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

What are fake news? What are their impacts on contemporary political life? Why are people susceptible—or not—to this type of information? Keeping these questions as the central focus, a systematic review of experimental studies on susceptibility versus identification of political fake news is proposed, covering publications between 2017 and 2022 in Spanish, English, and Portuguese. Susceptibility factors are identified as low performance in analytical thinking, ideological congruence, and trusting environments (shared news), while high-performance analytical thinking, political knowledge, deliberation time, and more institutionalized journalistic sources and formats often function as discernment factors. The need to continue advancing in the creation and dissemination of effective strategies for citizens to distinguish the truthfulness of the political information they consume is addressed, given its importance for democratic life.

One character dreams of leaving and the other one thinks about returning. They are separated by age, life experience and their ability to inhabit the past or the future. They are united by migration, the insular destiny and a rooftop. This article intends to carry out an analysis of the films Regreso a Ítaca (Laurent Cantet, 2014) and El techo (Patricia Ramos, 2016) that contemplates how certain narrative, aesthetic and mise-en-scène aspects contribute to the configuration of imaginaries around migration and identity processes. To this aim, some theoretical reflections on issues such as social imaginaries, cinema and the transnational will be recovered, and the construction of characters and the configuration of chronotopes in the film text will be studied.

This text examines some of the constituent elements of the poetics of Belgian director Agnès Varda. The hypothesis is that in her non-fiction works, the director establishes a series of ethical parameters that allow for a poetic-ethical discourse, as well as a political practice. To carry out this analysis, the undisciplined practice of visual studies is employed, and three conceptual axes are proposed to comprehend the diverse articulations of meaning in the analyzed works. These axes are: gaze, framing, and affect. Finally, the text concludes with a recapitulation of the elements that constitute the aesthetic power of the director's works, rooted in the notion of encountering the other as the starting point of her poetic-ethical approach.

This research aims to shed light on the phenomenon of negative campaigning in the current Spanish political and media landscape. The main objective is to find significant variations in hate speech according to the degree of control that politicians are able to exert in diverse media. To this end, an analysis has been carried out regarding the totality of criticism that Catalonian political leaders issued in the three televised election debates, as well as in the original publications of their official twitter accounts during the Catalonian election campaign of 14 February 2021. Furthermore, an attempt has been made to confirm the presence of determinants related to ideology and posturing in the government prior to the elections analysed, as well as in the broadcast of those attacks. This study has used a quantitative-qualitative content analysis methodology with a coding sheet composed of six variables related to analysing the negative campaigning. The most significant findings not only show a much more critical tone used by candidates in the debates when compared to the microblogging network, but they also highlight the digital platform as a means of discrediting the personal traits of political opponents to a greater extent.

In recent years, intangibles have taken centre stage in organisations’ management, including corporate culture, talent acquisition and diversity- as part of the 2030 Agenda. However, the data shows that the employment of people with disabilities is still very residual. In this scenario, addressing the situation of people with disabilities seems timely, given that, beyond employment figures, few studies investigate their opinion, even less so if it is linked to corporate culture or social responsibility. This work aims to reflect this reality, find out the view of those directly affected by the management of disabilities in corporate culture, detect weaknesses and strengths, and propose improvements, if appropriate.  

The object of study of this research focuses on innovation laboratories, understood -in a first simple approximation- as units that some media have set up to experiment and come up with new formulas, products and services that provide value to consumers. In this sense, the labs were born as a strategic response of some media to the need and urgency to innovate in order to generate formulas with which to be in a better position to overcome the serious crisis that the media in general and journalism in particular have been going through for three decades. The thesis consists of three chapters. The first one conceptualizes the term, the second one examines the implementation of labs in Spanish journalistic media and the third one explores the vision of 18 experts regarding the features that characterize these spaces, strengths, weaknesses, contributions to journalistic innovation and good practices for their operation.

Innovation has become a necessary strategy for the survival of the media and many of them have included an innovation laboratory, which is specifically dedicated to applying it in the information field. This thesis analyses the operation, organization and production in the innovation laboratories of two European public service media, BBC News Labs, of the British Broadcasting Corporation, and RTVE Lab, of Radio Televisión Española. Both share formats, technologies and challenges, as they innovate in terms of managing their work and production and function as communities of practice. But, despite the fact that they share objectives, such as transferring their production to newsrooms and providing their staff with an innovative profile in order to offer the best information product to the public, they differ in terms of organizational structure, typology of projects and work methods, since they are based on different corporate cultures and organizational strategies.

The present study aims to systematically review communication reputation-focused research. After investigating several databases, a total of 366 peer-reviewed communication journal articles were selected. This study adopted quantitative content analysis to examine journals, as well as the progression, methodologies, media genres and platforms, geospatial distribution of discussed issues, and affiliations of first authors. The results revealed that communication reputation-focused articles have increased during the last decade. Most of the articles were published in public relations (PR) journals and adopted quantitative research methodologies. The most commonly used theories were related to communication, PR, and crisis communication theories. The articles discussed mostly social media and then digital media genres and platforms. The discussed regions and first-author affiliations were focused on the US.