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Shaping participatory publics: proof of concept with depopulation as a case study
(Communication and the Public, 2025) Saiz-Echezarreta, Vanesa; Galletero-Campos, Belén; Fouce Rodríguez, Héctor; Martínez-Rodrigo, Arturo
This paper connects the sociology of public problems with the categorisation of participatory publics proposed by Hasebrink et al. Building on our work on depopulation in Spain, we propose to analyse the conversation on Twitter/X between 2019 and 2023 to create a proof of concept of its typology: polity publics, topic publics and group publics, which tend to intersect and form hybrid publics. The paper aims to operationalise the concept of publics proposed by Dewey by combining a theoretical model with data obtained from the analysis of a sample informed by existing ethnographic work using automated computational analysis techniques and data visualisation. Our source is the digital postings with which participants in the public related to depopulation set out their positions and relations with other actors in the public problem. On this basis, we conclude that it is necessary to understand the participatory public as a process rather than as a set of ideal types, assuming the existence of time cycles that depend on the actors’ ability to introduce their problem into the public sphere.
Síntesis de la evolución geodinámica durante el Cuaternario de la zona oriental de la cuenca de Huércal-Overa (Almería, Cordilleras Béticas)
(Geotemas, 2004) García Meléndez, Eduardo; Goy Goy, José Luis; Zazo Cardeña, Caridad
The landscape of the eastern Huércal-Overa Basin reflects the influence of a tectonic context thataffected its younger landforms, and involved Quaternary neotectonic activity and the dominantalluvial sedimentary environment. From sedimentary descriptions, aerial photo-interpretation, geo-morphological mapping and the use of GIS techniques, the geodynamic evolution of this part ofthe Huércal-Overa basin during the late Pliocene and Quaternary has been reconstructed, emerging a complicated pattern. The main tectonic activity is associated with the entrance of the left-lateral strike-slip Lorca-Alhama fault (oriented NE-SW) in the Huércal-Overa basin. The interactionof this fault with earlier ENE-WSW to E-W faults inherited from the opening stage of the basinduring the Miocene formed a subsiding area (the Cubeta del Saltador) with pull-apart characteristics superimposed on the previous Miocene basin, and tectonic highs in both the northern and eastern margins.
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