Lara Cervi
Biographic Data
| ID | 193629 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lara Cervi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lara |
| FAMILY NAME | Cervi |
| SIGNATURE | CERVI L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0376-0609 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 101 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Kamala is Brat: TikTok and the Affective Politics of Memes
In this article, we examine TikTok memes about former Vice president Kamala Harris that circulated through the digital registers of the Charli XCX-inspired “Kamala is Brat” trend. By analyzing the form, function, and affective resonance of these memes, we explore how creators interpreted and reframed Harris’s image leading up to the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Using a multimodal analysis, we introduce a three-layer analytic that distinguishe…
Affective aesthetization of politics and politicization of aesthetics in TikTok feminist activism: A case study from the Global South
This paper examines how TikTok is engendering new forms of feminist digital activism through a case study from the Global South. Centering on the hashtag #NiUnaMenos, we explore how users mobilize affect and aesthetic practices to protest feminicide, harnessing audiovisual performance, viral trends, and participatory remix culture. The study identifies a dual dynamic: the aestheticization of politics, whereby political content becomes emotionally…
European elections on TikTok: The Spanish case
European elections offer a unique opportunity for researchers to analyze political campaigns. Often considered second-order elections, they tend to receive fewer resources and less attention from the media and voters than national elections. However, perhaps because of this, parties use these campaigns to test innovative tactics, especially on social media. Among other platforms, TikTok, originally intended for entertainment-only content, is incr…
Double tap democracy: Political authenticity in the TikTok era
This study explores how political leaders use TikTok to construct and communicate political authenticity through strategies of immediacy, consistency and ordinariness. Through a combined qualitative and quantitative method, we take a case study approach and analyse 380 videos by the political leaders in Queensland, Australia. Immediacy, the most prominent authenticity type, demonstrates high engagement, reflecting the platform's demand for real-t…
El turismo religioso como objeto de estudio: Revisión bibliográfica sistematizada (2019-2023)
Religious tourism is an important economic and cultural driver for many destinations and is one of the fastest-growing sectors within the global tourism market. Based on a meta-analysis and review of emerging literature from the period 2019-2023 in the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) of the Web of Science (WoS), this study analyses, from a quantitative-qualitative approach, the state-of-the-art research on this sub-category of tourism from …
Capítulo 2. Verificar para poder innovar: Estudios de casos desde la hibridación y la transversalidad entre medios
La necesidad de innovar conecta, en el actual panorama mediático, con la urgencia de combatir la desinformación. Estos desafíos se suman a los procesos de hibridación y transversalidad entre las rutinas productivas, los formatos y las dinámicas de trabajo de los medios de comunicación. Partiendo de ello, el trabajo analiza los resultados derivados del estudio detallado de 7 experiencias de verificación en diferentes medios. El estudio identifica …
TikTok and Political Communication: The Latest Frontier of Politainment? A Case Study
TikTok is without any doubt the most popular social media among Gen Zers. Originally born as a lip-syncing app, it can be exploited in different ways; as such, it represents a new fertile space for political communication. In this vein, previous studies have shown that politicians all over the planet are joining the platform as a tool to connect with younger audiences. This study examines the use of TikTok in the last presidential elections in Pe…
Twitting Against the Enemy: Populist Radical Right Parties Discourse Against the (Political) “Other”
There is a common agreement in considering populism as a Manichean worldview that oversimplifies and polarizes political options reducing them to a symbolical struggle between an “us” and a “them.” “Us” is embodied by “the people,” equated with “good,” and “them” is identified by political “Others,” often embodied by “the elites” who are depicted as inherently “evil.” Naturally, the nature and composition of the people and the elite vary accordin…
The Representation and Politicization of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the Front Pages of the Daily Newspapers of Russia, Italy, the United Kingdom, Spain, France, Portugal, Germany, and the United States
The impact COVID-19 has demanded an additional effort from the media to report a virus of global reach. During the lockdown, there has been an increase in information consumption derived from the interest and concern of citizens to know the characteristics, development, and threats of the coronavirus. Although social networks have ranked first among the cyberspace platforms most consulted by citizens, different studies indicate that citizens cons…
Playful Activism: Memetic Performances of Palestinian Resistance in TikTok #Challenges
Palestinians have long been using social media as a tool for activism. Each platform provides unique socio-technological affordances that shape users' communicative practices as networked publics. Focusing on the video-sharing platform TikTok, which has taken a 'serious turn' in recent years, this article examines how Palestinian users performed playful acts of resistance during the escalation of violence between Palestinians and Israelis in May …
Estudio comparativo sobre el potencial del meme como recurso de comunicación política: Recepción, usos y significados en estudiantes universitarios (Ecuador-España)
Esta investigación analiza la percepción del alumnado sobre el meme como una herramienta discursiva y estratégica en el escenario político digital. Para ello se realiza un estudio comparativo entre 178 estudiantes de las carreras de Comunicación y Periodismo de dos universidades públicas como son: Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (España) y Universidad Técnica de Machala (Ecuador). A nivel metodológico, se aplicó la encuesta como principal técni…
La privacidad, un desafío para periodistas y comunicadores. Análisis de la privacidad en los estudios universitarios de comunicación de Europa y Estados Unidos
El derecho a la privacidad del ciudadano y su preocupación por la protección de sus datos se ha acentuado con la consolidación y el uso masivo de internet, donde se ven expuestas, cada vez más, millones de referencias personales tanto de usuarios directos como de navegantes esporádicos. Pero si hay una profesión que se somete al difícil equilibro entre el respeto a la privacidad y la rigurosidad de una labor que es de interés público, esta es el …
Comunicación digital y ciudad: Análisis de las páginas web de las ciudades más visitadas en el mundo en la era de la Covid-19
Hoy en día, las ciudades compiten por convertirse en la elección de la comunidad mundial en materia de inversiones, comercio, turismo y asociaciones. En este contexto, la redefinición de su estrategia de comunicación, especialmente a nivel digital, se ha convertido en un reto urgente. Por otro lado, la Covid-19 ha impactado directamente en todas las facetas de la vida y, particularmente, en el mundo de los viajes y el turismo, se ha transformado …
Representación del Populismo en la prensa tradicional española
La proyección y relevancia del fenómeno del populismo en la última década ha provocado que la prensa tradicional se quede fuera de la estrategia de comunicación que marcan los políticos populistas principalmente a través de las redes sociales. El objetivo de este artículo es indagar en el papel que ejercen los dos periódicos más importantes de España ante el tratamiento de los términos “populismo” y “populista” en sus informaciones diarias. La mu…
Estudios universitarios de periodismo en España: Un análisis curricular
Este artículo muestra los resultados de un estudio cuantitativo y cualitativo que analiza los siete planes de estudio sobre periodismo de siete universidades españolas, tanto públicas como privadas, con mayor reputación académica, impacto de investigación y reputación del empleador, según los índices internacionales QS World University y Shanghai Ranking. Se analizan las competencias, agrupaciones temáticas y tipos de asignaturas a partir del mét…
Periodismo en contextos de violencia, principales problemas y posibles vías de solución: Percepciones de periodistas latinoamericanos
Un total de 324 periodistas han sido asesinados en el mundo en la última década. Partiendo de ello, el trabajo presenta una investigación a partir de 26 periodistas con una trayectoria de más de 10 años en la cobertura de temas de violencia en diferentes países de la región latinoamericana. El objetivo es analizar la percepción de los periodistas latinoamericanos sobre el ejercicio de la profesión en contextos de conflicto. La propuesta metodológ…
Expansion of the core business of traditional media companies in Spain through SVOD services
The strategic importance of the internet for television became evident in the early 2000s, even destabilizing its very concept and finally resulting in convergence towards a profound transformation of the sector. The introduction of global over-the-top (OTT) media services into local markets has led to strategic changes in multimedia groups. This study considers the subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) services of Atresmedia and Mediaset España, t…
The framing of news reports on the Catalonian referendum in two leading British newspapers
Even though the independence referendum held in 2017 in Catalonia was unsuccessful, the large role of the media together with easy, fast international broadcasting and the fear of a possible mimic effect in other regions made the entire world observe and discuss the event. The purpose of this article is to analyse the media coverage of the referendum in two benchmark British newspapers, The Guardian and The Telegraph . Based on hypotheses that th…
Freepalestine on TikTok: From performative activism to (meaningful) playful activism
Palestinians, like many other diasporic communities, have, on the one hand, articulated their personal experiences and their subjectivities through digitalized channels. On the other, they have used social networks as tools for resistance, to make their voices heard by global public opinion. Acknowledging that each social medium is a unique socio-technological environment, displaying particular affordances that shape its dynamics of communicative…
Mujeres directivas de televisión: Entre el liderazgo y las desigualdades de género. El caso español
El liderazgo femenino en empresas de televisión en España está lejos de consolidarse, a pesar de los grandes avances en Europa y en otros países desarrollados en la última década. El objetivo de este estudio es observar cómo la masculinización del poder y los estereotipos de género continúan provocando un lastre en el ascenso de la mujer en puestos directivos de alto nivel en televisión. El método utilizado ha sido el análisis cualitativo, a part…
Comparative Study of the Information about the Covid-19 Pandemic and Covid-19 Vaccines on the Covers of United Kingdom, France, Spain and United States’ Main Newspapers
This study compares the information coverage of the vaccine against the information of the COVID-19 pandemic in eight newspapers (two per country) from the United Kingdom, France, Spain and the United States. The newspapers analyzed are The Times and The Guardian (United Kingdom), Le Monde and Le Figaro (France), El País and El Mundo (Spain), and The New York Times and The Washington Post (United States). On a methodological level, the work uses …
Prosumers y la profesionalización del periodismo ciudadano: El caso www.eurovision-spain.com
El avance imparable de la tecnología en la sociedad de la comunicación e información de hoy en día ha provocado que el modelo tradicional de comunicación vertical y unidireccional de los medios de comunicación de masas haya sido reemplazado por otro horizontal y multidireccional, donde los individuos se han convertido en productores y consumidores de contenido. Con internet en su máximo esplendor y con los teléfonos inteligentes como principales …
Pandemia y guerra: Narrativas de crisis y liderazgo. Análisis de las estrategias discursivas presidenciales en el inicio de la pandemia del Covid-19
Introducción. Las crisis provocadas por acontecimientos imprevistos como el COVID-19 ponen a prueba las capacidades de comunicación y liderazgo de los actores políticos. Como respuesta, estos políticos establecen estrategias comunicativas que buscan redefinir y reforzar su liderazgo (y su imagen) ante la opinión pública. Metodología. Este texto analiza el desarrollo de algunas de las estrategias llevadas a cabo por los líderes políticos de los tr…
Journalism Students and Information Consumption in the Era of Fake News
Technological platforms, such as social media, are disrupting traditional journalism, as a result the access to high-quality information by citizens is facing important challenges, among which, disinformation and the spread of fake news are the most relevant one. This study approaches how journalism students perceive and assess this phenomenon. The descriptive and exploratory research is based on a hybrid methodology: Two matrix surveys of studen…
TikTok and the new language of political communication
Introduction: Political parties struggle to reconnect to Young people by using social networks. Acknowledging that 2020 has been the year of TikTok, most Spanish political parties have joined this social network: Podemos, with 191.400 followers and 3.1 million likes, is the most followed political party on this platform. Method: Using multimodal content analysis, this paper aims at analyzing how the party is using this social network, and for whi…
Playful Activism: Memetic Performances of Palestinian Resistance in TikTok #Challenges
Palestinians have long been using social media as a tool for activism. Each platform provides unique socio-technological affordances that shape users' communicative practices as networked publics. Focusing on the video-sharing platform TikTok, which has taken a 'serious turn' in recent years, this article examines how Palestinian users performed playful acts of resistance during the escalation of violence between Palestinians and Israelis in May …
"Framing "The Gypsy Problem: Populist Electoral Use of Romaphobia in Italy (2014-2019)
Xenophobic arguments have long been at the center of the political discourse of the Lega party in Italy, nonetheless Matteo Salvini, the new leader, capitalizing on diffused Romaphobia, placed Roma people at the center of his political discourse, institutionalizing the "Camp visit" as an electoral event. Through the analysis of eight consecutive electoral campaigns, in a six year period, mixing computer-based quantitative and qualitative content …
Exclusionary Populism and Islamophobia: A Comparative Analysis of Italy and Spain
Exclusionary populism is well known for twisting real grievances of the citizens, by problematizing the gap between "us" and "them", capitalizing on identity lines, calling out as "others" those who do not share "pure people's" identity and culture. Especially after 9/11, Muslims have become the ideal-type of "other", making Islamophobia the primary populist anti-paradigm. This article contributes to the burgeoning literature on Islamophobic popu…
What are political parties doing on TikTok? The Spanish case
TikTok, already widely used before the pandemic, boomed during the quarantine that locked down large parts of the world, reaching 2 billion downloads and 800 million monthly active users worldwide by the end of 2020. Of these 800 million users, 41% are aged between 16 and 24 years. This social network, widely known for its entertainment videos, is increasingly becoming a place for political discussion and therefore a unique opportunity for politi…
Populism, Twitter, and Covid-19: Narrative, Fantasies, and Desires
During a global pandemic, the great impact of populist discourse on the construction of social reality is undeniable. This study analyzes the fantasmatic dimension of political discourse from Donald Trump's and Jair Bolsonaro's Twitter accounts between 1 March and 31 May. To do so, it applies a Clause-Based Semantic Text Analysis (CBSTA) methodology that categorizes speech in Subject-Verb-Object (SVO) triplets. The study findings show that in spi…
Freepalestine on TikTok: From performative activism to (meaningful) playful activism
Palestinians, like many other diasporic communities, have, on the one hand, articulated their personal experiences and their subjectivities through digitalized channels. On the other, they have used social networks as tools for resistance, to make their voices heard by global public opinion. Acknowledging that each social medium is a unique socio-technological environment, displaying particular affordances that shape its dynamics of communicative…
Twitting Against the Enemy: Populist Radical Right Parties Discourse Against the (Political) “Other”
There is a common agreement in considering populism as a Manichean worldview that oversimplifies and polarizes political options reducing them to a symbolical struggle between an “us” and a “them.” “Us” is embodied by “the people,” equated with “good,” and “them” is identified by political “Others,” often embodied by “the elites” who are depicted as inherently “evil.” Naturally, the nature and composition of the people and the elite vary accordin…
What Kind of Islamophobia? Representation of Muslims and Islam in Italian and Spanish Media
News media play a crucial role in the production and reproduction of stereotypes, influencing public opinions regarding different groups and minorities. Thus, acquiring a deeper understanding of media coverage of Muslims and Islam is decisive for understanding the sources of public attitudes towards Muslims. This study aims at displaying how Muslims and Islam are represented in Italian and Spanish media. Focusing on the online version of the two …
Expansion of the core business of traditional media companies in Spain through SVOD services
The strategic importance of the internet for television became evident in the early 2000s, even destabilizing its very concept and finally resulting in convergence towards a profound transformation of the sector. The introduction of global over-the-top (OTT) media services into local markets has led to strategic changes in multimedia groups. This study considers the subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) services of Atresmedia and Mediaset España, t…
Mujeres directivas de televisión: Entre el liderazgo y las desigualdades de género. El caso español
El liderazgo femenino en empresas de televisión en España está lejos de consolidarse, a pesar de los grandes avances en Europa y en otros países desarrollados en la última década. El objetivo de este estudio es observar cómo la masculinización del poder y los estereotipos de género continúan provocando un lastre en el ascenso de la mujer en puestos directivos de alto nivel en televisión. El método utilizado ha sido el análisis cualitativo, a part…
Comparative Study of the Information about the Covid-19 Pandemic and Covid-19 Vaccines on the Covers of United Kingdom, France, Spain and United States’ Main Newspapers
This study compares the information coverage of the vaccine against the information of the COVID-19 pandemic in eight newspapers (two per country) from the United Kingdom, France, Spain and the United States. The newspapers analyzed are The Times and The Guardian (United Kingdom), Le Monde and Le Figaro (France), El País and El Mundo (Spain), and The New York Times and The Washington Post (United States). On a methodological level, the work uses …
Perception of journalists reporting in conflict zones: Labour situation, working conditions and main challenges in information coverage in contexts of violence
A total of 324 journalists have been killed in the world in the last decade. In Latin America and the Caribbean, the situation is alarming. Based on these statistics, this work presents an investigation with journalists from 10 countries. Based on in-depth interviews and the Delphi method, the study explores professionals’ perspectives about violence against journalists, pointing out the challenges for women, the role of independent media togethe…
Análisis de la integración de sistemas inteligentes de alertas y automatización de contenidos en cuatro cibermedios
El uso de aplicaciones de inteligencia artificial en las diferentes fases de elaboración de noticias ya es una práctica habitual en los medios de comunicación de más prestigio internacional, pero el análisis de su uso en la práctica profesional es un campo incipiente en la investigación desde el ámbito de periodismo. La investigación pionera “Aplicación de la inteligencia artificial en la elaboración de noticias” desarrollada por La Cátedra RTVE …
Los docentes universitarios frente al cambio a la educación virtual impuesta por el coronavirus
Esta investigación realizó un estudio comparativo entre tres países muy impactados por el coronavirus a partir del análisis de las reflexiones de docentes sobre la enseñanza virtual universitaria durante la etapa de confinamiento. El estudio, de carácter descriptivo, exploratorio y explicativo, aplicó 196 encuestas, entre marzo y abril de 2020, a docentes de periodismo, comunicación y educación de la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (España), Un…
Analysis of Journalism and Communication Studies in Europe’s Top Ranked Universities: Competencies, Aims and Courses
This article presents the results of a descriptive study that analyzes 17 curricula in Communication and Journalism of the 8 best ranked universities in Europe in the field of Communication, according to the QS World University Rankings. The research, using both quantitative and qualitative methodology, analyzes the academic curricula focusing on 687 courses, studying the type of courses, credit and subjects and their distribution in the curricul…
The framing of news reports on the Catalonian referendum in two leading British newspapers
Even though the independence referendum held in 2017 in Catalonia was unsuccessful, the large role of the media together with easy, fast international broadcasting and the fear of a possible mimic effect in other regions made the entire world observe and discuss the event. The purpose of this article is to analyse the media coverage of the referendum in two benchmark British newspapers, The Guardian and The Telegraph . Based on hypotheses that th…
Spanish journalists on Twitter: Diagnostic approach to what, and how Spanish journalists talk about politics, international affairs, society, communication and culture
Twitter has become a broad network of news and information. Journalists exploit the possibilities of this network to access information sources, to disseminate messages or participate in debates about current news. The objective of this investigation is to discover what Spanish journalists talk about on Twitter through a comparative study between journalists working in traditional media and in cyber media and determine if there is a difference be…
Cap a l’americanització de les campanyes electorals? L’ús de Facebook i Twitter a Espanya, Estats Units i Noruega
La primera victòria electoral d’Obama va demostrar que, per guanyar unes eleccions, cal tenir presència a les xarxes socials: és innegable que a la majoria dels països desenvolupats les campanyes en línia estan reemplaçant les campanyes tradicionals.Molts acadèmics ja parlen d’una americanització de la política i assumeixen que en les campanyes electorals els partits polítics i els candidats dels països més democratitzats copien les estratègies i…
Educación en tiempos de pandemia: Reflexiones de alumnos y profesores sobre la enseñanza virtual universitaria en España, Italia y Ecuador
Introducción. Esta investigación realizó un estudio comparativo entre tres países muy impactados por el coronavirus a partir del análisis de las reflexiones de docentes y estudiantes sobre la enseñanza virtual universitaria durante la etapa de confinamiento. Metodología. El estudio, de carácter descriptivo, exploratorio y explicativo, aplicó encuestas, entre marzo y abril de 2020, a estudiantes y docentes de Periodismo, Comunicación y Educación d…
Native Media and Business Models: Comparative Study of 14 Successful Experiences in Latin America
From its onset on the 1990s, both digital native (with sister headings on the analog platform) as digital native news media have experienced a constant transformation process. The accelerated technological evolution linked to the changing information consumption habits of the users demanded a constant reinvention capability. Furthermore, the need for profit and the drop in advertisement sales have pushed the media to redefine their structure, con…
Information on the Covid-19 Pandemic in Daily Newspapers’ Front Pages: Case Study of Spain and Italy
Spain and Italy are amongst the European countries where the COVID-19 pandemic has produced its major impact and where lockdown measures have been the harshest. This research aims at understanding how the corona crisis has been represented in Spanish and Italian media, focusing on reference newspapers. The study analyzes 72 front pages of El País and El Mundo in Spain and Italy's Corriere della Sera and La Repubblica, collecting 710 news items an…
Analysis of Journalism and Communication Studies in Europe’s Top Ranked Universities: Competencies, Aims and Courses
This article presents the results of a descriptive study that analyzes 17 curricula in Communication and Journalism of the 8 best ranked universities in Europe in the field of Communication, according to the QS World University Rankings. The research, using both quantitative and qualitative methodology, analyzes the academic curricula focusing on 687 courses, studying the type of courses, credit and subjects and their distribution in the curricul…
Perception of journalists reporting in conflict zones: Labour situation, working conditions and main challenges in information coverage in contexts of violence
A total of 324 journalists have been killed in the world in the last decade. In Latin America and the Caribbean, the situation is alarming. Based on these statistics, this work presents an investigation with journalists from 10 countries. Based on in-depth interviews and the Delphi method, the study explores professionals’ perspectives about violence against journalists, pointing out the challenges for women, the role of independent media togethe…
Spanish journalists on Twitter: Diagnostic approach to what, and how Spanish journalists talk about politics, international affairs, society, communication and culture
Twitter has become a broad network of news and information. Journalists exploit the possibilities of this network to access information sources, to disseminate messages or participate in debates about current news. The objective of this investigation is to discover what Spanish journalists talk about on Twitter through a comparative study between journalists working in traditional media and in cyber media and determine if there is a difference be…
Augmented Reality and Journalism: 10 Use-Case Analysis From Television, Printing and Web Media Platforms
Augmented reality has inaugurated new developments that enable the creation of content of various kinds. Based on the case study methodology, the work analyzes 10 successful experiences of using augmented reality linked to television, the press and digital media. The investigation concludes that the use of augmented reality without a journalistic purpose can harm the media
"Framing "The Gypsy Problem: Populist Electoral Use of Romaphobia in Italy (2014-2019)
Xenophobic arguments have long been at the center of the political discourse of the Lega party in Italy, nonetheless Matteo Salvini, the new leader, capitalizing on diffused Romaphobia, placed Roma people at the center of his political discourse, institutionalizing the "Camp visit" as an electoral event. Through the analysis of eight consecutive electoral campaigns, in a six year period, mixing computer-based quantitative and qualitative content …
Exclusionary Populism and Islamophobia: A Comparative Analysis of Italy and Spain
Exclusionary populism is well known for twisting real grievances of the citizens, by problematizing the gap between "us" and "them", capitalizing on identity lines, calling out as "others" those who do not share "pure people's" identity and culture. Especially after 9/11, Muslims have become the ideal-type of "other", making Islamophobia the primary populist anti-paradigm. This article contributes to the burgeoning literature on Islamophobic popu…
Prosumers y la profesionalización del periodismo ciudadano: El caso www.eurovision-spain.com
El avance imparable de la tecnología en la sociedad de la comunicación e información de hoy en día ha provocado que el modelo tradicional de comunicación vertical y unidireccional de los medios de comunicación de masas haya sido reemplazado por otro horizontal y multidireccional, donde los individuos se han convertido en productores y consumidores de contenido. Con internet en su máximo esplendor y con los teléfonos inteligentes como principales …
Pandemia y guerra: Narrativas de crisis y liderazgo. Análisis de las estrategias discursivas presidenciales en el inicio de la pandemia del Covid-19
Introducción. Las crisis provocadas por acontecimientos imprevistos como el COVID-19 ponen a prueba las capacidades de comunicación y liderazgo de los actores políticos. Como respuesta, estos políticos establecen estrategias comunicativas que buscan redefinir y reforzar su liderazgo (y su imagen) ante la opinión pública. Metodología. Este texto analiza el desarrollo de algunas de las estrategias llevadas a cabo por los líderes políticos de los tr…
Journalism Students and Information Consumption in the Era of Fake News
Technological platforms, such as social media, are disrupting traditional journalism, as a result the access to high-quality information by citizens is facing important challenges, among which, disinformation and the spread of fake news are the most relevant one. This study approaches how journalism students perceive and assess this phenomenon. The descriptive and exploratory research is based on a hybrid methodology: Two matrix surveys of studen…
TikTok and the new language of political communication
Introduction: Political parties struggle to reconnect to Young people by using social networks. Acknowledging that 2020 has been the year of TikTok, most Spanish political parties have joined this social network: Podemos, with 191.400 followers and 3.1 million likes, is the most followed political party on this platform. Method: Using multimodal content analysis, this paper aims at analyzing how the party is using this social network, and for whi…
“Africa does not Fit in Europe”: A Comparative Analysis of Anti-Immigration Parties’ Discourse in Spain and Italy
The politicization of immigration has moved the debate about immigration at the center of the run-up of elections, creating the breeding ground for the electoral breakthrough and success of right-wing populist parties. This article aims at disclosing the narrative of immigration and its politicization in VOX’s discourse, comparing it to the Italian Lega party. Clause-based semantic text analysis reveals that both parties share the classic charact…
Covid-19 and the marginalisation of indigenous groups in Argentina
This article analyses how the Covid-19 pandemic has reinforced the stigmatisation and economic, social and cultural exclusion of indigenous groups in Argentina. Using the example of Qom/Toba in the northern province of Chaco and its capital Resistencia, the authors argue that the control of the pandemic regarding ‘space’ and ‘movement’ has considerably intensified practices of spatialised marginalisation of indigenous (non-white) persons, trigger…
What are political parties doing on TikTok? The Spanish case
TikTok, already widely used before the pandemic, boomed during the quarantine that locked down large parts of the world, reaching 2 billion downloads and 800 million monthly active users worldwide by the end of 2020. Of these 800 million users, 41% are aged between 16 and 24 years. This social network, widely known for its entertainment videos, is increasingly becoming a place for political discussion and therefore a unique opportunity for politi…
Análisis de la integración de sistemas inteligentes de alertas y automatización de contenidos en cuatro cibermedios
El uso de aplicaciones de inteligencia artificial en las diferentes fases de elaboración de noticias ya es una práctica habitual en los medios de comunicación de más prestigio internacional, pero el análisis de su uso en la práctica profesional es un campo incipiente en la investigación desde el ámbito de periodismo. La investigación pionera “Aplicación de la inteligencia artificial en la elaboración de noticias” desarrollada por La Cátedra RTVE …
La información de la pandemia de la Covid-19 en las portadas de los diarios. Estudio comparativo de Italia, Reino Unido, España, Francia, Portugal, Estados Unidos, Rusia y Alemania
La investigación presenta un estudio comparativo de las portadas de ocho países sobre la cobertura informativa de la pandemia en dos diarios impresos de Italia, Reino Unido, España, Francia, Portugal, Estados Unidos, Rusia y Alemania. Se analiza el número de noticias sobre la pandemia, el tipo de texto, la tipología de fuentes informativas, los personajes, el uso del color, la inclusión y enfoque de las fotografías o la ubicación en la página, en…
Populism, Twitter, and Covid-19: Narrative, Fantasies, and Desires
During a global pandemic, the great impact of populist discourse on the construction of social reality is undeniable. This study analyzes the fantasmatic dimension of political discourse from Donald Trump's and Jair Bolsonaro's Twitter accounts between 1 March and 31 May. To do so, it applies a Clause-Based Semantic Text Analysis (CBSTA) methodology that categorizes speech in Subject-Verb-Object (SVO) triplets. The study findings show that in spi…
Principales motivaciones en el uso de redes sociales en estudiantes de Comunicación: Perspectiva comparada entre Colombia, Ecuador y España
This article presents original results of an investigation carried out in three countries (Colombia, Ecuador and Spain) with 300 Communication students who reflected on the importance, motivations and informative value of social networks. The research presents the results of the last quarter of 2019, and is part of a research project that analyzes the main trends in the use of young Ibero-Americans regarding social networks. The work concludes th…
What Kind of Islamophobia? Representation of Muslims and Islam in Italian and Spanish Media
News media play a crucial role in the production and reproduction of stereotypes, influencing public opinions regarding different groups and minorities. Thus, acquiring a deeper understanding of media coverage of Muslims and Islam is decisive for understanding the sources of public attitudes towards Muslims. This study aims at displaying how Muslims and Islam are represented in Italian and Spanish media. Focusing on the online version of the two …
Los docentes universitarios frente al cambio a la educación virtual impuesta por el coronavirus
Esta investigación realizó un estudio comparativo entre tres países muy impactados por el coronavirus a partir del análisis de las reflexiones de docentes sobre la enseñanza virtual universitaria durante la etapa de confinamiento. El estudio, de carácter descriptivo, exploratorio y explicativo, aplicó 196 encuestas, entre marzo y abril de 2020, a docentes de periodismo, comunicación y educación de la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (España), Un…
Estudio comparativo sobre el potencial del meme como recurso de comunicación política: Recepción, usos y significados en estudiantes universitarios (Ecuador-España)
Esta investigación analiza la percepción del alumnado sobre el meme como una herramienta discursiva y estratégica en el escenario político digital. Para ello se realiza un estudio comparativo entre 178 estudiantes de las carreras de Comunicación y Periodismo de dos universidades públicas como son: Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (España) y Universidad Técnica de Machala (Ecuador). A nivel metodológico, se aplicó la encuesta como principal técni…
La privacidad, un desafío para periodistas y comunicadores. Análisis de la privacidad en los estudios universitarios de comunicación de Europa y Estados Unidos
El derecho a la privacidad del ciudadano y su preocupación por la protección de sus datos se ha acentuado con la consolidación y el uso masivo de internet, donde se ven expuestas, cada vez más, millones de referencias personales tanto de usuarios directos como de navegantes esporádicos. Pero si hay una profesión que se somete al difícil equilibro entre el respeto a la privacidad y la rigurosidad de una labor que es de interés público, esta es el …
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