Search results for " Public Sphere"

Media education and educational commons for youth civic engagement. A case study from the Horizon 2020 project SMOOTH

2023

This study presents the preliminary findings of the first round of implementation of a case study included in the Horizon 2020 project SMOOTH. The project's main objective is to introduce and study the emergent paradigm of the educational commons as an alternative system of values and actions for promoting intercultural and intergenerational dialogue and establishing spaces of democratic citizenship that support the development of local communities. Our case study adopts this paradigm with insights derived from the field of media education. Hence, our research questions were as follows: (a) How do young people collectively experience and build the educational commons? (b) How do participant…

The image of the candidates in the 2019 General Elections in Spain

2019

[Resumen] Las Elecciones Generales de 1977 en España obligaron a los partidos a explicar cuestiones elementales como “qué significaba votar”. En general, la imagen proyectada de los candidatos era una cuestión “menor”, dada la falta de cultura democrática del momento. Tras 42 años desde la transición, el contexto político y comunicativo ha dado un vuelco que exige de una aproximación más compleja. Los partidos políticos son conscientes de la importancia que tiene construir la imagen pública de sus candidatos. En este trabajo analizamos la imagen del principal cartel de campaña de los candidatos a presidente en las Elecciones Generales de abril de 2019 de Vox, PP, C’s, PSOE, UP y del candida…

La Media Education tra cultura partecipativa e intenzionalità civica. Due casi di studio

2022

The mass diffusion of the web in the early 1990s, and the web 2.0 a decade later, has undoubtedly allowed a more democratic access to information and knowledge, and served as a catalyst for sociability and participation as it offers the possibility of cultivating spaces for discussion and sharing with a potentially infinite number of people. Since then, innumerable forms of grassroot online engagement have grown in the most diverse fields, from leisure, to politics, to civicism making concrete the possibility of a new digital public sphere (Marinelli and Cioni 2014, Bartoletti and Faccioli 2013, Dahlgren 2009). This socio- communicative ferment, which Jenkins (1992) describes with the contr…

Prácticas deliberativas, argumentación y pluralismo cívico en la Democracia republicana

2011

  La esfera pública constituye el lugar donde la ciudadanía demanda, reclama y discute cualquier decisión política que concierne a sus intereses, sin embargo hemos visto como este modelo democrático participativo se soslaya, lo cual hace que se disminuya la vida política activa de la ciudadanía, para mejorar necesitamos que nuestras instituciones políticas deben de ser rediseñadas para facilitar una mayor comunicación y deliberación democrática, con nuevos paradigmas políticos enfatizados en políticas deliberativas. Precisamos de una reforma democrática que gire hacia un modelo más deliberativo, que fusione los esfuerzos de actores públicos y privados colocando al razonamiento público en el…

Rappresentazione e prassi nello spazio pubblico. I dispositivi artistici nel contesto politico e sociale

PRATIQUES INFO-COMMUNICATIONNELLES ET MOBILISATION SOCIALE À L'ÈRE D'INTERNET : LE CAS DE L'ITALIE

2013

Ce travail de recherche porte sur le rôle des pratiques info-communicationnelles de l'Internet dans la constitution, le développement et la mobilisation des nouveaux groupes contestataires en Italie. Avec cette approche, nous souhaitons porter notre attention sur les pratiques humaines et non pas sur les réseaux informationnels, considérés trop souvent comme le moteur déterminant du changement social. Ainsi, bien que l'essor d'Internet n'ait pas impliqué le passage à une forme de société plus émancipée, la création d'espaces informationnels indépendants représente néanmoins un enjeu politique important. L'enquête de terrain est structurée en deux volets, l'un portant sur l'analyse de la mob…

Political candidates in infotainment programmes and their emotional effects on Twitter: an analysis of the 2015 Spanish general elections pre-campaig…

2017

[EN] The infotainment format offers candidates an informal setting to show a more personal side of themselves to the electorate, opening themselves up to potential voters. An example of media hybridisation, social networks users can immediately comment on infotainment television programmes, a process known as second screening. These second screeners tend to be especially active in politics. This paper analyses the immediate emotional reaction of these users as they watch infotainment programmes that air during the campaign or pre-campaign seasons and feature political candidates as guests. We have confirmed that second screeners react more emotionally towards the candidate when his or her p…

Towards a European public sphere? A Comparative Study of the Facebook Activities of Danish and Spanish Members of the European Parliament

2019

This comparative study examines the everyday Facebook activities of all Danish and Spanish members of the European Parliament (MEPs), and the extent to which there is a real political conversation between citizens and European representatives. Through content analysis, it analyzes the Facebook practices of a significantly under-studied population (MEPs) during a non-campaign period (January 15 to February 15, 2017) while most of recent research has overwhelmingly focused on campaign periods. The results show that both Danish and Spanish MEPs are generously present and active on Facebook, but that they are less popular than their national counterparts. The study shows that Danish MEPs use Fa…

On the Bride’s side? Fra politica della dislocazione ed etica del posizionamento

2016

This paper aims at critically exploring the network geographies underlying the production, distribution and consumption of the Italian docu-film "On the Bride’s side". Through a successful crowdfunding campaign and hundreds of screenings throughout Europe, the docu- film has given rise to a wide diasporic public sphere. It is here that mainstream practices and alternative imaginations combine each other and unveil the complex and contested production of the cultural field