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 GovernanceLaura ALONSO-MUÑOZ y Andreu CASERO-RIPOLLÉS 
Political agenda on Twitter during the 2016 Spanish elections: issues, strategies, and users’ responsesCristina ZURUTUZA MUÑOZ y Darren LILLEKER 
Writing graffiti on the Facebook wall: Understanding the online discourse of citizens to politicians during the 2016 Spanish electionDomagoj BEBIC y Marija VOLAREVIC 
Do not mess with a meme: the use of viral content in communicating politicsBelén FERNÁNDEZ-GARCÍA y Oscar G. LUENGO 
Populist parties in Western Europe. An analysis of the three core elements of populismNorbert KERSTING, Abel REIBERG y Phillip HOCKS 
Discourse Quality in Times of Populism: An Analysis of German Parliamentary Debates on Immigration PolicyPedro FIERRO ZAMORA y Frederic GUERRERO-SOLÉ 
Measuring Political Attitudes in New Democracies: The Case of ChileAna AZURMENDI, Mercedes MUÑOZ SALDAÑA y Félix ORTEGA MOHEDANO 
Civic Participation and Independence from Political Power: two requirements of Public Service Broadcasters in SpainBeatriz 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 WarSarah BISHOP 
“Nobody Can Take Our Story”: Competing Representational Narratives of Immigrants without Legal StatusJavier GARCÍA-MARÍN y Adolfo CALATRAVA 
The Use of Supervised Learning Algorithms in Political Communication and Media Studies: Locating Frames in the Press