Routledge Handbook of Political Communication in Ibero-America

<p><em>The Routledge Handbook of Political Communication in Ibero-America</em> 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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p>