Paolo Gerbaudo (english)
Paolo Gerbaudo is a Senior Research Fellow in Social Sciences with the Talento Investigador programme of the Autonomous Community of Madrid in the department of Political History, Theories and Geography at the Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology of Complutense University in Madrid. His research project explores the transformation of the state and public services in the digital era from a comparative perspective, with a focus on the consequences for the relationship between citizens and institutions. Previously he was Reader in Digital Politics at King's College London (2012-2023), where he founded and directed the Centre for Digital Culture. From 2022 to 2023 he has also been a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence with a project on social media and youth cultures in Italy and China.
He has a PhD from the Media and Communications department, Goldsmiths College, University of London, with a thesis on the relationship between communication and space in social movements. He is the author of four monographs Tweets and the Streets: Social Media and Contemporary Activism (Pluto, 2012), The Mask and the Flag: Populism, Citizenism and Global Protest (Hurst/OUP, 2017), The Digital Party: Political Organization and Online Democracy (Pluto, 2019) and The Great Recoil: Politics After Populism and Pandemic (Verso, 2021) and has published articles in different academic journals specialized in political science, sociology and communication sciences, such as New Media and Society, Social Movement Studies, Information, Communication and Society, Media, Culture and Society, Social Media and Society, Party Politics and Youth Studies. In addition, his work has appeared in different Spanish and international media, including El País, La Vanguardia, The Guardian, The New Statesman, The Nation, BBC World Service, BBC World, Foreign Policy and Al Jazeera. His main lines of research are the relationship between communication technologies and political organization, populism as a discursive and mobilization logic, the stories and identities of contemporary social movements, the transformation of political parties and the return of state interventionism.
LATEST ARTICLES
Gerbaudo, P., De Falco, C. C., Giorgi, G., Keeling, S., Murolo, A., & Nunziata, F. (2023). Angry Posts Mobilize: Emotional Communication and Online Mobilization in the Facebook Pages of Western European Right-Wing Populist Leaders. Social Media+ Society, 9(1)
https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051231163
Gerbaudo, P. (2022). From individual affectedness to collective identity: personal testimony campaigns on social media and the logic of collection. New Media & Society
https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448221128523
Gerbaudo, P. (2022). Theorizing Reactive Democracy: The Social Media Public Sphere, Online Crowds, and the Plebiscitary Logic of Online Reactions. Democratic Theory, 9(2), 120-138.
https://doi.org/10.3167/dt.2022.090207
Paolillo, M., & Gerbaudo, P. (2022). Mobilised yet unaffiliated: Italian youth and the uneven return to political participation. Journal of Youth Studies, 1-17.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2022.2055963
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Office: 1311
Telephone: 91 394 2718
Email: paolo.gerbaudo@ucm.es
Personal website: www.paologerbaudo.com