1st Edition

The Routledge Handbook of Political Communication in Ibero-America

516 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

516 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

516 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Routledge Handbook of Political Communication in Ibero-America addresses the relationship between communication, politics, and digital technologies in Latin American and the Iberian Peninsula, a geographical space linked by social, cultural, and linguistic aspects. In recent years, digital media have been central in the dialogue established by political parties, institutions, the media,... Read more

0. Introduction: a multipolar and de-Westernized vision of political communication in the digital age

Andreu Casero-Ripollés and Paulo Carlos López-López

 

Part I: The core elements of political communication 

1. Political Communication in Latin America

Omar Rincón and Catalina Uribe-Rincón

2. Media systems in Latin America        

Daniel Hallin and Martín Echeverría

3. The Latin American political discourse          

Adriana Bolívar and Elena Block

4. Agenda Setting Studies in Iberian and Latin America  

Esteban Zunino and  Natalia Aruguete.

 

Part II: Polarization, populism and hate speech         

5. Populism, Media, Journalism and Political Communication in Latin America          

Philip Kitzberger

6. Pop Politics Beyond Populism: Popular Culture as Political Communication

Adriana Amado

7. Affective Polarization in Latin America         

Hernando Rojas and Diego A. Mazorra

8. Patterns of dissemination of expressions of hate and polarization in Ibero-America          

Elías Said-Hung, Sergio Arce-García and Julio Montero-Díaz

 

Part III: Political participation, activism and social movements         

9. Social Movements, Democracy and Political Communication in Latin America          

Maximiliano Martin-Vicente and Caroline Kraus-Luvizotto

10. Digital feminist activism in Latin America: connected crowds and hackfeminism  

Guiomar Rovira-Sancho

11. Political Participation and Technology: Continuities and discontinuities in Southern Cone and Brazil     

Marcelo Santos and Sebastián Valenzuela

12. Indigenism and Sumak Kawsay in digital media. Coverage of the Political Agenda Setting in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia    

Ángel Torres-Toukoumidis,  Héctor Hurtado Groscoors and Tatiana León-Alberca

 

Part IV: Digitalization of political communication      

13. The behaviour of digital communities in Ibero-American democracies           

Paulo Carlos López-López and Andrea Mila-Maldonado

14. A reflection about artificial intelligence and algorithms in political communication. Instruments at the service of parties?     

Patricia Sánchez-Holgado,  David Blanco-Herrero and Carlos Arcila-Calderón

15. Platformization: State of the Art and Challenges for Political Communication in Latin America

Gabriela E. Sued and Ronald Saenz L.

16. Role of memes and political image in political communication in Latin America          

Viktor Chagas and Luiza de Mello Stefano

 

Part V: Elections and campaigns in a context of change         

17. New tools, changes, and situations of the communication management of electoral campaigns in Latin America    

Antoni Gutiérrez-Rubi

18. Electoral desinformation and fact-checking in the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America  

José Rúas-Araújo, Luis Cárcamo-Ulloa and Anabela Gradim-Alves.

19. Election Campaigns and Election Debates in Ibero-America: from Television to Second Screens

Julia Fontenla-Pedreira, Iván Puentes-Rivera and Carmen Maiz-Bar

20. Government communication: Basic Principles and Their Application to Practical Cases

Antonio Castillo-Esparcia

 

Part VI: Regional study of Political Communication in Latin America           

21. Political communication studies over the last two decades: a view from the International Center of Advanced Communication Studies for Latin America, Ciespal         

Mauro Cerbino and Gissela Dávila

22. Latinobarometro, an instrument of regional development.     

Marta Lagos

 

Part VII: Political Communication in South America

23. Political Communication and Technologies in Brazil: beyond Bolsonaro.            

Camilla Quesada-Tavares, Michele Goulart-Massuchin and Alfonso de-Albuquerque

24. Political communication in Argentine and social media (2010-2021). Personalism, personalization and political Internet users.

Ana Slimovich

25. Political communication in Peru: between the crisis of the parties, political instability, and the central role of media and networks   

Sandro Macassi

26. Political communication mediated by digital media: Misinformation and its impact on politics in Chile.   

Andrés Rosenberg and William Porath

27. Ecuador: between the digital impulse and the return of traditional powers.            

Palmira Chavero and Isabel Ramos

28, Political communication in Uruguay. Strong state, strong parties, stable traditional media, and weak polarization in social media

Ivan Schuliaquer and Federico Beltramelli

 

Part VIII: Political Communication in Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean      

29. Populism and Social Media Campaigning in Central America.           

María-Fernanda Salas, Erica Guevara and Ignacio Siles

30. El Salvador: Nayib Bukele, the Twitter president. A failed policy?     

Albertina Navas and Amparo Marroquín

31. The evolution of political communication in Mexico: From a delayed beginning to the consolidation of cyberspace

Daniel Javier de la Garza Montemayor and Xunaxhi Monserrat Pineda Rasgado

32. Political communication and institutionality in Cuba 

Aimiris Sosa Valcarcel and Andrea Leticia Quintana Pujalte

33. Political communication in 21st century Venezuela: from Chavismo to Madurismo      

Fernando Casado and Rebeca Sánchez

34. Artificial Intelligence, Technology and Political Communication in Colombia         

Daniel Barredo Ibáñez, Farrah Bérubé and Úrsula Freundt-Thurne

 

 

Part IX: Political Communication in Iberian Peninsula         

35. Digital electoral campaigns in Spain over thirty years: information, unidirectionality and professionalized personalization    

Andreu Casero-Ripollés and Laura Alonso-Muñoz

36. Electoral Campaigns in Portugal: Transitioning from the Analog to the Digital Realm

Helder Prior and Miguel Andrade

37. Lying on social media. Disinformation strategies of Iberian populist radical right     

Concha Pérez-Curiel and Joao-Pedro Baptista


 

Biography

Andreu Casero-Ripollés is Full Professor of Journalism and Political Communication at Universitat Jaume I de Castelló, Spain. He has been Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and Director of the Department of Communication Sciences. He is President of the Spanish Society of Journalism (SEP). He has been included by Stanford University within the 2% of the most cited scientists in the world in Scopus for his discipline.

Paulo Carlos López-López is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Sociology at Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain. His lines of research are political communication, political behavior and emotions in social media.