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This study analyzes the use of Telegram as an electoral communication tool in Spain, focusing on the messages sent by the five major parties in the country (PSOE, PP, Vox, Unidas Podemos and Ciudadanos) during the campaigns corresponding to the general elections of April 28 and November 10, 2019. This research paper steps outside this somewhat still narrow area of methodology by combining two different research techniques on a methodological triangulation: traditional content analysis and data mining processes using Python. Results, which show how political parties in Spain use Telegram mainly as a mobilization tool while expressing closeness with the candidate, are contextualized thanks to the implementation of Big Data analysis techniques that improve and allow for an in-depth investigation and understanding of the study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sometimes, research in social sciences becomes part of the transformative practices of the researchers themselves. In this way, these researchers try to promote social change. This paper is about one of those studies. During the realization of my PhD research, on sexual-affective education in two schools in the city of Granada (Spain) from the sociological view, both the research and the educational action work that seeks social change converged to the point that, once we had taken account of the demand of the reality being researched, educational action research became the most appropriate methodology in order to research acting on education for social change towards sexual and gender equality. In this paper, I will talk about all this process, which is methodological, systematic, and respectful of the scientific value of research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Spanish research in Documentation (or Library and Information Science, LIS) began to stand out in the 1980s, in parallel with the creation of university studies in Library and Information Science, and it increased its activity significantly until the year 2000. In this period, research in Documentation was oriented to disseminate rather than innovate, and also had a low international impact, shortage of economic and human resources, and poor methodological quality. In the first 20 years of the 21st century, we have witnessed an outstanding growth and diversification of this research activity, which has led to the overcoming of most of the problems mentioned before. The objective of the text is to present a general overview of the development of Documentation research in Spain in the last 20 years based on the analysis of five fundamental aspects: publications (articles and monographs), topics and methodologies, scientific journals, research projects and doctoral theses. General descriptive data from public statistical sources and comments from a bibliographic review are provided for each of them. As a conclusion, a very positive global balance of Spanish research in Documentation in the last 20 years stands out, not only a quantitative increase (in publications, theses, research projects, etc.) but also a qualitative improvement in the use of research methods and techniques, as well as a diversification of the research topics. In any case, internationalization (collaboration with foreign authors) and the presentation of international projects could be improved. Finally, there is a risk in near future related to aging and the absence of generational renewal of the research staff that can will slow down this growth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: The 30-year history of AIDS (the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) the mass media has played a key role in terms of its function to inform the public and also its influence on the generation and strengthening of opinions. Objectives: The focus of the present study is to analyze material related to AIDS published in the written press, specifically in the newspaper "El País" (Andalusia Edition), during the period between 2008 and 2011. Said material is compared with similar texts mostly from the same media from the 1980s and 1990s. Material y Methods: This is a descriptive, transversal, retrospective and comparative study. In order to carry it out, the journalism documents access platform LexisNexis® is utilized along with the paper "AIDS in the Mass Media" (2002). Results: The 167 publications between 2008 and 2011 are compiled, selected, analyzed for content and then classified into categories for their posterior analysis. Discussion: There is a notable evolution in terms of the way in which news is dealt with regarding knowledge about the disease itself. Another fact to be considered is that there is no significant change with regards to the degree of discrimination or stigmata associated with the disease insofar as relates to society as a whole. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Social studies on disability have increased in number and importance in Spain and other countries over the last few years. Nevertheless, the majority of the available sources and studies do not adequately represent this heterogeneous group, which currently makes up about 9 per cent of the Spanish population. The implementation of social measures requires representative sources and studies containing relevant information. The aim of this paper is to identify the main difficulties involved in designing and developing social research methods concerning persons with disabilities, and offer proposals and recommendations in order to advance towards a more inclusive social research using the concepts of accessibility and design for all. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article proposes an invitation to an interior journey through the early stages of educational research. The intention is to share on the basis of a concrete example; in this case, the investigation is about a case study in the Teacher Training Faculty of the University of Barcelona. Within this process, this paper discusses some of the following dilemmatic questions: how to start to organize and to shape the initial ideas, how to target from the complex analysis to a single focus of inquiry, how to move from thematic to convert it in a research problem, how to delineate the research perspective taken, how to build the main questions comprising each dimension of analysis, how to define positions on the real or fictitious dilemma of objectivity and subjectivity in educational research, and finally how to deal with and decide on the selected information gathering techniques. Within this decision making process, also provides tables which graphically and visually solve the main dimensions and questions of the thesis problem and the methodological positions assumed. In conclusion, the article points, out that although on this occasion narrate the initial phase of decision making, the methodological questions of inquiry is not exclusive of this period, but go over throughout the research process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the last two years the Inspección de Servicios of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) has been running a web-based panel survey with a probability sample of 889 students. In each wave of the panel students report on the incidences occurred at the academic lectures they attend in a particular day of the week. For the academic year 2006-2007, until the month of April we had a sample of more than 10.000 lectures, being the later our unit of analysis. In this paper we will report on the response rate of the online panel, on one hand related to those invited to participate (3.091) and on the other to the specific response rate in the different waves of the panel. We will cover the following aspects: • Basic methodological characteristics of the research and aim of the survey. • Participation rates in the invitation process and in the different waves of the panel. • Socio demographic characteristics of respondents. • The recalling process (up to 2 reminders in each wave). Reminders and its incidence in the measurement basic parameters of the survey. • Implications of the results for online based research in academic context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]