Projects
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Ongoing projects:
– Transitional characters in entertainment-education narratives designed to reduce prejudice against immigrants: Attributes, boundary conditions and explanatory mechanisms
– Assessing the production and impact of migration narratives (BRIDGES)
– Citizens exposed to dissimilar views in the media: investigating backfire effects
– What are Opinions? Integrating Theory and Methods for Automatically Analyzing Opinionated Communication
– Evaluating Campaigns against Hate (ECO)
– Enhanced migration measures from a multidimensional perspective (HumMingBird)
– Social Perception of Artificial Intelligence (IA-Spain)
– Understanding Artificial Intelligence from the perspective of citizens (IA-Ciudadana)
– Development and evaluation of a prototype for automatic detection of fake news (FakeDetector)
– Development and evaluation of a text annotation and coding platform in Spanish (TAGGER)
– Mapas de la Investigación en Comunicación en las universidades españolas de 2007 a 2018 (MapCom2018)
– LGBTI+ representation in the Spanish serial fiction and effectiveness in the reduction of prejudices for sexual orientation and gender identity
– The triangle of polarization, political trust and political competence: understanding their dynamics in contemporary democracies
– Research, health-care networks and empowerment: social and scientific responses to rare diseases in the Iberian Peninsula (1940-2015)
Completed projects:
– Preventing Hate Against Refugees and Migrants (PHARM)
– Narrative tools to reduce prejudice. Effects of similarity, imagined contact, empathy and narrative voice
– “If you want, you can quit.” Narrative tools for smoking prevention in adults. Effects of similarity with the audience and narrative voice
– Narrative persuasion and media intergroup contact with the Venezuelan migrant population in Arequipa
– Use of data journalism and narrative persuasion to improve the knowledge and public understanding of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (DataScienceSpain2)
– Perceptions and Expectations of the Science field actors: where is Science in Spain headed? (Conversas)
– Data Science in Spain: knowledge and public perception of big data and artificial intelligence
– Development and Evaluation of a hate speech detector online in Spanish (STOP-HATE)
– Functional neuroimaging equipment for the analysis of social interaction
– Real time classifier of political opiniones in Spanish with machine learning techniques (AUTOCOP-ES)
– Reception processes and socio-cognitive effects in films on immigration: The moderating role of prejudice towards immigrants
– Unlikely connections: a cultural innovation project
– Development and Implementation of NTICs and Strategies to Enhance the Processes on the Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge and Visibility Results on Science & Technology at the Universidad del Norte on the Research System Web and on the Production of Scientific Cafés
– e-Research on Social Sciences in Latin America and the Caribbean
– Participation and Social Relations by Online Twitter Opinion Leaders in Latin America and the Middle East
– Analysis of the image of immigration in prime-time television fiction
– Proposal for the Creation of the Observatorio Venezolano de Industrias de Contenido (Venezuelan Observatory for Content Industries)
– Inner Communications and Culture in the Venezuelan Press
– Self-Presentation in Blogs and Social Networks
– e-Government in Venezuela: Balance and Perspectives
– Communicative Production of Identity in Virtual Environments
– Us and Them. A Critical Approach to the Discursive Construction of “The Other” in Hugo Chávez’s Rhetoric
– Socio-cognitive effects of news framing on immigration: The moderating role of the immigrant population density
– Analysis and socio-cognitive effects of news framing on immigration in the regional press of Castilla y León
– Analysis and socio-cognitive effects of news framing on immigration in the Media
– Situations and expositions of migrant women. Analysis of the perception and health conditions of Asian women in Spain
– Political culture in the metropolitan area of Monterrey. Formation and developmental patterns of the citizens’ political attitudes
– Political culture in the post-election situation: Influence of the 2012 Presidential and Local elections on the citizens of Nuevo León
– Effects of communicative practices on attitudes toward politics on High School students
– Effects of Media representation of indigenous peoples on the perception of youths
– Analysis of the impact of communicative practices on attitudes toward politics on Upper High School in the Monterrey metropolitan area
– Analysis of the socio-cognitive effects of the processing of minority groups in online news content: Crosscultural study in Spain and Mexico
– Dynamics of education and scientific renovation in the Bachillerato schools (1900-1936): an Iberian perspective
– Researching System on Social Practices on Communication: Project Maps, Projects, Groups, Lines, Study Objects, and Methods
– Rare diseases and patient empowerment: The case of post-polio syndrome and the end of poliomelitis in Castilla y León
– Media competence in university teachers and students in Cuenca (Ecuador). (National project together with other Ecuador universities
– Online Game for Civic Engagement of EU young adults (ENGAME)
– (In)Forming Conflict Prevention, Response and Resolution: INFOCORE. The Role of Media in Violent Conflict
– Cost Action IS1004 Webdatanet. Individuals, Societies, Cultures and Health Web-based data-collection. Methodological challenges, solutions and implementations (WEBDATANET)
– Intercultural Mentoring tools to support migrant integration at school
– Media literacy: Design, execution, and evaluation of an intervention program with teenagers
– Analysis of the audio-visual consumption and its role in the construction of reality and imaginary: design of a system of indicators
– The semantics of contemporary identity: Study on the configuration of personal identity through self-description. Narration and image
– Revealed, second season: Edu-Entertainment Strategy with new content according to the priorities in Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH)
– Institutional messages: A social responsibility
– Cybercampaign, cyberjournalism and cyberactivity in the electorate
– Discourses on foreignness in Andalusian Media: Discursive and visual construction of the new Andalusia
– Influence of the news coverage in the Press on the perception and image of Mexico in Spain
– Indigenous peoples and middle high education institutions in Nuevo León: Public policies to ensure access and permanence
– Platform for research and development: Visual arts and setting in the Digital Era
– Skills and strategies for visual alphabetization in crosscultural environments
– Cyberdemocracy in the 2008 General election campaign in Spain. Citizen use of new technologies for electoral perception, deliberation and mobilization
– National Monitoring Network on Media (Media and Democracy in Venezuela)
– Demos: Curricular redesign and development of an internet portal to adapt university teaching to the European Higher Education Area
– Culture, society and television in Spain (1956-2006)
– Image database and audio archive for digital retrieval of the photographic estate at the University of Salamanca
– V Communication conferences: Media, immigration and society. Challenges and proposals for the 21st century
– Socio-cognitive effects of news frames of immigration in the media
– Analysis of news frames used for immigration information in Spanish press
