David Puertas Graell

Universitat Ramon Llull | URL · Periodisme

The appearance of the first online media in the late 20th century multiplied the power of news, making it even more immediate, accessible and integrated, disseminating it with a multitude of devices thanks to which it has achieved greater presence and proximity in our lives. On its way to our doors and our living rooms, and from there to our pocket...

We present data from a survey conducted in Spain (N = 1003) in March 2022. We analysed fact-checker activity to obtain daily information regarding disinformation content encountered in the three weeks before the survey was launched. The research team analysed the material found to identify content that was related or that belonged to similar narrat...

El deporte es una pasión que une a naciones y culturas. Detrás de cada gol, cada punto, cada récord, hay una historia que contar. En la búsqueda incansable de sistematizar la labor de los periodistas de este campo, testigos y narradores de esos relatos apasionantes, se realiza esta obra con experiencias de España, México, Ecuador y Colombia. Temas...

Las plataformas de contenido audiovisual son actualmente un elemento de gran uso y valor para la mayoría de jóvenes en España (Digital News Report, 2022). Un factor incremental del uso de estas ha sido el confinamiento domiciliario causado por el COVID-19 (Leith & Gheen, 2021). Uno de los ejemplos más claros es Twitch, la plataforma de retransmisió...

El principio de autoridad en el periodismo se articula en torno a conceptos centrales como objetividad, verificación y distancia/neutralidad (Schudson, 1978; Kovach y Rosenstiel, 2007; Deuze, 2005). En el nuevo orden de desinformación en el que se cuestiona la autoridad del periodismo, los verificadores de datos (en inglés, fact-checkers) se presen...

This report offers a more enlightening panorama on the vision and conception of future professionals in communication field in matters of ethics and deontology. This national report based on Spain demonstrates the need to create and develop projects such as Media Councils in the Digital Age. This could be helpful in order to achieve a greater and b...

During the last few months, the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated issues have monopolized the debate on the media and social networks. Thus, the news actors in the hybrid media system have incorporated the fight against the infodemic and disinformation as another priority in a society that has demanded constant and reliable information in multip...

A new study published by Blanquerna university shows overall decreased in trust in news following the Covid-19 pandemic in Belgium, Spain and Hungary. Results also show very low level of awareness about media and press councils, their role and the mechanisms complaints. More information: https://presscouncils.eu/The-level-of-public-trust-in-news-de...

Televised sports journalism in Spain lives in a contrasting situation. The existence of talk shows based on entertainment in privileged schedule spaces generates a lack of credibility towards journalistic world. This study is focused on four sports programs selected for their historical, contemporary and/or share relevance in the current television...

This report collects the main contributions made by the researchers of the News, networks and users in the Hybrid Media System project, at the Newsnet seminar, which was held in Bilbao on November 10, 2020. The overall objective of this project is to map out an accurate picture of how news content is being created, distributed, commented upon and...

This article analyzes the citizen movement in defense of the public health system and against the proposal of merging two hospitals in the city of Granada. The merger was scarcely covered by the mainstream media until a physician denounced the hospital system reform in a Facebook video that soon went viral. From that moment, a social online mobiliz...

The Covid-19 pandemic has confined millions of citizens in their homes. The situation of isolation has many consequences at multiple levels: social, psychological, economic, educational…, and also communicative. Based on a survey to 1,122 people during the most severe confinement phase, this article aims to analyze how information consumption has b...

La crisis del coronavirus ha provocado que el 78% de los ciudadanos se informe más que antes de la pandemia, y el 52% lo hace tres o más veces al día cuando antes de la crisis sólo lo hacía el 28%. Estos datos son el resultado de la investigación sobre los cambios en el consumo informativo realizada por el grupo de investigación Digilab, de la Fac...

A media system based on a small number of sources, extremely hierarchical and mainly targeting a passive mass audience, has evolved towards a context where the number of media has exponentially multiplied, audiences are highly fragmented and increasingly active, with almost endless options for news consumption. This new scenario is described as a h...

El papel de los usuarios de las redes sociales y su relación con los medios de comunicación es una cuestión que demanda un análisis, ya que conceptos como gatekeeping o agenda-setting (Sheffer & Schultz, 2010) sufren tensiones en el actual sistema híbrido de comunicación. Desde el ámbito académico internacional se viene estudiando el uso que los pe...