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The media, with the Internet at the forefront, has been expanding its area of influence and drastically homogenising the narratives through which we give meaning to the world, even beyond the media context.

A research study at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) analyzes the notion of spectacle as an enunciative space that is located beyond mediatic logic.

Professor Adrián Todolí affirms that the 2021 labour reform will not stop salary devaluation if there is no public intervention The professor of Labour Law and Social Security at the Un

A study in which the professor of the Department of Constitutional Law and Political Science and Administration Juan Rodríguez Teruel participates shows that there is no equitable geographical distribution of the plurality of the Spanish State in the appointment of ministers.

UPF researchers compile in a book the latest studies on racialization in contemporary Europe -Racialized Citizenship in Superdiverse Europe-, edited by Zenia Hellgren and Bálint Ébel Bereményi, is an

A book co-written by Abel Escribà-Folch, a professor with the Department of Political and Social Sciences, recently published by Princeton University Press, documents how migrations around the world favour global democracy.

UPF becomes the first Catalan university to incorporate this digital communication channel, which has been operating since July, as a guarantee of and a complement to the mechanisms set forth in its Code of Ethics.

The dominant narrative on motherhood relegates the woman to the private ambit and to the dimension of emotions and of sentiment, as something that is the opposite of the public and the theoretical.

A research project led by the University of Barcelona will study the citizen participation of old people in Europe, analysing their involvement in different civic activities.

The RECSM research centre of the Department of Political and Social Sciences, led by Mariano Torcal together with Wiebke Weber as principal investigator of the COORDINATE project at the University, will be collaborating in the design of the questionnaires to ensure their quality.

Could "watchdog journalism" backfire in societies characterised by high levels of trust? asks Markku Lehtonen, researcher at the Department of Humanities at the UPF and the lead author of the article.