The use of Twitter by the main candidates in the general election campaigns in Spain: 2011 and 2015. Is there a digital and generational gap? El uso de Twitter por parte de los principales candidatos en las campañas electorales para las elecciones generales españolas: 2011 y 2015. ¿Brecha digital y generacional? Laura Cervi. She is Associate Professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in the Faculty of Communi- cation Sciences, and she also has a Doctorate in Political Science from the Universita di Pavia, Italy, based on research entitled Nazionalismo e mercato elettorale: il caso catalano (“Nationalism and the electoral market: the Catalonian case”), in the area of Political Communication. Finally, Laura Cervi earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from the Universita di Pavia, Italy with work and research conducted in the United States. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, España
[email protected] ORCID: 0000-0002-0376-0609 Núria Roca Trenchs. She is currently studying a PhD in communication and journalism at the Universitat Autò- noma de Barcelona. She has an Official Master’s Degree in Research in Communication and Journalism from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona as well. Roca holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Audiovisual Communication from the Open University of Catalonia, a Postgraduate Degree in Digital Journalism from the same University, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, España
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