Manel Jiménez-Morales
Biographic Data
| ID | 3047374 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Manel Jiménez-Morales |
| GIVEN NAMES | Manel |
| FAMILY NAME | Jiménez-Morales |
| SIGNATURE | JIMÉNEZ-MORALES M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Pompeu Fabra |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4977-0722 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Algorithmic personalization and social inequality: Young People's Knowledge and Perceptions of Bias in Digital Advertising
Algorithmically personalized advertising plays a role in reproducing structural inequalities, and digital advertising literacy is widely recognized as necessary to address its consequences. However, little is known about how these inequalities manifest within digital advertising literacy itself. This study examines how structural inequalities shape young people's knowledge of algorithmically personalized advertising and their perceptions of algor…
Adolescentes, TikTok e Instagram: Percepciones sobre el impacto de las tecnologías digitales en su vida social
Propósito. Las tecnologías digitales, especialmente las redes sociales, se han convertido en agentes clave de socialización en la adolescencia. En particular, TikTok e Instagram son las plataformas más utilizadas por los menores españoles. Este estudio tiene como objetivo analizar la percepción de los adolescentes sobre el impacto de estas tecnologías en su vida social, con especial énfasis en las diferencias de género y entre usuarios y no usuar…
Young, lower-class, and algorithmically persuaded: Exploring personalized advertising and its impact on social inequality
Algorithmically personalized advertising is a defining feature of the digital ecosystem, yet its potential to reinforce social inequalities remains underexplored. This study examines how socioeconomic status and gender intersect to influence exposure to personalized advertisements on platforms like Instagram and TikTok. Using online survey data from 1,200 participants aged 16 to 25, regression analyses reveal that young people from lower socioeco…
Mapping the rise of virtual influencers: A bibliometric analysis
Virtual influencers (VIs), AI-driven digital personas designed for social media engagement and brand promotion, have become increasingly influential in digital marketing. This bibliometric analysis maps the academic landscape of virtual influencer research, identifying key trends, influential authors, dominant themes, and methodological approaches. Using Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus as primary databases, 183 publications were analyzed, reveali…
Can’t stop scrolling! Adolescents’ patterns of TikTok use and digital well-being self-perception
Digital well-being, which refers to a balanced individual experience of digital consumption, has been gaining attention recently in the study of the effects of digital technology use. Social networks are central in debates over digital well-being, as social media overuse is often identified as a primary issue. Teenagers who spend an average of three hours daily on social media especially draw the attention of researchers. Based on statistical evi…
Body satisfaction and screen media usage in Spanish schoolchildren
Screen media usage among young children has increased dramatically in recent years. Although media consumption has been noted as an influencing factor in children’s body image, the relationship between children’s body satisfaction and screen media usage in children under 10 years old remains a less-explored topic. A cross-sectional study was designed to analyze the association between screen media usage and the body image satisfaction of Spanish …
Narrative representation of depression, ASD, and ASPD in «Atypical», «My Mad Fat Diary» and «The End of The F***ing World»
Television series act as one of the primary sources of information on mental and neurological disorders. However, research on the accurate representation of mental disorders and clinical reality still lacks, especially since it requires an interdisciplinary approach with higher complexity. This article analyses the narrative depiction of depression, autism without intellectual disability, and antisocial personality disorder in three case studies:…
Capítulo 7. Empoderamiento juvenil y ciencia ciudadana a través de la pedagogía audiovisual: El proyecto Hebe
El Proyecto HEBE ha utilizado las posibilidades de interacción que ofrecen las nuevas tecnologías para investigar el empoderamiento juvenil desde el seno de la universidad, diseñando dos plataformas interactivas: Huellas Digitales (2017) y Bitácoras en órbita (2021). El siguiente capítulo describe ambas iniciativas y describe las distintas técnicas de investigación utilizadas y analiza qué incidencia tienen en el estudio del empoderamiento juveni…
Communicating Health: Depictions of Depression, Antisocial Personality Disorder, and Autism without Intellectual Disability in British and U.S. Coming-of-Age TV Series
This article aims to foster a better theoretical understanding of the narrative representation of mental and neurodevelopmental disorders, specifically depression, antisocial personality disorder (ASPD), and autism (ASD), without intellectual disability on British and U.S. coming-of-age and dramedy television series. A research pilot showed that very little research has been performed on TV series and mental disorders, which confirms the need for…
Aesthetic Representation of Antisocial Personality Disorder in British Coming-of-Age TV Series
TV series' depictions of mental disorders have received considerable scholarly attention. However, few studies have considered the role of aesthetic elements in representing mental disorders. Therefore, in this study, we analysed how aesthetic features influence the representation of "psychopathy" in British coming-of-age TV series through the case study of The End of the F***ing World. We chose to analyse psychopathy due to its over-representati…
Soft Drinks and Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Advertising in Spain: Correlation between Nutritional Values and Advertising Discursive Strategies
Spain ranks fifth among European countries for childhood obesity. Sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) and soft drinks (SDs) are consumed by 81% of the Spanish children weekly. Advertising is one of the factors that contributes to an obesogenic environment. This study correlated longitudinally the nutritional values of SSBs and SDs and advertising discursive strategies between 2013 and 2018 for all media. A mixed-methods approach was applied that inc…
Youth empowerment through the creation of i-docs: Educational and social impacts
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) are key elements in the educational process of teens. Consequently, efforts should be made to integrate ICT into educational plans and policies. Based on this premise, HEBE has been launched – a study on youth empowerment that was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and carried out by five universities: the University of Girona, the Autonomous University of Madrid, the Auton…
Childhood use of mobile devices: Influence of mothers’ socio-educational level
The presence and variety of mobile devices in Spanish homes, regardless of the social and economic con-text, has been widespread for years. Several studies focus on parental mediation in children's consumption of smart devices, however, there is a lack of scientific evidence about how the educational level and the professional profile of parents affect children’s digital media consumption. This study analyzes the influence of the socio-educationa…
Exploring the conceptualization and research of empowerment in the field of youth
The concept of empowerment has become increasingly widespread in recent years. Its use is still, however, somewhat controversial and diverse, particularly when referring to young people. This article presents a systematic analysis of how empowerment has been conceptualized over the past 15 years and has been applied to young people. A systematic search of the major databases filtered by relevance provided 297 bibliographical references. The resul…
Networking commercial television in Australia
La organización de eventos como estrategia identitaria y evocadora de imagen turística: Estudio de caso: Girona, Temps de Flors
For the last 53 years the city of Girona organizes a massive event based on the floral art which, in its last occasions, has mobilized more than half million of visitors, many of them from all parts of Europe. Besides the flowers, the photography exhibitions or the audio-visual montages which, during the second week of May, fill the streets of the ancient part of the city, the fact is that Girona Temps de Flors represents an important communicati…
Selling me softly, sharp persuasion»: Influence of placement product on the children ́s audience of serials
The Product Placement on television series of family consumption has turned during the last decade in Spain into one of the most powerful Below the Line techniques for the advertisers, in such a way that the investment for this form of not conventional advertising overcame the budget destined usually to traditional advertising during the past 2004. Product Placement is clearly effective on children who, unable to identify it as advertising, assoc…
The viewers’ judgement about television reality narratives
This congress communication tries to develop a brief contents study about some of the paradigmatic reality programs with a qualitative analysis of their receipt. Hereby, it wants to study which are the main thematic topics that appear in this kind of programs across the representation of their contesters and which is the public opinion in the moment to pronounce sentence. Because under the decisions of the viewers’ telephone votes there is not on…
Factores socioculturales y personales relacionados con el mensaje mediático del culto al cuerpo influyentes en el bienestar de los jóvenes
Este trabajo estudia los factores personales y socioculturales relacionados con el culto al cuerpo que pueden influir en el bienestar de los jóvenes. Se pretende agruparlos en dimensiones de influencia y profundizar en el papel de los medios de comunicación y sus mensajes, como elementos también relacionados con el culto al cuerpo. Se ha realizado un análisis multivariable con una muestra de 452 jóvenes y se han obtenido tres dimensiones sociocul…
Aesthetic Representation of Antisocial Personality Disorder in British Coming-of-Age TV Series
TV series' depictions of mental disorders have received considerable scholarly attention. However, few studies have considered the role of aesthetic elements in representing mental disorders. Therefore, in this study, we analysed how aesthetic features influence the representation of "psychopathy" in British coming-of-age TV series through the case study of The End of the F***ing World. We chose to analyse psychopathy due to its over-representati…
Childhood use of mobile devices: Influence of mothers’ socio-educational level
The presence and variety of mobile devices in Spanish homes, regardless of the social and economic con-text, has been widespread for years. Several studies focus on parental mediation in children's consumption of smart devices, however, there is a lack of scientific evidence about how the educational level and the professional profile of parents affect children’s digital media consumption. This study analyzes the influence of the socio-educationa…
Youth empowerment through the creation of i-docs: Educational and social impacts
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) are key elements in the educational process of teens. Consequently, efforts should be made to integrate ICT into educational plans and policies. Based on this premise, HEBE has been launched – a study on youth empowerment that was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and carried out by five universities: the University of Girona, the Autonomous University of Madrid, the Auton…
Factores socioculturales y personales relacionados con el mensaje mediático del culto al cuerpo influyentes en el bienestar de los jóvenes
Este trabajo estudia los factores personales y socioculturales relacionados con el culto al cuerpo que pueden influir en el bienestar de los jóvenes. Se pretende agruparlos en dimensiones de influencia y profundizar en el papel de los medios de comunicación y sus mensajes, como elementos también relacionados con el culto al cuerpo. Se ha realizado un análisis multivariable con una muestra de 452 jóvenes y se han obtenido tres dimensiones sociocul…
Selling me softly, sharp persuasion»: Influence of placement product on the children ́s audience of serials
The Product Placement on television series of family consumption has turned during the last decade in Spain into one of the most powerful Below the Line techniques for the advertisers, in such a way that the investment for this form of not conventional advertising overcame the budget destined usually to traditional advertising during the past 2004. Product Placement is clearly effective on children who, unable to identify it as advertising, assoc…
The viewers’ judgement about television reality narratives
This congress communication tries to develop a brief contents study about some of the paradigmatic reality programs with a qualitative analysis of their receipt. Hereby, it wants to study which are the main thematic topics that appear in this kind of programs across the representation of their contesters and which is the public opinion in the moment to pronounce sentence. Because under the decisions of the viewers’ telephone votes there is not on…
La organización de eventos como estrategia identitaria y evocadora de imagen turística: Estudio de caso: Girona, Temps de Flors
For the last 53 years the city of Girona organizes a massive event based on the floral art which, in its last occasions, has mobilized more than half million of visitors, many of them from all parts of Europe. Besides the flowers, the photography exhibitions or the audio-visual montages which, during the second week of May, fill the streets of the ancient part of the city, the fact is that Girona Temps de Flors represents an important communicati…
Exploring the conceptualization and research of empowerment in the field of youth
The concept of empowerment has become increasingly widespread in recent years. Its use is still, however, somewhat controversial and diverse, particularly when referring to young people. This article presents a systematic analysis of how empowerment has been conceptualized over the past 15 years and has been applied to young people. A systematic search of the major databases filtered by relevance provided 297 bibliographical references. The resul…
Networking commercial television in Australia
Soft Drinks and Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Advertising in Spain: Correlation between Nutritional Values and Advertising Discursive Strategies
Spain ranks fifth among European countries for childhood obesity. Sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) and soft drinks (SDs) are consumed by 81% of the Spanish children weekly. Advertising is one of the factors that contributes to an obesogenic environment. This study correlated longitudinally the nutritional values of SSBs and SDs and advertising discursive strategies between 2013 and 2018 for all media. A mixed-methods approach was applied that inc…
Youth empowerment through the creation of i-docs: Educational and social impacts
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) are key elements in the educational process of teens. Consequently, efforts should be made to integrate ICT into educational plans and policies. Based on this premise, HEBE has been launched – a study on youth empowerment that was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and carried out by five universities: the University of Girona, the Autonomous University of Madrid, the Auton…
Childhood use of mobile devices: Influence of mothers’ socio-educational level
The presence and variety of mobile devices in Spanish homes, regardless of the social and economic con-text, has been widespread for years. Several studies focus on parental mediation in children's consumption of smart devices, however, there is a lack of scientific evidence about how the educational level and the professional profile of parents affect children’s digital media consumption. This study analyzes the influence of the socio-educationa…
Capítulo 7. Empoderamiento juvenil y ciencia ciudadana a través de la pedagogía audiovisual: El proyecto Hebe
El Proyecto HEBE ha utilizado las posibilidades de interacción que ofrecen las nuevas tecnologías para investigar el empoderamiento juvenil desde el seno de la universidad, diseñando dos plataformas interactivas: Huellas Digitales (2017) y Bitácoras en órbita (2021). El siguiente capítulo describe ambas iniciativas y describe las distintas técnicas de investigación utilizadas y analiza qué incidencia tienen en el estudio del empoderamiento juveni…
Communicating Health: Depictions of Depression, Antisocial Personality Disorder, and Autism without Intellectual Disability in British and U.S. Coming-of-Age TV Series
This article aims to foster a better theoretical understanding of the narrative representation of mental and neurodevelopmental disorders, specifically depression, antisocial personality disorder (ASPD), and autism (ASD), without intellectual disability on British and U.S. coming-of-age and dramedy television series. A research pilot showed that very little research has been performed on TV series and mental disorders, which confirms the need for…
Aesthetic Representation of Antisocial Personality Disorder in British Coming-of-Age TV Series
TV series' depictions of mental disorders have received considerable scholarly attention. However, few studies have considered the role of aesthetic elements in representing mental disorders. Therefore, in this study, we analysed how aesthetic features influence the representation of "psychopathy" in British coming-of-age TV series through the case study of The End of the F***ing World. We chose to analyse psychopathy due to its over-representati…
Body satisfaction and screen media usage in Spanish schoolchildren
Screen media usage among young children has increased dramatically in recent years. Although media consumption has been noted as an influencing factor in children’s body image, the relationship between children’s body satisfaction and screen media usage in children under 10 years old remains a less-explored topic. A cross-sectional study was designed to analyze the association between screen media usage and the body image satisfaction of Spanish …
Narrative representation of depression, ASD, and ASPD in «Atypical», «My Mad Fat Diary» and «The End of The F***ing World»
Television series act as one of the primary sources of information on mental and neurological disorders. However, research on the accurate representation of mental disorders and clinical reality still lacks, especially since it requires an interdisciplinary approach with higher complexity. This article analyses the narrative depiction of depression, autism without intellectual disability, and antisocial personality disorder in three case studies:…
Can’t stop scrolling! Adolescents’ patterns of TikTok use and digital well-being self-perception
Digital well-being, which refers to a balanced individual experience of digital consumption, has been gaining attention recently in the study of the effects of digital technology use. Social networks are central in debates over digital well-being, as social media overuse is often identified as a primary issue. Teenagers who spend an average of three hours daily on social media especially draw the attention of researchers. Based on statistical evi…
Adolescentes, TikTok e Instagram: Percepciones sobre el impacto de las tecnologías digitales en su vida social
Propósito. Las tecnologías digitales, especialmente las redes sociales, se han convertido en agentes clave de socialización en la adolescencia. En particular, TikTok e Instagram son las plataformas más utilizadas por los menores españoles. Este estudio tiene como objetivo analizar la percepción de los adolescentes sobre el impacto de estas tecnologías en su vida social, con especial énfasis en las diferencias de género y entre usuarios y no usuar…
Young, lower-class, and algorithmically persuaded: Exploring personalized advertising and its impact on social inequality
Algorithmically personalized advertising is a defining feature of the digital ecosystem, yet its potential to reinforce social inequalities remains underexplored. This study examines how socioeconomic status and gender intersect to influence exposure to personalized advertisements on platforms like Instagram and TikTok. Using online survey data from 1,200 participants aged 16 to 25, regression analyses reveal that young people from lower socioeco…
Mapping the rise of virtual influencers: A bibliometric analysis
Virtual influencers (VIs), AI-driven digital personas designed for social media engagement and brand promotion, have become increasingly influential in digital marketing. This bibliometric analysis maps the academic landscape of virtual influencer research, identifying key trends, influential authors, dominant themes, and methodological approaches. Using Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus as primary databases, 183 publications were analyzed, reveali…
Algorithmic personalization and social inequality: Young People's Knowledge and Perceptions of Bias in Digital Advertising
Algorithmically personalized advertising plays a role in reproducing structural inequalities, and digital advertising literacy is widely recognized as necessary to address its consequences. However, little is known about how these inequalities manifest within digital advertising literacy itself. This study examines how structural inequalities shape young people's knowledge of algorithmically personalized advertising and their perceptions of algor…
Psychology (9 works) · Art (7 works) · Impact of Technology on Adolescents (7 works) · Humanities (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Advertising (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Child Development and Digital Technology (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Political science (4 works)