The Jounal "Communciation & Society" has recently published a Special Issue on Political Communication. The publication is the result of a selection of the most relevant papers presented in the IPSA Joint Conference RC22 and RC10 with CICOM held in Pamplona, Spain (2017)

Communication & Society, 2018, 31(3); ISSN 0214-0039

Marta REBOLLEDO DE LA CALLE, Oscar G. LUENGO y Domagoj BEBIC 
Political Communication in Uncertain Times. Digital Technologies, Citizen Participation and Open Governance
Laura ALONSO-MUÑOZ y Andreu CASERO-RIPOLLÉS 
Political agenda on Twitter during the 2016 Spanish elections: issues, strategies, and users’ responses
Cristina ZURUTUZA MUÑOZ y Darren LILLEKER 
Writing graffiti on the Facebook wall: Understanding the online discourse of citizens to politicians during the 2016 Spanish election
Domagoj BEBIC y Marija VOLAREVIC 
Do not mess with a meme: the use of viral content in communicating politics
Belén FERNÁNDEZ-GARCÍA y Oscar G. LUENGO 
Populist parties in Western Europe. An analysis of the three core elements of populism
Norbert KERSTING, Abel REIBERG y Phillip HOCKS 
Discourse Quality in Times of Populism: An Analysis of German Parliamentary Debates on Immigration Policy
Pedro FIERRO ZAMORA y Frederic GUERRERO-SOLÉ 
Measuring Political Attitudes in New Democracies: The Case of Chile
Ana AZURMENDI, Mercedes MUÑOZ SALDAÑA y Félix ORTEGA MOHEDANO 
Civic Participation and Independence from Political Power: two requirements of Public Service Broadcasters in Spain
Beatriz HERRERO-JIMÉNEZ, Adolfo CALATRAVA y Mª Rosa BERGANZA CONDE 
Violent Conflicts and the New Mediatization: The Impact of Social Media on the European Parliamentary Agenda Regarding the Syrian War
Sarah BISHOP 
“Nobody Can Take Our Story”: Competing Representational Narratives of Immigrants without Legal Status
Javier GARCÍA-MARÍN y Adolfo CALATRAVA 
The Use of Supervised Learning Algorithms in Political Communication and Media Studies: Locating Frames in the Press