This new initiative, which is part of the ‘Frontera Crónica’ project, aims to promote critical dialogue on current issues related to the development of the journalistic profession in places of conflict, especially in Mexico. The different dialogues aim to reflect on journalistic words and challenges on a chronic frontier.

Under the direction of journalist Martín Caparrós, winner of the Ortega y Gasset Journalism Award 2023, the first dialogue will debate women, borders and journalism and will bring together Maria Teresa Ronderos, Colombian investigative journalist and columnist for El Espectador, and Luz Mely Reyes, Venezuelan journalist and analyst, member of the Gabo Foundation’s Board of Trustees. This session can be followed online (through the Zoom platform) on Monday 13 March at 18:00. You can register by filling in the following form.

The project Frontera Crónica: Workshop on cross-border journalism and co-creation for the promotion of a critical view and the construction of other narratives on violence, women and migration has the collaboration of the Gabo Journalism Foundation, the Baja Autonomous University of Baja California (Tijuana) and the Mexican journalists’ network “Yo sí soy periodista“. Among its objectives are the recognition of the work of journalists in scenarios of violence, the proposal of new narratives around the borders marked by migration and violence, the provision of a directory of resources and platforms for Mexican journalists working on the border with the US, and the creation of a network of journalists working on the border with Mexico. The project also aims to create a directory of resources and platforms to improve their stories and content, generate citizen commitment interested in learning about other types of narratives on migration, women and violence in the border region, raise awareness among university students in Mexico and at the UAB of social problems and promote media literacy in journalistic and non-journalistic scenarios.

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This one-year project is funded by the European Media and Information Foundation (EMIF), which aims to support initiatives related to information verification and media literacy, as well as research projects to address the phenomenon of misinformation in Europe.

Media literacy is one of the main lines of research of the Gabinete de Comunicación y Educación. This project will work on a literature review to know the state of disinformation in Europe and how to combat it through media literacy, the creation of a comparative mapping of policies on disinformation in member countries and the identification of good practices and the elaboration of a final report.

On 2 October, Santiago Tejedor, Cristina Pulido and Maria José Recoder, members of the Cabinet and the project, participated in the ‘EMIF Annual Event: Funding the Fight Against Disinformation‘, held in Lisbon. The event brought together different media organisations, researchers, NGOs and policy makers from all over Europe to discuss the challenges and opportunities of fighting against disinformation in Europe.

The Gabinete de Comunicación y de Educación is a consolidated group specialised in scientific research and dissemination, which belongs to the Department of Journalism and Communication Sciences of the UAB. Recognised by AGAUR (Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca) of the Generalitat de Catalunya as a Consolidated Research Group on the basis of its trajectory, projection and development, it develops projects and research in the field of convergence between communication and education. Since its creation, it has developed initiatives aimed at integrating, with awareness and freedom, communication technologies in the so-called global or knowledge society. Under the direction of Santiago Tejedor, the Office organises different master’s degrees, such as the Master’s Degree in Travel Journalism (on-site and online), the Master’s Degree in Communication and Education, the Master’s Degree in Environmental Communication and the Master’s Degree in Political and Electoral Communication Management. The group has a wide and varied collection of publications, in the form of scientific articles, books and book chapters, and other works, which is constantly being renewed. It also has a laboratory for teaching innovation projects, transfer and new formats that are conceived and developed from a perspective based on creativity and multidisciplinary work. Every year, the Cabinet organises an academic expedition that travels the world with students from different universities and degrees. This is the Tahina-Can Expedition, which has been awarded as the best educational project in Spain. It also has the portal Tu Aventura, the educational platform InfoEDU and the newsgames and science project Reporteros de la Ciencia.

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This lecture series is part of the project “Planet UAB: The journey to the other – equals in differences” organized by the Gabinete UAB during the academic year 2020-2021, with the support of the Fons de Solidaritat of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, which organized a series of activities and awareness-raising actions based on the concept of the UAB campus as a “planet” and dealing with major issues such as the culture of peace, sustainability, the environment and interculturality, among others.

Students of the Master in Travel Journalism, the Master in Environmental Communication and the Master in Communication and Education participated in this twentieth session with Arturo Larena, entitled ‘EFE Verde: A global platform for news and environmental journalism’. The journalist spoke about the work carried out within the environmental news and journalism platform EFE Verde, a news division of EFE that works on different environmental issues such as renewable energies, biodiversity and sustainable development. The director of the agency analyzed the evolution of environmental information in the media and stressed the importance of keeping this journalistic specialization away from eco-fatigue, a concept that refers to fatigue due to excess of information on ecological issues. In this sense, he showed the students the routines of journalistic production in the field of environmental journalism.

Arturo Larena is an environmental journalist. Director of EFE Verde and the area of Science and Future of the EFE Agency. He has been awarded the National Environment Award, the BBVA Foundation Award for Biodiversity Conservation and the WWF Golden Panda Award, as one of the five Spaniards who have contributed most to environmental culture from the media.

The Gabinete de Comunicación y de Educación is a consolidated group specialised in scientific research and dissemination, which belongs to the Department of Journalism and Communication Sciences of the UAB. Recognised by AGAUR (Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca) of the Generalitat de Catalunya as a Consolidated Research Group on the basis of its trajectory, projection and development, it develops projects and research in the field of convergence between communication and education. Since its creation, it has developed initiatives aimed at integrating, with awareness and freedom, communication technologies in the so-called global or knowledge society. Under the direction of Santiago Tejedor, the Office organises different master’s degrees, such as the Master’s Degree in Travel Journalism (on-site and online), the Master’s Degree in Communication and Education, the Master’s Degree in Environmental Communication and the Master’s Degree in Political and Electoral Communication Management. The group has a wide and varied collection of publications, in the form of scientific articles, books and book chapters, and other works, which is constantly being renewed. It also has a laboratory for teaching innovation projects, transfer and new formats that are conceived and developed from a perspective based on creativity and multidisciplinary work. Every year, the Cabinet organises an academic expedition that travels the world with students from different universities and degrees. This is the Tahina-Can Expedition, which has been awarded as the best educational project in Spain. It also has the portal Tu Aventura, the educational platform infoEDU and the newsgames and science project Reporteros de la ciencia.

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This lecture series is part of the project “Planet UAB: The journey to the other – equals in differences” organized by the Gabinete UAB during the academic year 2020-2021, with the support of the Fons de Solidaritat of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, which organized a series of activities and awareness-raising actions based on the concept of the UAB campus as a “planet” and dealing with major issues such as the culture of peace, sustainability, the environment and interculturality, among others.

Students of the Master in Travel Journalism, the Master in Environmental Communication and the Master in Communication and Education participated in this nineteenth session with German Jiménez, entitled ‘Trends and Challenges in Tourism‘. The lecturer shared with the students the characteristics of tourism of excellence. Some of the topics discussed within this sector were the digitisation of tourism and travel and sustainability: “Developing personalised tourism experiences is a necessity in the current scenario. We have opted for creativity, excellence and attention to detail”. The expert also spoke about the democratisation of travel and the massification of places and detailed the need to rethink the Spanish tourism model.

Germán Jiménez holds a degree in Information Sciences from the University of Navarra. Director of Turium, Tourism division of Vocento. Teacher and lecturer specialising in Tourism and Luxury. He has more than 25 years of experience in Communication Departments and Off and Online Media (Elle, GQ, Vogue, Marie Claire).

The Gabinete de Comunicación y de Educación is a consolidated group specialised in scientific research and dissemination, which belongs to the Department of Journalism and Communication Sciences of the UAB. Recognised by AGAUR (Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca) of the Generalitat de Catalunya as a Consolidated Research Group on the basis of its trajectory, projection and development, it develops projects and research in the field of convergence between communication and education. Since its creation, it has developed initiatives aimed at integrating, with awareness and freedom, communication technologies in the so-called global or knowledge society. Under the direction of Santiago Tejedor, the Office organises different master’s degrees, such as the Master’s Degree in Travel Journalism (on-site and online), the Master’s Degree in Communication and Education, the Master’s Degree in Environmental Communication and the Master’s Degree in Political and Electoral Communication Management. The group has a wide and varied collection of publications, in the form of scientific articles, books and book chapters, and other works, which is constantly being renewed. It also has a laboratory for teaching innovation projects, transfer and new formats that are conceived and developed from a perspective based on creativity and multidisciplinary work. Every year, the Cabinet organises an academic expedition that travels the world with students from different universities and degrees. This is the Tahina-Can Expedition, which has been awarded as the best educational project in Spain. It also has the portal Tu Aventura, the educational platform infoEDU and the newsgames and science project Reporteros de la ciencia.

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This initiative, which has won the 39th call of the UAB Solidarity Fund for inter-university cooperation projects led by PAS, PDI and UAB students, reflects on the fact of being a woman journalist in Mexico, a reality where “violence and reprisals predominate in order to exercise freedom of expression”. In this sense, the project aims to educate about the importance of the role of the media in avoiding the dissemination of negative stereotypes of women and to help implement principles of news coverage that avoid re-victimisation, encouraging ‘the narrative of stories of women leaders, transformers and generators of social change’. To this end, it will create a workshop in which, based on the study and analysis of materials and real case studies, it will reflect on other types of narratives and perspectives.

This project will collaborate with the network of Mexican journalists “Yo sí soy periodista” working in the city of Tijuana and has the collaboration of the cybermedia Revista 5W, specialised in migrations, the Gabo Journalism Foundation and the Baja Autonomous University of Baja California (Tijuana). Among the members of the work team are Santiago Tejedor, teacher and project leader, Martín Caparrós, Argentinean journalist and chronicler, David Jiménez, journalist and writer, Agus Morales, director of 5W, and teachers and researchers from the Gabo de Comunicación y Educación UAB, the teachers of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Autonomous University of Baja California Diana Denisse Merchant Ley, María de Jesús Montoya Robles, Ángel Cilserio Ruiz Rios and Feliciano Castro Loya. The co-organising team in Tijuana of the collective “Yo Sí Soy Periodista” is made up of journalists Sonia Elva Rosas de Anda, Alma Yolanda Morales González, Inés García Ramos and José Ibarra Amador.

The Gabinete de Comunicación y de Educación is a consolidated group specialised in scientific research and dissemination, which belongs to the Department of Journalism and Communication Sciences of the UAB. It has been recognised by AGAUR (Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca) of the Generalitat de Catalunya as a Consolidated Research Group on the basis of its trajectory, projection and development. Since its creation, it has developed initiatives aimed at integrating, with awareness and freedom, communication technologies in the so-called global or knowledge society.

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The session is part of the Media and Information Literacy Event Series at the 3rd World Higher Education Conference. The International Media and Information Literacy Institute was established with the support of UNESCO and twelve international universities signed the agreement establishing the institute. “In response to the general need to raise awareness of media and information literacy, UNESCO and NORDICOM commissioned a feasibility study on the establishment of an International Institute for Media and Information Literacy. Universities from different regions of the world have agreed to deepen academic co-operation in media and information literacy”.

This session will focus mainly on the role of the institute in raising awareness of media and information literacy and promoting intercultural dialogue. Participants from different partner universities will present their activities in the area of media and information literacy: Manuel Pinto (University of Minho, Portugal), Santiago Tejedor (UAB, Barcelona), Suraj Olunifesi (University of Lagos, Nigeria), Carolyn Wilson (McLuhan Foundation, Canada), Sally Tayie (Cairo University, coordinator of the institute), Felipe Chibas Ortiz (University of Sao Paolo, Brazil) and Jun Sakamoto (Hosei University, Japan). The event will be moderated by Samy Tayie, professor at Cairo University (Egypt).

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Since 2013, the Gabinete de Comunicación y Educación has been collaborating with the Arab Academy for Science Technology and Maritime Transport in research and teaching projects, forming a bridge of cooperation between the Arab world and Spain. This collaboration is part of the Unitwin agreement on Media Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue (MILID).

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This webinar addressed how media and information literacy is crucial to combating disinformation and its role in democratic governance and peace. In this sense, it emphasised the idea that “teachers and young people capitalise on the learning, social engagement and creativity offered by the exponential growth of digital technologies and the explosion of new forms of media”.

The webinar was opened by Tawfik Jelassi, Assistant Director-General of UNESCO’s Communication and Information Sector. Different researchers and professors from different nationalities participated in the webinar: Estrella Luna, project manager of Media Arts and ICT from Mexico, Mariana Lameiras, CSRC researcher at the University Do Minho in Portugal, Santiago Tejedor, director of the Department of Journalism and Communication Sciences at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Cristina Pulido, lecturer Serra Húnter of the Department of Journalism and Communication Sciences UAB, Drissia Chouit, professor at Ismail University in Morocco, Samy Tayie, professor at Cairo University, Jun Sakamoto, professor at Hosei University in Japan and Kyoko Murakami, professor at the same university and member of the UNESCO University Network for Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue.

The Gabinete de Comunicación y de Educación is a consolidated group specialised in scientific research and dissemination, which belongs to the Department of Journalism and Communication Sciences of the UAB. It has been recognised by AGAUR (Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca) of the Generalitat de Catalunya as a Consolidated Research Group on the basis of its trajectory, projection and development. Since its creation, it has developed initiatives aimed at integrating, with awareness and freedom, communication technologies in the so-called global or knowledge society.

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The day will begin with a presentation of the initiatives and work carried out by Reporters Without Borders, an organisation that defends access to news and information so that citizens can “know, understand and develop an opinion on what is at stake in the world and their environment”. It was created in 1995 with the aim of promoting journalistic freedom, pluralism and independence.

The second block will feature the participation of Amnesty International, “a global, independent organisation of more than 10 million people who act against injustice by defending human rights around the world”.

The dialogue will then move on to Open Arms, a non-profit organisation that operates in the Mediterranean Sea to protect people who try to reach European coasts fleeing from their countries due to war, poverty or persecution. They also promote education and knowledge about freedom, equality and migratory rights.

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) will engage in the fourth dialogue of the day to share its actions and achievements. The agency, which has been leading and coordinating refugee protection worldwide since 1950, is tasked with providing vital assistance to refugees, asylum seekers, stateless or displaced persons and ensuring that their rights are respected.

The meeting will close with the participation of the Universitat de la Pau, an institution founded in 1984 with “the aim of creating the conditions and facilitating the necessary tools for training, debate, reflection and the exchange of opinions and experiences on conflict and peace-building”.

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Profiles of guest speakers:

• Almudena Barrientos-Báez

In the tourism industry it has always been said that, just as no two people are alike, no two customers have identical tastes, needs or demands. This means that the more we know about our clients, the more professionals know how to position themselves in their place (tending towards the desirable situation of the future or empathy) without losing the perspective of the consumer, the better they will be able to satisfy their desires and the more lasting the relationship with them will be: This is a fundamental element in achieving customer loyalty.

We are living a unique moment in the history of tourism: COVID-19, the devastating effect for tour operators, hotel chains, private and public companies is presented this afternoon, not as a threat or weakness, but as an opportunity to generate a change in the habits of consumers and in the experiences that can be offered to them through travel. Emotional competencies are tools that, if properly managed, will help to improve the current situation.

Almudena Barrientos holds a PhD with international mention in Education and teaches at the Iriarte University School of Tourism, attached to the ULL (Tenerife-Spain) and at the European University. Master’s Degree in Protocol Management, Production, Organisation and Design of Events – Communication area – (UCJC) and Master’s Degree in Tourism Accommodation Management (Univ. Girona). Degree in Tourism (EUTI-ULL) and Teaching (Univ. Valencia). She is part of the DEBATv project, Televised Electoral Debates in Spain: Models, Process, Diagnosis and Proposal (CSO2017-83159-R), R&D&I project (Retos) and of the project New values, governance, financing and public audiovisual services for the Internet society: European and Spanish contrasts (RTI2018-096065-B-I00) of research of the State R&D&I Programme.

• Ubaldo Cuesta

Neuroleadership and tourism: the importance of controlling emotions. In the beginning it was emotion… Then came the verb, but first it was emotion. It still is, in a sense. Man is not as rational as Descartes thought; Descartes’ mistake was to think: “cogito ergo sum”. Rather, man is a rationaliser (of his emotions) which are prior and more real. Attitudes, psychologists say, are consolidated psychosocial tendencies towards action. And so they are. But the true definition of attitude is: an evaluation (emotion) that determines action. Our brain is an extraordinarily efficient machine. It is capable of handling huge amounts of information in seconds and acting, efficiently, accordingly. How does it manage to do this? Fundamentally, thanks to its own special trick: it does without our input, it acts on its own. To a large extent, driven by emotions, evaluations. Without us being aware of it, most of the time, fortunately, I would say. Understanding this is already a big step: know thyself, the Greeks said, is the most difficult thing. And also the most important. If you know your emotions, at least to some degree, you will take a big step in controlling your goals. Even more, in control of what you want to be.

If you are also able to control them, to a certain extent (never completely, that is not possible) you will have made a quantum leap. You will be, so to speak, your own driver, your own leader. And then you will be on the way to better understand the emotions of others, to “live through them”. You will be on the way to being a leader, someone capable of better understanding others and, therefore, with a greater capacity for persuasion. This is what neuroleadership is all about: helping people to be leaders. First of themselves, then (at the same time, actually) of others. This leadership is useful, very useful for everyday life, for living together. But also, of course, in the professional world. In this sense, being a leader, with the ability to communicate and communicate better, with yourself and with “the other” is applicable to any profession: doctor, teacher, car salesman or tourist service manager.

Ubaldo Cuesta holds a PhD in psychology and is professor of communication psychology at the Complutense University of Madrid. Director of the Department of Communication Theories and Analysis and of the Neurocommunication Laboratory at UCM. He is Director of the UCM-Abbvie Chair of Communication and Health and of the journals Comunicación y Salud and Pensar la Publicidad. He is also the Director of the UCM/Wunderman-Thompson Master’s Degree in Advertising Management and of the consolidated UCM research group “Creation and psychosocial and cultural effects of audiovisual discourse”. PI of the Research Project subsidised by the Ministry (MINECO): Antivaccine discourse in the networks. Director of the course “Neuroleadership and sales”.

• Cristina Pulido

The global pandemic of COVID-19 has impacted on many aspects and scenarios of new professional and everyday life. The travel sector has undoubtedly been one of them. In this phase of progressive openness and the so-called “new normality”, the main challenge is to redefine travel, travelling and, especially, the skills that must accompany the new traveller. It is a challenge that affects all players in the tourism sector: guides, agencies, operators and professionals in the leisure, hotel, hospitality and service sectors. Moreover, the importance of travel is becoming one of the major milestones in a context marked by mistrust, insecurity and fear.

Cristina Pulido is Serra Húnter lecturer in the Department of Journalism and Communication Sciences at the UAB. She coordinates the Master in Communication and Education and is part of the research group Gabinete de Comunicación y Educación. Her main lines of research are social uses of new media, risks on the Internet and childhood/adolescence, gender and media.

• Felipe Chibás Ortiz

Cultural barriers, emotions and digital sensitivity: cases of multinational hotel companies (Brazilian, Spanish, French and Mexican). It will address how the national values of the parent organisation influence the organisational culture and organisational values in the hotels that host these international networks.  This is reflected in cultural barriers in communication, which have a different profile according to the country of origin of the parent organisation and the host country. It will be discussed how, based on this diagnosis of cultural barriers, cultural conflicts can be managed. Hotel networks of French (Accor), North American (Atlántica Hotels), Mexican (Posadas) and Brazilian (Estanplaza) origin will be studied. It will also reflect on and show the emotional side of these profiles in the web and physical communication of the aforementioned chains.

Felipe Chibás is the representative in Latin America and the Caribbean of UNESCO’s GAPMIL (Global Alliance for Partnerships on Media and Information Literacy). He is a researcher, doctoral professor and free lecturer at the University of São Paulo in Brazil. Author of 24 books published in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

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The meeting will be attended by:

• José Manuel Pérez Tornero, Professor UAB, Director of the UNESCO Chair in Media and Information Literacy for Quality Journalism.
• Laura Cervi, postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in the Department of Journalism, UAB.
• Omar Rincón, Professor in Media, Culture and Entertainment, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia.
• Alejandro Piscitelli, head of the Pedagogical Innovation Laboratory at the Communication Sciences Department, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• Francisco Sierra, Professor of Communication Theory, University of Seville.
• Cristina Pulido, Serra Húnter lecturer in the Department of Journalism and Communication Sciences UAB.

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