Comunicación y crisis del coronavirus en España. Primeras lecciones

The public health crisis created by COVID-19 represents a challenge for journalists and the media. Specialised information in healthcare and science has turned into a need to deal with the current situation as well as the demand for information by society. In this context of increased uncertainty, the circulation of fake news on social networks and messaging applications has proliferated, producing what has been known as ‘infodemic’. This paper is focused on the fact-checking of journalistic content using a combined methodology: content analysis of information denied by the main Spanish fact-checking platforms (Maldita and Newtral) and an in-depth questionnaire to these stakeholders. The results confirm the quantitative and qualitative evolution of disinformation. Quantitatively, more fact-checking is performed during the state of alarm. Qualitatively, hoaxes increase in complexity as the pandemic evolves, in such a way that disinformation engineering takes place, and it is expected to continue until the development of a vaccine.

Smartphones and WhatsApp are, respectively, the medium and application that Spanish teenagers most want. However, research into the use of WhatsApp is still quantitatively and qualitatively limited. In addition, little research has been carried out regarding its impact on the development of transmedia skills and informal learning strategies outside the classroom. This article aims to expand the knowledge on teenagers’ motivations and their development of transmedia skills and informal learning strategies in relation to their use of WhatsApp. Specifically, a qualitative analysis of data gathered from workshops, interviews, and media diaries is applied as part of a case study methodology involving teenagers from 10 schools located in five different Spanish regions. The results reveal the new WhatsApp uses teenagers are applying in their daily lives as well as the skills and strategies they are developing through said uses in the context of interpersonal and group (WhatsApp groups) interactions: on one hand, production, social, content, and individual management skills, and on the other hand, learning by doing, teaching, and evaluating strategies.

In recent years, Wattpad has become the leading collaborative reading and writing platform allowing young writers to publish their works, some of which belong to the tradition of fan fiction, including stories derived from a source text from popular culture. The main objective of this article is to explore how teenagers reading and writing fan fiction on Wattpad apply transmedia skills related to production and narrative and esthetic reflection. Using a theoretical framework that integrates transmedia literacy, fan fiction communities as affinity spaces, and Wattpad as a tool to promote transmedia reading, we carry out a qualitative study using data collected from workshops, media newspapers, and interviews with adolescents in five different Spanish regions. The results highlight identity-play in the production of the stories, in which fanfics about real-life celebrities from the teenagers’ media universes coexist with original stories inspired by the authors’ personal lives and interests. Likewise, there is a trend toward the hybridization of fan fiction with languages and formats more typical of social media platforms, such as Instagram, with a superficial application of narrative and esthetic transmedia skills related to fan fiction practices. Resumen En los últimos años, Wattpad se ha convertido en una de las plataformas de lectura y escritura colaborativa de referencia en la que jóvenes escritores publican sus trabajos, algunos de ellos enmarcados en la tradición de la fan fiction, historias derivadas de un texto fuente de la cultura de masas. El presente artículo tiene como objetivo principal explorar cómo se articulan las competencias transmedia de producción y de reflexión narrativa y estética de los adolescentes que leen y/o escriben fanfics en Wattpad. A partir de un marco teórico en el que se integran el alfabetismo transmedia, las comunidades de fan fiction como espacios de afinidad, y Wattpad como aplicación para el fomento de lectura transmedia, se ha llevado a cabo un estudio cualitativo con datos procedentes de talleres, diarios mediáticos y entrevistas con adolescentes en 5 comunidades autónomas. Los resultados destacan un juego de identidades en la producción de los relatos, en los que conviven fanfics sobre las celebridades reales que protagonizan los universos mediáticos de los jóvenes, e historias originales inspiradas en las vidas personales o inquietudes de los autores. Asimismo, se observa una tendencia hacia la hibridación de la fan fiction con lenguajes y formatos propios de las redes sociales, como Instagram, y una aplicación superficial de las competencias transmedia de narrativa y estética vinculadas a la práctica de la fan fiction.

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Organizations that have entered into the new communicative paradigm (more participatory and dialogic) look for to approach to their publics through the spaces and channels where they interact and by means of a content strategy that help them to position and relate. The present work analyses the use of video/s in the two social networks with greater number of users in Spain: Facebook and Youtube. The study of the management of these contents by a sample of the companies with better reputation (Reptrack 2017) will help to offer results on typologies, objectives and degree of participation of their publics.