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2. CMC and MALL Unite
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Montaner-Villalba, Salvador, Lander, Bruce, Morgana, Valentina, Leier, Vera, Selwood, Jaime, Einum, Even, and Redondo, Sergio Esteban
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There is no doubt that Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) and mobile mediated communication are linked as technology continues to transform the way we communicate with each other. Campbell (2019) analyzed how mobile communication evolved into portable devices to form a complete system of mobile media, reshaping the fabric of our social lives via 'sociality' and 'spatiality'. In this short paper, we would like to offer a brief overview of the diverse oral presentations which took place in the joint CMC and MALL (Mobile Assisted Language Learning) Special Interest Group (SIG) symposium at the online conference this year. This short paper will introduce various online apps which are available for free in both computer-based and mobile versions and can be adapted to foreign language learning in various ways. [For the complete volume, "CALL for Widening Participation: Short Papers from EUROCALL 2020 (28th, Online, August 20-21, 2020)," see ED610330.]
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- 2020
3. Development of Critical Thinking Skills and Intercultural Awareness in Bilingual Telecollaborative Projects
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Vurdien, Ruby and Puranen, Pasi
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This reflective practice will examine and report on students' experiences of three different bilingual (English-Spanish) task-based telecollaborative projects. The observations indicate that throughout these different projects the students were able to develop their intercultural awareness and their critical thinking skills via different online tools and learning contexts like a videoconferencing platform and Facebook. This paper employs both a qualitative and quantitative approach and data were collected from various sources, namely, the questionnaires administered at the beginning and end of the projects. As a conclusion, it is argued that the projects helped students to exchange views about cultural aspects and ask and clarify questions that arose during their interactions, which provided them with the opportunity to develop their critical thinking skills. Sharing thoughts and views on Facebook and videoconferencing has been a meaningful learning experience and students have been able to discover and reflect on useful information about each other's cultural traits. [For the complete volume of short papers, see ED590612.]
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- 2018
4. A Review of Research on the Use of Social Media in Language Teaching and Learning
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Istifci, Ilknur and Dogan Ucar, Asiye
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The various possibilities that social media offers to language learners and teachers have long been recognized by researchers within the field of language instruction, and many studies have been carried out in an attempt to address and unpack its potential contributions. This paper aims to review such research on the use of mainstream social media in language teaching and learning published in "Computer Assisted Language Learning," a top tier (i.e., Q1) journal indexed in major citation index systems (e.g., Arts & Humanities Citation Index, the Social Sciences Citation Index and Scopus), between the years 2016-2020 inclusive. For the purposes of the study, a total of 23 articles that meet the selection criteria is reviewed and presented in five sections. The first section deals with the majority of the articles, which are found to be on the use of social networking in language teaching and learning. In the following sections, studies on the use of videoconferencing, wikis, blogging and forums are discussed. Collectively, the studies reviewed in this paper outline a critical role for the use of social media in language instruction and the study aims to provide valuable insights for researchers, teachers and learners.
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- 2021
5. Onlife Identity: The Question of Gender and Age in Teenagers' Online Behaviour
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Serrate-Gonzalez, Sara, Sanchez-Rojo, Alberto, Andrade-Silva, Luis-E, and Muñoz-Rodriguez, Jose-Manuel
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The presence of cyberspace in the lives of young people is such that we can no longer distinguish between online and offline spheres. They live a process of onlife development that is not always equitable in terms of gender. This paper aims to account for the online behaviour of Spanish adolescents according to gender and age, the decisions they make when constructing their virtual identity, and the effects that this has on them. A quantitative study has been carried out at a national level (N=2,076, 12-18 years old) following a non-experimental ex post facto design by means of a survey study. The results show that there are gender differences in the preference for one or other social network. A high percentage of girls make different choices when it comes to their online presence. Unlike boys, girls state that their virtual self and their behaviour significantly influence the opinion that they have of themselves and their need to feel integrated. In conclusion, the decisions that adolescents make when creating their virtual selves do not only have negative consequences derived from poor management, but are also plagued by mandates and stereotypes that determine how they should be and what they should do online; something that is especially pressing for girls.
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- 2023
6. Sharenting: Internet Addiction, Self-Control and Online Photos of Underage Children
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Hinojo-Lucena, Francisco-Javier, Aznar-Díaz, Inmaculada, Cáceres-Reche, María-Pilar, Trujillo-Torres, Juan-Manuel, and Romero-Rodríguez, José-María
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Sharenting is becoming a regular practice that compromises children's safety and privacy. This phenomenon is related to the act of sharing images of underage children on the Internet by their relatives. At the same time, a concern arises about the levels of Internet addiction in the population. In turn, levels of Internet addiction are a current problem in modern societies that has been linked to low self-control. This paper aims to analyse the degree to which images are published and the reasons why the adult segment of the population practices sharenting, to determine the socio-demographic factors that have an impact on sharenting, Internet addiction and self-control, and to establish the correlations between these three variables. A total of 367 Spanish adults aged between 18 and 61 (M=28.98; SD=10.47) completed an online survey. Both the multiple regression analysis and the structural equation modelling revealed that: 1) Age emerges as a predictor of Internet addiction; 2) Age, gender and employment status are predictors of low self-control; 3) No socio-demographic factors were found to be predictors of sharenting; 4) The only significant correlation was observed between Internet addiction and self-control. Finally, practical implications of this paper on the protection of minors and adults' need for information on Internet security are discussed.
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- 2020
7. Micro-Celebrities or Teacher Leaders? An Analysis of Spanish Educators' Behaviors on Twitter
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Carlos Marcelo, Paulino Murillo, Paula Marcelo-Martínez, Carmen Yot-Domínguez, and Cristina Yanes Cabrera
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Social networking sites have become affinity spaces for teachers. Many teachers use them with different intentions and motivations, including learning. On social media platforms there are active teachers who have developed a certain leadership and recognition from many teachers. In some areas, like marketing or fashion, people with influence are called influencers. This paper investigates who they are, how their network is configured and how they perceive themselves. The questions that directed our research were: Who are the predominant Spanish teacher leaders on Twitter? What is the network structure that characterizes them? What perceptions do these teacher leaders have about their role and its impact on their professional development as teachers and others? This study has two distinct but interrelated phases. We investigated the structure and relationships among 54 Spanish teacher leaders. Using a social network analysis (SNA) approach, through the analysis of the social behavior of these teachers on the social network Twitter, we first identify educational profiles who have a high degree of centrality in the network. These are teachers who are recognized as opinion leaders by a significant proportion of their fellows. In addition to the degree of centrality that tells us how relevant a user is in a specific digital community, we identified teachers who play a key role in the circulation of information in the network studied. In some way, these teachers share common characteristics with activists in other fields. Of the 54 teachers, we selected 20 who were then interviewed. The findings demonstrate that they don't consider themselves micro-celebrities or influencers. We found a lack of identification not only with the term, but also with the image of an influencer which was understood as banal, superficial, commercial, and far from what they do in social networks. These teachers develop their identity as new digital artisans who foster a culture of collaboration and create affinity spaces that allow informal learning. Their motivation is intrinsic, through recognition and prestige among other teachers, which leads them to build a kind of constructivist leadership.
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- 2023
8. The current role of influencers in public relations: Comparing Spain and the USA.
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Máiz-Bar, Carmen and Abuín-Penas, Javier
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PUBLIC relations ,STRATEGIC communication ,CORPORATE communications ,PRIVATE companies ,PUBLIC companies ,SPANISH literature - Abstract
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- 2022
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9. Secondary Education Students and Media Literacy in the Age of Disinformation
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Herrero-Curiel, Eva and La-Rosa, Leonardo
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This paper presents an up-to-date overview of how students in Compulsory Secondary Education (ESO) in Spanish public schools, aged between 11 and 16, approach the media, how they inform themselves, the degree of journalistic discrimination they have, and how they deal with the news in times of an infodemic and disinformation. In addition, it explores the opinion of teachers on the media deficits they perceive in their students. The main research technique used in this study was a descriptive, cross-sectional survey of 1,651 ESO students from all over Spain with a confidence level of <95% and a ±3% sampling error. In order to delve deeper into some of the main aspects pointed out by students, 77 in-depth interviews were conducted with teachers from all over Spain. The main results highlight that high school students are mainly informed through social networks, television, and their family or friendship groups; that they have difficulties in discriminating between information and opinion; and that, although they consider themselves capable of differentiating between news and hoaxes, more than half are unable to distinguish between fake and real news. According to the teachers in some of these schools, media consumption among students is non-critical, fuelled by the compulsive consumption of audiovisual and digital media.
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- 2022
10. Adaptive Smart TV as a Social Language Learning Platform
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Sánchez, María José Naranjo, Garcia, Mª Mercedes Rico, Santamaría, Héctor Sánchez, and Serrat, Jesús Salguero
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With the recent emergence of the interactive TV, the iTV starts to gain ground as a learning social media forgotten in the last decades due to previously existing applications (smart phones, tablets, laptops) that surpassed it. The TV has always been used as a means of transmission and family conciliatory, but, at the same time, the necessary feedback, as well as its adaptation to the users' preferences, language level, and age have always been lacking in every learning process that smart televisions can currently provide. In this sense, it seems necessary, on the one hand, to investigate the different characteristics and capabilities of smart televisions and, on the other, to design educational learning pills for English language learning through adaptive smart TVs. To achieve the aforementioned objectives an interactive methodology based on family/ peer gaming will be presented as a way to awake collective and social learning. The expected results will be an application developed with Hybrid Broadcast Broadband technology including a content recommendation system designed considering the user's preferences and a set of educational pills created by a team of linguists and experts in language and methodology. To conclude, this project seeks to promote language learning acquisition in a fun and entertaining way and enhance the experience with their television which has been a traditional model representing bond and time to gather around family and friends. [For the complete proceedings, see ED608557.]
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- 2019
11. Telecollaboration, Challenges and Oppportunities
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Abruquah, Emmanuel, Dosa, Ildiko, and Duda, Grazyna
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This article discusses some practical ideas associated with a pilot intercultural telecollaboration project. The aim of the project was to connect students from five countries: Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Poland and Spain, and to make them interact using social media, such as Facebook, Skype, Google Hangouts, etc. There were success stories connected with the project outcomes, as well as some challenges and problems, such as students' motivation and the available technology. This paper presents the project's objectives, methods and results. [For the complete volume, see ED571330.]
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- 2016
12. Diario Médico: origen, evolución y situación actual en soporte papel y online.
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Bellón Rodríguez, Ana
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HISTORY of medicine , *NATIONAL health services , *ELECTRONIC publications , *SOCIAL media - Abstract
One of the survivors in Spain of the free distribution press is the specialized publication Diario Médico, which has been disseminating health issues among professionals of the National Health System for 25 years. We did an exploratory-descriptive study about its origins and current situation, paying attention to its labour in paper, through the printed product, and in Red, through diariomedico.com. The techniques are the interview with its deputy director and the analysis of its products. The mixed format defines Diario Médico: it maintains its commitment to offer information on paper, despite having reduced the periodicity from daily to weekly; leads its paper readers to Orbyt, the digital press kiosk of the promoter group, Unidad Editorial, where it offers seven pages a day in pdf format with information for subscribers, and on the Web, with an edition that opens to the participation of the user. The informative tone of its contents and its usefulness for society, together with the growing interest of the non-specialized public in medicine and health, lead to Diario Médico, in our opinion, to have a double objective public: society in general and professionals of the System in particular. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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13. Digital Leisure: An Opportunity for Intergenerational Well-Being in Times of Pandemic?
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Alonso Ruiz, Rosa Ana, Sáenz de Jubera Ocón, Magdalena, Valdemoros San Emeterio, María Ángeles, and Ponce de León Elizondo, Ana
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Leisure activities shared by grandparents and grandchildren provide important benefits. The health and humanitarian crisis caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has made it necessary to use digital tools to alleviate the lack of contact between adults and children. This paper had as its aim to identify the digital leisure shared by grandparents and their pre-adolescent grandchildren (10-12 years old) before and during the pandemic, as well as its contribution to intergenerational well-being from a holistic paradigm, ultimately aiming to determine whether that digital leisure constitutes an experience of human development for young and old people alike. The sample was made up of 153 grandparents of 10-to-12-year-old children living in the north of Spain. Alongside the use of an "ad hoc" questionnaire, descriptive and inferential analyses were carried out. Most intergenerational leisure activities ceased to be performed during the lockdown, except for those that could be carried out remotely, thanks to information and communication technologies, which ensured the continuity of social and family interactions. Technological connectivity between generations provided greater support to communication and meaningful relationships, additionally facilitating active aging processes.
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- 2022
14. The Relationship of Twitter with Teacher Credibility and Motivation in University Students
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Froment, Facundo, García-González, Alfonso-Javier, and Cabero, Julio
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This paper aimed to analyse the perceptions of university students in relation to the credibility of university instructors according to the tweets posted on their Twitter profiles and the academic motivation that these can generate. Thus, students' perceptions of teacher credibility are affected by what instructors post on their social media profiles. The participants in the study were 166 students from the Faculty of Education Sciences at the University of Seville, carried out using a quasiexperimental methodology for which three Twitter profiles for a university professor were created with professional, social and mixed content. For the analysis of the results, normality and homoscedasticity tests were carried out on the sample to decide which statistical tests to use. The most salient results indicated that students perceived the professional profile as more competent, more caring, and more trustworthy, followed by the mixed profile and, lastly, by the social profile. Positive correlations were also found between students who perceived the university professor as reflected in the professional profile as credible in their academic motivation. The findings and their practical implications for instructors are discussed in terms of how they can incorporate Twitter into their teaching, considering the needs of their students to enhance their learning.
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- 2022
15. How Working Collaboratively with Technology Can Foster a Creative Learning Environment
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Gómez, Susana
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Research has shown that collaborative learning is a very powerful methodology as it ensures interaction among students, humanises the learning process and has positive effects on academic achievement. An activity based on this approach can also benefit from the use of technology, making this task more appealing to our students today. The aim of this paper is to present a project which combines both ingredients so as to develop a successful creative learning environment. The project we are talking about is called PopuLLar, a European Union funded innovative educational project designed to harness music and Information and Communications Technology (ICT), the primary social interests of youngsters, into their language learning. The paper will describe the project goals together with the methodology and results obtained in the initial piloting of the project carried out in Spain before being launched around Europe. [For the complete volume, "New Perspectives on Teaching and Working with Languages in the Digital Era," see ED565799.]
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16. New Perspectives on Teaching and Working with Languages in the Digital Era
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Research-publishing.net (France), Pareja-Lora, Antonio, Calle-Martínez, Cristina, Rodríguez-Arancón, Pilar, Pareja-Lora, Antonio, Calle-Martínez, Cristina, Rodríguez-Arancón, Pilar, and Research-publishing.net (France)
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This volume offers a comprehensive, up-to-date, empirical and methodological view over the new scenarios and environments for language teaching and learning recently emerged (e.g. blended learning, e-learning, ubiquitous learning, social learning, autonomous learning or lifelong learning), and also over some of the new approaches to language teaching and/or research that can support them (usually by applying ICT), such as Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL), Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (MALL), Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), or Language Massive Open Online Courses (LMOOCs). This book is geared to those undertaking language teaching for the first time or willing to try new perspectives and methods in their courses. The following sections and papers are included: (1) Applying information and communication technologies to language teaching and research: an overview (Antonio Pareja-Lora, Pilar Rodríguez-Arancón, and Cristina Calle-Martínez). Section 1. General applications of ICTs to language teaching and learning. Section 1.1. E-learning and languages in primary/secondary/tertiary education; (2) 27 Technology use in nursery and primary education in two different settings (Mª Camino Bueno Alastuey and Jesús García Laborda); (3) How working collaboratively with technology can foster a creative learning environment (Susana Gómez); (4) The e-generation: the use of technology for foreign language learning (Pilar Gonzalez-Vera); (5) Evaluation of reading achievement of the program school 2.0 in Spain using PISA 2012 (Cristina Vilaplana Prieto); (6) Language learning actions in two 1x1 secondary schools in Catalonia: the case of online language resources (Boris Vázquez Calvo and Daniel Cassany); (7) Innovative resources based on ICTs and authentic materials to improve EFL students' communicative needs (Rebeca González Otero); (8) Teaching the use of WebQuests to master students in Pablo de Olavide University (Regina Gutiérrez Pérez); and (9) ICTs, ESPs and ZPD through microlessons in teacher education (Soraya García Esteban, Jesús García Laborda, and Manuel Rábano Llamas). Section 1.2. Language distance, lifelong teaching and learning, and massive open online courses: (10) Learning specialised vocabulary through Facebook in a massive open online course (Patricia Ventura and Elena Martín-Monje); (11) Identifying collaborative behaviours online: training teachers in wikis (Margarita Vinagre Laranjeira); (12) The community as a source of pragmatic input for learners of Italian: the multimedia repository LIRA (Greta Zanoni); and (13) Grammar processing through English L2 e-books: distance vs. face-to-face learning (Mª Ángeles Escobar-Álvarez). Section 1.3. Interaction design, usability and accessibility: (14) A study of multimodal discourse in the design of interactive digital material for language learning (Silvia Burset, Emma Bosch, and Joan-Tomàs Pujolà); and (15) Audiovisual translation and assistive technology: towards a universal design approach for online education (Emmanouela Patiniotaki). Section 2. New trends in the application of ICTs to language learning. Section 2.1. Mobile-assisted language learning: (16) Mobile learning: a powerful tool for ubiquitous language learning (Nelson Gomes, Sérgio Lopes, and Sílvia Araújo); (17) Critical visual literacy: the new phase of applied linguistics in the era of mobile technology (Giselda Dos Santos Costa and Antonio Carlos Xavier); (18) Virtual learning environments on the go: CALL meets MALL (Jorge Arús Hita); (19) Exploring the application of a conceptual framework in a social MALL app (Timothy Read, Elena Bárcena, and Agnes Kukulska-Hulme); (20) Design and implementation of BusinessApp, a MALL application to make successful business presentations (Cristina Calle-Martínez, Lourdes Pomposo Yanes, and Antonio Pareja-Lora); and (21) Using audio description to improve FLL students' oral competence in MALL: methodological preliminaries (Ana Ibáñez Moreno, Anna Vermeulen, and Maria Jordano). Section 2.2. ICTs for content and language integrated learning: (22) 259 ICT in EMI programmes at tertiary level in Spain: a holistic model (Nuria Hernandez-Nanclares and Antonio Jimenez-Munoz); and (23) Vocabulary Notebook: a digital solution to general and specific vocabulary learning problems in a CLIL context (Plácido Bazo, Romén Rodríguez, and Dácil Fumero). Section 2.3. Computerised language testing and assessment: (24) Using tablet PC's for the final test of Baccalaureate (Jesús García Laborda and Teresa Magal Royo); (25) The implications of business English mock exams on language progress at higher education (Rocío González Romero); and (26) Assessing pragmatics: DCTs and retrospective verbal reports (Vicente Beltrán-Palanques). Section 3. Applying computational linguistics and language resources to language teaching and learning: (27) An updated account of the WISELAV project: a visual construction of the English verb system (Andrés Palacios Pablos); (28) Generating a Spanish affective dictionary with supervised learning techniques (Daniel Bermudez-Gonzalez, Sabino Miranda-Jiménez, Raúl-Ulises García-Moreno, and Dora Calderón-Nepamuceno); (29) Transcription and annotation of a Japanese accented spoken corpus of L2 Spanish for the development of CAPT applications (Mario Carranza); (30) Using ontologies to interlink linguistic annotations and improve their accuracy (Antonio Pareja-Lora); (31) The importance of corpora in translation studies: a practical case (Montserrat Bermúdez Bausela); (32) Using corpus management tools in public service translator training: an example of its application in the translation of judgments (María Del Mar Sánchez Ramos and Francisco J. Vigier Moreno); and (33) Integrating computer-assisted translation tools into language learning (María Fernández-Parra). An author index is included. (Individual papers contain references.) [The publication of this volume has been partly funded by the following grants and/or projects: Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (grant ref. FFI2011-29829), eLITE-CM project (grant ref. H2015/HUM-3426, and the European Commission.]
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17. Presidential Twitter in the Face of COVID-19: Between Populism and Pop Politics
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Manfredi-Sánchez, Juan-Luis, Amado-Suárez, Adriana, and Waisbord, Silvio
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This paper analyses the use of Twitter as a presidential communication channel during the first few months of the COVID-19 crisis. The aim is to determine how four recently elected presidents (those of Spain, Argentina, Mexico and Brazil) managed their political communication, and to explore the thesis that they resorted to populist messages during the first months of their terms in office. Using a qualitative methodology and the XL Node tool to capture data, a comparative analysis was performed on the messages posted on their personal Twitter accounts during the first 20 weeks of 2020, classified in six categories: polarization; conspiracy; exaltation and leadership; personalisation and privacy; emotions and feelings; and media publicity. The results indicate that the four presidents share populist traits, but to a different extent. López Obrador and Bolsonaro display a more populist profile, with emotional appeals to the people and to their saving action as regards the implementation of health policies. Conversely, Alberto Fernández and Pedro Sánchez are more akin to the pop politician profile, posting photographs and media messages with a view to receiving press coverage. Both post tweets, based on values and historical events, aimed at their grassroots supporters. The main conclusion is that the pandemic has enhanced the presidential and personalist profiles of the four leaders, although their actions during the COVID-19 crisis were not necessarily in keeping with the populist paradigm. Thus, Sánchez and Bolsonaro implemented a health management communication strategy, while López Obrador and Fernández paid scant attention to health policy.
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18. Music as a Tool for Promoting Environmental Awareness. Experiences of Undergraduate Education Students on the Production of Video Tales in the COVID-19 Pandemic
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de Moya Martínez, María del Valle and Syroyid Syroyid, Bohdan
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This paper elaborates on the didactic implementation of musical theater with undergraduate education students. Students had to select, prepare, justify, design, elaborate, rehearse, stage, and record an educational tale that targets ecological and environmental values in its main plot or storyline. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the implementation of this didactic proposal went online, and the interactions between students took place through video calls. This study surveyed a sample of 86 participants (n = 86) from a population of 116 students (N = 116) from the Faculty of Education of Albacete (UCLM) to investigate the advantages and disadvantages of carrying out this activity in an online format. The main challenges exposed the complexity of coordinating a team in a completely online format, problems related to physical isolation, and the limited access to a high-quality internet connection. The reported benefits included the development of digital competences, the interactions through social media, and creative thinking. Most students viewed this activity as didactically innovative and 98.84% agreed that musical tales and musical theater can be useful for promoting environmental awareness.
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19. Problematic Internet Uses and Depression in Adolescents: A Meta-Analysis
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Lozano-Blasco, Raquel and Cortés-Pascual, Alejandra
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Widespread use of the Internet in 21st century society is not risk-free. This paper studies the comorbidity of some problematic uses of Internet with depression in order to assess their correlation. With that aim, a meta-analysis of 19 samples obtained from 13 different studies (n=33,458) was carried out. The subjects of these studies are adolescents between the ages of 12 and 18 years ([mu]=15.68) from different cultures and continents (Europe, Euro-Asia, America and Asia). The effect size obtained from the use of a random-effects model (r=0.3, p<0.000) is significant, moderate and positive, thus confirming the relation between pathologic uses of the Internet and depression. Moreover, meta-regression test results showed that 9% of the variance (R2=0.09) is associated with the male gender, while age and culture are not significant variables. The variability rate of the studies is high (I2=87.085%), as a consequence of heterogeneity rather than publication bias, as Egger's regression test shows (1-tailed p-value=0.25; 2-tailed p-value=0.50, and [sigma]=1.57). Therefore, the need for specific interventions in secondary education dealing with this issue is evident to ensure that it does not extend into adult life.
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- 2020
20. Young Adults' Interaction with Online News and Advertising
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Martínez-Costa, María-del-Pilar, Serrano-Puche, Javier, Portilla, Idoia, and Sánchez-Blanco, Cristina
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This research aims to portray the way young adult people interact with news and how their consumption is affected by advertising and personal data sharing. "Digital News Report Spain 2018", a questionnaire on the consumption of digital media undertaken by a national panel of 2,023 Internet users, is used as a main source. Among the users mentioned, there were 293 young people from 25 to 34 years old who belong to the Millennial generation. Data from this report was completed with a qualitative study in which two focus groups were held, featuring people of that age frame residing in Navarre. The paper concludes that young adult people are generally interested in news, which they access mainly via mobile devices. Their interest grows when the content affects them directly, but also if they empathize with the topic. On the other hand, their familiar background and social routines shape the way they receive information. Young adult people still make use of traditional media, although they consider it ideologically biased. Advertising is something annoying, although they generally have little knowledge and even less intention to use ad-blockers. Finally, their review of the personalized services is negative, but they tend to give away personal data to media if this facilitates their news access.
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- 2019
21. Young Women, Health and Physical Activity: Tensions between the Gendered Fields of Physical Education and Instagram
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Camacho-Miñano, Maria José, Gray, Shirley, Sandford, Rachel, and MacIsaac, Sarah
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Drawing on the conceptual frameworks of Bourdieu and postfeminism, this article analyses extant tensions between young women's gendered habitus and the health-related learning spaces of Physical Education (PE) and Instagram. We draw on data from a two-phase qualitative research project with thirty-seven young women (aged 15-17) from three secondary schools in Spain who self-defined as physically active and engaging with exercise content on Instagram. Data obtained through focus groups and semi-structured interviews reveal how these young women's subjectivities are formed through negotiating the gender 'rules of the game' within these key pedagogical fields. Notably, most participants were critical of their learning in PE, which mainly remains a traditional masculine field. By contrast, they valued Instagram as an engaging space in which to learn about fitness to transform their bodies toward the feminine ideal. This involved a constant process of self-optimization, including the development of the 'right' mental dispositions, fitting strongly with their gendered habitus. Within this paper, we have developed the concept of 'postfeminist habitus' to explain the participants' engagements with health-related content on Instagram, which through language of choice and empowerment, disciplined the young women to achieve the normative body as a marker of success. We argue that while there are notably different patterns of engagement with PE and Instagram, in both spaces there is evidence of symbolic violence that reproduces the gender order. We conclude by suggesting changes that might make PE a more meaningful and hybrid learning space for young women.
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- 2022
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22. Participation in Bilingual Education Programs as a Key Factor to Linguistic Success: The Spanish Case
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Palacios-Hidalgo, Francisco Javier, Gómez-Parra, María Elena, Huertas-Abril, Cristina A., and Espejo-Mohedano, Roberto
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As in other countries, bilingual/multilingual education has become widespread in Spain. However, research either focuses on Spanish programs' implementation, students' performance or teacher training, but not on their contribution to graduates' self-perceived linguistic success (understood as a combination of intercultural competence, international mobility and employability). Therefore, this paper studies whether Spanish bilingual education results in higher self-perceived competences. An instrument examining these three elements is applied, and Facebook Audience Insights is used for sample targeting. Findings prove that Spanish bilingual education graduates have higher self-perceived intercultural competence and international mobility. In terms of gender, women who have participated in Spanish bilingual education show higher self-perceived intercultural competence, whereas men who have studied in these programs consider themselves more interculturally competent and mobile. Conversely, there is no evidence of more positive self-perceived employability than in monolingual education. All in all, participation in a Spanish bilingual program is demonstrated to be an influential factor in self-perceived global linguistic success, employability, and intercultural competence.
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23. Teen Videos on YouTube: Features and Digital Vulnerabilities
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Montes-Vozmediano, Manuel, García-Jiménez, Antonio, and Menor-Sendra, Juan
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As a mechanism for social participation and integration and for the purpose of building their identity, teens make and share videos on platforms such as YouTube of which they are also content consumers. The vulnerability conditions that occur and the risks to which adolescents are exposed, both as creators and consumers of videos, are the focus of this study. The methodology used is content analysis, applied to 400 videos. This research has worked with manifest variables (such as the scene) and latent variables (such as genre or structure). The results show that there are notable differences in style among the videos according to the producer of the message, and indicate that the most consumed videos are located around four thematic axes (sex, bullying, pregnancy and drugs) and that the referents as audiovisual content creators are the YouTubers. Everything points to problems in using the same language, including audiovisual language, as adolescents. This paper provides evidences of the convenience of using their codes so that this sector of the population see risks and conditions of vulnerability that they seem not to perceive according to their audiovisual creations in which they do not protect their identity, among other features.
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- 2018
24. Social Media in L2 Education: Exploring On-Line Collaborative Writing in EFL Settings
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Martínez-Carrasco, Robert
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This paper presents a classroom experience regarding the use of wikis in L2 collaborative writing settings. Framed in the current post-positivist educational climate in higher education, the adoption of wikis as a Technology-Enhanced Language Learning (TELL) platform complements and enriches the classroom-based interaction of L2 learners. While developing solid L2 writing and self-expression skills, wikis may be said to foster other related core abilities--reading and comprehension, critical thinking, exegetic skills, integration of culture-specific elements in foreign language learning, and use of new technologies, etc. In the process of drafting culture-bound texts, the co-creating students become aware of the weight of cultural elements in their texts in an asynchronous, cross-cultural communication process, and they are able to bridge the cultural divide not only through non-formal, peer-to-peer learning, but also through empowered cross-cultural understanding in a truly emancipating English as a Foreign Language (EFL) setting. [For the complete volume, "Innovative Language Teaching and Learning at University: Integrating Informal Learning into Formal Language Education," see ED585162.]
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25. Social Labs in Universities: Innovation and Impact in Medialab UGR
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Romero-Frías, Esteban and Robinson-García, Nicolás
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Social laboratories, defined as experimental spaces for co-creation, have recently become the main centers of innovation. Medialabs are experimental laboratories of technologies and communication media which have co-evolved along with the digital society into mediation laboratories of citizen experimentation, observing a confluence of both models. in recent years, these centers have expanded within the higher education context, generating new forms of innovation and posing the question of how to measure the impact of such open spaces. This paper analyzes the origin and development of social laboratories in Spain. it first reviews their historical development from their antecedents in the 19th Century to the most recent initiatives. it focuses specifically on initiatives launched within the university context, highlighting their role as motors of innovation. Then, it presents the case of Medialab UGR, a co-creation and digital culture center of social collaboration framed in the digital context. Finally, it offers a first approach towards the assessment of its social impact by using Twitter and analyzes its capacity to mobilize and reach non-academic audiences. The findings show the plurality of actors involved in this type of networks as well as the difficulty and complexity of the task for the development of indicators that can comprise both, academic and social interests.
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26. Approaching Informal Learning about #Feminism on Twitter
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Valcarce de Veer, Verónica and Valdivia-Vizarreta, Paloma
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Purpose: In a socio-educational context impregnated by social networks, feminist organizations and individuals have turned to social media to spread their knowledge. This paper aims to approach how feminist tweets are produced to ignite meaningful informal learning (IL) processes. Design/methodology/approach: This study uses an interdisciplinary mixed methodology. By using Twitter tracking tools, a database has been enabled to catalogue feminist hashtags into topics and categories for further analysis. These data have been contrasted with surveys to the managers of the most followed feminist accounts in Spain and Catalonia. Findings: From an educational perspective, the analysed feminist hashtags have been organized in 13 different topic categories. The different propagation processes on Twitter -- tweeting and retweeting -- imply diverse learning processes. Moreover, tweets with complementary information such as images or links generate the most interaction, being the preferred format for IL. Research limitations/implications: Researching with Big Data in educational sciences is a field in development, and Twitter data collection tools are mostly addressed to marketing and economic sectors; thus, free tools with limited services were used, offering the analysis of a brief and concrete situation of a platform in constant change. Although this ephemeral data and its relevance does not prevail over time, it has an impact on citizens' learning. Originality/value: It is the first study in Spain that illustrates the informal education that feminism offers to the community, facing the complexity of measuring Twitter with an educational perspective through the use of marketing tools.
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- 2021
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27. Evaluation and Development of Digital Competence in Future Primary School Teachers at the University of Murcia
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Gutiérrez Porlán, Isabel and Serrano Sánchez, José Luis
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This paper presents the findings of a study carried out in the academic year 2014-2015 at the faculty of Education of the University of Murcia with first year degree students in Primary Education studying Research and ICT. The study started with the application of the DIGCOM questionnaire to analyze the digital competences of 134 students. The questionnaire served as an initial task to help students reflect on their digital competences. The subject was developed around tasks which adopted a transversal approach and used the nature of the contents itself to direct and improve students' digital competencies. Finally, the initial questionnaire was reformulated and run in order to ascertain the students' self-perception of their improvement in these competencies through the tasks they had performed. Below we present the tasks carried out, the organization of each subject and the most relevant data regarding the self-perception of digital competencies of the future primary school teachers enrolled at the University of Murcia. The data reveal, on the one hand, that the students participating consider themselves to be competent in the most basic aspects of digital competencies and, on the other, their perception that the work done in the subject has helped them quite a lot in improving their competencies.
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28. Student Communication and Study Habits of First-Year University Students in the Digital Era
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Gallardo-Echenique, Eliana, Bullen, Mark, and Marqués-Molías, Luis
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This paper reports on research into the study habits of-university students, their use digital technologies and how they communicate with each other and their professors. We conclude that most students feel comfortable with digital technologies and that they use social media for connecting and interacting with friends rather than for academic communication. Students prefer face-to-face communication for both academic/school and social communication and they prefer to learn by themselves, work independently and to study at home.
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29. Learning Specialised Vocabulary through Facebook in a Massive Open Online Course
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Ventura, Patricia and Martín-Monje, Elena
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This paper explores how the incorporation of a social network such as Facebook can enhance the acquisition of specialised vocabulary in the context of a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). Such initiative took place in the second edition of the MOOC Professional English, the first ever English for Specific Purposes (ESP) MOOC to be launched in Spain as one of the courses offered by Aprendo, the UNED online platform. The main aim of the experiment was to ascertain how this social network, which has proved to foster motivation and engagement in language learning contexts (Blattner & Lomicka, 2012; Zourou, 2012), could enhance the students' learning experience and promote vocabulary acquisition in an ESP MOOC context. Following an action-research methodology (Lewin, 1946) a Facebook group was created by the MOOC curator and ran for eight weeks out of the twelve that the course was comprised of (11 November 2013-31 January 2014). A mixed-method approach was adopted for the data collection, using both quantitative techniques, such as student tracking in the MOOC, and also qualitative ones (e.g. questionnaires). The results point towards a positive impact of the Facebook network in the motivation of students to learn specialised vocabulary and an improvement in their progress in the MOOC, likewise fighting the main two problems that MOOCs currently are said to have: high drop-out rates and lack of student engagement. [For the complete volume, "New Perspectives on Teaching and Working with Languages in the Digital Era," see ED565799.]
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30. A Student-Centred Digital Technology Approach: The Relationship between Intrinsic Motivation, Learning Climate and Academic Achievement of Physical Education Pre-Service Teachers
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Calderón, Antonio, Meroño, Lourdes, and MacPhail, Ann
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There is a lack of research on the use of digital technology in physical education teacher education (PETE) and its relationship with the learning and engagement of pre-service teachers. Furthermore, research reports low engagement of pre-service teachers in digital approaches that do not promote active learning and are mostly teacher-centred. This paper aims to: (a) explore the relationship between a student-centred digital technology approach and the pre-service teachers' intrinsic motivation, learning climate and academic achievement; and (b) test the relationship between learning climate and intrinsic motivation as possible predictors of academic achievement. The student-centred digital technology approach was designed following an adaptation of the five-phase pedagogical guidelines for teaching with emerging technologies. Two intact classes (n = 110 students) and one teacher educator were involved in the study. Following a mixed-method approach, quantitative data was collected on pre-service teachers' intrinsic motivation, learning climate and academic achievement. Qualitative data explored pre-service teachers' tweets and learning blogs. Choice and novelty were two central tenets that conditioned high levels of intrinsic motivation and academic achievement. The study provides support for the use of active learning environments where pre-service teachers are involved in creative content production using digital technology in PETE programmes. Given the growing role of digital technology for learning in educational policies and new physical education curricula, we advocate for the publication of more research-based experiences on the integration of digital technology in PETE programmes. The transferability of such teaching and learning experiences to pre-service teachers' and physical education teachers' practice would be especially worthwhile.
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31. Enhancing Learning with the Social Media: Student Teachers' Perceptions on Twitter in a Debate Activity
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Tur, Gemma and Marín, Victoria I.
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This paper presents research focused on the educational experience of students using the microblogging platform Twitter for debate activities in three groups in different teacher education programmes at the University of the Balearic Islands, Spain. The implementation of this technology-based task in a face-to-face class was introduced as an innovative experience as a way of enhancing student learning and fostering participation in the context of formal learning. The educational objectives of these activities, besides working on the topics of the debate, were to empower student teachers' Personal Learning Environments, engage student participation and enhance their use of social media and mobile devices for learning. Student perceptions were assessed by means of a questionnaire completed by them at the end of the courses. Tweets related to the debate were also collected in order to obtain some statistical data on student participation. Data collected allowed the researchers to observe student teacher engagement with the use of Twitter for the debate activity and its impact on their learning and understanding of the debate topic. Results also showed positive perceptions towards the use of social media in education and students' willingness for future use, learning opportunities from Twitter and the use of mobile technology were also envisioned. Finally, conclusions argue the implications for practice of the current study and highlight some issues for further research, such as the exploration of new and innovative uses for teachers' professional development and the empowerment of new activities and habits in learning on the move.
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32. Photoprotection and Skin Cancer on X/Twitter: Analysis of Misinformation, Communication Challenges, and Attitudes in the Spanish Community.
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Fuentes-Lara, Cristina, Poch Butler, Santana Lois, Humanes, María Luisa, and Jiménez Sánchez, Lara
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SKIN cancer ,COMMUNITY attitudes ,CONSCIOUSNESS raising ,MISINFORMATION ,HEALTH literacy - Abstract
This paper delves into the challenges faced by scientists to effectively communicate regarding photoprotection and skin cancer as a result of the pervasive, harmful effects of disinforming messages. In order to do so, the Spanish population's understanding of photoprotection and skin cancer is examined. This paper is as an extension of the COMUNICANCER initiative, the ultimate goal of which is to establish protocols for producing and disseminating accurate content that raises the awareness of skin cancer-related dangers, as well as transferring knowledge on health prevention. Therefore, we have monitored the prevalence of misinformation and lack of information regarding sun photoprotection in Spain, aiming to reflect, ultimately, on the added difficulties faced by the scholarly community to disseminate accurate content in today's communication environment, which has become even more complex due to the distorting influence of disinformation. Employing a quantitative methodology, the research involved a comprehensive analysis of 2498 Spanish-language tweets related to skin cancer and photoprotection collected between August 2021 and August 2022. The study proves that scientists face a social media landscape, particularly on X/Twitter, where there is not only a lack of comprehensive information on the various dimensions of skin cancer, its prevention, and treatment, but which also serves as a breeding ground for the dissemination of inaccurate and misleading information regarding sun-related health risks and preventive measures. This leads to an urgent need to develop strategies aimed at fostering comprehensive and accurate information dissemination, especially regarding health information, due to the critical effect this can have on people and public health systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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33. TECHNOLOGICAL AND VERIFICATION TRAINING IN THE SPANISH MEDIA: The Case of Directors and Department Heads.
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LÓPEZ-MARTÍN, ÁLVARO
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AUTODIDACTICISM ,SELF-managed learning (Personnel management) ,DIGITAL technology ,SELF-evaluation - Abstract
This paper examines, through a survey, the level of education and training in data verification among directors and department heads in the Spanish media (n=190). Findings reveal a limited level of training in this area, mainly acquired through in-house courses or self-directed learning, resulting in a limited knowledge and use of specific digital tools for information verification. Despite this, respondents generally hold a positive self-assessment of their verification skills, with (almost) all expressing a willingness to participate in training initiatives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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34. Pronunciation Instruction through Twitter: The Case of Commonly Mispronounced Words
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Fouz-González, Jonás
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This paper presents the results of a study aimed at exploring the possibilities Twitter offers for pronunciation instruction. It investigates the potential of a Twitter-based approach based on explicit instruction and input enhancement techniques to help English Foreing Language (EFL) learners improve their pronunciation of segmental and suprasegmental features that are commonly mispronounced due to lack of conscious attention to form (i.e. noticing) or explicit instruction, lack of exposure to the target language, difficult sound-spelling correspondences, or a combination of these. Additionally, the study investigates the relationship between the learners' level of engagement and their pronunciation improvement, as well as the learners' reactions towards the approach adopted and the way they use social networking sites (SNSs). The study follows a quantitative design, with pre- and post-tests aimed at measuring the learners' pronunciation before and after training, a delayed post-test aimed at measuring whether gains were maintained over time, and two questionnaires that gathered demographic data from participants, their patterns of SNS usage as well as their perceptions towards the approach adopted. The study was conducted with 121 participants divided into control and experimental groups. The approach consisted in sending learners a daily tweet with concise explicit explanations about the target aspects and a link to a video/audio file illustrating the pronunciation of the target word in an authentic context. The results show that the instruction fostered significant improvements in the learners' pronunciation of the target features and that improvements were maintained over time. As for the relationship between engagement and improvement, a positive correlation was found between these two variables, but it was very weak. Finally, the participants' responses to the questionnaires reveal that they considered the tips received as useful and that they perceive Twitter as potentially advantageous for educational purposes.
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35. Twitter-Based EFL Pronunciation Instruction
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Mompean, José Antonio and Fouz-González, Jonás
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This paper looks at the use of "Twitter" as a language teaching/learning tool. It describes the results of a study aimed at testing "Twitter's" effectiveness for pronunciation teaching. The purpose of the study was to determine whether "Twitter" can foster online participation and whether it may have a positive effect on the pronunciation of a number of words commonly mispronounced by EFL students. The study was carried out with students from a Language School in Spain. The students were sent a number of tweets on a daily basis, each of them featuring the pronunciation of a word considered to be difficult given unusual sound-spelling correspondences, lexical stress or the presence of silent letters. The results show that the instruction had a beneficial effect on the students' pronunciation of the target words and that participants were actively engaged during the study. Implications of the results for the teaching of English pronunciation and the use of "Twitter" in language teaching are also offered.
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36. Social Networking Sites as a Learning Tool
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Sanchez-Casado, Noelia, Cegarra Navarro, Juan Gabriel, Wensley, Anthony, and Tomaseti-Solano, Eva
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Purpose: Over the past few years, social networking sites (SNSs) have become very useful for firms, allowing companies to manage the customer-brand relationships. In this context, SNSs can be considered as a learning tool because of the brand knowledge that customers develop from these relationships. Because of the fact that knowledge in organisations is embodied in the concept of the learning organisation, customers may create brand knowledge as a consequence of two learning facilitators: informational and instrumental value. Then, the purpose of this paper is to identify the role played by brand knowledge in the process of creating customer capital, in the context of SNSs. Design/methodology/approach: A total of 259 users of SNSs, who were followers or fans of brand pages, participated in this study. Data were collected through an online survey and they were analysed using structural equation modelling. Findings: The results of the study show that brand pages at SNS can perform brand knowledge by providing purposive gratifications to its customers. Moreover, they can also develop an indirect effect on customer capital, through the direct effect that brand knowledge has on it. Therefore, the results of the study will help managers design their learning strategies in relation to SNS and confirm the need of using SNS as a learning tool. Originality/value: Few, if any, studies have analysed whether gratifications, usually related to media, work as learning facilitators in the context of brand pages at SNS.
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37. Impact of fake news on social networks during COVID-19 pandemic in Spain.
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Macarrón Máñez, María Teresa, Moreno Cano, Antonia, and Díez, Fernando
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COVID-19 pandemic ,FAKE news ,SOCIAL networks ,SOCIAL media ,LITERACY programs - Abstract
Purpose: The pandemic has enhanced the global phenomenon of disinformation. This paper aims to study the false news concerning COVID-19, spread through social media in Spain, by using the LatamChequea database for a duration from 01/22/2020, when the first false information has been detected, up to 03/09/2021. Design/methodology/approach: A quantitative analysis has been conducted with regard to the correlation between fake news stories and the pandemic state, the motive to share them, their dissemination in other countries and the effectiveness of fact checking. This study is complemented by a qualitative method: a focus group conducted with representatives of different groups within the society. Findings: Fake news has been primarily disseminated through several social networks at the same time, with two peaks taking place in over a half of the said false stories. The first took place from March to April of 2020 during complete lockdown, and we were informed of prevention measures, the country's situation and the origin of the virus, whereas the second was related to news revolving around the coming vaccines, which occurred between October and November. The audience tends to neither cross-check the information received nor report fake news to competent authorities, and fact-checking methods fail to stop their spread. Further awareness and digital literacy campaigns are thus required in addition to more involvement from governments and technological platforms. Research limitations/implications: The main limitation of the research is the fact that it was only possible to conduct a focus group of five individuals who do not belong to generation Z due to the restrictions imposed by the pandemic, although a clear contribution to the analysis of the impact of fake news on social networks during the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain can be seen from the privileged experiences in each of the fields of work that were identified. In this sense, the results of the study are not generalizable to a larger population. On the other hand, and with a view to future research, it would be advisable to carry out a more specific study of how fake news affects generation Z. Originality/value: This research is original in nature, and the findings of this study are valuable for business practitioners and scholars, brand marketers, social media platform owners, opinion leaders and policymakers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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38. Research on selective media exposure in Spain: a critical review of its findings, application phases, and blind spots.
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Valera-Ordaz, Lidia
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SELECTIVE exposure ,MEDIA consumption ,LITERATURE reviews ,MASS media & politics ,MULTIVARIATE analysis ,SECONDARY analysis ,PASSIVE smoking ,MEDIA exposure - Abstract
This paper is the first review of selective exposure studies in Spain, offering comprehensive insights into the diverse findings and analytical strategies employed over almost three decades by studies that explore the politically oriented media consumption of Spanish audiences. The article divides the evolution of this research line in Spain into two main phases -an initial phase (1995-2016) and a consolidation phase (2017-present)- according to the methodological approaches used during each period. Despite the challenges posed by working with secondary data and the lack of experimental designs, we note a robust initiation of this research line in Spain, accompanied by increasing methodological sophistication and diversification and a substantial accumulation of evidence on how Spanish audiences selectively consume like-minded news media. The paper also identifies the blind spots of selective exposure research in Spain, such as the scarcity of primary data sources, which overlooks phenomena such as online selective exposure and selective avoidance, the need to supplement multivariate analyses with other techniques that allow the direction of causal influence between variables to be established, and the significance of assessing the role of public media as facilitators or inhibitors of cross-cutting exposure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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39. INSTAGRAM, THE TOOL OF E-PATIENTS WITH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS.
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Mansilla-Moreno, María Pilar, Parejo-Cuéllar, Macarena, and de-Casas-Moreno, Patricia
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MULTIPLE sclerosis ,DIGITAL literacy ,AUTOIMMUNE diseases ,SOCIAL networks ,CONTENT analysis - Abstract
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- 2024
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40. La Verificación de Datos en los Medios de comunicación Españoles: Rutinas, Fuentes, Herramientas y Grado de Formación de los Periodistas.
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Gómez-Calderón, Bernardo and López-Martín, Álvaro
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FACT checking ,DIGITAL technology ,SOCIAL media ,JOURNALISTS ,INFORMATION resources - Abstract
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- 2024
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41. Gender Effects of Social Network Use Among Secondary School Adolescents in Spain: Extremist and Pro-Violence Attitudes.
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Rodríguez Martínez, Pilar, Villegas Lirola, Francisco, and Sousa, Janara
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TEENAGER attitudes ,SOCIAL media ,SOCIAL networks ,SECONDARY schools ,GENDER - Abstract
This paper presents the results of a questionnaire-based study of adolescents in secondary schools in Almería and Madrid (n = 1135), Spain. Based on scales developed and tested by Ozer and Bertelsen (2018), we investigate whether social media use correlates with self-reported extremist and pro-violence attitudes. We analyze the results of a moderation analysis on the rates of extremism and pro-violence, as well as illegal acts, in relation to social media use. We find that boys use social media more than girls, and that greater social media use does not correlate with adolescents being more extremist, but rather more pro-violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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42. Accountability of unaccountable institutions: oversight of the press, social networks, and the Spanish Parliament over the Spanish king emeritus.
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Martín-Llaguno, Marta, Berganza, Rosa, and Navarro-Beltrá, Marián
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POLITICAL agenda , *POLITICAL corruption , *SOCIAL media , *ELECTRONIC newspapers , *LEGISLATIVE bodies , *PUBLIC communication , *TENSE (Grammar) , *MICROBLOGS , *SCANDALS , *SOCIAL networks - Abstract
Convictions of political corruption depend on public communication, since for citizens, to perceive deviant behaviours, these must receive attention. In Spain, this type of behaviour is part of the agendas of citizens, media, and politicians and, to fight against it, accountability is essential. In addition to the judiciary and legislature (in their oversight role), the media and social media help voters, MPs and others to make informed decisions and press for action. However, the interrelationships between different agents, types, and forms of control for accountability are a rather unexplored research topic, especially when considering non-accountable institutions (those that have power, but are not directly accountable to the electorate, such as the monarchy). The debate on the inviolability of the emeritus presents a perfect scenario to describe what formulas and what kind of sanctions (legal, labour, reputational or personal) for accountability have occurred in Spain in the case of a non-accountable institution. This study explores the agendas of media, Parliament, and Twitter (and their inter-influences) during the Geneva papers scandal. We analyzed 189,037 tweets, 1,220 journalistic pieces and 78 parliamentary initiatives related to the former monarch. The main results show that the media, social networks, and Parliament have acted as agents of accountability with Juan Carlos I, as if it were an accountable institution. Online newspapers and Twitter have led the oversight, while the parliamentary initiative has been ineffective and has essentially served as an instrument of partisan communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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43. Determinants of online intellectual capital disclosure by Spanish local governments.
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Ramírez, Yolanda, Tejada, Ángel, and Sánchez, María Pilar
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INTELLECTUAL capital ,LOCAL government ,PUBLIC spaces ,HUMAN capital ,MEDIA literacy ,REGRESSION analysis ,POLITICAL autonomy ,FINANCE - Abstract
Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the extent of intellectual capital disclosure (ICD) through websites and social media in Spanish local government (SLG) and analyze the factors that explain their disclosure. Design/methodology/approach: The study applies content analysis and regression techniques. The ICD is analyzed for Spanish municipalities with more than 100,000 inhabitants and provincial capitals over a period from January 2018 to February 2020. Findings: Findings emphasize that the quantity of disclosed information on intellectual capital (IC) is in the low level, particularly with regard to human capital (HC). Furthermore, the results show that the information provided via social media mainly concerns the relational capital (RC). On the other hand, results obtained indicate that larger municipalities, with lower financial autonomy and whose citizens have a high income level use the online media (both websites and social media) more actively to disclose information about IC. Finally, municipalities led by women and with high level of citizens' education exert a positive influence in the ICD only on websites. Practical implications: This paper makes a number of key contributions to the existing body of knowledge, focusing on ICD, a neglected area in the public sector accounting literature. It explores and identifies the supply-side and demand-side determinants of information affecting the ICD in local governments. The results of this research could be useful for policymakers, regulators and governments' managers to improve the online information addressing ICD issues. Originality/value: This paper adopts an innovative perspective by investigating the use of alternative tools for ICD in local government context (websites and social media). To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first study that focuses on investigating the determinants of online ICD in local governments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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44. Coverage and distribution of altmetric mentions in Spain: a cross-country comparison in 22 research fields.
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Torres-Salinas, Daniel, Robinson-García, Nicolás, and Arroyo-Machado, Wenceslao
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ALTMETRICS ,SOCIAL media - Abstract
Since their formal proposal in 2010, various studies have been carried out on altmetrics from different perspectives and at different levels. However, the problem of the country-specific differences found in such studies has not been addressed in depth and considering the wide range of social media sources. This paper presents a cross-country comparison of altmetric coverage between Spain and a selection of 16 countries (EU-15 and the United States) in 22 research fields. All Spanish publications indexed in Web of Science that were published between 2016 and 2020, as well as all mentions of their altmetrics collected on Altmetric.com, were retrieved. The results show that, of the 434,827 Spanish publications considered, 55% are found on Altmetric.com. General altmetric coverage in Spain is similar to that in the rest of Europe and the United States, but it is in areas such as Arts & Humanities and Social Sciences where the lowest levels of coverage are found, although in the case of the latter the publications receive a higher number of mentions. Spanish publications reach a total of 3,569,553 mentions from different social media platforms, but Twitter is the main source of these mentions, accounting for 89%. Differences between research fields are also found, such as Environment & Ecology receiving a higher number of policy mentions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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45. The credibility of newscasts in public service media in Spain.
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Soengas-Pérez, Xosé, Rodríguez-Castro, Marta, and Campos-Freire, Francisco
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JOURNALISM ,TELEVISION viewers ,SOCIAL media ,TELEVISION broadcasting of news ,AUDIENCES ,NEWS consumption ,RESEARCH personnel ,SCHOLARS - Abstract
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- 2023
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46. Forced telecommuting during the COVID-19 lockdown: the impact on corporate culture in Spain and Kazakhstan.
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Díaz-Soloaga, Paloma and Díaz-Soloaga, Aurora
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COVID-19 pandemic ,CORPORATE culture ,TELECOMMUTING ,SOCIAL media ,PROJECT managers ,PRINCIPAL components analysis ,STAY-at-home orders - Abstract
Purpose: This paper studied organizational culture in two different countries during the COVID-19 lockdown, a stressful social and labor context that obliged entire working populations to telecommute from home. We considered how people have coped with this new scenario, bearing in mind that one of the most relevant aspects of organizational culture and climate is the face-to-face interactions that take place in offices. With telework, that important physical relationship disappears and, since body language has its own grammar, work-related messages logically become open to misunderstanding between leaders and subordinates, as well as among peers. Design/methodology/approach: An anonymous questionnaire (in Spanish and Russian) was distributed through the LinkedIn social media platform. The study intended to capture responses from white-collar professionals with managerial profiles, including those occupying high and medium-level positions, consultants, section directors, and project managers across different industries in both the countries. We collected 142 responses from Spain and 115 from Kazakhstan, with a total of 257 valid responses. Principal component's analysis (PCA), to obtain factorial axis was applied. We then performed a factor analysis of those principal components using Coheris Analytics SPAD 9.1. Findings: The first finding herein points to the fact that the same experience had different consequences in these two different places, which can be traced back to national-cultural values. Spain and Kazakhstan share some common values and, at the same time, are culturally opposite. People fear uncertainty and one of the best ways to avoid this feeling is to provide them with technical and emotional support to manage a situation. During the COVID-19 lockdown, professionals from both countries expected their bosses to be assertive, driven, attentive and encouraging. And it seems they got just that. Secondly, a robust structure is mandatory for feeling secure: workers reported devoting more hours to telecommuting at home and even felt that their jobs were invading their personal lives, but they handled it because they knew to whom they should report. Procedures, rules, and methods were clear enough to avoid uncertainty. They even invented new rituals, patterns and practices that helped to reinforce their sense of belonging to the team. On top of this, in their responses, they noted that leaders acted consistently, even admirably, during lockdown and, for this reason, they gained their subordinates' respect. Research limitations/implications: Responses from female participants more than doubled those from males in this sample. Women are assumed to prefer flexible working conditions so that they can better take care of children and/or elderly or dependent persons, but this could just be a long-standing bias. On the other hand, the incorporation of women into professional life has feminized work environments, translating into more concern for workers' personal circumstances and more awareness of the human relationships therein. Thus, independent of the country studied, gender is another factor to consider for future research. Practical implications: This article proposes further exploratory study of how organizational contexts are affected by unexpected, informal and even radical changes, as well as of organizations' ability to manage said changes by looking to their cultural values. Originality/value: Facing a common enemy— the coronavirus— seems to have made workers more positive and less prone to complaining. Workers have been resolute and have tried their best not only in their individual work, but also with their co-workers and teams. The data suggests that, even when analyzing two diverse countries in terms of their cultural historical, and sociological contexts, companies' reactions impacted their employees somewhat similarly and engendered similar responses. At the same time, the reactions of Spanish and Kazakhstani professionals vary on certain aspects, and, surprisingly, converge in terms of avoiding uncertainty, which suggests a conservative reaction in both countries. This study concludes that structure (clarity of procedures, norms, patterns) and leaders' recognition of their employees' efforts to overcome uncertainty were of utmost importance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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47. Soft news in original videos. Adaptation to TikTok of the main Spanish online media.
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Estrada-García, Suandi and Gamir-Ríos, José
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ONLINE journalism ,YOUNG adults ,LEGACY systems ,ONLINE social networks ,SOCIAL networks ,VIDEOS ,BRANDING (Marketing) ,MICROBLOGS ,SOCIAL media ,BRAND identification - Abstract
Since the beginning of 2020, media around the world have started and intensified their TikTok activity to gain notoriety and reach young people, their main user group. However, as with other previously popularized social media, such as Facebook or Twitter, the platform’s logic is different from that traditionally employed by the media system when developing information products. The objective of this paper is to analyze the degree of adaptation to the logic of this network for the activity developed on it by the Spanish media. For this purpose, a combined methodology of quantitative and content analysis was applied to 446 videos posted by the official user accounts of 20 Minutos, Antena 3 Noticias, El Diario, El Mundo, and El País–the five media outlets with the largest online audience in that period–from the time the accounts were created until January 31, 2022. Specifically, we studied the activity developed, the notoriety achieved, and the interaction obtained, as well as the most common formats, topics, protagonists, and brand identity elements. The results show that the main Spanish media have tried to adapt to the entertainment logic of the platform both with the use of native editing resources as well as through the creation of original materials, predominantly soft news, about entertainment, celebrities, and lifestyle. The videos that gain more notoriety are those that are more adapted to this logic. However, the Spanish media analyzed post less frequently than international media, obtain fewer views, and register lower engagement levels; in addition, they do not use their presence on this social network to promote their other editorial products. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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48. LA DESINFORMACIÓN, EN AUGE: UN ANÁLISIS DE LOS BULOS SOBRE POLÍTICA ESPAÑOLA.
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LÓPEZ-MARTÍN, ÁLVARO, GÓMEZ-CALDERÓN, BERNARDO, and CÓRDOBA-CABÚS, ALBA
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FAKE news ,HOAXES ,CONTENT analysis ,SOCIAL media ,INVENTIONS - Abstract
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49. Contributions of Social Media to the Recognition, Assessment, Conservation, and Communication of Spanish Post-Industrial Landscapes.
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Layuno Rosas, Ángeles and Magaz-Molina, Jorge
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SOCIAL media ,USER-generated content ,LANDSCAPES ,ONLINE social networks ,LANDSCAPE protection ,KEYWORDS - Abstract
The paper aims to draft how phenomena such as abandonment, territorial disarticulation, environmental pollution, socioeconomic imbalances, and heritage consideration issues that surround landscapes where industrial activity has ceased are reflected on social media in Spain. The research focuses on the most popular social media platforms in Spain: Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. A manual sample strategy was conducted to ensure an individualized approach to user-generated content. Sampling was carried out separately for three aspects: (1) keywords at a general level, (2) terms used to define industrial landscapes, and (3) recognition of significant industrial landscapes related to governmental facilities built in the 20th century, wherein we take into account three potential profile types: (i) individuals; (ii) NGOs/associations and/or public administrations; and (iii) academics. The results show that social media platforms are widely used as tools to disseminate information about industrial landscapes, but the contributions of each platform are uneven and incomplete in relation to the reality of post-industrial landscapes. However, it is worth recognizing the added value that their possible interaction brings as a reference for current civic debates. How social media contributes toward mitigating the difficulties of recognition, comprehension, and protection of post-industrial landscapes is emphasized in our conclusions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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50. Quantifying digital-native and legacy, national and local news websites in Spain, their topic scope and platforms.
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Negredo, Samuel, Sánchez-García, Pilar, Amoedo-Casais, Avelino, Martínez-Costa, María-Pilar, and Salaverría, Ramón
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NEWS websites ,DIGITAL technology ,DIGITAL media ,SOCIAL media ,JOURNALISM - Abstract
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