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FRESH OUT!

February 2026

Two new entries are out now!

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casta by Natalia Ortesio Ruiz. From the perspective of media and political discourse analysis and interaction analysis, the author examines the use and meaning of this term as defined and employed by Javier Milei, the actual president of Argentina. Far from being a neutral word, it serves as a label for the political class and those seen as complicit in its corruption— a term marked by contempt and hostility, whose discursive construction is the focus of the analysis.

echo chambers by Desislava Angelova. Through a multidisciplinary approach, which takes into account psychological, social, rhetorical, and political dynamics as well as technological mechanisms (such as algorithmic filtering and platform architectures), the entry discusses echo chambers as a contemporary phenomenon in digital communication. Echo chambers frame, disseminate, and promote ideas and opinions which confirm pre-existing beliefs, thus reproducing persistent informational isolation. 

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