García-Carretero, Lucía (Date of defense: 2019-10-25)
-depth interviews. Overall, the research identifies different opinion leaders and a hierarchical network according to citizen's feedback, the type of message according to populism as a style of political ...
Widlak, Ewa (Date of defense: 2017-01-03)
The first ladyship is nowadays one of the most mediatized, yet scientifically neglected unofficial institutions to be found in contemporary states. It raises various questions regarding the nature of ...
Brusattin, Lorenzo (Date of defense: 2012-07-20)
This research project assesses the role played by political sophistication in terms of itsimpact on the voters’ resort to cognitive shortcuts, with reference both to the consciousand non-conscious ...
Fabregat, Eduard (Fabregat Rodergas) (Date of defense: 2016-09-16)
Mainstream press tends to give visibility to immigrants only when problems arise. Through this visibility based on problems a virtual social identity is constructed and given to the immigration population. ...
Sanclemente, Vicenç (Date of defense: 2016-12-19)
Es diu que és impossible que els països autoritaris tinguin una opinió pública plenament desenvolupada. Jürgen Habermas criticava Internet per la dispersió dels continguts i la manca de mediadors. No ...
Ferreira Santos Luís, Rita (Date of defense: 2015-05-11)
The end of both Iberian Dictatorships, the New State in Portugal and Francoism is Spain, distanced more or less a year and a half. During this period, while Spain discussed a way out of Francoism, ...
Polymeneas, Georgios-Alexandros (Date of defense: 2018-11-09)
This study presents a multidisciplinary framework for the analysis of evidential meaning in the Greek political discourse during the period of the current European debt crisis, and moving beyond a mere ...
Aragón, Pablo (Date of defense: 2019-11-22)
This thesis constitutes one of the first investigations focused on characterizing online participation in civic technologies, a type of platform increasingly popular on the Internet that allows citizens ...
Recalde, Lorena (Date of defense: 2018-10-11)
L'objectiu d'aquesta tesi és desenvolupar nous i diversos mètodes per modelar les preferències dels usuaris a les Xarxes Socials Online. Els mètodes proposats tenen com a finalitat ser aplicats en àrees ...
Tesei, Andrea (Date of defense: 2012-07-12)
This thesis investigates different social and political aspects of modern economies. The first chapter contributes to the natural resource curse debate, by showing that the impact of resource windfalls ...