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Producción científica en Relaciones Públicas a través de las revistas de mayor impacto del Caribe Latinoamericano / Scientific production in Public Relations through the journals with the greatest impact in the Latin American Caribbean

Scientific production in Latin America and the Caribbean has experienced great growth in recent years (Álvarez-Muñoz y Pérez-Montoro, 2016; Santa y Herrero, 2010), due in part to the increase in public investment in science in these countries and the indexing of their journals in global (Scopus or Wos) and regional (Latindex or Redalyc) databases of bibliographic references. However, in the area of communication, the publication of academic articles is still embryonic. There are several academic studies (Flores-García y Becerril-García, 2020; López- Ornelas et al., 2017; Rogel-Salazar et al., 2017) that highlight the scarce of disclosure of scientific knowledge in this region, remarking the limited presence of communication journals published in Latin America and indexed in databases. In the specific area of public relations, the conceptualization and recognition of this discipline in the academic and professional field has been increasing since the mid-twentieth century. However, despite the progress experienced, the small number of existing studies on the subject in these journals, justify this investigation line. In this sense, this research, within the framework of bibliometric studies, proposes to determine the position occupied by public relations in the academic production about communication of the main journals of the Latin American Caribbean in the last ten years (2010-2020); as well as analyzing the main characteristics of these publications by examining the areas of knowledge of the published texts, the institutions from which they come or its authorship, among other aspects such as the object of study and the methodological procedure used in the research. The scientific journals that make up the sample (Comunicación y Sociedad, from Mexico, Palabra Clave and Signo y Pensamiento, both from Colombia) have been selected on the basis of representativeness criteria such as the impact index in the Scopus bibliographic database and the geographical scope of the Latin American Caribbean. The results indicate that the discipline of public relations is marginal in the overall scientific production in the area of communication in the Latin American Caribbean. Most of the texts published by the journals with the highest impact index in the region focus on fields related to communication, but are far removed from the specific area of public relations. However, it is noticeable that in recent years greater attention has been paid to this discipline, with an increase in scientific production in the period between 2016 and 2020. The findings obtained also allow us to establish a profile of the scientific production on public relations disseminated in the decade from 2010 to 2020 by the leading journals in the Latin American Caribbean. A collective authorship, balanced in terms of the sex of the signatories, mainly from universities in Latin America and Spain, and the use of empirical approaches from a qualitative perspective, define the type of academic production analysed. Despite the limitations that this research presents when it comes to extrapolating the results to the whole of the scientific production on public relations in territories other than the Latin American Caribbean, it is outlined as an exploratory study and a first approach to the still incipient research on the discipline of public relations in Caribbean academic journals.

The impact of buyer shopping orientations and demographic factors on the purchasing for different product types- in the context of online shopping

The impact of buyer shopping orientations and demographic factors on the purchasing for different product types- in the context of online shopping

The role of new media tools in supporting health awareness for the protection of the Covaid 19 virus

The role of new media tools in supporting health awareness for the protection of the Covaid 19 virus

Improved Routing Algorithm in IoT Network by TOPSIS method.

Low energy utilization and reliability in packet transmission are factors that seriously affect the performance of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) and Quality of Service (QoS) in general. Regarding routing strategy, the efficient forwarding methods can cause more throughput, less packet loss with less energy usage. To this purpose multi-attribute, decision-making (MADM) methods are proposed in hop-by-hop sending data scenarios, as the most efficient methods in selecting the reliable path towards the sink node. In such a decision-making environment, various routing metrics are taken into account. This paper compares Wise Route routing protocol and modified-Wise Route (MwiseRoute) by TOPSIS with indexes (signal to noise ratio, residual energy, distance from the node, farness from the sink node) balances by self-sets weights (0.3, 0.5, 0.1,0.1) respectively. The evaluation has been tested on Mixim 3.2 in Omnet++.4.6. The result shows MwiseRoute with TOPSIS is more appropriate in gaining more throughput and significantly decreases packet drop in mac by less power drain. References Aziz, L. and Aznaoui, H. (2020) 'Efficient Routing Approach Using a Collaborative Strategy', Journal of Sensors, 2020, pp. 2547061. doi: 10.1155/2020/2547061 Foubert, B. and Mitton, N. (2021) 'RODENT: a flexible TOPSIS based routing protocol for multi-technology devices in wireless sensor networks', ITU Journal on Future and Evolving Technologies, 2(1). doi. Available at: https://hal.inria.fr/hal-03165426 Ghafoor, K. Z., Kong, L., Sadiq, A. S., Doukha, Z. and Shareef, F. M. 'Trust-aware routing protocol for mobile crowdsensing environments'. IEEE INFOCOM 2018 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS), 15-19 April 2018, 82-87. Hajji, F. E., Leghris, C. and Douzi, K. (2018) 'Adaptive Routing Protocol for Lifetime Maximization in Multi-Constraint Wireless Sensor Networks', Journal of Communications and Information Networks, 3(1), pp. 67-83. doi: 10.1007/s41650-018-0008-3 Kamble, A. and Patil, B. ( 2020) 'Selection of Cluster Head Techniques in WSN: A Review', 2nd International Conference on IoT, Social, Mobile, Analytics & Cloud in Computational Vision & Bio-Engineering (ISMAC-CVB 2020), 3, pp. 7. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3734304 Karami, A. 'UTILIZATION AND COMPARISON OF MULTI ATTRIBUTE DECISION MAKING TECHNIQUES TO RANK BAYESIAN NETWORK OPTIONS Master Degree Project in Informatics One year Level ECTS 30 Spring term Year 2011'. Kaur, L. and Malhotra, J. (2015) 'Comparison of Wise Route and Flooding Network Type of Convergecast Routing in Wireless Sensor Network', International Journal of Sensor and Its Applications for Control Systems, 3, pp. 1-10. doi: 10.14257/ijsacs.2015.3.2.01 Kazmi, S., Liscano, R. and Ren, J. (2014) 'Determining Fuzzy Link Quality Membership Functions in Wireless Sensor Networks', Procedia Computer Science, 34, pp. 149-156. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2014.07.073 Khan, B. M., Bilal, R. and Young, R. (2018) 'Fuzzy-TOPSIS based Cluster Head selection in mobile wireless sensor networks', Journal of Electrical Systems and Information Technology, 5(3), pp. 928-943. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesit.2016.12.004 Kim, B.-S., Kim, K.-I., Chang, G., Kim, K. H., Roh, B. and Ham, J.-H. (2019a) 'Comprehensive Survey on Multi Attribute Decision Making Methods for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks', 2019, 20(5), pp. 14. doi. Available at: https://jit.ndhu.edu.tw/article/view/2139 Kim, B., Kim, K.-I., Chang, G., Kim, K. H., Roh, B. and Ham, J. (2019b) 'Comprehensive Survey on Multi Attribute Decision Making Methods for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks', Journal of Internet Technology, 20, pp. 1575-1588. doi: Kodali, R. K. and Malothu, V. K. 'MIXIM framework simulation of WSN with QoS'. 2016 International Conference on Advanced Communication Control and Computing Technologies (ICACCCT), 25-27 May 2016, 128-131. Odu, G. O. (2019) 'Weighting methods for multi-criteria decision making technique', 23 No. 8 (2019). doi: 10.4314/jasem.v23i8.7 Shelebaf, A. and Tabatabaei, S. (2020) 'A Novel Method for Clustering in WSNs via TOPSIS Multi-criteria Decision-Making Algorithm', Wireless Personal Communications, 112(2), pp. 985-1001. doi: 10.1007/s11277-020-07087-7 Smolka, T. a. s. (2011) 'MiXiM Tutorial', pp. 8. doi: Temur, G. T. (2016) 'A novel multi attribute decision making approach for location decision under high uncertainty', Applied Soft Computing, 40, pp. 674-682. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2015.12.027 Varga, A. and Hornig, R. (2008) An overview of the OMNeT++ simulation environment.

“George Orwell Invented Journalism Studies”

To inaugurate our series of conversations with scholars in journalism studies with a view to securing some useful insights into the history and practice of journalism education, Prof. Richard Lance Keeble appeared an obvious choice. Now an Honorary Professor at Liverpool Hope University, Prof. Keeble was first director of the International Journalism MA, then director of the Journalism and Social Science BA, at City University, London (1984-2003). He was then appointed Professor of Journalism (2003-present) at Lincoln University where he also became acting head of the Lincoln School of Journalism (2010-2013) and later a Visiting Professor at Liverpool Hope University (2015-2019). Prof. Keeble has been the recipient of prestigious and distinguished prizes, namely the National Teaching Fellowship Award (2011) and the Lifetime Achievement Award for services to journalism education (2014), the latter bestowed by the Association for Journalism Education in the UK. Parallel to his academic career, Prof. Keeble has always been a practising journalist. On completion of his studies in Modern History at Keble College, Oxford University (1967-70), he started a career in journalism, first as sub editor at the Nottingham Guardian Journal/Evening Post (1970-73) and then at the Cambridge Evening News (1973-77). He was deputy editor, then editor, of The Teacher, the weekly newspaper of the National Union of Teachers (1977-84). His dual pedigree in journalism, as a practitioner and a professor, led him to take on many editorial responsibilities. He is emeritus editor of Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication and Ethics and joint editor of George Orwell Studies and is also on the board of an impressive number of journals, among which are Journalism Studies, Digital Journalism, Journalism Education, International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, Media Ethics, Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism, to name just a few. Prof. Keeble was also Chair of the Orwell Society1 (2013-2020) and has authored or edited no less than 44 books. They include Ethics for Journalists and The Newspapers Handbook,2 respectively on their second and fifth editions, as well as several volumes on George Orwell, investigative journalism, and the British media. It was an honour and privilege to talk to Prof. Keeble in a phone interview on March 25, 2021. The conversation was transcribed while some passages were edited for clarity. I hereby express my immense gratitude for his time, generosity, expertise, and humour. It is such a thrill to start our series of interviews in a way that only makes us want more such conversations.

What journalism tells us about memory, mind and media

AbstractThis article looks to journalism in order to understand the relationship between memory, mind and media more fully. Using the urgency that characterises the current news environment as a reflection of broader information flows, the article considers journalism's embrace of complex time to address the demands of speed. It suggests that the temporal practices adopted by both individual journalists and the journalistic community offer a model for institutions wrestling with the ontological uncertainty generated by current times, providing mechanisms to navigate and even offset the unending demands of simultaneity, immediacy and instantaneity.

Środowisko intelektualne Towarzystwa Miłośników Przeszłości Lwowa (1906-1939)

THE INTELLECTUAL MILIEU CHARACTERISING THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS OF THE PAST OF LVIV (1906-1939) 
 The paper is an attempt to characterise the Society of Friends of the Past of Lviv in the years 1906-1939 (with a 1914-1926 break); the community of Lviv historians, journalists, museologists, and archivists around this Society, and various forms and manifestations of their activity. The Society contributed to the development of research in the field of regional history, and studies on the history of Lviv, its culture and monuments. Among the co-founders of the Society were famous Lviv historians, including Aleksander Czołowski (1865-1944), Ludwik Kubala (1838-1918), Józef Białynia-Chołodecki (1852-1934), and the vice-mayor of the city of Lviv, Tadeusz Rutowski (1852-1918).

Digital, Marketing and Online Vídeo Ads: Brand Studies.

Digital marketing and online advertiding are researched domains that result in a variety of articles with increasingly relevant results for science and organizations. In this second regular issue of 2021 of the International Journal of Marketing, Communication and New Media (IJMCNM), in three of the four articles, problems of digital marketing, online advertsising and video ads are analyzed. Digital marketing is one of the most sought-after trends by modern companies, currently allowing innovation and new types of integration between channels (Cabrero, 2016, p.13). Investing in online advertising in social networks has several advantages (Miranda, 2018, p. 130): brand awareness; knowledge of the consumer profile; high segmentation; generation of leads, traffic, conversions, and remarketing. Miranda (2018) also mentions that in online advertising, namely on YouTube, one should look at the creativity that accompanies the video as well as the segmentation. However, as Martínez-Costa; Serrano-Puche; Portillla and Sánchez-Blanco (2019) state, online advertising should adapt its languages and formats for mobile because mobile devices are more used by young adults who are the generation of the future, and also because the use of ad blockers is more frequent on computers than on mobile devices. Feijoo-Fernández; Sádaba-Chalezquer and Bugueño-Ipinza (2020) even highlight that "The new audiences, compared to previous generations, do not reject advertising or brands, but choose the advertising content in which they are genuinely interested" (p.3). Having given this brief introduction, I invite the reader to read all the articles in this issue to learn more about the results achieved in studies developed by researchers from universities and research centres in Brazil, Algeria, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

2021 Index journal of communications and networks, volume 23

2021 Index journal of communications and networks, volume 23

A free market in extreme speech: Scientific racism and bloodsports on YouTube

Abstract Around 2018, YouTube became heavily criticized for its radicalizing function by allowing far-right actors to produce hateful videos that were in turn amplified through algorithmic recommendations. Against this ‘algorithmic radicalization’ hypothesis, Munger and Phillips (2019, A supply and demand framework for YouTube politics. Preprint. https://osf.io/73jys/download; Munger and Phillips, 2020, Right-wing YouTube: a supply and demand perspective. The International Journal of Press/Politics, 21(2). doi: 10.1177/1940161220964767.)) argued that far-right radical content on YouTube fed into audience demand, suggesting researchers adopt a ‘supply and demand’ framework. Navigating this debate, our article deploys novel methods for examining radicalization in the language of far-right pundits and their audiences within YouTube’s so-called ‘Alternative Influence Network’ (Lewis, 2018, Alternative Influence. Data & Society Research Institute. https://datasociety.net/library/alternative-influence/ (accessed 9 December 2020).). To that end, we operationalize the concept ‘extreme speech’—developed to account for ‘the inherent ambiguity of speech contexts’ online (Pohjonen and Udupa, 2017, Extreme speech online: an anthropological critique of hate speech debates. International Journal of Communication, 11: 1173–91)—to an analysis of a right-wing ‘Bloodsports’ debate subculture that thrived on the platform at the time. Highlighting the topic of ‘race realism’, we develop a novel mixed-methods approach: repurposing the far-right website Metapedia as a corpus to detect unique terms related to the issue. We use this corpus to analyze the transcripts and comments from an archive of 950 right-wing channels, collected from 2008 until 2018. In line with Munger and Phillips’ framework, our empirical study identifies a market for extreme speech on the platform, which came into public view in 2017.

Rotten web citations cited in scholarly journals: use of time travel for retrieval

PurposeThe present study compares the use of web citations as references in leading scholarly journals in Library and Information Science (LIS) and Communication and Media Studies (CMS). A total of 20 journals (each 10 from LIS and CMS) were selected based on the publishing history and reputation published between 2008 and 2017.Design/methodology/approachThe present study compares the use of web citations as references in leading scholarly journals in LIS and CMS. A PHP script was used to crawl the Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) collected from the reference list. A total of 12,251 articles were downloaded and 555,428 references were extracted. Of the 555,428 references, 102,718 web citations were checked for their accessibility.FindingsThe research findings indicated that 76.90% URLs from LIS journals and 84.32% URLs from Communication and Media Studies journals were accessible and others were rotten. The majority of errors were due to HTTP 404 error code (not found) in both the disciplines. The study also tried to retrieve the rotten URLs through Time Travel, which revived 61.76% rotten URLs in LIS journal articles and 65.46% in CMS journal articles.Originality/valueThis is an in-depth and comprehensive comparative study on the availability of web citations in LIS and CMS journals articles spanning a period of 10 years. The findings of the study will be helpful to authors, publishers, and editorial staff to ensure that web citations will be accessible in the future.

Familiars in a Strange Land

Familiars in a Strange Land

ІНФОРМАЦІЙНО-КОМУНІКАЦІЙНА ДІЯЛЬНІСТЬ УКРАЇНСЬКИХ МАСМЕДІА В УМОВАХ ВІЙНИ НА ДОНБАСІ

<p><strong><em>The purpose </em></strong><em>of the study is to find out whether / how the journalistic standards differ in peacetime and during military operations.</em></p><p><strong><em>Research methodology. </em></strong><strong><em>The matter</em></strong><em> under discussion is the system of ethical and legal aspects in the framework of information and communication activities under conditions of war. In light of the fact that the Ukrainian academic community has not yet seriously been involved in studying coverage of modern military conflicts, this article focuses on the author’s own observations that were initiated in the international multi-authored monograph </em>«<em>The role of technology in the socio-economic development of the post-quarantine world</em>»<em> (Katowice, Poland) last year, as well as results of current discussions at the top-rated media platforms, analysis of special issue material and current legislation. The article is based on analysis and synthesis to verify information and make conclusions, comparison and description to correlate different levels of data and other scientific methods with the help of which we start discussions about journalistic standards, evaluate the level of coverage of events in the Donbas region; we think about where journalism ends and propaganda, disclosure of top-secret information and hate language begin; we enter into polemics about vulnerable groups of population and ways to incite interethnic hatred and conflicts.</em></p><p><strong><em>Results</em></strong><em>. </em><em>As it turned out, Ukrainian journalists have to distance themselves from events and clearly distinguish all communication traps. According to the traditions of the Ukrainian journalistic community and current legislation, all media professionals involved in the war in eastern Ukraine should thoroughly check all the facts, trust only expert sources, they do not have to believe their own and someone else’s emotions, to use hate language and to incite interethnic hatred and conflicts. One has also to keep in mind that a journalist’s civic-mindedness is a serious violation of international standards.</em></p><p><strong><em>Novelty.</em></strong><em> </em><em>In the result, we come to the conclusion that the proposed topic, despite ongoing discussions, is unfortunately still new and remains open and promising for research, as it is a question of balancing on a narrow edge of patriotism and journalism, universal and national values and observance of the international rules.</em></p><p><strong><em>The practical significance. </em></strong><em>The material is appropriate to be used by theorists during educational and scientific discussions and academic courses as well as by experts as a guide in the zone of military conflicts.</em></p><p><strong><em>Key words:</em></strong><em> journalistic standards, war, propaganda, legislation.</em></p>

Product Placement Bibliometric Study: Generic Journals Versus Specific-Communication Journals

Media fragmentation represents new challenges for product placement strategies to become an increasingly effective way to reach consumers and non-users. In this frame, this paper has been developed with three main objectives: (i) to carry on a performance analysis to measure the visibility/impact of the scientific product in product placement (most cited authors, journals, and themes), (ii) to visually present the scientific structure by topics of research in product placement as well as its evolution to identify future research lines, and (iii) to compare both objectives in generic journals and specific communication ones. To this end, the resources in the Web of Science Citation Index were used. Scimat software was applied on a sample of 694 indexed papers from 1992 to 2021 containing “product placement” with 8,521 global citations (176 of the papers were indexed in communication journals with 3,190 citations). Our results show that MEMORY is a key motor theme—the future of research tends to new themes in the communication field (i.e., ATTITUDES/BEHAVIORS or VIRTUAL). Three industries have been key: alcohol, tobacco, and food. This research adds value to previous analysis as long as we have included: (i) a multidisciplinary approach; (ii) an unfolded analysis focusing strictly on communication journals; and (iii) a longitudinal analysis to compare different periods showing dynamic scientific maps.

Black Studies and the Case of/for the Howard Journal of Communications

The Howard Journal of Communications has long been viewed as a space within communication studies to publish scholarship pertaining to race, intercultural communication, class, gender, sexuality, and colonialism. As such, it can be, and should be, celebrated as one of the journals that laid the foundation for the contemporary proliferation of communication studies work that critically examines topics that disproportionately effect marginalized people. Still, what I argue is this journal is something more: in terms of journals with an explicit communication studies focus, this journal remains the main journal of Black studies for communication scholars, which is to say it is a material break from the dominant, White communication studies discipline completely. In many ways, then, the journal is not necessarily a communication studies journal, despite its name, but a Black studies journal for us scholars trained in communication studies.

International, innovative, multimodal and representative? The geographies, methods, modes and aims present in two visual communication journals

This comparative review seeks to explore how international, innovative, multimodal and representative the scholarship published in two visual communication journals, Visual Communication ( VC) and Visual Communication Quarterly ( VCQ), is over a 25-year period (from VCQ’s founding in 1994 and from VC’s founding in 2002 through 2019). Through examining all 544 research articles published in these journals over this timeframe, an understanding can be achieved regarding which countries and geographic regions have received attention, the methods and means used to advance the authors’ arguments, the visuals under consideration and the authors’ focus and aims, which sometimes overlap with the visuals under consideration and are sometimes distinct from them. The results inform areas of potential future exploration, focus and attention for these two journals but are grounded in an understanding that systemic conditions also influence the types and designs of research that can be published and recognized.

Problematic integration theory: a systematic review

ABSTRACT Problematic integration theory (Babrow, 1992. Communication and problematic integration: Understanding diverging probability and value, ambiguity, ambivalence, and impossibility. Communication Theory, 2(2), 95–130, 2001. Uncertainty, value, communication, and problematic integration. Journal of Communication, 51(3), 553–573) was developed to illuminate communication in relation to distinct but interrelated forms of troublesome meaning (e.g. uncertainty, ambivalence). Since its initial articulation, researchers have applied the theory to investigate communication in a wide range of contexts, including primarily health but also areas such as environmental risk, personal relationships, and organizational communication. This study systematically analyzes 54 applications of the theory, including the contexts to which PI theory has been applied, the key research questions, and methods used in these research applications. Findings of the systematic review are summarized in relation to the theoretical forms of PI and their dynamic relationship with communication. Theoretical implications and suggested directions for future PI research are discussed.

Special issue on communications and networking approaches for combating COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact across the globe. This includes the many lives lost and the severe disruption to economies and daily lives. Researchers in a variety of fields have been motivated to use their expertise to help address the many challenges of this on-going pandemic. Communication and Networking researchers are among these. Communications and networking technologies can be utilized to help facilitate contact tracing and other forms of remote health monitoring. Epidemic models developed for studying the propagation of information and viruses in communication networks can be adapted to study the propagation of a true epidemic like COVID-19. Techniques such as machine learning can be utilized to make better predictions from limited public health data. Approaches for security and privacy can be leveraged to protect confidential health information. The goal of this special issue of the Journal of Communications and Networks is to highlight some of the work being done in these important areas.

In Memoriam: Jane M. Simmons, 1963–2021

Colleagues pay tribute to Jane M. Simmons, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, who passed unexpectedly on 25 August 2021.

The COVID-19 pandemic: Resilience of Indonesian journalists

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the global news industry to adapt to the current crisis. In some Global South countries, challenges have also come from an existing political instability and economic limitations. Indonesia represents a Global South country where its journalists have struggled to maintain the quality of news while many have faced layoffs. This research involved a survey data with 100 respondents, some interviews and observations, which indicated that in the COVID-19 pandemic Indonesian journalists have been severely affected and are not sufficiently equipped or prepared to face any accelerated and sudden changes caused by the coronavirus. However, in some instances, journalists have been able to deploy advanced digital technology and work collaboratively to provide quality information during the pandemic. The article argues that mastering journalism data and collaborative work should be embraced to enhance the resilience of the journalist community.