outlet, but also a multifunctional platform, has put into question the traditional relationship between media and political participation. The latest political developments in Spain, such as the 15-M movement or the success of Podemos, show that new technologies increase the options for new and...

During the first years of the 21th century we have witnessed many events in our societies, some of them without precedent at all in our recent history, which have involved irreversible changes. The attacks to the Twin Towers in New York City, the resulting sequence of wars in the Middle East, and the international financial collapse are very good e...

The analysis of the new wave of social movements in Spain is not an easy task, since all these movements, big and small, media-covered or ignored, have developed and focused on multiple issues (sometimes quite similar, sometimes very specific or even overlapped). They share a common feature: Most of them were born and grounded in social networking....

This paper presents the television coverage of a terrorist attack during the 2008 election campaign in Spain. The starting point is that in media systems known as polarised pluralist, issues are usually framed through the lenses of electoral competition, portrayed from the point of view of political parties. Analysis shows that even in the case of...

The findings of a series of studies in the area of political communication during the 1990s questioned the answer media malaise offered for what was considered a constant in the academic debate: the negative relationship between media exposure and civic engagement. Some authors blame the media for "narcotizing" citizens, while other analysts say em...

El estudio que se presenta es fruto de un proyecto de investigación realizado en la Universidad de Granada. Hasta ahora la investigación sobre los debates electorales se ha centrado mayoritariamente en calibrar el impacto de los debates después de éstos. Sin embargo, no demasiadas investigaciones le han prestado una atención especial a los proce...

The notion of asymmetrical conflict is broad enough to include different kinds of warfare, and may be shorthand for conflicts other than traditional ones. Some scholars dedicate their careers to the analysis of the relations between actors (politicians, media and public opinion) on foreign affairs issues. This chapter presents a summary of these sc...

The low levels of electoral turnout during the last European elections have raised a debate around the increasing disengagement that citizens have been showing towards the political process in general. Explanations from political communication suggest some contrasting arguments around this issue that has been configured as a constant in the academi...

The low levels of electoral turnout during the last European elections have raised a debate around the increasing disengagement that citizens have been showing towards the political process in general. Explanations from political communication suggest some contrasting arguments around this issue that has been configured as a constant in the academi...

Even though the news coverage of election campaigns is important and has been at the centre of political communication research for a long time, there is still a lack of comparative studies in this area. Thus, the purpose of this study is to investigate the election news coverage in Spain and Sweden. Theoretically, the study draws primarily on the...

This article compares the connexion between non-electoral political participation, understood as one of the dimensions of citizen�s engagement, and media exposure in Europe. Its principal aim is verifying if the consumption of media is related to political disaffection. In the analysis different media outlets are distinguished (television, radio, p...

The demonstrations in Spain on March 13th, 2004 following the terrorist attacks in Madrid present an interesting challenge for political communication research. For the first time in the history of Spain, people employed communication technologies in order to create the dynamics of peaceful civil disobedience. Research on political communication ha...

The demonstrations in Spain on March 13th, 2004 following the terrorist attacks in Madrid present an interesting challenge for political communication research. For the first time in the history of Spain, people employed communication technologies in order to create the dynamics of peaceful civil disobedience. Research on political communication ha...

El presente trabajo pretende plantear el estado de la cuestión de los estudios que, enmarcados dentro de las teorías de los efectos de la comunicación política, se han venido ocupando en las últimas décadas de desencriptar la compleja relación entre la extensión de los patrones de desafección política entre los ciudadanos de las democracias contemp...

Este trabajo de investigación analiza la capacidad de los medios de comunicación en general, y de la prensa escrita en concreto, en el complejo proceso de elaboración del orden del día político. El contexto donde cobra sentido la aplicación del cuerpo doctrinal de referencia, el de Las teorías del Agenda-Setting, está circunscrito al conflicto del...

Las conclusiones de una serie de trabajos desarrollados en el área de la comunicación política durante la década de los noventa, han venido a cuestionar la respuesta que el malestar mediático ofrecía en relación con un asunto configurado como una constante en el debate académico; la relación entre la exposición a los medios de comunicación y el com...

Resumen. Los bajos niveles de participación electoral durante las últimas elecciones al Parlamento Europeo han retomado el debate sobre las falta de compromiso que los ciudadanos han venido mostrando en relación al proceso político en general. Las explicaciones desde la comunicación política sugieren algunos argumentos enfrentados en relación con e...

The mass media play a crucial role since it has become the main source for political information for citizens. However, even if the news coverage of election campaigns is important and has been at the center of political communication research for a long time, there is still a lack of comparative studies in this area. Thus, the purpose of this stud...

Resumen. Los bajos niveles de participación electoral durante las últimas elecciones al Parlamento Europeo han retomado el debate sobre las falta de compromiso que los ciudadanos han venido mostrando en relación al proceso político en general. Las explicaciones desde la comunicación política sugieren algunos argumentos enfrentados en relación con e...

Universidad de Granada) ogluengo@ugr.es José Ruiz Valerio (TEC, Monterrey) jfrv@itesm.mx Abstract The low levels of political commitment have described patterns of political culture in different political contexts, not only in the Western countries but also in Latin America. Explanations from political communication suggest some contrasting argumen...

Populism has become a widespread phenomenon across Western Europe, especially after the economic crisis of 2008. However, we can still observe some confusion in the academy and the media about the definition of populism, which has led to a very contested and vague use of the term. This article aims to contribute to the conceptual clarification of p...