scholarly journals Proyección y transferencia de los grupos de investigación de la Comunicación en España a partir del análisis de sus sitios web

Author(s):  
Florencia Claes ◽  
Alejandro Barranquero ◽  
Eduardo Rodríguez-Gómez

Research groups are professional structures that cooperate to produce knowledge and that must communicate their findings to make disciplines progress. This research analyzes how Spanish Communication research groups take advantage of the functionalities of the web 2.0 to transfer knowledge and promote closer collaboration with other academic entities. The starting point is an exhaustive census of research groups, prepared within the research project MapCom 2 and including groups belonging to communication faculties of public and private universities in Spain. Content analysis is then applied to examine how these groups use their respective websites, exploring six variables: navigability, dissemination of information and services, updating, international projection, SEO positioning, and possibilities of interaction with the audience. The analysis of the sites reveals disparate results in terms of the type of update, content, functionalities, and uses. Most of the groups listed have websites to present their lines of research and objectives. However, these spaces vary from one group to another (even within the same university), and many asymmetries can be detected in the information presented and in the fact that certain statements are not always accessible. The study of these variables –composed and designed for the present research– also allows us to analyze the knowledge transfer that the groups carry out, their possible level of interaction with citizens, or to determine whether they are more or less endogamic or have an external projection when promoting links with other members or groups at a local, state, or international level. The results show that Spanish groups have not yet managed to exploit the opportunities of the web 2.0 sufficiently to transfer knowledge as well as export and increase the visibility of their scientific production. Resumen Los grupos de investigación son estructuras académicas que cooperan para producir conocimiento y que necesitan comunicar sus hallazgos para fortalecer los campos y disciplinas científicas. La presente investigación analiza cómo los grupos españoles del campo de la Comunicación aprovechan las funciones de la web 2.0 para transferir el conocimiento y fomentar mecanismos de colaboración con otras entidades científicas. Se parte de la elaboración de un censo exhaustivo de grupos de investigación, elaborado en el marco del proyecto I+D MapCom 2, y que incluye grupos adscritos a las facultades de comunicación de universidades públicas y privadas en España. Se aplica un protocolo de análisis de contenido para estudiar cómo dichos grupos emplean sus webs en relación con seis variables: navegabilidad, exposición de informaciones y servicios, actualización, proyección internacional, trabajo de posicionamiento SEO, y posibilidades de interacción con el público. El análisis de las webs demuestra resultados dispares en cuanto a tipo de actualización, contenidos, funciones y usos. La mayoría de los grupos analizados cuenta con espacios online para exponer sus líneas de investigación y objetivos. Sin embargo, dichos espacios varían de un grupo a otro (e incluso dentro de la misma universidad), y se detectan abundantes asimetrías en la información expuesta y en el propio hecho de que ciertas declaraciones no son siempre accesibles. El estudio de estas variables –compuestas y diseñadas para la presente investigación– también nos permite analizar la transferencia de conocimiento que realizan los grupos, su nivel de interacción con la ciudadanía, y si estos son más o menos endogámicos o tienen una proyección externa al favorecer vínculos con otros miembros o grupos en escalas locales, estatales o internacionales. Los resultados demuestran que los grupos españoles aún no han conseguido explotar suficientemente la web 2.0 de cara a transferir conocimiento y visibilizar e internacionalizar su producción científica.

Author(s):  
Santosh Khadka

Facebook, like any other social networking site, troubles the traditional categories of private and public spheres. As it complicates (and transcends) the distinction, it can be called a different space, or a liminal space, which falls somewhere in-between private and public spheres. The author argues that this recognition of Facebook as a liminal sphere has important implications to the (re) definition of public and private spheres and to the ways rhetoric should work or be used in the Web 2.0 sites like Facebook. The author also proposes that Michael de Certeau's notions of “strategy” and “tactics” can be powerful rhetorical tools to deal with Facebook's liminality and to enhance the rhetorical performance of self in Facebook and other similar new media forums.


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 460-479
Author(s):  
Kevser Arslan ◽  
Fatma Coştu

This study, it is aimed to determine the strengths and weaknesses of the web 2.0 applications used in the teaching process through SWOT analysis and to reveal the opportunities and threats. For this purpose, the study group consists of 20 volunteer teachers working in public and private schools. The teachers benefited from web 2.0 tools in their lessons and could actively use web tools. Online interviews were conducted with the teachers. The data obtained from the interviews were evaluated by using descriptive content analysis. The themes and codes were created by analysing the interview data considering the SWOT analysis and its sub-themes. As a result of the research, it was determined that the strengths of the web 2.0 applications used in the teaching process are making the students active, providing permanence in learning, increasing success and creating a positive effect on the development of many skills. Weaknesses of web 2.0 tools; difficulties in creating the materials, time-consuming use in the course, not allowing everyone’s access, lack of technology and access. Features such as being independent of space and time, creating the desired content, sharing information, using it as a measurement tool, getting quick feedback, and providing a flexible classroom environment are included among the opportunities of web 2.0 tools. It is under the threat of reducing the influence of the teacher, disrupting the dominance of the lesson, removing the subjects from the centre, causing distraction, experiencing internet and access problems, creating technology addiction in students and creating security problems.


Author(s):  
Santosh Khadka

Facebook, like any other social networking site, troubles the traditional categories of private and public spheres. As it complicates (and transcends) the distinction, it can be called a different space, or a liminal space, which falls somewhere in-between private and public spheres. The author argues that this recognition of Facebook as a liminal sphere has important implications to the (re) definition of public and private spheres and to the ways rhetoric should work or be used in the Web 2.0 sites like Facebook. The author also proposes that Michael de Certeau’s notions of “strategy” and “tactics” can be powerful rhetorical tools to deal with Facebook’s liminality and to enhance the rhetorical performance of self in Facebook and other similar new media forums.


2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Osca-Lluch ◽  
Francisco González-Sala

<span style="font-family: 'Garamond',serif; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;" lang="EN-GB">The aim of this study was to identify and understand the changes experienced in the scientific community groups of authors working in Spanish institutions and publishing articles in scientific journals included in the "Educational Psychology" in the Web of Science during the period 2004 till 2013 and its membership and permanence in different research groups. A comparative study of groups and their composition over the five-year periods 2004-2008 and 2009-2013 was performed. The results indicated that there is an increase in the number of researchers and research groups working in the field of educational psychology, which is accompanied by an increase in the number of items, although in some cases the increase in the number of members in the group does not correspond to a significant increase in scientific production. It is noticeable the incorporation of a greater number of Spanish journals in the Web of Science, as are those that concentrate most of the scientific production in this discipline and are responsible to influence growth in the foundation data from the Web of Science of the Spanish scientific production in educational psychology.</span>


Author(s):  
Carlos Lozano Ascencio ◽  
Juan Antonio Gaitán Moya ◽  
José Luis Piñuel Raigada ◽  
Carmen Caffarel Serra

The praxeological approach serves to discover the dialectical relationships between the objective structures that condition human action (praxis) of, in this case, the scientific research processes, and the structured dispositions that are updated in academic debates. The MapCom Project drew up a cartographic repository of consolidated research groups in Spanish universities with undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Communication, as well as a census of researchers active in the Spanish university with degrees in Communication, surveyed them, and organized debate sessions in Madrid, Barcelona and Malaga in 2016 on communication research, which were the first university meetings held in this regard in Spain, applying the Phillips 66 technique. The main results detect the limitations faced by the praxeology of research in communication because there is a reciprocal exclusion between "Fostering the strength of research groups" and the "ANECA effect", said exclusion comes from confronting the policy of cooperation between groups with the policy of individualistic competitiveness and choosing between collective convergence in the production of knowledge or the individual fight for getting re-knowledge.


2012 ◽  
Vol 61 (5) ◽  
pp. 309-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Gresham ◽  
Sarah Higgins

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the effects Web 2.0 has on users' ability to browse online archive catalogues effectively.Design/methodology/approachMethods used included a review of the relevant scholarly literature, content analysis and semi‐structured interviews with purposive samples of online catalogues and archive staff, respectively.FindingsThe Web 2.0 technologies likely to improve browsability were identified. Web 2.0 use was expected to be low, the results confirmed this. Results from the interviews showed that although Web 2.0 may improve browsability for certain user groups, more fundamental improvements such as improved catalogue data were expected to be more effective. Interviewees did not see any clear benefits to Web 2.0 implementation and had struggled to collect data on usage of some of the Web 2.0 tools they used.Research limitations/implicationsThe results provided confirmation of many points made in existing research. Data need to be collected from users if Web 2.0 use and its effects on browsability are to be understood. At present the effects of Web 2.0 on the browsability of online catalogues remains unclear.Originality/valueThis paper provides a starting point for further investigation into the effect of Web 2.0 on the browsability of online catalogues. Web 2.0 tools which could potentially improve browsability have been identified and a snapshot has been taken of their use across the sample catalogues.


Author(s):  
Mandeep Kaur ◽  
Manpreet Kaur

Internet is a very powerful communication device to disclose financial and non-financial information. Almost every company today maintains its website and disseminates their information voluntarily. Internet is very exciting medium to disclose information in the form of presentation. It has become most frequently used source of information. This paper tries to examine the web home page disclosure practices of top public and private Indian banks and try to find out the relationship between the disclosure score and size of bank by using the sample of 20 banks which constitute of top public and private sector banks. The results show that there is positive relationship between the disclosure score and size of bank.


This book focuses on the relationship between private and public education in a comparative context. The contributors emphasize the relationship between private choices and public policy as they affect the division of labor between public and private non-profit schools, colleges, and universities. Their essays examine the kinds of choices offered by each sector, as well as the effects of present and proposed public policies on the intersectoral division of labor. Written from neither a pro-private nor a pro-public point of view, the contributors point to the ways in which they believe one sector or the other may be preferable for certain goals or groups.


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