Alberto Ardèvol Abreu

Alberto Ardèvol-Abreu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Social Work at the University of La Laguna. According to the indicator developed by Stanford University with data from Scopus, he is among the top 2% most influential scientists in the world (https://bit.ly/3tWbBrR). Alberto obtained his Ph.D. in Communication Sciences with his thesis on news framing of humanitarian crises in December 2013, after completing predoctoral research stays at the University of Texas at Austin and the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (Mexico). He holds the i3 certification for an outstanding research career from the Spanish Ministry of Universities, a six-year research term (‘sexenio de la Comisión Nacional Evaluadora de la Actividad Investigadora’) for the 2013-2019 period and a recognized five-year teaching period ('quinquenio docente', 2014-2021). Dr. Ardèvol’s research interests focus on new media and political communication. He is particularly engaged in the enquiry about positive and negative effects of internet-based media use on civic and democratic life. His latest publications explore potential implications of new media-related phenomena for democracy and political participation: conspiracy beliefs, fake news, citizen journalism, political polarization, or online political discussion. Alberto Ardèvol-Abreu is also engaged in theory building and theory testing in Communication (especially in connection with framing and agenda-setting theories). Some of his recent studies have received important national and international awards. Among them are best article award on politics and information technologies from the American Political Science Association (APSA), the Denis McQuail Award from the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR) for the best article advancing communication theory, the Robert M. Worcester Award from the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR) for the outstanding article of the year, and the Drago Latina 2013-2017 Award for the most cited article in five years published in the 'Revista Latina de Comunicación Social'.