@article{Sampedro Blanco_Nos Aldás_Farné_2019, title={Citizen activism and political developments in the transformation of the digital public sphere in Spain: From the “Pass it on!” SMS to Podemos}, url={https://icjournal-ojs.org/index.php/IC-Journal/article/view/467}, abstractNote={<p class="LO-normal">This paper discusses digital communication, activism and political system in Spain from a critical-historical perspective. The results of combined empirical and analytical research indicate that a critical digital public sphere emerged in 2004 affecting the evolution of the political sphere to this day. Traditional parties had a slow and instrumental approach to the digital realm. Conversely, cyber-activism unfolded new options of political action, both in the short and long term, transforming the bipartisan system.</p>}, number={16}, journal={IC Revista Científica de Información y Comunicación}, author={Sampedro Blanco, Víctor and Nos Aldás, Eloísa and Farné, Alessandra}, year={2019}, month={dic.} }