Ana Sofía Cardenal Izquierdo
Professor Agregat Law and Political Science Department
Expert in::
- ICT Information and Communication Technologies
- Political participation
- Politics
- Research group
- GADE
- Area
- Social sciences
- Area of specialization
- Network society, Law, Politics and the Internet, Internet technologies and artificial intelligence,
- Membership Center
- Faculties
ODS:
Ana S. Cardenal's teaching focuses on comparative politics and social science methods. She has been teaching a bachelor's degree course in comparative politics, which covers the comparative study of political regimes, for several years at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF). At the UOC, she is responsible for a number of methodology and comparative politics courses, mainly for the University Master's Degree in Political Analysis. She has also taught doctoral degree-level courses on research methods for the social sciences.
Her research interests lie in the fields of public opinion, digital and social media, comparative media systems and computational methods. In the past ten years her research has focused on uncovering patterns in online news consumption using web-tracking data on users’ browsing behaviour and studying the effects of digital media and online news consumption on attitudes, opinion formation and political behaviour. Her research on these subjects has been published in some of the most relevant scholarly journals in the field (Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Political Communication, International Journal of Press/Politics, European Journal of Communication, International Journal of Public Opinion Research).
She was awarded the Robert M Worcester Prize for most outstanding paper published in 2019 in the International Journal of Public Opinion Research.
She was awarded a Fulbright fellowship for a postdoctoral stay at New York University (NYU) in 2004.
She was awarded a predoctoral fellowship to pursue her doctoral studies at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and Stanford University.