Communicative Strategies from Cyberfemism: @Feminismosmad and the Twitter Diffusion of the 8m Strike in Madrid
Resumen Tanto desde el ámbito académico como desde el movimiento feminista se discute el alcance y la relevancia de las nuevas herramientas digitales para la subversión de la agenda, el cambio en los sistemas políticos occidentales y, en suma, el fin de las desigualdades entre géneros (Zafra, 2011; Núñez Puente, 2011). Mediante un análisis cuantitativo y entrevistas semiestructuradas, estudiamos el uso de Twitter por parte de @FeminismosMad. Este perfil se enfocó en explicar la Huelga feminista, así como en motivar la participación de la ciudadanía en las diferentes actividades organizadas durante el proceso del 8M. Abstract The scope and relevance of new digital tools for subverting the do…
The Mirage of Truth
Fact-checkers have grown recently, facing the decline of journalism and the acceleration of disinformation flows on the internet. Due to the recent scholarly attention to these journalistic outlets, some authors have pointed to diverse critics such as the political bias and the low impact of fact-checking initiatives. In line with the research approaching the weaponization of disinformation in politics, this chapter reflects on the instrumentalization of verifying practices as a fact to consider when studying fact-checking. The investigation applies a combined methodology to compare Bendita and Maldita initiatives. While the latter is internationally recognized as an entity of fact-checking…
La transparencia del Partido Popular y Ciudadanos en las campañas electorales de 2015 y 2016
The digital society demands greater institutional and political transparency, inuenced by the openness and accessibility characteristics of the Internet. The election campaign is the time for political parties to show how they want to act in government. This research aims to analyze what the parties say about their commitment to transparency and how transparent they are, in fact, during the electoral campaign. Thus, it tries to measure the level of transparency of Partido Popular and Ciudadanos during the election campaigns of 2015 and 2016 for the General Elections. For this, a quantitative and semi- qualitative content analysis was approached from the project of Dader, Campos and Quintana…