Spanish government grant for project on forms of deliberation in the Spanish political Twittersphere

The Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation has awarded € 54,450 to a three-year project in which Marc Esteve del Valle will be participating as a member of the research team. The project, entitled The new online public sphere in the deliberative system: political deliberation in the Spanish Twittersphere, will study new forms of deliberation occurring in the Spanish political Twittersphere and in the online platforms of Spanish political parties.

The project is headed by Dr Rosa Borge of the Open University of Catalonia (Internet Interdisciplinary Institute).