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La esfera pública digital y el activismo político
2015
El desarrollo de las tecnologías digitales ha impulsado transformaciones fundamentales en la esfera pública, que se manifiestan en la tipología de los medios, las formas de organización, la orientación de las acciones y su escala cada vez más globalizada. Estos cambios, a su vez, han abierto nuevas posibilidades para el activismo político, que aprovechan las oportunidades ofrecidas por la digitalización. Las nuevas formas de activismo incluyen el activismo digital ampliado, el activismo digital innovador y el activismo digital recursivo. The development of digital technologies has fostered basic transformations in the public sphere, reflected in the typology of media outlets, forms of organ…
Cosmopolitans and communitarians: A typology of football fans between national and European influences
2021
International audience; The past 25 years have seen an unprecedented Europeanisation of the structures and governance in football across the continent. A European (and global) transfer market for players and managers has become the norm and a pan-European league system has been established that regularly exposes supporters to transnational competitions and players from all over Europe. At the same time, manifold typologies of football fans have been established, distinguishing groups of fans based on, for example, fan intensity, fan behaviour or their attitudes towards different actors in the field. The attitudes towards Europe and the self-identification of these fans within Europeanised f…
Organization of the social sphere and typology of the residential setting: How the adoption of the mobile phone affects sociability in rural and urba…
2012
Abstract The purpose of this study is to explore the role that the possession of the mobile phone plays in the organization of the relational sphere at a social level, in different geographical settings. The research questions were: is the possession of a mobile phone more connected to urban or to rural life, and does the possession of a mobile phone influence differently the organization of the social sphere in rural and urban settings? Data on the possession of mobile phones, the frequency of forms of communicative sociability, and various socio-demographic variables were collected by means of a phone survey in 2009. The sample is representative of the population in the five most populous…
Youth Political Talk in the Changing Media Environment : A Cross-National Typology
2021
While political communication scholarship has long underscored the importance of political talk—casual conversations about news and politics that occur in everyday situations—as a way for citizens to clarify their opinions and as a precursor for political engagement, much of this literature tends to depict political talk as uncomfortable and difficult for citizens. Yet, this focus on the challenging aspects of political talk has been informed predominantly by the US context. To what extent may a different picture emerge when looking across different cultural contexts? And how are these dynamics shaped by the affordances of the multi-platform social media environment? This paper explores th…
Powerful Pharma and Its Marginalized Alternatives?
2018
Abstract. Only little is known about the underpinning psychological processes that determine medical choices. Across four studies, we establish that conspiracy mentality predicts a preference for alternative over biomedical therapies. Study 1a (N = 392) and 1b (N = 204) provide correlational support, Study 2 (N = 185) experimentally tested the role of power: People who endorsed a conspiracy mentality perceived a drug more positively if its approval was supported by a powerless (vs. powerful) agent. Study 3 (N = 239) again showed a moderating effect of power and conspiracy mentality on drug evaluation by comparing analytic versus holistic approaches. These findings point to the consequences…
Rol de la Economía Social y la Universidad en orden a un emprendimiento basado en el conocimiento tecnológico y los valores
2020
[EN] Objectives The present work aims to study the need for a more knowledge-intensive economy, especially technologically based, that allows to face the challenge of the so-called 4th technological revolution, contributing to the development of a more competitive society as well as with values. Thus, this work aims to do a revision of the reality of the spanish university and its role facing the technological challenge. In addition, it aims to make an analysis of the presence and weight of the social economy in the sectors most identified with the so-called fourth industrial revolution, to establish if there are economic and financial differences that explain the higher presence of the inv…
Some Reflections on the Economic and Political Organisation of Private Neighbourhoods
2005
The spreading of privately organised and often gated neighbourhoods in many regions of the world has triggered a widespread discussion about the relations between social and urban development. This paper presents some reflections on the economic and political organisation of this type of housing. First, the club goods theory is used to explain the potential attractiveness of this form of housing for developers, local governments as well as residents. However, the club goods theory alone does not enable one to understand the global but regionally differentiated development. Therefore, second, this paper proposes to view the analysis of private neighbourhoods as club economies against the bac…
La dimensione etica dei compiti disciplinari nella contrapposizione tra valori non conciliabili
2013
Le recenti forme di conflitto (non solo sociale), hanno una natura prevalentemente – se non esclusivamente – urbana, permanente e non-congiunturale. Esse coesistono con i tradizionali raggruppamenti ed espressioni sociali, peraltro sempre meno definiti (classi, gruppi di interesse, associazioni) e, sebbene le loro caratteristiche siano in costante variazione, costituiscono una componente stabile ed irreversibile della condizione urbana (e sociale) contemporanea. Questi conflitti, che rappresentano forme di azione, e di azione politica nello specifico, non si adattano facilmente né sono facilmente assimilabili ai già esistenti canali di rappresentanza ed alle tradizionali forme di organizzaz…
From a Barrio Chino Urban Stigma to the Raval Cultural Brand: Urban Memory and Cultural Policies in the Renewal of Central Barcelona
2020
Barcelona, and especially, its historic center, has undergone a profound transformation from an industrial city to a global tourism and services center. Some authors insist on the destructive nature of the urban regeneration of the historic Barcelona district of Raval as a process of de-identification of the city center or as an intentional falsification of its identity to turn it into a tourist space. However, as we discuss in this article, urban branding and urban change projects should address not only the infrastructural issues of transformation, but also the development of new urban branding based on recreating a memory of the place. Thus, in the case of Raval, the urban and cultural …
Centri commerciali e città pubblica? Il caso Palermo
2012
Palermo è l’ultima delle maggiori città italiane ad essere investita dall’apertura di grandi centri commerciali secondo il modello dominante in tutta Europa a partire dagli anni ottanta (quello delle gallerie multimarca, per intenderci). Ancora agli inizi dello scorso decennio, infatti, al vertice della piramide commerciale della città si trovavano strutture di vendita di medie dimensioni, perlopiù localizzate all’interno degli insediamenti produttivi previsti lungo la circonvallazione. La rapidità e la portata con cui queste iniziative stanno ridisegnando la geografia economica della città produce enormi questioni di equlibrio urbanistico e riassetto infrastrutturale nell’area urbana, ques…