Desórdenes informativos: sobreexpuestos e infrainformados en la era de la posverdad

Information disorders (misinformation, fakes news, alternative facts, post-truth, deepfakes, etc.) are intentional productions whose strategy is focused on the fabrication of doubt and false controversies in order to achieve economic or ideological benefits. Information disorders are all interrelated and depend, in a necessary way, on post-Internet technologies which have modified the very nature of collective interpersonal communication. Information disorders have their origin and basis in different causes that have facilitated their development, scope and unprecedented current impact as: a) the war on science from the corporate sphere, b) the crisis of the post Internet national and local media, c) the development of technological platforms that have socialized the ability to publish and distribute content at low cost, d) the crisis of the experts with a consequent epistemic crisis, e) advances in psychology, that exploit the psychological bases of informative disorders through cognitive biases, and f) a significant change in the way of understanding and exercising power in the 21st century, such as the ability to establish the relations of definition of reality itself (Beck, 2017). This supposes a true will of authority on the reality and, in the practice, a will of ideological supremacy and a serious risk for the liberal democracies

Making the invisible visible: visualizing the network structure of Twitter relationships using Social Network Analysis

We live in a dense social network of interactions that connect us to people, information, events and places facilitating or constraining the flow of information, ideas, perceptions, etc., into an instant and massive network communication system. We create cognitive artefacts that integrate data visualization and cognitive processes in order to increase our ability to understand the complexity of the external world, made even more complex with the Internet and rise of social media. In this paper, we combine Twitter , as a type of fieldwork site, and Social Networks Analysis (SNA), as both an analytic framework and set of methods, to capture, analyze, and visualize empirical data, both statically (figure representing point in time) and dynamically (video reflecting longitudinal data). We present Flocker, a tool designed for real-time visualization and representation of network activity using Twitter as an illustrative case

Desórdenes informativos: sobreexpuestos e infrainformados en la era de la posverdad

Information disorders (misinformation, fakes news, alternative facts, post-truth, deepfakes, etc.) are intentional productions whose strategy is focused on the fabrication of doubt and false controversies in order to achieve economic or ideological benefits. Information disorders are all interrelated and depend, in a necessary way, on post-Internet technologies which have modified the very nature of collective interpersonal communication. Information disorders have their origin and basis in different causes that have facilitated their development, scope and unprecedented current impact as: a) the war on science from the corporate sphere, b) the crisis of the post Internet national and local media, c) the development of technological platforms that have socialized the ability to publish and distribute content at low cost, d) the crisis of the experts with a consequent epistemic crisis, e) advances in psychology, that exploit the psychological bases of informative disorders through cognitive biases, and f) a significant change in the way of understanding and exercising power in the 21st century, such as the ability to establish the relations of definition of reality itself (Beck, 2017). This supposes a true will of authority on the reality and, in the practice, a will of ideological supremacy and a serious risk for the liberal democracies

Familia y crisis del matrimonio en Espana

In the course of mere three decades (1975–2005) Spain experienced transformations in almost all spheres of social life, which not only deepened the heterogeneity of forms in social life, but also led to a crisis of marriage as an institution, making it into a private decision devoid of normative character. This is not about the family in Spain being in crisis, but about the fact that the very family, developing in its bosom the strategies of simultaneous resistance and adaptation to the above changes, contributes to the generation of diversified forms and styles of family living. The current tendency to achieve ever greater pluralisation of the forms of family life in Spain cannot be seen as expired

Conectar a los desconectados: Trabajo Social y análisis de redes sociales. Una aproximación metodológica para identificar líderes informales en red

Social network theory and analysis (SNA) offers a useful conceptual framework and a robust set of methods for understanding, analysing, and representing the pattern of social interactions that surround individuals forming an overall network of ties. SNA provides both insights and applications regarding relational structures that may be consequential for individual and collective agency. Despite the fact that both SNA and social work focus on relationships and behaviour, and that each discipline could substantively inform the other, there remains a significant lack of intersection between the two disciplines. In response to this gap, SNA applied to social work can provide additional ways to both diagnose and intervene behaviourally through the following approaches: a) by identifying key players in promoting the dissemination of behavioral changes in networks; b) by segmenting and identifying groups, cliques and communities; c) by supporting behavioural change through social ties surrounding the individual; and d) by aligning and applying specific interventions that draw on mutually interactive processes in terms of individual influences on networks, as well as network influences on individuals. SNA provides social work with an additional lens and set of tools based on the constellation of interactions surrounding individuals, families, groups or communities that supports understanding, diagnosis, and intervention.La Teoría y Análisis de Redes Sociales (SNA) ofrece un conjunto de métodos de análisis de las interacciones sociales de los seres humanos, que permiten de forma específica investigar las estructuras relacionales y la representación de éstas como redes. SNA proporciona tanto acceso a nuevo conocimiento como la representación de las estructuras relacionales y como éstas pueden ser consecuencia de la acción individual y colectiva. A pesar de que tanto el SNA como el Trabajo Social tienen su foco en las relaciones y el comportamiento, de lo que ambas pueden beneficiarse, es significativa la falta de intersección entre ambas disciplinas. En respuesta a este déficit, el SNA puede ser aplicado al Trabajo Social desde los siguientes enfoques: a) la identificación de individuos claves a la hora de promover la difusión de cambios de comportamiento en redes; b) la segmentación e identificación de grupos, cliques y comunidades; c) el cambio de comportamientos a través de los miembros de la red y no del trabajador social como agente de cambio central; y d) que la intervención orientada al cambio de comportamientos puede ser bidireccional: individuos-red y red-individuos. El SNA aporta al Trabajo Social la base estructural-relacional para trabajar con individuos, grupos, familias o comunidades basados en patrones de interacción social, traduciendo los conceptos de las Ciencias Sociales y del Trabajo Social al servicio del diagnóstico y la intervención en red

Infosociability: Monitoring and research on the web 2.0 for decision making

This methodology offers an approach to studying the information available within Web 2.0 Media and User-Generated Content (MUGC). The large-scale generation of online information is the result of collective social action based on information: infosociability. Competitive Intelligence (CI) aims to monitor and research a company’s web 2.0 environment for information relevant to its decision-making process. Facing the possibilities and limitations that today’s technology offers for processing the communication of meanings and abstract ideas in text format, a methodology derived from empirical research on web 2.0 is proposed. Monitoring and research are identified as the two key processes that generate insights aimed to facilitate decision-making. The relevance of each stage is illustrated with reference to the diverse methodological challenges encountered while extracting and analyzing large amounts of online information

#CommonCore: Methods

This section provides a detailed discussion of the methods used to arrive at the conclusions in #CommonCore: How social media is changing the politics of education

#commoncore Project: How Social Media Is Changing the Politics of Education

The Common Core has become a flashpoint at the nexus of education politics and policy, fueled by ardent social media activists. To explore this phenomenon, this innovative and interactive website examines the Common Core debate through the lens of the influential social media site Twitter. Using a social network perspective that examines the relationships among actors, we focus on the most highly used Twitter hashtag about the Common Core: #commoncore. The central question of our investigation is: How are social media-enabled social networks changing the discourse in American politics that produces and sustains social policy? To join a conversation about this research in an open forum, tweet using #htagcommoncore

#COMMONCORE Project (2017) How Social Media is Changing the Politics of Education

Fueled by impassioned social media activists, the Common Core State Standards have been a persistent flashpoint in the debate over the direction of American education. In this innovative and interactive website we explore the Common Core debate on Twitter. Using a distinctive combination of social network analyses and psychological investigations we reveal both the underlying social structure of the conversation and the motivations of the participants. The central question guiding our investigation is: How are social mediaenabled social networks changing the discourse in American politics that produces and sustains social policy? ABOUT #COMMONCORE PROJECT In the #commoncore Project, authors Jonathan Supovitz, Alan Daly, Miguel del Fresno and Christian Kolouch examine the intense debate surrounding the Common Core State Standards education reform as it played out on Twitter. The Common Core, one of the major education policy initiatives of the early 21st century, sought to strengthen education systems across the United States through a set of specific and challenging education standards. Once enjoying bipartisan support, the controversial standards have become the epicenter of a heated national debate about this approach to educational improvement. By studying the Twitter conversation surrounding the Common Core, we shed light on the ways that social media social networks are influencing the political discourse that, in turn, produces public policy