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Information and communication technologies have a large number of benefits to develop the socio-communicative competence of pupils with ASD. If these resources are used rightly, they allow them to improve their communicative skills, to establish social relationships, as well as to understand and express emotions, which will provide them an optimal social inclusion. Therefore, the purpose of this publication is to carry out a systematic review that analyzes the studies that have researched the use that these students give to these tools to reinforce these skills in educative and/or family environments and the accessibility that they have to them. Here, 11 papers have been selected that meet the selection criteria provided for this work. After analyzing them, it has been demonstrated that there are divergences in the accessibility that they have to these tools between different contexts, as well as the way that those are used to reinforce these skills.

Mobile devices have become very prominent in education in recent years. Moreover, their use has intensified in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. In this sense, given the multitude of educational experiences, it is necessary to discern between a good use of the mobile device to carry out teaching practice. The purpose of this paper was to analyse learning strategies using mobile devices in order to provide models of good teaching practice. To this end, a cross-sectional study design was applied based on the distribution of an online survey including a standardised scale and an open-ended questionnaire. A total of 14 teachers, aged between 28 and 64 years (M = 48.42, SD = 10.67), participated in the study. The results obtained show that socio-demographic factors did not influence the development of good teaching practices with mobile devices. On the other hand, only five teachers identified themselves as agents of good teaching practices and the experience carried out in the classroom was collected. Finally, good teaching practices are a topic of interest in order to have practical models that can serve as a reference for other teachers and can be implemented at the University.

The educational scenarios cannot remain oblivious to the requirements of the societies of the 21st century. Digital competence is a key element for these, and it must be attended to by all the agents involved in its development. Supervisors of the quality of education, as guarantors of this, must be aware of their digital competence degree. The general objective of this study is to determine the perceptions expressed by the district technicians of the Dominican Republic on the cognitive aspect of their digital competence. The sample consisted of 164 of these educational agents. The ad hoc instrument designed considers the contributions of DigComp 2.0, showing high reliability and validity in the analyzes carried out. The most outstanding results show that these professionals consider themselves competent in digital matters and that the labour variables mediated by technology do not present significance in this perception. The most visible conclusion, although the results cannot be generalized, is that the district technicians of the Dominican Republic are well trained and educated in knowledge of digital aspects of their professional work.

Children's Youtubers channels have increased in recent years, they are among the most popular audiovisual products with an overwhelming number of followers, most of them also children. These channels are part of the childhood culture and they play a relevant role in children’s daily lifes. This was reflected in one of the phases of the Infanci@ Digit@l project (RTI 2018-093397-B-100), with mentions of the interest aroused among children, channels such as Las Ratitas. These results motivated the study that is presented with a double purpose: the creation of an analysis model, based on studies carried out on the phenomenon of kidsinfluencers and on the dimensions and indicators of media literacy competences; and the analysis of a sample of videos in Las Ratitas’ channel, following a deductive and qualitative content analysis methodology. Among the results of these analyses, we can highlight the role of these kidsfluencers as celebrity endorsers of brands; the over-acted fictional character they represent, pretending naturalness, closeness and intimacy; and the contradictory transmission of values and counter-values that show a happy world in accordance with a depredatory and unjust capitalism.

In recent years, many interventions have been planned related to language teaching and to the development of linguistic, social and communication skills in adolescents with Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD). A common feature of most intervention programs is the utilization of the potential of Information Communication Technologies (ICT), as, based on the international literature, the effectiveness of their use in the field of education and especially in the field of Special Education is presumed, through the activation of various teaching practices. In the specific bibliographic review the use of ICT in the language teaching of adolescents with ASD is studied, a neurodevelopmental disorder with its’ most important characteristics to be the repetitive and limited behaviors, but also significant deficits in the field of language and social communication and interaction. Based on the conclusions of this study, the contribution of ICT to the language teaching of adolescents with ASD is confirmed, as it leads to the expansion of their linguistic and communication skills.

The debates on the future of journalism have led to a great deal of research on its changes in the new hyper-digitalized context. However, its impact on press freedom, specifically on editorial autonomy, is unknown. Using data from the last The Worlds of Journalism Study (2012-2016), this article explores the perception of 2,789 journalists in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, and Mexico on this phenomena. Applying SEM covariance analysis, we identified five factors of change perceived by these professionals: interactive digital communication, professional certification, the social importance of journalism, economic pressures, and training and regulatory considerations. We found that autonomy increases when the perception of the social relevance of journalism and time for research is strengthened and decreases when lucrative pressures increase. The results reaffirm the importance of not losing sight of the core values or qualities of journalism, such as autonomy, social responsibility, and professionalism, which must be maintained in these times of strong changes mediated by new information and communications technologies.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution makes it necessary to think about theoretical and methodological approaches suitable for the objects of study of automated journalism. We conducted a meta-analysis and a global study to detect the dominant methodologies around the quality of automated news. We applied the systematic review of scientific literature (SLR) technique to a search of articles on the terms journalism and artificial intelligence (N=670) from 2008 –when data journalism as we know it today emerged– until 2022. After several screenings, 18 articles published in Scopus and WoS analyzing the quality of automated news between 2014 and 2022 were identified; we then conducted a content and comparative analysis of formal, quantifiable aspects (authors, journals, year of publication, country, among others), and methodological aspects, such as the chosen orientation and techniques. Among the most outstanding results is the predominance of experiment as the preferred method. The countries most focused on this technique are the United States (N=6), Spain (N=5), and Germany (N=4). The former and the latter focus on the studies of perception and Sundar’s (1999) first categories. In Spain, various approaches are adopted, in the Czech Republic (N=1) they experiment with their own algorithmic creation, and in the Netherlands (N=1) and Singapore (N=1), they apply the experimental approach.

Given the scant research on audience reception based on group techniques, we used a focus group approach to compare interpretations by straight and cisgender and LGBTIQ+ individuals of representations of LGBTIQ+ characters in contemporary fiction series. The methodology is based on conducting four focus groups, two with LGBTIQ+ participants and two with cissexual participants, with questions based, on a first block, on fragments of series with LGBTIQ+ characters, a second on representation and inclusion, and a third on identification. The objective is to detect similarities and differences in the interpretations of these two groups. The results point to conflicting interpretations on various issues. For instance, while the LGBTIQ+ participants state that they can feel identified with any character, regardless of their sexual orientation, the straight and cisgender participants feel unable to fully identify with LGBTIQ+ characters. In conclusion, we infer that, despite confirmation of the paradigm of the active audience in terms of sexuality issues, our LGBTIQ+ participants tended to be more critical, while our straight and cisgender participants tended to be more accepting of media messages.

This article aims to analyze the scope of research in Communication for Social Change, from a participatory approach to communication, through a systematic review of the literature on the production of scientific articles in the area of social sciences published in three databases (Scopus, WOS and Latindex) between 2015 and 2021. The relevance of the study is based on the need to identify the challenges to advance in the democratization of communication from plural approaches. The PRISMA Declaration guidelines are used as a methodological basis for the search criteria and selection of scientific articles. The results show a growing interest in a research production that articulates communication for social change with issues of content production, political incidence, community participation, and citizen empowerment. Conceptual approaches refer to communication for development and social change, participation, governance and citizenship, dialogue, empowerment, listening, culture, and power. Methodologically, hermeneutic methods prevailed with the use of techniques such as interviews and focus groups. It is inferred that communication for social change follows a slow path of epistemological expansion in the social sciences, but requires a greater effort to produce knowledge that articulates new areas and problems.

This article, based on a systematized bibliographic review of the scientific production published between 2000 and 2021, outlines a picture of environmental communication in Mexico, to establish a possible configuration of this field. Based on the analysis of 34 scientific articles, this paper describes the profile of the field in the current context, according to the predominant approaches, both in the observed professional practices, their research, their corresponding disciplines, and the goals and characteristics of their studies. The results show that Environmental Communication, as a discipline, has scant theoretical and methodological advances, and it is mainly made up by contributions from researchers in communication and natural sciences. The majority of this research is focused on the media's managing of environmental topics and the work of other disciplines that observe the need of including communication to address the different perspectives and situations involved in socioenvironmental issues. There is little reflection on the paradigms of contemporary environmentalism and the role of communication in socioenvironmental issues that would allow for research relevant to the national context.