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Dr Pedro Fierro

Dr Pedro Fierro

Visiting Fellow

Department of Media and Communications

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Languages
English, Spanish
Key Expertise
Political Communication, Political Geography

About me

Pedro Fierro is an assistant professor at the Business School at Adolfo Ibanez University (Chile) and an adjunct researcher at the Millennium Nucleus for the Study of Politics, Public Opinion and Media in Chile. He is also a researcher at P!ensa Foundation, a Chilean think tank where he lead the públicamente opinion area. Recently, he has been a Miguel-Dols Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Before he completed his PhD in Communication from the University of Navarra (Spain), he was a visiting researcher at Digital UNAV and at the Department of Public Communication at Pompeu Fabra University. 

His research is focused on Political Communication and Political Geography. He has published articles in different journals, such as Technology in Society, New Media and Society, Social Science Computer Review, and the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society.

Expertise Details

Political Communication; Political Geography

Publications
  • Fierro, P., I. Aravena-González, P. Aroca & Francisco Rowe (2024) Geographies of Discontent: Measuring and Understanding the Feeling of Abandonment in the Chilean Region of Valparaiso (2019-2021). Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsae004
  • Aroca, P., E. Mundt & P. Fierro (2024) Fund Distribution and Incentives for Territorial Fragmentation: The Case of the FNDR in Chile. EURE-Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Urbano Regionales. https://www.eure.cl/index.php/eure/article/view/4942  
  • Fierro, P., P. Aroca & P. Navia (2023). The Center-Periphery Cleavage and Online Political Efficacy (OPE): Territorial and Democratic Divide in Chile, 2018–2020. New Media & Society, 25(6). DOI: 10.1177/14614448211019303 
  • Fierro, P., P. Aroca & P. Navia (2023). Political Disaffection in the Digital Age: The Use of Social Media and the Gap in Internal and External Efficacy. Social Science Computer Review, 41(5). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/08944393221087940  
  • Fierro, P., P. Aroca & P. Navia (2020). How People Access the Internet and the Democratic Divide: Evidence from the Chilean Region of Valparaiso 2017, 2018 and 2019. Technology in Society. DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2020.101432 
  • Fierro, P. & F. Guerrero-Solé (2018). Measuring Political Attitudes in New Democracies: The Case of Chile. Communication & Society, 31(3), 93-109. DOI: 10.15581/003.31.3.93-109
  • Fierro, P. & A. Azurmendi (2017). Theoretical Approaches About the Role of Electoral Advertising in a Context of Political Malaise. Revista de Comunicación, 16(2), 88-107. DOI: 10.26441/RC16.2-2017-A4 
  • López-Hermida, A. & P. Fierro (2016). Political Campaigns and Public Disaffection: An Approach from Chile to the Effects of Electoral Activities in the Democratic Process. Palabra Clave, 19(2), 365-397. DOI: 10.5294/pacla.2016.19.2.2

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