Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

The global pandemic of Covid-19 has caused, and unfortunately continues to cause, a large number of deceased people around the world. During the beginning of the state of alarm, the controversy over the number of deceaseds and their accuracy was a recurring theme between the Government and the opposition. In this article, we analyze comparatively the data published by the regional newspapers of Galicia (La Voz de Galicia and El Correo Gallego), as well as the sources indicated in the news about the deceased. Besides, we contrast, whether the published figures differ from the sources of the INE, the Xunta de Galicia (regional government), and the Ministry of Health of the Government of Spain. We focus on the dates of greatest confusion in the information and difficulty for the effective count of the deceased, from the beginning of the first state of alarm until the approval of de-escalation measures (from March 14th to April 28th, 2020). Important discrepancies in the data have been found between newspapers, but also between institutions. Due to this informational chaos, the opposition raised doubts about transparency. The lack of exact information on a profound topic, such as the number of deaths during a pandemic, fuels psychosocial problems and conspiracy theories in the population. Finally, a series of guidelines and recommendations are provided as an initial proposal towards a communication protocol in times of crisis that can contribute to the proper handling of sensitive data that are difficult to corroborate.

  The communicational dynamics that are experienced today are primarily due to technology and the narratives of different contemporary audiences in the field of digital media, the above also envisions a certain resistance and flexibility in the reality of people both in writing and in writing. locution. In order to understand these communicative messages in greater depth and transcendence, in this article we are interested in exploring the mutation of words and written expressions within the various forms of digital communication that circulate on Instagram, Twitter and WhatsApp. The content analysis method is used to elucidate the symbolic treatment given to each of them and the impact they achieve in digital culture. Subsequently, the informative function that these assemblages play in the action of writing is studied, from which a heteroclite narrative is obtained that manages to capture attention from the use of coherence, vituperation, contractions or intentional spelling errors; Distinguishing these spelling transgressions leads to a trend in the written language on the Internet that is the essential key to understanding socio-digital concerns and practices. The results suggest the existence of mechanisms of immediate communication and authenticity that can be used in the cultural and educational sphere, as they help to reproduce ludic learning strategies and multiple languages that go beyond formality without falling into the superficial.

In recent years, the proliferation of fake news has become a common theme and the fight against this phenomenon has become one of the main challenges in the media, institutions and governments, especially in light of the health crisis caused by Covid-19. 19 in which disinformation and the concept of infodemic have played a major role. The pandemic and mobility restrictions have been a shock to television audiences, this medium being the most widely used for information. In this sense, the strategies and resources dedicated by the media to data verification have taken on special relevance. This study analyzes the verification systems of the countries that make up the Mediterranean model, Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece. Given the extraordinary context of the infodemic caused by COVID-19 and its consequences on the political ecosystem, it is of interest to assess what treatment has been carried out in the aforementioned countries due to their unique media characteristics. The eminently qualitative methodological approach has focused on the review of documentary sources and the empirical verification of the verification systems of Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece and how these initiatives execute the dissemination of verified information. In total, 30 initiatives have been identified that respond to verification strategies based on human resources, technological resources or mixed, in XX cases they have their own broadcast space or section in traditional media, assuming these experiences a way of disseminating the verified information. The initial hypothesis is verified, which maintains that information verification initiatives are useful and necessary tools that currently do not have an effective reflection to connect with audiences, if not through the active search of viewers.

Currently, social networks are having a decisive impact on the selection that citizens make of applicants for a popularly elected position, so we will focus on analyzing their influence in the past elections to choose the position of governor in the State from Nuevo León Mexico. Historically, the media have had a preponderant impact on Mexican democracy, so it was considered convenient to analyze whether the unconventional media have managed to have the same influence as the conventional media. Likewise, consumption patterns and preferences that citizens have over the media were analyzed. Being an empirical study, developed at the beginning of the electoral campaign, it was possible to obtain significant results that demonstrate the impact of social networks in the construction and changes of perception in citizens.

The contest between Correísmo and anticorreísmo is visible on a Facebook page, on the one hand the power of social networks, on the other the state power. Both characters in this contest today are very important actors in Ecuadorian politics. This dispute would reach the ears of Oliver Stone in England producing his mockery in front of the cameras and viewers. Correa denounced Crudo Ecuador for a systematic attack against his figure, Crudo Ecuador defended itself after freedom of expression. All these events under the cloak of memes and audio visual production. This work presents memes and their frames of meaning as tiny messages shared through networks producing meanings. For the study of memes, a mixed methodology is proposed: quantitative and qualitative, around data collection and classification based on the meaning frameworks used.

Facebook and Twitter have become the best space for politicians can to generate engagement through their publications and reactions in public opinion. These posted are an alternative to communicate and inform citizens about their activities, proposals or to establish dialogues.

This comparative study identifies 4 communication barriers in the press releases of Salud de Ecuador, Peru and Chile, on the vaccination plan against Covid-19. The research is qualitative.

This article analyses the phenomenon of transnational political participation of the new Spanish emigration in Paris (France) that emerged in the period of economic crisis (2008-2014) through the virtual spaces. We are interested in understanding how this new emigration constitutes as a virtual community to participate politically in those issues that are of interest to them. The methodology used was essentially qualitative, using the application of a virtual ethnography through the Facebook profiles in which they take part, as well as a series of in-depth interviews and focus groups with key informants.

The article offers a diagnosis of the current journalistic use of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Specifically, it introduces its conceptual debate and details its main functions and professional trends in development in the context of Covid-19 information. Based on a bibliographic search in Web of Science with the terms Journalism and Artificial Intelligence, 90 publications are analyzed in order to review the academic production focused on the concepts of AI and journalism to know the predominant theme in the theoretical corpus in relation to three aspects: (1) the conceptual framework of AI and journalism, (2) the technology alluded to and the use made of AI in the information process, and (3) the journalistic trends to which it relates. The analysis also relates these uses and trends to the informative context of Covid-19. The results show the clear irruption of AI in journalism, which has been approached by academia from different focuses, from the broadest ones that include it within high-tech journalism to others that focus on some of its aspects in a terminological debate that is still open. Content production is consolidating as the main entry point for these technologies in the development of journalistic functions, followed by their use for distribution and, lastly, for information gathering. Among the journalistic trends favored by AI, data journalism and verification journalism stand out, as evidenced in the coverage of Covid-19. The treatment of the pandemic also offers examples of the use of AI in all phases of journalism, from information gathering to content production and dissemination.

This study analyzes how demobilization conditions were triggered in the disputes of meaning over the controversy about Amazon wildfires, aiming to legitimize the Brazilian government. We selected posts made between August and September 2019 on Facebook Fanpages from four political actors involved in the controversy: Planalto, President Jair Bolsonaro, Eduardo Bolsonaro and MBL movement. We analyzed appeals that questioned the concreteness of the problem, its relationship to the public interest, its solution possibilities and its relationship to broad moral values. Through the identification of the main themes, subjects and arguments used, we concluded that demobilization conditions were triggered to disqualify the participation of actors who opposed the government or to demonstrate international support, producing uncertainties that contribute to disinformation and create obstacles to publics formation and movement.