This work aims to show internet users' responses to different posts and the types of distortions and emotions that drive each of these responses, through a two-month sociological experiment on two TikTok accounts, one conservative and the other progressive. It also aims to understand what types of cognitive communities have formed, or were already formed, based on this experiment, and what patterns each of these groups respond to.
This research focuses on the mobilizations, demands and news related to three very different human groups (deaf people, gypsies and indignant youth) to observe whether an empathetic attitude of journalists or the media towards the activism of these groups improves the quality of information. With a broad temporal perspective, we analyze the treatment of the press in three foci: the historical mobilizations in 1988 and 2006 of deaf students at Gallaudet University in Washington; the movement of the indignados in Spain on May 15, 2011 in favor of a more participatory democracy, and finally we observe a selection of events related to roman people (gypsies) in Czech Republic, Italy, France and Spain, the las 30 years until 2018.
Digital platforms and their algorithms have reignited the debate over how we conceptualize the structure and dynamics of public opinion. This article compares two central metaphors-the "sphere" and the "network"- to assess their ability to diagnose contemporary communication processes. Drawing on four features of Habermas's public sphere (location, symmetry, openness, and anchoring), we show that the spherical image still offers a decisive benchmark for judging deliberative quality. The network, by contrast, provides a key descriptive power for mapping digital flows and revealing algorithmic asymmetries, yet this metaphor lacks its own normative guidelines. We conclude that recovering the spatial dimensions of the public sphere supplies a uniquely valuable critical framework for efforts aimed at exploring normative principles of democratic public opinion.
Emotions always affect meaning, its production and interpretation. But it is also true that meaning is always part of the emotional process. Starting from this double assumption, the article discusses the conceptions of the subject, the body and the emotion that would allow to advance in the thinking about this field of questions. And it focuses on territorial emotions, the emotions of being part of the world, to observe how we appropriate-or become attached to-places, people, objects, expressions, values, to turn them into territories or seats, more lasting or more fleeting, of our point of view, in that which provides us with a place in the world.
In the media scenario of the European Union there are at least two remarkable challenges ahead: firstly, the resilience power of the large public audiovisual corporations and, secondly, strengthening press freedom and information as a public service when fake news or manipulated content are spread and, consequently, threaten the rule of law. The challenge that EU must face in this field is evident in the Report on the application of the Audiovisual Communication Services Directive issued by the Culture and Education Committee of the European Parliament on April 12, 2023. With this contribution we intend, not only to delve into this context, but also, to explain the terms with which the EU has responded to events since it implemented the Digital Single Market Strategy (DSM, 2015).
