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Numerous studies have examined the phenomenon of bullying. The development of information and communications technology (ICT) has enabled an emerging form of bullying known as cyberbullying. This article presents a case study of an Internet-focused bullying prevention programme in a Spanish secondary school with 627 students, from a non-experimental, qualitative perspective. The data collected show an ICT-centric institutional framework that supports bullying prevention programmes. The results also indicate an institutional culture highly adapted to ICT based on teleological, psycho-pedagogical, administrative and community dimensions. This culture has favoured the development of the cyberbullying prevention programme studied in this article.

This article contributes to the debate on the empirical applications of critical realism (CR) in school effectiveness research. Researchers that endorse this research paradigm privilege intensive, over extensive, research designs, focussing, hence, in ethnographic methods and qualitative interviewing. However, and despite some recent academic proposals, there is little guidance in the literature on how to analyse qualitative data using the lenses of CR to produce causal knowledge about the operation of education policies in society. The current piece elaborates on the tenets of dialectical CR to develop some methodological arguments on how to engage in this type of empirical work. These reflections are then applied to analyse qualitative information retrieved in three 'failing' schools from Northern Colombia as an exemplar.

This work presents the key ideas of the 13 works that make up the special issue, "The Role of News Media in Promoting Hate Speech," exploring the mechanisms by which hate speech spreads in media-related environments. The objective of this collection of studies is. The authors of these works, hailing from Spain, the United States, India, Portugal, and Norway, have contributed to establishing an approach to the central issue from diverse perspectives, including a legal perspective and addressing elements associated with journalistic practice and the dissemination of hate speech in current digital communication scenarios and help to exacerbate the polarization and prejudice in the public opinion of our current societies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study analyses the role of the main Spanish political groups in the polarisation of public opinion and the promotion of the culture of disinformation through Twitter (now Platform X). The study carries out an analysis of issues associated with tweets and retweets in Spanish of the total published (n = 33,506 messages out of a total of 49,288 messages), which are contrasted with 2,730 disinformation publications identified by the two most relevant fact-checking projects in Spain (Maldita.es and Newtral.es). Based on the applied methodology, a political-communicative context is observed on Platform X characterised by a high level of self-promotion and polarisation, facilitated by the communication strategy of specific topics, applied by the actors analysed. The results show how these political actors can play an active and differentiated role in the promotion of disinformation content identified by the Maldita.es and Newtral.es data verification projects. This may contribute to the polarisation of Spanish public opinion on Platform X by delegitimising the opinions of their opponents on issues of interest to the public. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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]

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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]

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Numerous studies have examined the phenomenon of bullying. The development of information and communications technology (ICT) has enabled an emerging form of bullying known as cyberbullying. This article presents a case study of an Internet-focused bullying prevention programme in a Spanish secondary school with 627 students, from a non-experimental, qualitative perspective. The data collected show an ICT-centric institutional framework that supports bullying prevention programmes. The results also indicate an institutional culture highly adapted to ICT based on teleological, psycho-pedagogical, administrative and community dimensions. This culture has favoured the development of the cyberbullying prevention programme studied in this article. [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]

The objective of this article is to analyze the value that students in various Colombian universities attach to virtual learning. The work is based on the results obtained from a survey of 384 online university students in Colombia. The obtained data confirm the existence of a strong association among factors relative to the quality of the technological infrastructure, the information, and the service offered, as well as the interactions generated in the act of teaching. The results can aid institutions of higher education in developing projects or programs that contribute to improving student perceptions of the quality of education received in this type of programs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article contributes to the debate on the empirical applications of critical realism (CR) in school effectiveness research. Researchers that endorse this research paradigm privilege intensive, over extensive, research designs, focussing, hence, in ethnographic methods and qualitative interviewing. However, and despite some recent academic proposals, there is little guidance in the literature on how to analyse qualitative data using the lenses of CR to produce causal knowledge about the operation of education policies in society. The current piece elaborates on the tenets of dialectical CR to develop some methodological arguments on how to engage in this type of empirical work. These reflections are then applied to analyse qualitative information retrieved in three 'failing' schools from Northern Colombia as an exemplar. [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]

This paper aims to measure the level of knowledge, use of open data among citizens in that country, and identify factors that significantly affect the use of these in Colombia. The results obtained from a survey of one thousand 218 citizens, with 95% confidence and ee=+/- 2.8, show a very low level of knowledge and application of Open Data in that country; identifying a set of factors that significantly affect it (for example, using alternative media and civil platforms, among others); and the necessary participation of Colombian public and private stakeholders to increase the impact of Open Data movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article presents the results of a study of social media uses and standards from the perspectives of online newspaper managers in Argentina, Colombia, Peru, Mexico, Venezuela, Spain, and Portugal.1 Interviews with online news managers and a content analysis of journalists’ use of Facebook and Twitter accounts show that cultural, economic, and organizational factors handicap news outlets’ adoption of social media. At the same time, evidence shows that these professionals’ drive and enthusiasm for transitioning to online and using social media have made meaningful changes in the ways news is produced in the Ibero-American region. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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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]