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Introduction: The multiplication on the offer of current news and audiovisual entertainment content in the renewed digital context, motivates public and broadcasting corporations to implement and internalise innovative processes that allow them to be relevant in people's lives. These processes are not only limited to the development and integration of sophisticated technological prototypes, but are closely linked to a philosophy of constant change and renewal of ideas and ways of thinking. This research project offers a complete deep insights of the innovative proposals of the state-owned public service media from the Iberian Peninsula, Radiotelevisión Española and Rádio e Televisão de Portugal, with a particular focus on the strategic, technological and young audience engagement prism. Methodology: In-depth interviews were conducted with the directors of the innovation and technology departments of the corporations, as well as with the heads of their main youth content projects, PlayZ and RTP Arena, respectively, complemented by a review of the online products and social networks of both groups. Results: It is identified that RTVE's proposal has a greater disruptive component, with initiatives aimed at optimising the user’s experience, mobile first or technologies such as AI, 5G or 4K; while RTP's approach has a greater cultural cut, trying to renew the language and routines of creation of its traditional and native contents. Conclusions: The innovation strategies of both corporations start from a central objective of updating, with cautious approaches to new technologies. The recent creation of a bubble department in RTP contrasts with the reality of RTVE, with the intention of blurring the limits of this section in its structure in order to achieve a fully transversal innovation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The demanding promotion of university professors is being taken advantage of by international publishers to develop a fast business, that is framed in supposedly fraudulent activities of apparently scientific magazines, but without impact indexes that some experts already qualify as "epidemic" (García-Puente, 2019) and "plague" (Silva, 2016). This research uses the mystery client technique (Morena, 2013) to respond to an intentional sample of call for papers (CFP) submitted to researchers between January and April 2020, with a previously published article, that was intentionally altered to appear to be a scientific paper, but which violates the guidelines of originality and rigor: the order of the paragraphs is altered and translated into English with DeepL, without subsequent monitoring. During the period, 98 PICs were received and 38 submissions were made. The results are eloquent: none has been rejected, and within an average of 6 days 17 publication acceptances are confirmed. In all cases, payment is requested in advance. The article allows us to identify the profile of the journals, their recruitment strategies, the use of claims of: indexing, ethical standards and peer review and the naming strategies to simulate international prestige. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study analyses the main challenges perceived by communication consulting sector in Spain in a post-convergence context. An in-depth questionnaire to communication agency professionals and content analysis of their corporate websites and social platforms was used as methodology. The results point to a situation in transition between old and new practices, in which digitalisation is perceived as a current need and a challenge to sector's adaptation capacity, while only some agencies use the new channels offered by Internet for their own management of transparency and online visibility. A double reactivity is detected: with respect to their vision of the future, and to digital brand leadership. The research provides clues that can help researchers, professors and professionals to evaluate the sector and detect adaptation needs for the present and the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

La investigación se centra en analizar la interacción en la gestión de comunicación online para generar valor y para ello analiza las webs y la participación en redes sociales generalistas de las televisiones públicas europeas. Se presta atención preferente a los contenidos corporativos y a la información emitida por las cadenas públicas sobre si mismas para aproximarse a sus niveles de transparencia, de honestidad y de compromiso social que influyen en su reputación como corporación. Se revisan las características de su modelo de interrelación con las audiencias externas y se identifican y analizan los documentos o protocolos de normas o recomendaciones de gestión de actuación en redes sociales (guidelines) para públicos internos. El objetivo es identificar políticas de gestión de social media en entornos públicos y, preferentemente de las principales cadenas de televisión europeas, y analizar su contribución a la creación de lo púbico como valor asociado a su imagen. Para el análisis de interactividad se trabaja sobre una muestra de siete emisoras: RTVE (España), France Televisions (Francia), RAI (Italia), BBC (Gran Bretaña), RTP (Portugal) y ARD/ ZDF (Alemania) Para el estudio de las guidelines se recurre, además, a una comparativa de las televisiones europeas con las guías de entidades referenciales en el ámbito de la comunicación en Estados Unidos y Canadá: NPR (EEUU), CBC (Canadá), las agencias de noticias Associated Press y Reuters, y los diarios The Washington Post y Los Ángeles Times. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When referring to tourism activity we study experiences and the use of social media allowing tourists 2.0 to have a first approach to their destination, generating a foregoing experience that motivates and influences the selection process. This research reviewed, from 2012 to 2016, the behavior of tourist 2.0 at the official digital platforms of tourism from 22 Ibero-American countries; in that direction is oriented an analysis of almost 150 million online interactions in order to identify their interests, tastes, and identify trends of participation in their social media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The h-index is a bibliometric indicator that refers to the number of h citations an author or a journal has received in other publications. This article reviews the impact factor of the index, in addition to examining its application in the field of communication and the h impact of scientific journals in Latin America, Spain and Portugal.. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyzes the increasing transfer of ownership to the sources as newsmaking engines and drift of journalism as a social reference to current business information. The research focuses on the result of 673 interviews with journalists of Galicia (Spain) about levels of restraint in the construction of the agenda, the perceived balance between journalistic standards, political and economic to select and rank the news, the initiative in relationships and how to contact journalists with their sources, and professional aspects that are recognized and valued in newsrooms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper is demonstrated how the establishment of consolidated relationships in the virtual social contexts and the development of linked practices related to the viral marketing can alter the traditional process of informative production. The media agenda had always been built with the share of the media and their sources, but currently many users' active involvement on the internet has repercussions in the creation of contents that themselves create and they spread via viral techniques. These contents are not journalistic information in many cases, but when they reach repercussion, they finish being news and accessing to the agenda media, so that the users are who promote contents that media publish. This phenomenon is materialized in the federal elections in Mexico in 2007, where the political and citizen involvements in the new virtual scenarios finish for modifying the agenda of traditional media and, even, for changing the political reality of the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The currently dominant model of scientific production in the field of communications research exhibits an over standardization of mainly empirical research, which is overwhelmingly carried out using quantitative techniques based on simple statistical analysis, in many cases limiting the presented results to an interpretation of the available data. This paper presents an innovative proposal in the field, designed as a new strategy for scientific dissemination and presentation. It puts forward the objective of building three composite indicators that, applied to European public service media, will allow the assessment of the perception of their social value, independence, and management efficiency. Moreover, a study that enables a comparative vision of these three issues in all the countries of the European Union, excluding Malta and Luxemburg, is also proposed. This methodology represents an innovation because it thoroughly explains the process and justifies the validity of the documentary sources used to facilitate their reproduction or questioning. It also reinforces the discussion of the results with the evaluation of the indicators' robustness before deciding which of them is most appropriate on each occasion for comparing the results using a multicriteria decision analysis technique, the Technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (Topis) method, proposed by Hwang and Yoon (1981). The results attest that synthetic indicators are an innovative, original, and validatable methodological tool that can contribute to the progress of research in the field of the communications sciences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]