Dafne Calvo

Dafne Calvo
  • Postdoctoral fellow
  • PhD Student at University of Valencia

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Introduction
Dafne Calvo is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Valencia. She holds a PhD in Communication from the University of Valladolid. She was a visiting fellow at Northeastern University and Universidad de la República and a guest professor at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. She combines her academic work with collaboration in several journalistic productions, meetings, and outreach events.
Current institution
University of Valencia
Current position
  • PhD Student
Additional affiliations
July 2017 - September 2017
Universidad de la República de Uruguay
Position
  • Fellow
September 2015 - present
University of Valladolid
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  • PdH Candidate
March 2016 - June 2016
Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla
Position
  • Professor

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Publications (63)
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Disinformation is a communicative phenomenon that frequently feeds on political or electoral topics, as well as other aspects of our reality. This research takes as a case study the coverage given by the Spanish digital media to a hoax broadcast during the Filomena storm in 2021 that insisted that the snow was plastic. The purpose of this work is t...
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Rodríguez-Ortiz; Cruz, L. y Barranquero, A. (coords). Esta publicación aborda el estado de los medios comunitarios, cooperativos y alternativos en España, Europa y Latinoamérica. A pesar de las diferencias entre países y regiones, el común denominador es que estos medios se enfrentan a un escenario cambiante y no siempre favorable de políticas p...
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Amidst the evolving landscape of abortion laws in Latin America and Spain, the ethical discourse surrounding its acceptability remains highly contentious, particularly within digital advocacy campaigns aimed at its prohibition. Against the backdrop of diverse trends observed within anti-feminist movements and the heightened toxicity permeating onli...
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Con una definición de desinformación como cualquier forma de información falsa, inexacta o engañosa, diseñada, presentada y promovida para causar daño público intencionadamente o con fines de lucro, este estudio se acerca a la compleja relación que periodistas y partidos establecen sobre los hechos políticos, especialmente en período electoral, cua...
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El fenómeno de la desinformación ha cobrado relevancia en los últimos años, especialmente en contextos políticos convulsos como las campañas electorales, donde se ha utilizado para influir en la opinión pública. Este estudio se centra en las elecciones de abril de 2019 en España, cuando se observaron casos de desinformación relacionados con la disp...
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En este capítulo se realiza una síntesis de las tipologías sobre desinformación ya desarrolladas por la bibliografía reciente, de modo que se pueda establecer una clasificación sólida y unificada que permita sistematizar su investigación. Tanto si las futuras investigaciones se deciden a trabajar uno de estos elementos separados como varios de ello...
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The Facebook advertising platform provides a tool to target messages at specific profiles and to display them on those users’ feeds. Political parties benefit from this marketing instrument as it allows them to target online voters with specific contents in a highly personalized strategy. This research analyses a dataset of 14,677 ads downloaded fr...
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Las cartografías digitales se han hecho populares en el ámbito del activismo digital. Para las comunidades tecnopolíticas, el mapeo constituye una innovación en los repertorios de confrontación; permite visualizar las comunidades y reforzar su identidad colectiva, establecer redes y vínculos entre ellas, o visibilizar las problemáticas que se prete...
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Digital cartographies have become popular in the field of digital activism. For technopolitical communities, mapping constitutes an innovation in the repertoires of confrontation; they allow to visualize communities and reinforce their collective identity, establish networks and links between them, and make visible the issues they intend to denounc...
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En la esfera pública contemporánea la verdad es impugnada no solo desde las nuevas plataformas de comunicación digitales, sino también desde instituciones como la política o el periodismo convencional. La adquisición de conocimiento para la toma de decisiones ciudadanas se ve cuestionada por la creciente polarización política, la fragmentación medi...
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The purpose of this article is to analyse the perceptions, social discourses and practices regarding the verification processes of the information consumed in the context of the information disorder that societies are experiencing. To do this, we created seven discussion groups structured around the variables age, position in the social structure a...
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En el contexto internacional, existe una preocupación social respecto de los efectos de la desinformación en los procesos electorales; de hecho, la comunidad de periodistas de verificación ha evaluado contenidos y declaraciones durante las elecciones. Esta investigación profundiza en el periodismo de verificación en Colombia mediante el estudio de...
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RESUMEN Los movimientos sociales pueden considerarse movimientos culturales (Fine 1995 Fine, Gary. 1995. “Public Narration and Group Culture: Discerning Discourse in Social Movements.” En Social Movements and Culture, editado por Hank Johnston y Bert Klandermans, 127–143. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. [Google Scholar]) que influyen en...
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Optimistic visions of its liberating potential have accompanied the Internet since its inception. However, technopolitical communities have defended free knowledge, but they risk adopting liberal notions when there is a group hierarchy depending on technological skills or the time people invest in the project (Coleman & Golub, 2008; Crabu et al., 2...
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Resumen La desinformación se ha convertido en un concepto central en las investigaciones en comunicación, relacionado con diversos fenómenos mediáticos, tecnológicos y políticos que complejizan su definición y diagnóstico. Si bien su abordaje ha sido eminentemente cuantitativo, los grupos de discusión han sido también empleados para conocer la perc...
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The use of digital platforms in social movements has given the Internet a central role in analyzing activism over the last decade. However, social networks’ potential for social change has to be analyzed critically and take complex economic and political contexts where actors remain unequally powerful into consideration. Through a combined methodol...
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COVID-19 has generated a social crisis that has required the production of vast amounts of information of various types, including medical. In this scenario, hoaxes and fake news about health issues have also increased, encouraging disobedience of lockdown restrictions and opposition to vaccination against the disease. At the same time, because of...
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This chapter focuses on the current state of affairs in one sole country, namely Spain, in order to inquire into how its political parties and fact-checking organizations deal with disinformation during election campaigns, and the type of measures that they adopt, where appropriate, to combat it. Fact-checking organizations are understood as nonpar...
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Fact-checkers have grown recently, facing the decline of journalism and the acceleration of disinformation flows on the internet. Due to the recent scholarly attention to these journalistic outlets, some authors have pointed to diverse critics such as the political bias and the low impact of fact-checking initiatives. In line with the research appr...
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This research analyses the Coronavirus Makers in Spain, focusing on three characteristics: the hybrid organisation, the use of technologies, and the cultural impact. To do so, we carried out a multimodal ethnography (Dicks, Bella, Bambo Soyinka, and Amanda Coffey. 2006. “Multimodal Ethnography.” Qualitative Research 6 (1): 77–96) from March to June...
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Sponsored content on Facebook has become an indispensable tool for implementing political campaign strategies. However, in political communication research, this channel is still unexplored due to its advertising model in which only target audiences are exposed to sponsored content. The launching of the Facebook Ad Library in May 2018 can be consid...
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The intensive use of digital platforms by the feminist movement has been identified as one of its main characteristics. Numerous studies address the tactical use of social networks by this movement, especially on 8 March in Spain. This paper studies the action repertoires of different actors who participated in the 2019 Women’s Strike conversation,...
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Resumen Más allá de las movilizaciones más visibles, los movimientos sociales mantienen su actividad en periodos de suspensión (Taylor, 1989) o de latencia (Melucci, 1996). Esta investigación combina el concepto de prácticas diarias (Yates, 2015) con el de prácticas de conocimiento (Casas-Cortés, Osterweil y Powell, 2008) para analizar el rol de es...
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Informationalism has come to define a paradigm that encompasses new technical capacities for data production and processing. Based on a broader neoliberal framework, academic activity is also leveraged by technological development and production dynamics of present times. This context has resulted in critiques of universities’ elitization due to th...
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As fake news elicits an emotional response from users, whose attention is then monetised, political advertising has a significant influence on its production and dissemination. Facebook ads, therefore, have an essential role in contemporary political communication, not only because of their extensive use in international political campaigns, but al...
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The scope and relevance of new digital tools for subverting the dominant agenda, changing Western political systems and ending gender inequalities are discussed from an academic perspective and that of the feminist movement (Zafra, 2011, Núñez Puente, 2011). Through a quantitative analysis and semi-structured interviews, we studied the use of Twitt...
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Free culture communities support self-learning, peer production, and the distribution of knowledge generated without any restrictions. However, free culture communities are not isolated from the social inequalities of the outside world. Understanding (in)visibility as the (in)ability to address internal under-representation within these communities...
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El ecosistema de medios está en constante cambio, transformándose a un ritmo que las instituciones educativas no pueden seguir. En esta transformación mediática se ha introducido la inteligencia artificial (IA), adaptada a las redes sociales con diversos fines, también políticos. Este trabajo se centra en la IA en formato bot como herramienta autom...
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Los emojis se han convertido en un elemento prototípico de la comunicación digital y han atraído considerable atención académica en los últimos años, pero su uso coincidiendo con eventos específicos no ha sido analizado sistemáticamente. El presente trabajo explora el uso de los emojis en Twitter en ocasión de las manifestaciones y huelgas convocad...
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Review of: Mutaciones discursivas en el siglo XXI: la política en los medios y las redes , N. Pellisser Rossell and J. M. Oleaque Moreno (eds) (2019) Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch, 391 pp., ISBN 978-8-41770-623-4, p/bk, €25
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Desde la expansión de su uso individual en los años noventa, Internet ha experimentado un proceso de creciente mercantilización y concentración. Al mismo tiempo, ha propuesto nuevas formas de producción en común con contribuciones voluntarias de los internautas, que se posicionan como una alternativa al modelo económico propuesto por el capitalismo...
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The media ecosystem is constantly changing, transforming at a rhythm that educational institutions cannot keep up with. In this media transformation, artificial intelligence (AI) has been introduced, adapted to social networks for various purposes, including political ones. This work focuses on AI in bot format as an automated tool to publish conte...
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The computational campaign suggests the exploitation and sophistication of the discourse by extracting and analyzing the electorate’s personal data, as well as the automation of diffusion tasks through techniques such as bots. This new stage in political communication has also been approached from a critical perspective, that questions the change o...
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The mediatisation model in politics assumes that media conveys political messages between parties and citizenship, with the risk of promoting issues that frame the electoral content in terms of competition. These dynamics could distract from the debate of ideas and political policies. However, digital media like Twitter provide direct communication...
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El escenario digital ha impulsado pro­fundos cambios en el entorno político, entre los que se puede distinguir el im­pulso de la transparencia informativa. La transparencia se ha convertido en uno de los valores democráticos que los políticos quieren demostrar de cara a la ciudadanía, ya que es un signo de le­gitimidad, evolución y lucha contra la...
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El funcionamiento de los partidos políticos, sus asambleas y elecciones internas se han ido adaptando a las nuevas formas de comunicación política y al establecimiento de la campaña permanente. Los procesos congresuales, si bien se conciben como una fórmula para reflexionar sobre el funcionamiento de las organizaciones, también se diseñan como even...
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En un contexto de crisis de las instituciones tradicionales y sus consecuentes protestas sociales, los Nuevos Movimientos Sociales han surgido como organizaciones transnacionacionales que utilizan las herramientas electrónicas para organizar acciones políticas y conectar con el conjunto de la ciudadanía (Della Porta et all, 2018; Castells, 2013; Va...
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Research on online political talk has been overwhelmingly influenced by deliberative theory, as a result of the big hopes originally placed on the Internet capacity to revolutionize politics. However, two decades of empirical research point out that these informal communicative interactions hardly resemble deliberative ideals. In this study, we exp...
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Research on online political talk has been overwhelmingly influenced by deliberative theory, as a result of the big hopes originally placed on the Internet capacity to revolutionize politics. However, two decades of empirical research point out that these informal communicative interactions hardly resemble deliberative ideals. In this study, we exp...
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Internet has revolutionized many aspects in the way that political parties communicate. The Network has induced a complete transformation of the political strategies used during election campaigns to spread their message to the electorate. Politicians use social networks and digital platforms to promote their messages and to communicate with citize...
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El presente artículo analiza desde una doble perspectiva, cuantitativa y cualitativa, las páginas web de los partidos políticos de Castilla y León en el marco de las últimas elecciones autonómicas españolas de 2015. Se traslada una metodología aplicada en otros estudios sobre elecciones estatales a un caso regional, con el fin de conocer los avance...
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Los primeros años del siglo XXI iniciaron un uso de Internet durante campaña que pretendía potenciar el impacto mediático de los candidatos. No fue hasta 2008, con Barack Obama, cuando se planteó la utilización de las herramientas electrónicas como un elemento dinamizador y movilizador durante esos periodos. Aplicado al caso de Facebook, en esta in...
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This paper summarises the COSET shared task organised as part of the IberEval workshop. The aim of this task is to classify the topic discussed in a tweet into one of five topics related to the Spanish 2015 electoral cycle. A new dataset was curated for this task and hand-labelled by experts on the task. Moreover, the results of the 17 participants...
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This paper addresses an aspect not yet investigated in Spanish political communication: The use of data mining systems and machine learning in the construction of political discourse. This text details the potential of Calisto software, which was designed and implemented by the Popular Party (PP), previously used in Castile and Leon and then at the...
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Este estudio se centra en el uso partidario de Twitter en las elecciones generales de 2015, en España. El objetivo es conocer si la estrategia y planificación diseñada por los partidos tiene equivalencia con el resultado, en términos de viralización. Como método se aplican entrevistas a responsables de campaña y un análisis de contenido de los mens...
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Este artículo tiene como objetivo evaluar la relación entre los medios digitales y la participación en España, en un contexto de crisis política que ha incrementado el número de ciudadanos que exigen ser parte de los proceso políticos (COLOMBO VILARRASA, 2007). En particular, se investiga la presencia de la plataforma de e-peticiones Change.org en...
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Las peticiones, que pueden definirse como demandas hacia instituciones gubernamentales concretas firmadas por los ciudadanos, han desarrollado en Internet nuevas posibilidades en relación al feedback con las Administraciones, la comodidad y flexibilidad o el ahorro económico, entre otros (Juris, 2005). En países esencialmente anglosajones se han de...
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Este estudio se centra en el uso partidario de Twitter en las elecciones generales de 2015, en España. El objetivo es conocer si la estrategia y planificación diseñada por los partidos tiene equivalencia con el resultado, en términos de viralización. Como método se aplican entrevistas a responsables de campaña y un análisis de contenido de los mens...
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This paper examines websites of political parties in Castile and Leon from a dual perspective. A qualitative and quantitative analysis is conducted in order to approach to regional elections in Spain of 2015. From the analysis of content and observation, it is quantified and describes to what extent these parties have incorporated the characteristi...
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Since the seventies, in Western democracies, communication technologies and current social networks have attracted academic debate on the ability of these devices to promote an extension of the public sphere. The recent launch of Twitter, as well as other social networks, has produced an extensive discussion about their ability to promote the diffe...
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This research aims to approach the role of Change.org as an electronic petition platform in Spain, where there are no alternatives managed by public authorities. By a qualitative content analysis and a semi-structured interview, we research the business model of the page, in order to examine its data protection policy, its user verification system...
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El nacimiento de la Web 2.0. en los primeros años del siglo XXI ha suscitado un amplio interés académico sobre la capacidad de Internet para facilitar a los ciudadanos una participación mayor en la esfera pública. Las plataformas de participación dispuestas por los cibermedios, así como la irrupción de redes sociales como Twitter y Facebook, han ge...
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Since the seventies, in Western democracies, communication technologies and current social networks have attracted academic debate on the ability of these devices to promote an extension of the public sphere. The recent launch of Twitter, as well as other social networks, has produced an extensive discussion about their ability to promote the diffe...

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