AI and Big Data in Journalism Education: Spain’s Gap

This study evaluates how journalism education in Spain incorporates artificial intelligence (AI) and big data into university curricula. These emerging fields are redefining how journalists report, verify, and disseminate information.

Hospital Website Quality: New Model for Spanish Health Centers

The Hospital Web Quality Multicriteria Analysis Model (HWQ) is a validated tool to evaluate the digital presence of hospitals. It assesses websites on dimensions like usability, content, aesthetics, and transparency, specifically applied to the top Spanish hospitals.

Eco-Influencers on Instagram: Content or Fandom?

Eco-influencers are social media personalities who promote sustainable lifestyles, often blending activism with product advertising. On Instagram, they have emerged as powerful voices in digital environmental communication.

YouTube and Low Back Pain: Education or Misinformation?

Low back pain (LBP) is a leading cause of disability worldwide. Many patients now turn to YouTube for information, influenced by the platform’s apomediation effect—where users bypass medical intermediaries in favor of peer-generated content.

Streaming, Censorship, and Gen Z: Postcensorship Insights

Postcensorship refers to a modern form of censorship where content creators preemptively alter or suppress material to avoid social backlash. This phenomenon is especially prevalent in the era of streaming platforms and social media activism.

Fact-Checking and Fake News Research Trends

This article explains** the evolution of fact-checking and fake news research within the social sciences between 2014 and 2022. The study by Santiago Tejedor, Luis M. Romero-Rodríguez, and Mónica Gracia-Villar systematically reviewed 200 academic articles indexed in Scopus to identify trends, challenges, and contributions in this rapidly expanding field.

Anticapitalist Dystopias in Streaming Serials

This article explains how the series Squid Game embodies an anticapitalist dystopia through a combination of aestheticized violence, allegorical storytelling, and mainstream appeal. According to the research by Carlos Fernández-Rodríguez and Luis M. Romero-Rodríguez, the success of this Korean series reflects a broader cultural fascination with cruelty and systemic critique in streaming content.

Streaming Audiences and Political Sentiments in Spain and Mexico

This article explains how streaming platforms influence the political efficacy, alienation, and cynicism of millennial and centennial viewers in Spain and Mexico. According to the research by Carlos Fernández-Rodríguez, Luis M. Romero-Rodríguez, and Belén Puebla-Martínez, these two Spanish-speaking nations rank among the top ten globally for streaming consumption.

Fad Diets and Apomediation on YouTube: Public Health Risks

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. The aim of the study was to examine the characteristics of dietary recommendation videos made by non-health professional prescribers in Spanish and English to understand what patterns are followed by the productions of this type of content and what effects they have on the interaction they receive. An exploratory walkthrough method analysis was applied to define the variables of a codebook, followed by a content analysis of a sample of 50 videos published between January 2020 and July 2021. Most of the videos are published in the first months of the year, probably aimed at users seeking to reduce the weight gained during Christmas. The productions were characterized by having a very personal tone, informative and with relatively plural information, sometimes addressing the risks of diets or slimming products, and, although recommendations abound, the voices of experts are not frequent. The products and diets addressed in the videos often have a high health risk and do not involve practices recommended by experts, so although sometimes their contraindications or associated risks are pointed out, the promotional component and the search for traffic to the channel seem to be more relevant factors than public health in these videos.

Disinformation in Spain: Patterns and Platforms

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 of these hoaxes? and 3. In what formats and platforms are these hoaxes generally distributed? For this purpose, we conducted a quantitative content analysis of 729 hoaxes fact-checked in 2022 by Maldito Bulo. 40.7% of the debunked hoaxes were related to social issues, while 37.2% focused on political affairs. Regarding those responsible for the creation and dissemination, most of the hoaxes came from unidentified sources, although when the identity is known, the most frequent contributors are social media accounts, alternative and partisan pseudo-media, and journalists. These results explore the general disinformation scenario in Spain, using fact-checking as an approximation and discussing its implications.