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In order to publicize the Next Generation funds (which will provide €806.9 billion in 2020 prices), each EU member state has had to create a portal that brings together all the information related to this instrument in accordance with the reference regulations. This study analyses the quality of the websites of the countries with the most resources: Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Poland, Greece, Romania, Portugal, Hungary, and the Czech Republic. Based on a validated protocol, the technical aspects, accessibility and search engine, structure and content, as well as the support of the help desks are reviewed. The results reveal that the best performing portals are Spain, France, Germany, and Italy; and that many portals suffer from incomplete, asymmetric and inaccessible information. Moreover, there is no complete correspondence between the countries that receive the most funds and those that are communicating the best. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The object of this research is to describe social exclusion in a comparative world perspective. Non-desirable social groups as neighbours are frequently used as a proxy measure to answer three questions: who are the most excluded social groups, who are the excluders, and what are the main explanatory variables of social exclusion. Social exclusion, as a multidimensional phenomenon, is defined in relation to concepts such as stigma, discrimination and prejudice. In this study, social exclusion is measured through three indices. Four main variables have been tested to explain social exclusion: social position, exposure to information, post-materialist values and perception of security. Other explanatory variables were also added to the analysis. EVS and WVS data-bases (from 1981 to 2014) have been used. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction. The present work consider some continuities present in the story of Antonio de Pigafetta where he recorded the first round the world (1519-1522) and the texts published in the French travel magazine "Le Tour du Monde" (1860-1914). The pertinence in the comparison of these texts lies in the fact that both are developed in a colonial context where they appear as premature forms of media, both having a central component that involves contact with non-European indigenous alterity. Methodology and results. Through a semiotic analysis methodology, it is demonstrated how the notions of information and spectacle are linked to the way in which otherness is meant in these texts. Discussion and Conclusions. It is then discussed about the relevance of talking about "travel journalism" as a genre underestimated because it is not pure and hard information; more than a modern form of journalism, travel journalism is an antecedent of traditional journalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]