Research
The Department of Journalism and Communication carries out high-quality research across several lines in which faculty members, early-career researchers, postdoctoral researchers, doctoral candidates, and research groups are actively involved.
The Department of Journalism and Communication Sciences at UAB currently has several research projects funded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (Generation of Knowledge Projects), in which its members are either principal investigators or researchers. Thus, professors Santiago Tejedor, Cristina Pulido, Nuria Simelio, Ricardo Carniel and Anna Tous are leading research projects. And professors Santiago Giraldo, Luiz Peres, Laura Cervi and Beatriz Villarejo are part of projects.
IP: Santiago Tejedor
IA-COM identifies the possibilities of AI for fostering quality journalism that promotes media literacy and enhances the media ecosystem through transformations in the production process. It proposes an analysis of the technological advances introduced by AI and a study of its main challenges.
PID2023-149759OB-I00
IP: Cristina Pulido
Gender-based violence remains an urgent problem in society. SafeNarratives addresses a critical concern within the Spanish media landscape: the scarcity of scientific evidence for preventive social impact in journalistic narratives focused on gender and the prevention of gender-based violence.
PID2023-149902OB-I00
Co-IPs: Núria Simelio & Ricardo Carniel
It analyses how the discourses of digital press and social media, Moroccan and Spanish, influence the construction of imaginaries that generate stereotypes and situations of vulnerability. It addresses the perception of migrant women, who combine digital media with family and community networks to inform themselves and express themselves.
PID2023-147064OB-I00
Pointap examines how young people aged 19 to 34, both migrants and indigenous, react to social polarisation through their consumption of political information on migration and asylum, the labour market and LGTBI inclusion. Led by Amparo Huertas-Bailen, it includes Luiz Peres-Neto, among others.
PID2021-125032OB-I00
Criminal law in the face of disinformation in the digital environment
DIGICRIM analyses how the legal system can respond to the risks posed by fake news and disinformative discourses on social media. The aim is to study whether existing offences or new legal instruments can better protect national security by integrating criminal law and communications. Led by Joan Baucells (UAB – Law), it includes Santiago Giraldo and Luiz Peres, among others.
PID 2024-156696OB-100
IP: Anna Tous Rovirosa
National and international sports audiovisual productions are explored as drivers of social values and healthy practices, while gender inequality is analysed. Social challenges related to audiovisual consumption, health, risky behaviours and physical activity are addressed.
PID2024-161316OB-I00