Marc Esteve Del Valle
Biographic Data
| ID | 376035 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marc Esteve Del Valle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marc Esteve |
| FAMILY NAME | Del Valle |
| SIGNATURE | DEL VALLE M E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4407-1989 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Digital Resilience Within a Hypermediated Polycrisis
This thematic issue examines digital resilience within an increasingly complex landscape of hypermediated, overlapping crises. Situated at the intersection of several research areas—including digital literacy, platform studies, Indigenous media studies, journalism studies, and political science—the thematic issue explores the complexities of digital resilience and seeks to advance its conceptualization and understanding. The issue brings together…
Online Media Coverage of Environmental Protest in Chile: Challenging the Protest Paradigm
Chile is an environmentally stressed country that needs to implement effective public policies to address the climate crisis. The growing severity of ecological challenges underscores the need to understand how the media portray environmental conflicts and protests, and how such coverage may raise awareness and drive societal and policy responses. This research approaches the Chilean context by analyzing the online media coverage of socio-environ…
A three-layered categorisation of climate justice demands
News circulation on social media platforms: A longitudinal study of news sharing and source diversity
This study investigates the extent to which Dutch-language Twitter did reflect a diverse news ecosystem by examining how structurally distinct news sources were shared between 2016 and 2022. While platforms are often seen as democratizing news distribution, few studies have analyzed how different media categories adapt to the same infrastructural conditions over time. Drawing on a longitudinal large-scale dataset of tweets containing URLs, we mea…
Eco-anxiety among young climate activists in the Netherlands: The role of information exposure on social media
This study aims at understanding the emotions, perceptions and beliefs of climate activists aged 17-25, and how these relate to their social media use. We investigate the platforms they use to receive climate change-related information, the types of information they come across, as well as the emotions such information evokes in them. Data was collected from 20 in-depth interviews with members of Extinction Rebellion and Fridays for Future in the…
Who is sharing the news? Identity construction of news sharers on Dutch language Twitter
This paper examines how self-ascribed identity in Twitter biographies relates to news-sharing behavior on the platform. Drawing on a dataset of Dutch Twitter users who shared links to news articles in 2021, this study applies contextual topic modeling and clustering techniques to analyze identity patterns at scale. While prior research on online identity has often relied on manual annotation or focused on elite actors, this work leverages computa…
Photographs, Visual Memes, and Viral Videos: Visual Phatic News Sharing on WhatsApp during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Spain, Italy, and The Netherlands
Sharing and discussing visual images in WhatsApp groups functions as a form of phatic news sharing to achieve a sense of togetherness and sociability. We explore how visual media content shared in personal WhatsApp interactions during the first strict lockdown months of the COVID-19 pandemic functions as phatic news. Our study addresses a gap in journalism studies in researching news-related and visual content from user perspectives. Our article …
The algorithmic network imaginary: How music artists understand and experience their algorithmically constructed networks
In this article we develop the concept of "algorithmic network imaginary" to understand how musicians imagine and relate to the networks of "related artists" they are algorithmically sorted into on Spotify. To address this question, we collected data on the related artist networks of 22 musicians constructed by Spotify's Fans Also Like feature and conducted semi-structured, in-depth interviews with each musician. We used the Qualitative Structura…
Rural media studies: Making the case for a new subfield
It is time for a rural turn in media studies. Media studies are deeply imbricated in urban life. It is where most universities are located. It is where many media scholars live and work. Media workers, too, predominately exist in the urban – at least for now. Embedded in these urban settings, media studies have too often focused on urban perspectives and considered rural dimensions largely from a ‘divides’ perspective, wherein the rural has someh…
Reconquest 2.0: The Spanish far right and the mobilization of historical memory during the 2019 elections
This paper brings together the literature on far right parties, medievalism and opinion leadership in order to more closely interrogate the memory politics of the far right. We address two broad questions: what does the mobilization of distant-past events do in far right discourse? And how do these memories circulate online? We unpack one specific case study: the mobilization of the topic ‘La Reconquista’ (The Reconquest) among the computer-media…
Homophily and Polarization in Twitter Political Networks: A Cross-Country Analysis
Homophily, the tendency of people to have ties with those who are similar, is a fundamental pattern to understand human relations. As such, the study of homophily can provide key insights into the flow of information and behaviors within political contexts. Indeed, some degree of polarization is necessary for the functioning of liberal democracies, but too much polarization can increase the adoption of extreme political positions and create democ…
Platform pop: Disentangling Spotify’s intermediary role in the music industry
It has been widely recognized that platforms utilize their editorial capacity to transform the industries they intermediate. In this paper, we examine the intermediary role of the leading audio streaming platform – Spotify – on the recorded music industry. Spotify is often called the ‘new radio’ for the influence it has on breaking songs and artists, and for the role it plays in music discovery and consumption. Our purpose is to determine whether…
Safe spaces? Grounding political talk in WhatsApp groups
Instant messaging (IM) platforms are believed to foster intimate and controlled conversations within small groups and hence provide safe social settings for political conversations, and yet we know little about how political talk emerges from the everyday social interactions in these environments. To fill the gap, this study examines how sociability within small, private WhatsApp groups shapes the extent and forms of political talk among young ad…
Rhetoric of parliamentary disinformation on Twitter
Democracy is based on individuals’ ability to give their opinions freely. To do this, they must have access to a multitude of reliable information sources, and this greatly depends on the characteristics of their media environments. Today, one of the main issues individuals face is the significant amount of disinformation circulating through social networks. This study focuses on parliamentary disinformation. It examines how parliamentarians cont…
Scalable Co-presence: WhatsApp and the Mediation of Personal Relationships during the Covid-19 Lockdown
This article sheds light on how adults in Barcelona (ES), Groningen (NL), and Milan (IT) utilized WhatsApp to compensate for the lack of face-to-face interactions and to fight social isolation during the first 2 months of the COVID-19 lockdown. We argue that practices of WhatsApp usage have multiplied and diversified experiences of co-presence at distance and made group socialities even more important than before. Building on the concepts of 'sca…
Moonwalking together: Tracing Redditors’ digital memory work on Michael Jackson
This article investigates the memory work concerning Michael Jackson on Reddit. By means of their posts, comments, and replies, people contributing to this site – Redditors – enter into a process we call mnemonic stabilization. This is a collaborative process in which networked individuals share their memories about, in this case, Michael Jackson. We argue that this process resembles Jackson’s dance technique called moonwalking: Redditors seem to…
Political Interaction Beyond Party Lines: Communication Ties and Party Polarization in Parliamentary Twitter Networks
A growing body of research has examined the uptake of social media by politicians, the formation of communication ties in online political networks, and the interplay between social media and political polarization. However, few studies have analyzed how social media are affecting communication in parliamentary networks. This is especially relevant in highly fragmented political systems in which collaboration between political parties is crucial …
Embodied crises: Cultural narratives, online social networks, and the mirror syndrome
This article addresses three interrelated phenomena: the irruption of new cultural narratives of power, the role of online social networks in the creation of embodied crises, and the emergence of the Mirror Syndrome as a new computer-mediated medical challenge. In doing so, it exposes the negative consequences that the cultural narratives of beauty canons executed by social media have, above all, for young women’s health
Moonwalking: Tracing Redditors’ Digital Memory Work on Michael Jackson
This paper investigates the memory work concerning Michael Jackson on the social content aggregation site Reddit. By means of their posts, comments and replies, people contributing to this site—Redditors—enter into a process we call the dynamics of mnemonic stabilization. This is a collaborative process in which networked individuals share their memories about, in this case, Michael Jackson. This process resembles Jackson’s dance technique called…
Online Deliberation and the Public Sphere: Developing a Coding Manual to Assess Deliberation in Twitter Political Networks
To what extent are elements of rational-critical debate present in Twitter political networks? And to what extent are the discursive practices in these networks constitutive of a public sphere online? This research presents the different phases of a coding manual we developed to assess deliberation in Twitter political networks. To exemplify the use and value of the coding manual, we manually annotated communications (N = 3657) in the Dutch MPs’ …
Platform politics: Party organisation in the digital age
This article examines the interaction of organisational and technological changes adopted by parties to respond to members’ demands for more participation. We develop a term, platform politics, and create a framework for identifying how parties use platforms to open or close intra-party decision-making. The framework is then applied to two institutionalised parties (PSOE and PD) and to two movement-based parties (Podemos and M5S) of the changing …
Opinion leadership in parliamentary Twitter networks: A matter of layers of interaction
This article seeks to test whether Twitter is contributing to the appearance of new opinion leaders or empowering already visible political leaders. The study is based on a data set spanning from January 1, 2013 to March 31, 2014 that covers all relationships (4,516), retweets (6,045) and mentions (19,507) of Catalan parliamentarians. The data sustains that having a parliamentarian position increases the probability of being an opinion leader of …
Uses and Gratifications factors for social media use in teaching: Instructors’ perspectives
This research was motivated by an interest in understanding how social media are applied in teaching in higher education. Data were collected using an online questionnaire, completed by 333 instructors in higher education, that asked about general social media use and specific use in teaching. Education and learning theories suggest three potential reasons for instructors to use social media in their teaching: (1) exposing students to practices, …
El movimientoYoSoy132: Tweets Y Votos en La Elección Presidencial Mexicana De 2012
Se investiga la existencia, magnitud y dirección de los efectos derivados de la actividad política del Movimiento YoSoy132 tanto en la conducta online de los candidatos presidenciales como en la del electorado mexicano. En primer lugar se observa que la aparición del Movimiento YoSoy132 provocó un aumento de la actividad de las cuentas de Twitter de Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Enrique Peña Nieto y Josefina Vázquez Mota. En segundo lugar se compr…
Platform politics: Party organisation in the digital age
This article examines the interaction of organisational and technological changes adopted by parties to respond to members’ demands for more participation. We develop a term, platform politics, and create a framework for identifying how parties use platforms to open or close intra-party decision-making. The framework is then applied to two institutionalised parties (PSOE and PD) and to two movement-based parties (Podemos and M5S) of the changing …
Political Interaction Beyond Party Lines: Communication Ties and Party Polarization in Parliamentary Twitter Networks
A growing body of research has examined the uptake of social media by politicians, the formation of communication ties in online political networks, and the interplay between social media and political polarization. However, few studies have analyzed how social media are affecting communication in parliamentary networks. This is especially relevant in highly fragmented political systems in which collaboration between political parties is crucial …
Reconquest 2.0: The Spanish far right and the mobilization of historical memory during the 2019 elections
This paper brings together the literature on far right parties, medievalism and opinion leadership in order to more closely interrogate the memory politics of the far right. We address two broad questions: what does the mobilization of distant-past events do in far right discourse? And how do these memories circulate online? We unpack one specific case study: the mobilization of the topic ‘La Reconquista’ (The Reconquest) among the computer-media…
Rhetoric of parliamentary disinformation on Twitter
Democracy is based on individuals’ ability to give their opinions freely. To do this, they must have access to a multitude of reliable information sources, and this greatly depends on the characteristics of their media environments. Today, one of the main issues individuals face is the significant amount of disinformation circulating through social networks. This study focuses on parliamentary disinformation. It examines how parliamentarians cont…
Rural media studies: Making the case for a new subfield
It is time for a rural turn in media studies. Media studies are deeply imbricated in urban life. It is where most universities are located. It is where many media scholars live and work. Media workers, too, predominately exist in the urban – at least for now. Embedded in these urban settings, media studies have too often focused on urban perspectives and considered rural dimensions largely from a ‘divides’ perspective, wherein the rural has someh…
Safe spaces? Grounding political talk in WhatsApp groups
Instant messaging (IM) platforms are believed to foster intimate and controlled conversations within small groups and hence provide safe social settings for political conversations, and yet we know little about how political talk emerges from the everyday social interactions in these environments. To fill the gap, this study examines how sociability within small, private WhatsApp groups shapes the extent and forms of political talk among young ad…
Scalable Co-presence: WhatsApp and the Mediation of Personal Relationships during the Covid-19 Lockdown
This article sheds light on how adults in Barcelona (ES), Groningen (NL), and Milan (IT) utilized WhatsApp to compensate for the lack of face-to-face interactions and to fight social isolation during the first 2 months of the COVID-19 lockdown. We argue that practices of WhatsApp usage have multiplied and diversified experiences of co-presence at distance and made group socialities even more important than before. Building on the concepts of 'sca…
Uses and Gratifications factors for social media use in teaching: Instructors’ perspectives
This research was motivated by an interest in understanding how social media are applied in teaching in higher education. Data were collected using an online questionnaire, completed by 333 instructors in higher education, that asked about general social media use and specific use in teaching. Education and learning theories suggest three potential reasons for instructors to use social media in their teaching: (1) exposing students to practices, …
The algorithmic network imaginary: How music artists understand and experience their algorithmically constructed networks
In this article we develop the concept of "algorithmic network imaginary" to understand how musicians imagine and relate to the networks of "related artists" they are algorithmically sorted into on Spotify. To address this question, we collected data on the related artist networks of 22 musicians constructed by Spotify's Fans Also Like feature and conducted semi-structured, in-depth interviews with each musician. We used the Qualitative Structura…
Opinion leadership in parliamentary Twitter networks: A matter of layers of interaction
This article seeks to test whether Twitter is contributing to the appearance of new opinion leaders or empowering already visible political leaders. The study is based on a data set spanning from January 1, 2013 to March 31, 2014 that covers all relationships (4,516), retweets (6,045) and mentions (19,507) of Catalan parliamentarians. The data sustains that having a parliamentarian position increases the probability of being an opinion leader of …
El movimientoYoSoy132: Tweets Y Votos en La Elección Presidencial Mexicana De 2012
Se investiga la existencia, magnitud y dirección de los efectos derivados de la actividad política del Movimiento YoSoy132 tanto en la conducta online de los candidatos presidenciales como en la del electorado mexicano. En primer lugar se observa que la aparición del Movimiento YoSoy132 provocó un aumento de la actividad de las cuentas de Twitter de Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Enrique Peña Nieto y Josefina Vázquez Mota. En segundo lugar se compr…
Uses and Gratifications factors for social media use in teaching: Instructors’ perspectives
This research was motivated by an interest in understanding how social media are applied in teaching in higher education. Data were collected using an online questionnaire, completed by 333 instructors in higher education, that asked about general social media use and specific use in teaching. Education and learning theories suggest three potential reasons for instructors to use social media in their teaching: (1) exposing students to practices, …
Opinion leadership in parliamentary Twitter networks: A matter of layers of interaction
This article seeks to test whether Twitter is contributing to the appearance of new opinion leaders or empowering already visible political leaders. The study is based on a data set spanning from January 1, 2013 to March 31, 2014 that covers all relationships (4,516), retweets (6,045) and mentions (19,507) of Catalan parliamentarians. The data sustains that having a parliamentarian position increases the probability of being an opinion leader of …
Platform politics: Party organisation in the digital age
This article examines the interaction of organisational and technological changes adopted by parties to respond to members’ demands for more participation. We develop a term, platform politics, and create a framework for identifying how parties use platforms to open or close intra-party decision-making. The framework is then applied to two institutionalised parties (PSOE and PD) and to two movement-based parties (Podemos and M5S) of the changing …
Moonwalking: Tracing Redditors’ Digital Memory Work on Michael Jackson
This paper investigates the memory work concerning Michael Jackson on the social content aggregation site Reddit. By means of their posts, comments and replies, people contributing to this site—Redditors—enter into a process we call the dynamics of mnemonic stabilization. This is a collaborative process in which networked individuals share their memories about, in this case, Michael Jackson. This process resembles Jackson’s dance technique called…
Online Deliberation and the Public Sphere: Developing a Coding Manual to Assess Deliberation in Twitter Political Networks
To what extent are elements of rational-critical debate present in Twitter political networks? And to what extent are the discursive practices in these networks constitutive of a public sphere online? This research presents the different phases of a coding manual we developed to assess deliberation in Twitter political networks. To exemplify the use and value of the coding manual, we manually annotated communications (N = 3657) in the Dutch MPs’ …
Moonwalking together: Tracing Redditors’ digital memory work on Michael Jackson
This article investigates the memory work concerning Michael Jackson on Reddit. By means of their posts, comments, and replies, people contributing to this site – Redditors – enter into a process we call mnemonic stabilization. This is a collaborative process in which networked individuals share their memories about, in this case, Michael Jackson. We argue that this process resembles Jackson’s dance technique called moonwalking: Redditors seem to…
Political Interaction Beyond Party Lines: Communication Ties and Party Polarization in Parliamentary Twitter Networks
A growing body of research has examined the uptake of social media by politicians, the formation of communication ties in online political networks, and the interplay between social media and political polarization. However, few studies have analyzed how social media are affecting communication in parliamentary networks. This is especially relevant in highly fragmented political systems in which collaboration between political parties is crucial …
Embodied crises: Cultural narratives, online social networks, and the mirror syndrome
This article addresses three interrelated phenomena: the irruption of new cultural narratives of power, the role of online social networks in the creation of embodied crises, and the emergence of the Mirror Syndrome as a new computer-mediated medical challenge. In doing so, it exposes the negative consequences that the cultural narratives of beauty canons executed by social media have, above all, for young women’s health
Homophily and Polarization in Twitter Political Networks: A Cross-Country Analysis
Homophily, the tendency of people to have ties with those who are similar, is a fundamental pattern to understand human relations. As such, the study of homophily can provide key insights into the flow of information and behaviors within political contexts. Indeed, some degree of polarization is necessary for the functioning of liberal democracies, but too much polarization can increase the adoption of extreme political positions and create democ…
Platform pop: Disentangling Spotify’s intermediary role in the music industry
It has been widely recognized that platforms utilize their editorial capacity to transform the industries they intermediate. In this paper, we examine the intermediary role of the leading audio streaming platform – Spotify – on the recorded music industry. Spotify is often called the ‘new radio’ for the influence it has on breaking songs and artists, and for the role it plays in music discovery and consumption. Our purpose is to determine whether…
Safe spaces? Grounding political talk in WhatsApp groups
Instant messaging (IM) platforms are believed to foster intimate and controlled conversations within small groups and hence provide safe social settings for political conversations, and yet we know little about how political talk emerges from the everyday social interactions in these environments. To fill the gap, this study examines how sociability within small, private WhatsApp groups shapes the extent and forms of political talk among young ad…
Rhetoric of parliamentary disinformation on Twitter
Democracy is based on individuals’ ability to give their opinions freely. To do this, they must have access to a multitude of reliable information sources, and this greatly depends on the characteristics of their media environments. Today, one of the main issues individuals face is the significant amount of disinformation circulating through social networks. This study focuses on parliamentary disinformation. It examines how parliamentarians cont…
Scalable Co-presence: WhatsApp and the Mediation of Personal Relationships during the Covid-19 Lockdown
This article sheds light on how adults in Barcelona (ES), Groningen (NL), and Milan (IT) utilized WhatsApp to compensate for the lack of face-to-face interactions and to fight social isolation during the first 2 months of the COVID-19 lockdown. We argue that practices of WhatsApp usage have multiplied and diversified experiences of co-presence at distance and made group socialities even more important than before. Building on the concepts of 'sca…
Rural media studies: Making the case for a new subfield
It is time for a rural turn in media studies. Media studies are deeply imbricated in urban life. It is where most universities are located. It is where many media scholars live and work. Media workers, too, predominately exist in the urban – at least for now. Embedded in these urban settings, media studies have too often focused on urban perspectives and considered rural dimensions largely from a ‘divides’ perspective, wherein the rural has someh…
Reconquest 2.0: The Spanish far right and the mobilization of historical memory during the 2019 elections
This paper brings together the literature on far right parties, medievalism and opinion leadership in order to more closely interrogate the memory politics of the far right. We address two broad questions: what does the mobilization of distant-past events do in far right discourse? And how do these memories circulate online? We unpack one specific case study: the mobilization of the topic ‘La Reconquista’ (The Reconquest) among the computer-media…
Photographs, Visual Memes, and Viral Videos: Visual Phatic News Sharing on WhatsApp during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Spain, Italy, and The Netherlands
Sharing and discussing visual images in WhatsApp groups functions as a form of phatic news sharing to achieve a sense of togetherness and sociability. We explore how visual media content shared in personal WhatsApp interactions during the first strict lockdown months of the COVID-19 pandemic functions as phatic news. Our study addresses a gap in journalism studies in researching news-related and visual content from user perspectives. Our article …
The algorithmic network imaginary: How music artists understand and experience their algorithmically constructed networks
In this article we develop the concept of "algorithmic network imaginary" to understand how musicians imagine and relate to the networks of "related artists" they are algorithmically sorted into on Spotify. To address this question, we collected data on the related artist networks of 22 musicians constructed by Spotify's Fans Also Like feature and conducted semi-structured, in-depth interviews with each musician. We used the Qualitative Structura…
Eco-anxiety among young climate activists in the Netherlands: The role of information exposure on social media
This study aims at understanding the emotions, perceptions and beliefs of climate activists aged 17-25, and how these relate to their social media use. We investigate the platforms they use to receive climate change-related information, the types of information they come across, as well as the emotions such information evokes in them. Data was collected from 20 in-depth interviews with members of Extinction Rebellion and Fridays for Future in the…
Who is sharing the news? Identity construction of news sharers on Dutch language Twitter
This paper examines how self-ascribed identity in Twitter biographies relates to news-sharing behavior on the platform. Drawing on a dataset of Dutch Twitter users who shared links to news articles in 2021, this study applies contextual topic modeling and clustering techniques to analyze identity patterns at scale. While prior research on online identity has often relied on manual annotation or focused on elite actors, this work leverages computa…
Digital Resilience Within a Hypermediated Polycrisis
This thematic issue examines digital resilience within an increasingly complex landscape of hypermediated, overlapping crises. Situated at the intersection of several research areas—including digital literacy, platform studies, Indigenous media studies, journalism studies, and political science—the thematic issue explores the complexities of digital resilience and seeks to advance its conceptualization and understanding. The issue brings together…
Online Media Coverage of Environmental Protest in Chile: Challenging the Protest Paradigm
Chile is an environmentally stressed country that needs to implement effective public policies to address the climate crisis. The growing severity of ecological challenges underscores the need to understand how the media portray environmental conflicts and protests, and how such coverage may raise awareness and drive societal and policy responses. This research approaches the Chilean context by analyzing the online media coverage of socio-environ…
A three-layered categorisation of climate justice demands
News circulation on social media platforms: A longitudinal study of news sharing and source diversity
This study investigates the extent to which Dutch-language Twitter did reflect a diverse news ecosystem by examining how structurally distinct news sources were shared between 2016 and 2022. While platforms are often seen as democratizing news distribution, few studies have analyzed how different media categories adapt to the same infrastructural conditions over time. Drawing on a longitudinal large-scale dataset of tweets containing URLs, we mea…
Sociology (18 works) · Social Media and Politics (16 works) · Computer Science (14 works) · Political science (14 works) · Social media (10 works) · Media studies (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Art (7 works)