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The usage of Twitter from the Spanish media during the elections

2018

Los medios de comunicación tradic ionales han adoptado Twitter c omo otro canal por el que difundir su información y llegar hasta las audiencias digit ales. Este estudio tiene como objetivo analizar las características de los tuits publicados por los me dios españoles durante doce meses en los que se producen dos procesos electorales, para comprobar las di ferencias en la utilización de esta plataforma según el contenido de la cobertura y la fase en que se publica. La investigación se fundamenta en una metodología cua ntitativa, en la que se implem enta un análisis de contenido computarizado de las publicacione s en Twitter que hacen los dis tintos tipos de medios entre 2015 y 2016. Los res…

Sleeper effect from below: Long-term effects of source credibility and user comments on the persuasiveness of news articles

2018

User comments on news websites are a controversial element of online communication. Various studies have reported the negative effects of comments criticizing the related news articles on readers’ attitudes toward the issues described in these articles. However, these findings are mostly based on measurements directly after the reception of comments. No research has investigated the long-term effects of comments on readers’ article-related attitudes and compared them with the effects of cues emanating from the articles themselves. Therefore, this study transferred the sleeper effect in persuasion to news sites with comment sections. In a 2 × 2-experiment, the persuasiveness of an article w…

2020

Background Digital gaming is one of the most popular forms of entertainment in the world. While prior literature concluded that digital games can enable changes in players’ behaviors, there is limited knowledge about different types of behavior changes and the game features driving them. Understanding behavior changes and the game features behind them is important because digital games can motivate players to change their behavior for the better (or worse). Objective This study investigates the types of behavior changes and their underlying game features within the context of the popular pervasive game Pokémon GO. Methods We collected data from 262 respondents with a critical incident tech…

La aporofobia como desafío antropológico. De la lógica de la cooperación a la lógica del reconocimiento

2019

el objetivo de este trabajo es poner en relación el núcleo crítico de la última obra de Adela Cortina, Aporofobia, que puede ser resu- mido como una protesta contra los límites del paradigma de la cooperación y la reciprocidad, con algunos elementos aparecidos en obras ante- riores de la autora 1 . Para ello expondré primero algunos límites y virtualidades del paradigma de la reciprocidad. Tras bosquejar el núcleo de la obra Aporofobia, deteniéndome en los lugares en que este problema se hace más patente, terminaré rastreando algunos lugares anteriores en los que la autora anticipaba ya, desde una óptica diferente, esta misma crítica. he aim of this paper is to connect the critical core of …

Moderate-to-Strong Turbulence Generation in a Laboratory Indoor Free Space Optics Link and Error Mitigation via RaptorQ Codes

2016

Free Space Optics (FSO) is rapidly gaining interest as a line-of sight communication technology that offers capabilities similar - in terms of bandwidth and transfer rates - to optical fibre, also possessing several advantages compared with traditional radio frequency links. However, FSO link quality can be strongly affected by unfavourable weather conditions and also by the phenomenon of optical turbulence, even in clear sky. In this work, we have implemented an indoor FSO link and generated moderate-to-strong turbulence conditions along the optical path by using heaters and a mechanical ventilation system. In this way, we have been able to investigate the effects of the generated turbulen…

2018

In this article we explore the effects that new information and communication technologies (ICTs) have on family relations in Finland. The idea of ‘new connectivities’ works as a starting point for...

The Norm of Neutrality in Collaborative Knowledge Construction

2017

Social media enabled collaboration at unprecedented levels. And while research points to the benefits of mass collaboration, it has also revealed challenges and problems. Here we explore biases in collaboratively constructed knowledge. To this end, we compared two online encyclopedias: Wikipedia and the extreme right-wing Metapedia. Both urge users to present topics from a neutral point of view. Using different measures we found that Metapedia articles (vs. Wikipedia articles) are significantly shorter, contain fewer references, contain relatively more anger- and anxiety-related words, rarely present more than one point of view in controversies, and often convey opinions – for inctance, by …

Ads and sensationalism: the irruption of mass advertising

2018

El siglo XX es, entre otras lecturas, el siglo de la publicidad. Y, por supuesto, es también el tiempo del sensacionalismo como nueva forma de entender la comunicación dirigida a los nuevos públicos masivos que se están configurando. Sin embargo, mientras el sensacionalismo periodístico se ha observado con cierto interés por cuanto ha presidido acontecimientos de gran calado de fines del siglo XIX y ha preparado la irrupción de la propaganda científica que se produce ya con la Gran Guerra, no ha sucedido lo mismo con las estrategias seguidas por los anuncios para alcanzar el mismo fin, esto es, la venta masiva del producto. Y, desde nuestro punto de vista, sensacionalismo y publicidad empez…

Spin Doctors in the United States, Great Britain, and Germany: Metacommunication about Media Manipulation

2001

This study develops a new concept in political communication theory called metacommunication. It argues that metacommunication (1) describes a new, third stage in election coverage after issue and strategy coverage; (2) reflects the mass media's new role as a political institution in the third age of political communication; and (3) can be seen as the news media's response to a new, third force in news making: professional political PR. Metacommunication is defined as the news media's self-referential reflections on the nature of the interplay between political public relations and political journalism. While metacoverage can take two forms, self-referential news and process news, the pres…

Disinformation in Facebook Ads in the 2019 Spanish General Election Campaigns

2021

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