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.

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.