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This study aims to discover the views of researchers in the field of social sciences working in areas relating to education of the importance of social networks in scientific dissemination. For this purpose, the study population was taken as the totality of researchers who have published scientific content in academic journals indexed in Scopus or Web of Science (WoS) in the last five years (2016-2020), through quantitative research executed between September 2021 and January 2022. The results show a scenario of scientific dissemination through social networks in which there is still a significant percentage of researchers who do not use or have a positive perception of the importance of this type of current digital communication resource, as well as low levels of scientific dissemination. In conclusion, the study shows the need to ensure a scientific context, at the level of social science researchers, aimed at improving the motivation and culture of dissemination of research projects, and to promote the intensive use of social networks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work aims to identify the use of polarization as a communication resource, the co-occurrence of disinformation content, and hate speech published by nationalist and independentist political groups in Spain through Twitter. The study performs a topic analysis of 13,225 tweets in Spanish published on Twitter by the political groups analyzed, collected between September 1, 2019, and February 29, 2020, which are compared with the 2,730 disinformation content collected between September 1, 2019, and February 29, 2020, for two Fact-Checking journalistic projects in Spain (Maldita.es and Newtral.es). The results show us a communicative scenario, at the level of the political groups studied, in which polarization is used as a strategy to attract potential voters from digital scenarios such as Twitter. In addition, it recognized a more significant presence of hate speech with a neutral semantic load, and a low level of co-occurrence is observed concerning the disinformation content identified in the Fact-Checking projects taken as study cases. The analyzed scenario contributes to the polarization and normalization of hate and confrontation expressions, favouring the proliferation of prejudices at the level of Spanish public opinion on Twitter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research seeks to analyze the factors that influenced the perception of academic anxiety manifested by teachers of higher education institutions in Latin America, during the first weeks of confinement due to Covid-19. This is an exploratory study using an online survey available from April 6 to 24, 2020. 251 teachers (n = 251, 1-α = 95% and e = 6.2) linked to higher education institutions responded from 6 Iberoamerican countries (Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Spain, Mexico and Puerto Rico). The main results point to a greater perception of anxiety among teachers from institutions with a face-to-face pre-confinement study modality and from public institutions, with a negative institutional perception, and perception of a greater risk of contagion by COVID-19. The need to rethink teacher training at a psychosocial level is reaffirmed, so that it helps emotional management and active coping with uncertain and demanding scenarios such as those experienced during the period studied. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Through the application of machine learning techniques, this paper aims to estimate the importance of messages with ideological load during the elections held in Spain on May 24th, 2015 posted by Twitter's users, as well as other variables associated with the publication of these types of messages. Our study collected and analysed 24,900 tweets associated to two of the main trending topics' hashtags (#24M and #Elections2015) used in the election day and build a predictive model to infer the ideological orientation for the messages which made use of these hashtags during Election Day. This approach allows us to classify the ideological orientation of all collected tweets, instead of only tweets that explicitly express their ideological or partisan preferences in the messages. Using the ideological orientation for all tweets predicted by our model, it was possible to identify how messages with a defined ideological load were pushed forward by users with leftist tendencies. We also observed a relationship between these messages and the partisan orientation of those who published them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present article seeks to estimate and compare the level of transparency presented by Colombian universities in 2015, after the publication of Law 1712/2014 (March 2014) on transparency and right of access to information in Colombia. The study analyzed a total of 84 public and private universities listed on the National System of Higher Education and accredited by the Ministry of National Education of Colombia in May 2015. The study applied an instrument was developed by the group Tra.Bu.Com of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in accordance to the legal norm in force in this country. The instrument is composed of 75 structured questions in two mains parts: the measurement of formal transparency, and measurement of the substantive transparency of web pages of these institutions, among other aspects.The data presented in this paper show that, although acceptable levels are observed at the formal level, the greatest weakness observed was at a substantive level, with a higher level of general transparency in public universities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There are many teacher training programs designed to encourage the use of ICT, but not all have been effective. To deepen this problem, this study analyze the factors associated with the use of ICT resources at an educational level in Colombia. For this, a survey was applied, with 5% confidence and a margin of error of ± 4, to a sample of 602 teachers of Primary Education, of Barranquilla, Colombia. The data allow to observe that factors related to the digital competence and the favorable attitude towards the use of the ICT of the teachers, as well as the institutional support in the incorporation of the TIC in the pedagogical processes in the educative centers, they have a significant statistical relationship with the level of use of ICT in teachinglearning processes. To contribute to a greater use of this type of resources in educational centers, it is necessary to promote spaces that help the promotion of digital skills in teachers, and a greater reflection and participation of these in the decisions of use of ICT in the classrooms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this study we analyze how the social networks are being managed in 22 local digital media of 12 regions of Argentina, Colombia, Peru, Portugal, Spain and Venezuela. Through 22 semi-structured interviews made to their manager, which allow us to appreciate how, at present, the Social Media are seen like resources that help to increase the media capacities around communication and informative channels in spite of the little short development that exist, until now, about new professional profiles dedicated to the social networks management and initial state of empowerment of social media within the media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes how journalism professors at Colombian universities use ICT in the teaching process. This analysis is based on the results obtained during 2009 from 63 professors affiliated with journalism departments at 29 universities that belong to the Colombian Association of Journalism Departments and University Programs. The results allow us to conclude that, in the present time, the professors have a low level of contact and use around ICT resources, which can be influencing in the reduction of the possibilities of acquisition of ability that many new professionals of communication and journalism require at present. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]