Exploring emotional responses on Twitter after the Algeciras attack on Catholic churches in 2023: Between anti-immigration discourse and sadness reactions

[EN] On 25 February, a Muslim man attacked several churches in Algeciras (Spain) and killed a sexton. After the attack, many people turned to social media, especially Twitter, to express their emotions about what had happened, send their condolences to the deceased’s family, or criticize the government, as the perpetrator was allegedly an undocumented migrant with a pending deportation order. The aim of this work is to study the emotional reactions of Twitter users who participated in conversations about the Algeciras case by applying sentiment analysis techniques. Using the academictwitteR package, more than 300,000 tweets containing the word 'Algeciras' were obtained. We then filtered out the RTs and kept 36,104 original tweets for this work. After data cleaning and tokenization, sentiment analysis was applied using the syuzhet package in R, which allowed to obtain the intensity of positive or negative sentiments and eight different emotions. The results suggest a higher prevalence of negative sentiments related to conversations about attacks, murder, or grief. The use of negative words reflects Twitter users’ emotions, which are mainly concentrated on fear, anger, and sadness. Tweets expressing these emotions also indicated signs of Islamophobia and racism towards the murderer and, by extension, other Muslim immigrants.Grant PID2021-123983OB-I00 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by “ERDF A way of making Europe”. Margarita Salas Grant funded by European Union nextGeneration-EU. ESEIS (SEJ-216)/COIDESO Centers and EPIT2023 from University of HuelvaRebollo-Díaz, C.; Gualda, E.; Ruiz-Ángel, E. (2023). Exploring emotional responses on Twitter after the Algeciras attack on Catholic churches in 2023: Between anti-immigration discourse and sadness reactions. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. 149-150. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/20179514915

Multiplicity and contrasting discourses about refugees in twitter through the Spanish case

The so-called “Refugees crisis” has captured the attention of the Spanish Social and Mass Media and Citizens due to the intense influx of people from the Middle East who travel to Europe to seek asylum. Around 900,000 people have applied for international protection in Europe, and more than 3,000 have died in the attempt. Accordingly to this situation, Twitter has functioned as a tool of digital communication where this event has been transmitted and shared, and lots of people interacted commenting on the topic. The main objective of this communication is to identify what kind of discourses have appeared in Twitter about refugees in the last times, in Spanish language, and mainly from a Qualitative approach. To that aim, a sampling process of tweets was carried out. We extracted thousands of tweets about “refugiados” (as search string in Spanish) during the last months through different strategies (different days and hours, and with the help of different software applications -especially NodeXL-). After applying some procedures for filtering, transforming, and coding data, we performed a discourse analysis, focusing on the messages and ideas included in the tweets. Also tweets were codified and categorized according not only to the topic, but also to the positive, negative or neutral meaning of their messages for refugees, taking advantage of the software for qualitative analysis Atlas ti. As preliminary results, several discourses were found ranging from those that refer to solidarity, empathy and support for this social group, to those focused on the rejection and xenophobia, being also notable those that criticize the efforts of the European Union, or others that defend proposals to alleviate the situation or that are focused in refugee’s children.La llamada crisis de los refugiados ha acaparado la atención de los medios y la ciudadanía española debido a la intensa afluencia de personas de Oriente Medio que se desplazan a países europeos para solicitar asilo. Alrededor de 900 mil personas han solicitado protección internacional en Europa, 300 mil han cruzado ya el Mediterráneo para escapar de sus países de origen en guerra y más de 3000 han muerto en el intento. Las autoridades europeas ya la han clasificado como la peor crisis migratoria desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Ante esta situación, las redes sociales en Internet han funcionado como herramientas de comunicación digital donde transmitir, interactuar y compartir con el resto de usuarios estos y otros sucesos. Una de las plataformas más importantes de comunicación online es Twitter, un servicio de microblogging que ha visto aumentada su popularidad en los últimos años gracias a su capacidad de transmitir mensajes rápidos y directos, generar debates y movilización y agrupar temas comunes a través de etiquetas que conectan a los usuarios que participan en la interacción social que se desarrolla en Twitter. El objetivo principal de esta comunicación es identificar qué tipo de discursos se realizan acerca de los refugiados en Twitter y cuál es el comportamiento de los usuarios respecto a este tema a través de Twitter. Para ello, se realizó un proceso de muestreo de tuits, que fueron extraídos durante los últimos meses en diferentes días de la semana y horas. La extracción se hizo a partir de la cadena de búsqueda “refugiados”. Se extrajeron los tuits con ayuda de las herramientas de extracción que aporta NodeXL. Se ha realizado un análisis de contenido, enfocándonos en el discurso recogido en los tuits y codificando y categorizando los mismos según la temática a la que respondían y al sentimiento positivo, negativo o neutro de las publicaciones. Para esta parte nos hemos ayudado del software de análisis cualitativo Atlas ti. Como avance de resultados, puede observarse una diversidad de discursos que oscilan entre los que hacen referencia a la solidaridad, la empatía y el apoyo hacia este grupo social, hasta los de rechazo y xenofobia, siendo notables aquellos que critican las gestiones de la Unión Europea, los que exponen propuestas para paliar la situación y los que centran su interés en los niños y niñas refugiados

La situación internacional de las personas refugiadas y su imagen en Twitter. Un reto para la intervención desde el Trabajo Social

Desde sus inicios, la crisis de los refugiados ha generado mucha opinión pública a través de las redes sociales. El objetivo de este trabajo es identificar los discursos que se difunden en Twitter sobre los refugiados, en relación con la intervención en Trabajo Social. Los datos para este artículo fueron extraídos de Twitter desde mediados de diciembre de 2015 hasta mediados de diciembre de 2016. Se ha extraído cerca de dos millones de tuits con la palabra clave “refugiados” en seis idiomas (inglés, francés, alemán, italiano, portugués y español), a través del software NodeXL. Para este artículo se utilizaron solamente los datos en español. Después del procedimiento de minería de datos, se aplicaron diferentes estrategias para filtrar, transformar y codificar para identificar las cuestiones relacionadas con los diferentes niveles de intervención social. Los resultados muestran como los tres niveles clásicos de intervención (individual-familiar, grupal y comunitario) están presentes en los discursos sobre refugiados en Twitter, posibilitando diseñar estrategias de intervención.Since its beginning, the refugee crisis has produced a lot of public opinion through social networks and has been a challenge for coexistence and social intervention. The aim of this article is to identify the discourses that are being disseminated though Twitter about the refugees, and that are related to the intervention in Social Work. Data were extracted from Twitter from mid-December 2015 until mid-December 2016. Near two millions of tweets were extracted with the keyword “refugees” in six languages (English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish), through of the NodeXL extraction tool. For this article only the data in Spanish were used. After the data mining procedure, we applied different strategies for filtering, transforming, and coding data in order to identify the issues related to the different levels of social intervention. Results show how the three classic levels of intervention in Social Work (individual-family, group and community) are present in the discourses about refugees on Twitter, making possible to design strategies for the intervention.Plan de Estrategia Política Científica (2016-2017) Universidad de Huelv

Big Data and Social Sciences. A comparative review at anthropology, sociology, and social work publications

Notas Esta publicación ha sido posible gracias al apoyo del Ministerio de Universidades que ha beneficiado a Carolina Rebollo con una Ayuda Margarita Salas para la formación de jóvenes doctores incluidas en las Ayudas para la recualificación del Sistema Universitario Español 2021-2023, financiadas por la Unión Europea- NextGenerationEU. Agradecemos también el apoyo del grupo de investigación “Estudios Sociales e Intervención Social” (ESEIS) y del centro de investigación de “Pensamiento Contemporáneo e Innovación para el Desarrollo Social” (COIDESO) para la realización de este artículo.Este artículo revisa la bibliografía internacional sobre big data y explora comparativamente la evolución, características y temáticas de las investigaciones que sobre este tema se encuadran en las áreas de antropología, sociología y trabajo social. Se emplean métodos cuantitativos para la descripción y una estrategia analítica de aprendizaje automático no supervisado al objeto de identificar y agrupar los principales tópicos o temáticas de los artículos. Los resultados confirman que el interés sobre los macrodatos ha llegado antes a la sociología que a la antropología o el trabajo social. Igualmente, se destaca la importancia de las publicaciones inter y multidisciplinares sobre big data en estas disciplinas. Del modelado de temas emergen 13 clústeres, destacando los correspondientes a publicaciones sobre redes sociales, epistemología, metodología e implicaciones del big data, big data y sociedad, salud y ‘machine learning’.This article reviews the international bibliography on big data. Comparatively, it explores the evolution, characteristics and themes of the research on this topic that falls within Anthropology, Sociology and Social Work. Quantitative methods are used for the description. Also, we employed an analytical strategy of unsupervised machine learning to identify and group the main themes of the articles. The results confirm that interest in big data has reached sociology before anthropology or social work. Likewise, inter and multidisciplinary publications on big data in these disciplines are highlighted. Also, from the topic modeling analysis, 13 clusters emerged. The most important were those corresponding to publications on social networks, epistemology, methodology and implications of big data, big data and society, health, and machine learning.Grupo de investigación Antropología y Filosofía (SEJ-126). Universidad de Granada. Departamento de Antropología, Geografía e Historia. Universidad de Jaén. Departamento de Filosofía II. Universidad de Granada.Ayuda Margarita Salas para la formación de jóvenes doctores incluidas en las Ayudas para la recualificación del Sistema Universitario Español 2021-2023, financiadas por la Unión Europea- NextGenerationE

Narratives of solidarity, outrage and hatred towards LGTBQI+ people in the digital society

This paper was presented at the 4th International Conference ILIS – International Lab for Innovative Social Research, June 8-9, 2023 [https://www.labilis.org/2023/04/22/4th-international-conference-ilis/]. In this communication, we explore different [viral, highly spread] case studies where LGBTIQ+ people receive support or rejection in social media. We aim to identify the main discourses, networks, and communities, pro- and against LGBTIQ+ people, and look for patterns in communication when support or hate is produced. The paper is part of the I+D+i Project titled "Conspiracy Theories and Hate Speech Online: Comparison of Patterns in Narratives and social networks about COVID-19, immigrants, refugees, and LGBTI people [NON-CONSPIRA-HATE!]", PID2021-123983OB-I00, funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/ and by "ERDF A way of making Europe." (https://eseis.es/investigacion/discursos-de-odio/discursos-odio-tc). It has also been made possible thanks to the MCIN/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033 and by "ESF Investing in your future" in Spain, which funds a Predoctoral Grant for University Teacher Training (FPU20/02848). We also thank the Ministry of Universities, which is financing a Margarita Salas Grant to train young PhDs funded by the European Union-NextGenerationEU. We are also grateful for the support of our research group: "Estudios Sociales E Intervención Social" (GrupoESEIS), and the research center "Pensamiento Contemporáneo e Innovación para el Desarrollo Social" (COIDESO), both of the University of Huelva.Esta comunicación fue presentada en la 4ª Conferencia Internacional de ILIS – International Lab for Innovative Social Research, 8 y 9 de junio de 2023 [https://www.labilis.org/2023/04/22/4th-international-conference-ilis/]. En la misma exploramos diferentes estudios de caso [virales, muy difundidos] donde las personas LGBTIQ+ reciben apoyo o rechazo en las redes sociales. Nuestro objetivo es identificar los principales discursos, redes y comunidades, a favor y en contra de las personas LGBTIQ+, y buscar patrones en la comunicación cuando se produce apoyo u odio. La comunicación forma parte del Proyecto I+D+i titulado "Teorías de la conspiración y discurso del odio en la red: comparación de patrones en narrativas y redes sociales sobre el COVID-19, inmigrantes, refugiados y personas LGBTI [NO-CONSPIRA-HATE!]", PID2021-123983OB-I00, financiado por MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/ y por "FEDER Una forma de hacer Europa". (https://eseis.es/investigacion/discursos-de-odio/discursos-odio-tc). También ha sido posible gracias a la MCIN/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033 y por "ESF Invierte en tu futuro" en España, que financia una Beca Predoctoral para la Formación del Profesorado Universitario (FPU20/02848). También agradecemos al Ministerio de Universidades, que está financiando una Beca Margarita Salas para formar jóvenes doctores financiada por la Unión Europea-NextGenerationEU. Agradecemos igualmente el apoyo de nuestro grupo de investigación: "Estudios Sociales E Intervención Social" (GrupoESEIS), y del centro de investigación "Pensamiento Contemporáneo e Innovación para el Desarrollo Social" (COIDESO), ambos de la Universidad de Huelva.Proyecto PID2021-123983OB-I00, financiado por MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/ y por "FEDER Una forma de hacer Europa". Ayuda MCIN/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033 y por "ESF Invierte en tu futuro" (FPU20/02848). Ayuda del Ministerio de Universidades a través de una Beca Margarita Salas para formar jóvenes doctores financiada por la Unión Europea-NextGenerationEU

Interactive Graphic Simulation: An Advanced Methodology to Improve the Teaching-Learning Process in Nuclear Engineering Education and Training

Nowadays, computer simulators are becoming basic tools for education and training in many engineering fields. In the nuclear industry, the role of simulation for training of operators of nuclear power plants is also recognized of the utmost relevance. As an example, the International Atomic Energy Agency sponsors the development of nuclear reactor simulators for education, and arranges the supply of such simulation programs. Aware of this, in 2008 Gas Natural Fenosa, a Spanish gas and electric utility that owns and operate nuclear power plants and promotes university education in the nuclear technology field, provided the Department of Nuclear Engineering of Universidad Politécnica de Madrid with the Interactive Graphic Simulator (IGS) of “José Cabrera” (Zorita) nuclear power plant, an industrial facility whose commercial operation ceased definitively in April 2006. It is a state-of-the-art full-scope real-time simulator that was used for training and qualification of the operators of the plant control room, as well as to understand and analyses the plant dynamics, and to develop, qualify and validate its emergency operating procedures

Conspiracy Theories and Disinformation in Andalusia. Executive Report 2019

CONSPIRACY THEORIES AND DISINFORMATION IN ANDALUSIA. Executive Report, 2019. 5th Wave of the Citizen Panel for Social Research in Andalusia (EP-1707, PIE 201710E018, IESA/CSIC, www.panelpacis.net).Teoría de la conspiración y desinformación. IESA-CSIC. EP-1707 5ª Ola. Panel Ciudadano para la Investigación Social en Andalucía (EP-1707, PIE 201710E018). http://ww.panelpacis.net. Researchers: Estrella Gualda (PI), Joaquina Castillo Algarra, Teresa González-Gómez, Elena Morales Marente, Marisol Palacios Gálvez, Carolina Rebollo, and Iván Rodríguez-Pascual (from the Universidad de Huelva); Alejandro Romero Reche (Universidad de Granada), and José Rúas Araujo (Universidad de Vigo)—names are listed according to alphabetical order. Funding: IESA-CSIC, 5th Wave of the Citizen Panel for Social Research in Andalusia (http://www.iesa.csic.es/blog/?p=2435).This research was conducted as part of the 5th Wave of the Citizen Panel for Social Research in Andalusia, PIE 201710E018 [Panel Ciudadano PACIS, IESA-CSIC, www.panelpacis.net]. Our work is based on the administration of a survey to a representative sample of Andalusians. The sample was composed by 1,103 participants. The survey universe of this research was defined as all individual residents in Andalusia aged 18 or over. For the data collection, the sample was selected from among the individuals who are part of the PACIS panel.The objectives of this Executive Report are, specifically to identify if Andalusians have generic beliefs in conspiracies, to identify if Andalusians share and support specific beliefs about some conspiracies that have been divulged, with left, right and neutral orientations, and to find out the degree of extension of these beliefs in conspiracies in Andalusia, that is, how many people are estimated to believe in unfounded information. This executive report is part of the work developed within the framework of the research project: “Teorías de la conspiración y desinformación” [Conspiracy Theories and Disinformation], which won a competition to conduct a survey on this topic in the 5th Wave of the Citizen Panel for Social Research in Andalusia (EP-1707, PIE 201710E018, IESA/CSIC, www.panelpacis.net). Furthermore, this work falls under the COST Action (H2020) on “Comparative Analysis of Conspiracy Theories” (COMPACT, 2016-2020), funded by the European Union’s Framework Programme Horizon 2020. From this COST Action emerge the Project PiCOM, Political Ideology and Conspiracy Mentality”, in which this report is framed

Education and Training of Future Nuclear Engineers Through The use of An Interactive Plant Simulator.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) sponsors the development of nuclear reactor simulators for education, or arranges the supply of such simulation programs [1]. Aware of this, the Department of Nuclear Engineering of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid was provided in 2008 with the Interactive Graphical Simulator of the Spanish nuclear power plant José Cabrera, whose operation ceased definitively in 2006. According with the IAEA-TECDOC-1411 [2] , the simulator is a Graphical Simulator, used for training of main control room personnel, technical support engineers, and operations management. This paper presents all the work performed at the Department to turn the simulator into a teaching/learning tool, to be use in the nuclear engineering studies following guidance found in [3]

Monitoring and current research of groundwater resources and recharge in the Doñana Natural area (SE Spain)

30 p. Incluye versión abreviada en castellanoThis chapter presents the monitoring and research of groundwater resources and natural recharge in the Doñana Natural Area. The subchapter “Monitoring networks for Groundwater Resources and Recent Management Issues of the Doñana” deals with the history and current state of the official monitoring networks for piezometry and hydrochemistry. In the second subchapter “Application of Models in Recent Management and Forecasting of Resources” the current research and the model based water management issues are presented. The third subchapter “Main Knowledge existing on Groundwater Natural Chemical Composition and Contaminant Processes in the Eolian Mantle Aquifer Sector of the Doñana (SW Spain)” provides an overview of hydrochemical research carried out in the eolian part of the aquifer. Subchapter 4 “Active Monitoring Network for Recharge Measurements in the Doñana National Park” presents the current monitoring network for groundwater recharge.Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, EspañaUniversidad Politécnica de Cartagena, EspañaUniversidad Politécnica de Cataluña, EspañaReal Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, EspañaInstituto Andaluz de Investigación y Formación Agraria y Pesquera, EspañaUniversidad de Córdoba, Españ

Identidad Onubense: Opinión y prácticas sociales respecto a urbanismo, patrimonio y entorno

Presentation of the research results on the Huelva [Onubense] Identity, 2020-2021. The results were presented at the Conference on Knowledge Transfer held on November 25, 2021 (University of Huelva, ETSI). It corresponds to the project: Huelva Identity: Opinion and social practices regarding urban planning, heritage, and environment. See more information at: https://eseis.es/investigacion/identidad-onubensePresentation of the research results on the Huelva [Onubense] Identity, 2020-2021. The results were presented at the Conference on Knowledge Transfer held on November 25, 2021 (University of Huelva, ETSI). It corresponds to the project: Huelva Identity: Opinion and social practices regarding urban planning, heritage, and environment. See more information at: https://eseis.es/investigacion/identidad-onubenseCátedra de la Provincia, UHU - Diputación de Huelva. Facultad de Trabajo Social. Autoridad Portuaria de Huelva. Consejo Social, UHU. Grupo de investigación Estudios Sociales E Intervención Social (Grupo ESEIS). Centro de Pensamiento Contemporáneo e Innovación para el Desarrollo Social (COIDESO