Francisco Seoane Pérez (PhD, Leeds, 2011) is associate (tenured) professor in Journalism Studies at the Department of Communication, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. His specialism is on qualitative research in political communication, having observed and interviewed political activists, journalists and politicians in Spain, USA, the UK and the European Union institutions in Brussels. His book Political communication in Europe: The cultural and structural limits of the European public sphere (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) won the THESEUS Prize for Promising Research in European Integration. An avid reader of politico-cultural magazines, he conducted interviews with journalists and editors of publications like The Atlantic, The New Republic, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Economist and The Nation as part of a research project on their digital transitions, funded by the BBVA Foundation in 2015. From 2007 to 2025 he has been an editor for the International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics (Intellect). He is the academic coordinator for the Asociación de Comunicación Política (ACOP).
Research interests
- Political communication
- Political magazines
- Narrative journalism
