Department: Law and Political Science Department

Unit: Management and governance

Research group: GADE eGovernance: electronic administration and democracy

Email: acardenal@uoc.edu

Doctor by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona with the thesis Elites agrarias y democracia una explicación del proceso de democratización en El Salvador 1996. Supervised by Dr. Joan Botella Corral.

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).