Research

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

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.