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Introduction: This work focus on the study of how spanish think tanks use digital media to spread their activity and transmit their ideas. Methodology: Through content analysis, we analyze what types of communication tools are used in the digital spaces that are officially implemented (web sites and social media), as well as the use of these tools as unidirectional or bidirectional channels. Results: It shows that the unidirectional focus on dissemination of these organizations identities, closely linked to educative activities. Among the bidirectional, social media become relevant, and are used to generate engagement with its stakeholders. Discussion and Conclusions: Think tanks use digital communication as a strategy to disseminate their activities. This fact enhance the prospective of advocacy and a pretension to participate in the topics of public discussion with proposals on its framings (Bürger, 2015, Misztal, 2012). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The implementation the new Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have diversified the media, according to the evolution and adaptation of the use of technological devices in human life. With the hybridization of the media, the media ecology arises in which new ways of carrying out the communicative act emerge, with this the media adapts to communicative practices and are condensed in this new ways of communicating. Studying the scope and significant levels of convergent models in digital communication processes not only bring us closer to the media landscape, also glimpse the capabilities of platforms and devices in the social context. In the following document we will discuss how the implementation of digital tools and transmedia narratives can generate a significant contribution to the appropriation of knowledge by users. Recognize the levels of significance of all the actors involved in the community, allows us to understand how participatory and collaborative dynamics bring us closer to the democratization of knowledge. To understand both the process of appropriation of knowledge and the relationship that exists between society and technology, it is necessary to define the process of appropriation in a conceptual way, the media ecosystem in which the media narratives are linked and the relationship that exists between digital technology, transmedia narratives and the processes of appropriation of knowledge in users. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the new forms of communication and awareness, specifically in the digital field through a case study of the ECOALF fashion brand, unique in the world for its contribution to the sector through the cleaning of the oceans. The use of unlimited expression by ECOALF through digital media leads to environmental awareness, a key message of its online strategies. It is a corporately responsible practice in the digital medium, especially of its social networks with which it communicates interactively and inspires the prosumer. It will deepen in how it transmits its business purpose and its good corporate practices through Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, as well as its website. A qualitative methodology is applied, using categorization processes, supported by discourse analysis and NVIVO11 software where the company's online publications from its first five years have been analyzed. As a conclusion, the main values that the brand transmits are discovered through its written language and the visual besides its complementarity between both languages when it comes to building their online strategies. In addition, you can see how the fashion company converts its production process into audiovisual material to be used for environmental awareness purposes worldwide for different fashion consumers, social networks, ecologists, cultural leaders and trend hunters, among others, without forgetting the digital literacy work that emerges from all this. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents the results of a study on the current and future use of different online communication techniques by Spanish advertisers, as well as their perception of the level of digital competence of professionals working in the advertising sector. Methods: The study is based on an online survey applied to a national sample of 301 advertising and marketing directors working for a variety of Spanish companies in terms of size, geographical scope and sector of activity. Results and conclusions: Companies are expected to gradually increase their budget for digital marketing and, thus, the advertising sector is expected to experience greater professionalisation and greater demand for experts in new technologies and digital communication. At present, advertisers are developing communication strategies that are based on traditional and easy-to-implement online communication techniques, leaving aside the more sophisticated techniques whose implementation requires more qualified and specialised professionals. In this sense, there is a lack of training in digital skills in the sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction. This article offers an analysis of "clickbait", one of the latest strategies employed by online news media to lure users into clicking a hyperlink through the use of non-journalistic values. Methods. The study is based on the analysis of the news headlines found on the front and inner pages of general-information newspapers of the 28 EU member countries. Results. The main consequence of the use of clickbait is that the news headline has gone from being just a key element to provide information to also crucial element to persuade the reader to stay on the page for as long as possible. Discussion. The results confirm the presence of clickbait in most of the newspapers analysed, to the detriment of traditional journalistic values in the writing and editing of headlines. Conclusions. The study concludes that general-information newspapers in the 28 EU member countries generate clicks not through quality content but rather, in nearly half the cases, through catchy, provocative and sensationalist front-page headlines that aim to exploit the curiosity in users. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]