Oct
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[ en ] Beyond the Indignation: Spain’s Indignados and the Political Agenda
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An article by Carlos Delclos and me about the impact of 15M on Spain’s political agenda, first published in the journal Policy & Practice Introduction On the night of 17 May 2011, one of the authors was chatting with a close friend in the United States (US) from his home in Barcelona. The two were lamenting what they considered frivolous trends in mainstream culture, from Lady Gaga and fashion-forward pop music to excess-obsessed reality television and buzzword-saturated 24 hour news channels. In one of those abrupt changes so typical of instant messaging, the conversation shifted towards a discussion of social media’s role in the Arab Spring and the attempts to start […]