Juan-Antonio Gaitán-Moya’s research while affiliated with Complutense University of Madrid and other places

In the last two years, since the publication of the latest IPCC reports (IPCC, 2018 & 2020), greater alarm in the scientific, media and social areas has elevated the climate crisis to an emergency level. The social perception of the risk for people and the communication of this emergency has become a complex social phenomenon being constantly updated. This article sets out the results of the content analysis for communications on climate change (CC) in the main Spanish press, radio and television media and their respective Twitter accounts. A structural sampling has been used to identify the different media and supports to be analyzed. The time segment of the Climate Week NYC 2019 was chosen because key dates for the objectives of the study converge there. The Decalogue of Recommendations for Reporting on Climate Change (ECODES, 2018)”, endorsed by over 80 media sources in Spain in the years 2018 and 2019, brings together a series of variables for climate change communication analysis including outstanding concepts and values. The results confirm that the media discourse on CC is worded in accordance with the different social, scientific, and political agendas which interact with the media agenda. Particularities have been found in terms of how the information has been treated and the representations of CC, depending on the type of media analyzed. The evaluation also permits the identification of common elements that characterize the media discourse and shows how the acceleration of the six social tipping interventions (STI) identified by Otto et al. (2020) requires the strategic cooperation of the media for social transformation.

Se analizan los resultados obtenidos entre 2007 y 2018 del cómputo total de, 1) tesis doctorales defendidas en las 55 universidades con Facultades de grados y/o postgrados en comunicación; 2) y en éstas, los proyectos competitivos en convocatorias estatales en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades y cuyo objeto de estudio sea una dimensión socialmente relevante de las prácticas de “Comunicación”; y 3) artículos derivados de estos proyectos I+D publicados en las revistas de referencia en Comunicación. Estos documentos son los más representativos de la actividad investigadora de los profesores universitarios, y constituyen un censo de publicaciones basadas en investigaciones previas. Los artículos cuyo objeto de estudio no ha sido una investigación previa no han sido seleccionados (ensayos, revisiones epistemológicas de autores, escuelas y/o tendencias teóricas o metodológicas). Las comunicaciones presentadas en congresos de la Asociación Española de Investigación de la Comunicación (AE-IC) sólo son consideradas en esta exposición de forma tangencial, pues sólo una minoría de ellas es resultado de investigaciones originales. Con tales resultados se ha perfilado mediante un análisis comparativo de contenido, la productividad de la investigación en Comunicación en España durante una década, tomando en consideración los respectivos censos de documentos referidos según universidades, y que supone el análisis de Comunidades autónomas, género de sus autores y años. Se ha analizado un total de 4.158 documentos. Los resultados permiten contemplar, como conclusión más general, una evolución histórica marcada por la influencia de las políticas científicas derivadas de la imposición de las agencias de evaluación de la calidad investigadora.

This article presents the results of a national research project, MapCom : “The research structure on the social practices of Communication in Spain. Map of projects, groups, lines, objects of study and methods.” (Reference code CSO2013-47933- C4-1P). This project was funded by the Research Excellence Program at the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness in Spain, spanning the period of 2013 to 2016. We present the results obtained in Area I (Center) using a representative sample of doctoral theses and of all Spanish research projects in the areas of social sciences and humanities whose object of study comprised any socially relevant dimension of the practices of “Communication” between the 1st of January 2007 to the 31st of October 2014, undertaken within Spanish universities. We contextualize by using a comparative analysis of research in social sciences and humanities in Spain. The analysis concludes with the finding of similarities between the objects of study, but also of the differences between the investigations’ objectives when we compare doctoral theses and R&D projects.