David Blanco-Herrero- PhD in Communication
- PostDoc Position at University of Amsterdam
David Blanco-Herrero
- PhD in Communication
- PostDoc Position at University of Amsterdam
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Introduction
David Blanco-Herrero (PhD, University of Salamanca, Spain) is a postdoctoral researcher at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR) at the University of Amsterdam. His lines of work tackle predominantly misinformation, as well as hate speech (especially anti-immigration discourses), and journalism practice. He is editor of the Anuario Electrónico de Estudios en Comunicación Social “Disertaciones”.
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The Russian invasion of Ukraine has also ignited a battleground in the domain of information. The conflict has been accompanied by a relentless disinformation offensive designed to manipulate public opinion and undermine democratic processes. This paper deals with the role of academia and scholars in focusing this information warfare. This study co...
The spread of false and hateful messages poses one of the greatest challenges in the current communication ecosystem. Although both phenomena have been widely analyzed, few studies have examined their combined effects. Using an experimental study with 404 Spanish citizens, we aim to understand the mechanism through which the credibility of false an...
A pesar de los intentos previos de analizar y combatir la desinformación, siguen resultando escasas las iniciativas capaces de medir el fenómeno de manera amplia y sistemática. Una de las aproximaciones más productivas se ha basado en el estudio de los desmentidos realizados por agencias de verificación. Centrados en el caso español, se ha utilizad...
Uma das principais formas do ódio se expressar no ambiente virtual é através do discurso. Apesar da relevância adquirida pela incitação ao ódio devido à mídia online, esse discurso pode ser veiculado por meio de diferentes suportes midiáticos, usando diversas estratégias, expressões e linguagens. Porém, para desenvolver estratégias de luta contra o...
El discurso de odio dirigido hacia personas migrantes y refugiadas
plantea uno de los mayores desafíos en la comunicación en redes so-
ciales. A través del análisis automatizado de 124.337 mensajes sobre
migración recogidos en Twitter en España entre 2015 y 2020, se anali-
za la presencia de odio y el sentimiento subyacente en el discurso, así
como...
Hate speech directed towards migrants and refugees poses one of the
greatest challenges in communication on social networks. By means of
an automated analysis of 124,337 messages about migration collected
on Twitter in Spain between 2015 and 2020, the presence of hate and
the underlying sentiment in the discourse are analysed, as is their
developme...
This research examines the patterns followed by disinformation in Spain through the fact-checking activities of Maldita.es, the leading fact-checking organization in Spain. We sought to answer three research questions: 1. What are the predominant topics of the hoaxes debunked by Maldita.es? 2. Who is responsible for the creation and dissemination o...
Background
As a result of the confinements of the COVID-19 pandemic and the sedentary lifestyle due to teleworking, there is an increase in weight gain and dietary carelessness in the population, which leads to an increase in offers of fad diets based on recommendations made by digital influencers.
Objective
The aim of the study was to examine the...
The shifting role of journalism in a digital age has affected long-standing journalistic norms across media platforms. This has reinvigorated discussion on how work in online newsrooms compares to other platforms that differ in media affordances and forms. Still, more studies are needed on whether those differences translate into distinct practices...
Despite its advances in recent years, most studies have observed a gender gap in Spanish cinema, both in the lack of relevance of female directors and in the underrepresentation and stereotyping of female characters. Using a content analysis of 3029 characters from 129 Spanish movies of the 21st Century, this investigation has confirmed that female...
Reseña del libro De votantes a hooligans. La polarización política en España, publicado en Catarata por Mariano Torcal.
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted societies all over the world. In an interconnected and digital global society, social media was the platform not only to convey information and recommendations but also to discuss the pandemic and its consequences. Focusing on the phase of stabilization during the first wave of the pandemic in Western countries, this...
Los medios de comunicación son creadores de marcos interpretativos de la realidad. Analizar estos marcos permite comprender la representación que se está haciendo de los grupos minoritarios, del género y, en general, de la diversidad. Con el fin de estudiar la representatividad de personajes minoritarios en el cine español del siglo XXI se han reco...
In a new communication context, factors such as the rise of hate speech, disinformation, or a precarious financial and employment situation in the media have made discursive menaces gain increasing significance. Threats of this kind challenge the legitimacy of institutional news media and professional journalists. This article contributes to the ex...
That is what this chapter will do, by trying to understand what journalists
specialized in migration topics can explain about these issues, not only
as professionals, but also as experts in the field. Their perspectives will allow
us to comprehend the phenomenon and the reasons why the current coverage
of migratory issues is the way it is, as well...
In this book, contributors analyze the knowledge about human mobility, its interaction with news and social media, and the way this impacts the attitudes of local societies and the integration of immigrants. After a general contextualization of migration dynamics in Southern Europe and its impact during the 21st Century, the central chapters of the...
In this book, contributors analyze the knowledge about human mobility, its interaction with news and social media, and the way this impacts the attitudes of local societies and the integration of immigrants. After a general contextualization of migration dynamics in Southern Europe and its impact during the 21st Century, the central chapters of the...
La comunicación de la ciencia de datos, y específicamente del big data y la inteligencia artificial, es uno de los mayores retos de la sociedad actual, porque la tecnología está en constante cambio y la ciudadanía necesita comprenderla para tomar las mejores decisiones. Tradicionalmente la comunicación científica se ha centrado en el estudio de las...
Online hate speech against migrants and refugees poses a grave challenge for coexistence and democracy. However, it also offers an opportunity to measure social acceptance towards this group. Using the Intergroup Contact and the Mediated Intergroup Contact Theory, and an already validated methodology, this article seeks to validate whether the use...
La comunicación política es una amplia etiqueta que aglutina multitud de temas. Algunos de los que acaparan una mayor atención por parte de los investigadores son las noticias falsas y la posverdad, los procesos electorales, la mediatización o la política pop. Por otro lado, la teoría del encuadre, a pesar de su largo recorrido, continúa siendo uno...
En un contexto marcado por una presión migratoria en aumento, en el que los discursos y las fuerzas políticas antiinmigración y nacionalistas ganan presencia, y en el que el marco comunicativo está fuertemente influido por los discursos de odio y la desinformación, la cobertura mediática de la migración cobra una mayor relevancia. Sin embargo, las...
RESUMEN Introducción: La presente investigación profundiza en la posible influencia de factores poco estudiados en la interacción que despiertan los vídeos de YouTube sobre dietas milagro, dado el potencial riesgo de salud pública que pueden suponer los consejos que ofrecen, especialmente para la población joven. Metodología: Se analizaron los 50 v...
Introducción: La presente investigación profundiza en la posible influencia de factores poco estudiados en la interacción que despiertan los vídeos de YouTube sobre dietas milagro, dado el potencial riesgo de salud pública que pueden suponer los consejos que ofrecen, especialmente para la población joven. Metodología: Se analizaron los 50 vídeos má...
La presente investigación busca conocer la calidad de los vídeos de YouTube sobre dietas milagro y la interacción que generan, sobre todo dado el potencial riesgo que pueden suponer para los espectadores que sigan sus consejos en caso de que estos puedan resultar nocivos. Para ello se analizaron 50 vídeos en español e inglés, siendo estos los más v...
Este artículo pretende conocer cómo cambiaron los patrones publicitarios en la televisión en España durante el confinamiento. Así, el objetivo principal es conocer qué tipos de anuncios se emitieron en España durante el confinamiento en comparación con las semanas previas, posteriores y con el mismo periodo del año anterior. Para ello, se realizó u...
El discurso de odio contra públicos vulnerables es reconocido como un grave problema para la integración y el respeto a la diversidad social dentro de la Unión Europea. El aumento de este tipo de discurso se ha visto reforzado con la expansión de las redes sociales, donde se ha demostrado que actúan como mecanismo de propagación de delitos contra c...
Los medios informativos, tanto los nativos digitales como los todavía impresos, son cada vez más activos en redes sociales, ya que permiten una interacción real con sus lectores, ahora también prosumidores. Los internautas siguen informándose mayoritariamente de la actualidad política a través de las cuentas de esos medios. En este contexto sorpren...
El presente trabajo constituye un estudio de meta-investigación en el que se examinan los artículos (N = 100) sobre framing y comunicación política publicados en revistas iberoamericanas indizadas en SCImago Journal & Country Rank (SJR-Scopus) pertenecientes al área de Comunicación durante el período 2015-2019 (5 años). Los resultados de este traba...
Greece, Italy, and Spain are the Southern European borders and the main entrances for migrants and refugees to Europe, a movement that was particularly visible after the 2015 “refugee crisis of the Mediterranean.” In this context, immigration is used as a political tool and the object of major media coverage. However, previous studies have shown th...
There is global concern regarding how the Covid-19 pandemic was communicated to citizens, given the enormous amount of uncertainty and misinformation surrounding the health situation (Singh et al., 2020). As expected, the government has been the main source of official information in most countries, but the crisis has also affected political commun...
The increasing phenomenon of “cyberhate” is concerning because of the potential social implications of this form of verbal violence, which is aimed at already-stigmatized social groups. According to information collected by the Ministry of the Interior of Spain, the category of sexual orientation and gender identity is subject to the third-highest...
Although the phenomenon of disinformation and, specifically, fake news has become especially serious and problematic, this phenomenon has not been widely addressed in academia from the perspective of consumers, who play a relevant role in the spread of this content. For that reason, the present study focuses on determining how this phenomenon is pe...
En la Universidad de Salamanca no ha existido un programa de mentoría que busque ayudar a la
orientación, apoyo, integración académica y social de los estudiantes dentro de un programa
específico como lo es el Doctorado en Formación en la Sociedad del Conocimiento, lo que lo
convierte en un proyecto totalmente nuevo e innovador en la USAL. Se qu...
El discurso de odio propagado a través de redes sociales como Twitter merece atención especial, ya que su incremento puede relacionarse con el aumento de crímenes de odio. De las 11 categorías de discriminación que contempla el Ministerio de Interior de España, la segunda en la que más delitos de odio se registran al año es la ideología. Sin embarg...
The future of journalism in the Ibero-American region depends on the capacity of media and journalists to adapt to the accelerated technologization and digitalization that is changing media structures, information processes and the nature of journalism itself. This process of digitalization of journalism in Ibero-America is analyzed in this article...
Westerns are one of the most masculine and stereotypical of film genres. In a social and film context where gender equality is increasingly important, it is worth looking at the evolution of the genre in recent years. Especially because, as André Bazin said, the Western is “cinema par excellence” (1966) and its analysis allows a reflection on cinem...
High-profile events can trigger expressions of hate speech online, which in turn modifies attitudes and offline behavior towards stigmatized groups. This paper addresses the first path of this process using manual and computational methods to analyze the stream of Twitter messages in Spanish around the boat Aquarius (n = 24,254) before and after th...
En un contexto en el que la migración tiene un notable peso mediático, y dado el acuerdo existente en la profesión y la academia sobre los déficits en su cobertura, se profundiza en el discurso mediático desde la perspectiva de sus productores: los periodistas especializados. Se realizaron 33 entrevistas en profundidad semiestructuradas y de recons...
Reseña del libro de María Marcos Ramos (ed.) (2020). A ambos lados del Atlántico: películas españolas y brasileñas premiadas.
During the lockdown declared in Spain to fight the spread of COVID-19 from 14 March to 3 May 2020, a context in which health information has gained relevance, the agenda-setting theory was used to study the proportion of health advertisements broadcasted during this period on Spanish television. Previous and posterior phases were compared, and the...
Existe un creciente interés de los ciudadanos en el impacto que tiene la Ciencia de Datos en su vida diaria, principalmente debido a la enorme atención que los medios prestan a temas relacionados con el Big Data o la Inteligencia Artificial. Este interés se traduce en grandes expectativas sobre las potenciales aplicaciones de estas tecnologías, per...
The Mediterranean migration crisis especially affects three Southern European countries that represent the main gateways into the continent for immigrants and asylum seekers: Greece, Italy, and Spain. In recent years, feelings of rejection towards migration have been increasing in all of them, accompanied by a simultaneous increase in the number of...
Aunque no sea la red social más utilizada por los usuarios de Internet en España, Twitter es la más influyente en lo referente a periodismo y política. Con la intención de conocer cómo los principales medios de comunicación españoles utilizan sus perfiles de Twitter, se emplearon métodos automatizados para descargar y analizar todas las publicacion...
In this paper, we sought to model and characterize hate speech against immigrants on Twitter in Spain around the appearance of the far-right party Vox. More than 240,000 tweets that included the term ‘Vox’ between November 2018 and April 2019 were automatically collected and analyzed. Only 1% of the sample included hate speech expressions. Within t...
This article presents a longitudinal and comparative statistical analysis of the results of the first (2007-2011) and second wave (2012-2017) of Worlds of Journalism Study surveys about the sociodemographic profile and working conditions of journalists in
Spain, Portugal, Chile, Mexico and Brazil. Despite the disparities between countries, in gener...
Los cambios producidos en los últimos años en cuanto a modelos de comunicación social han llevado a todos los sectores a adaptarse a los nuevos medios para alcanzar a su público. La comunicación de la ciencia no es una excepción. La manera en que se distribuyen contenidos sobre ciencia está cambiando debido a la presencia creciente de tecnologías,...
Se analiza el rechazo verbal al extranjero como potencial detector de discurso de odio a través de dos análisis de contenido de tuits en español recogidos con la API de Twitter: el primero, manual, a 1.469 tuits; el segundo, automático, analiza otros 337.116 tuits utilizando técnicas de big data. El rechazo fue predominante en el primer análisis y...
The use of modern technologies has meant a complete revolution of modern societies. This revolution goes beyond purely technological aspects, changing our behaviors and opening the door to new risks. The British TV series Black Mirror, one of the most successful dystopias dealing with technology in the current television scenario, deepens into the...
The growing number of cases of hate speech against migrants and refugees substantially obeys to the relevance of social media and the presence of fake news in them. This research will triangulate three methods to study how fake contents in social media contribute to the spread of hate speech against these collectives. A survey will analyze the opin...
There is currently a consensus about the importance that social communication of science has in order to reach all audiences and add value to the researcher's work. PhD students that join the profession have a growing number of opportunities to form themselves in transversal communication and media competencies, including technologies such as socia...
A crise social, política e econômica que sufoca a população venezuelana também se reflete no setor de comunicação, em sobressalto por três grandes problemas: a crise econômica, que dificulta a sobrevivência de muitas mídias e o desenvolvimento das tecnologias de informação e comunicação (TICs); a polarização sociopolítica, que faz com que a maioria...
Las noticias falsas plantean uno de los principales desafíos del periodismo contemporáneo. El objetivo de esta investigación es conocer si la deontología periodística ofrece una herramienta útil para luchar contra las noticias falsas. Por medio de una encuesta a 383 periodistas españoles, así como cuatro entrevistas en profundidad a expertos del ár...
Global financial crisis and corruption have awakened public opinion interest and have gained ground in media agenda. Whereas financial problems have increased interest in economic issues and financial processes, corruption and misuse of public finances have made people become conscious of ethics role in financial issues. A review of the historical...
