1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Political Communication in Ibero-America
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 and citizens. In this hybrid space emerged certain phenomena that are of interest, particularly in the Ibero-American landscape, including disinformation and fake news, protests on social media, the organization of social movements, the relationship between the press and the state, political participation, populism, the role played by emotions and memes, the impact of AI and platformization on politics, and topics of debate in the public sphere. This Handbook is structured into nine parts, beginning with a historical contextualization and then exploring central aspects of the discipline. It then goes on to study trends at the regional level, increasing knowledge about how political communication and digital technologies are changing multiple aspects of Ibero-American societies, where political communication plays a fundamental role – especially in electoral processes, with its consequent effects on democracy.
This Handbook will be of interest to academics, students and professionals in the fields of political science, communication, journalism, advertising, marketing, and sociology, as well as public opinion consulting. It will be of particular interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students from Latin America, Portugal and Spain.
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 Assistant 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.
