Strategic Research Plan 2018/2020
The Strategic Research Plan of the Faculty of Information and Communication Sciences fosters research, dissemination and knowledge transfer in the fields of communication and information management, to help drive a social change and moulding it to respond to sustainable, open and accessible social and cultural needs.
We have three challenges:
- Effective commitment to research
- Contribute to society to make a real impact
- Enhance in socially relevant research and innovation projects
Research Lines
Network society
- The role of entertainment and its consumption as a key element in the emerging models of collaborative and participatory cultures that are characteristic of the knowledge society.
- Persuasive communication in the knowledge society.
- The challenges for civic journalism in the information age and the role of community media in today's communications panorama.
Education and ICT
- The analysis of emergent patterns and needs in digital and audiovisual literacy.
- Open Educational Resources (OER).
- Investigation and experimentation in learning environments and processes based on collaboration, creativity, entertainment and the use of audiovisual technologies.
- Innovation in the online teaching of communication.
- Behaviour and decisions relating to use of the online environment in learning processes.
Creativity and digital culture
- Transformations in specific forms of communication – film and audiovisual communication, journalism, corporate communication, and advertising – in the context of digital society.
- Visual culture in today's communications ecosystem.
- Analysis of the design, structure and use of video games and online gaming as a cultural and narrative artefact.
- Creativity and innovation in communications.
Knowledge governance
- Strategic management of knowledge.
- Social media and knowledge.
- New forms of creation and dissemination of scientific knowledge: big science and open science.
- Competitive intelligence.
- Data used as a new way to generate, manage and disseminate knowledge: big science, open data and open research data.
Research Groups and Publications
Scientific Publications
AGORA
Communication for the Transformation of the Public Sphere