La presencia e impacto de las universidades de los países andinos en las redes sociales digitales

Francisco Campos Freire; Diana  Rivera Rogel; Claudia  Rodríguez Hidalgo

doi:10.4185/RLCS-2014-1025

Authors

Francisco Campos Freire University of Santiago de Compostela http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1831-1838
Diana Rivera Rogel Technical Particular University of Loja http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8476-3635
Claudia Rodríguez Hidalgo Technical Particular University of Loja https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4004-9389

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4185/RLCS-2014-1025

Keywords:

Online research networks, social capital, rankings, reputation, scientific collaboration, invisible colleges

Abstract

This research study examines the presence and impact of the 165 universities that are part of the four Andean countries (Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia) on the most important online research networks (Researchgate.net and Academia.edu), in order to establish the degree of use and penetration of these new tools that enable scientific communication, collaboration and interaction, and incorporate alternative scientific reputation evaluation systems that expand the traditional the visible and invisible colleges of science. Method. The study is based on quantitative and qualitative research techniques and social networks analysis (SNA). Results. The presence and impact of the Andean universities in the online research networks is heterogeneous, but generally emerging and growing, and still divergent in terms of reputation in comparison to the results achieved in other international university rankings of long-standing tradition. Discussion and conclusions. The online research networks and their techno-social tools (Web 2.0 and 3.0) are convergent digital ecosystems of software services, repositories and open and networked communication platforms that allow researchers: to share their academic and professional profile within a specific area of knowledge dissemination and exchange; to create lists of users related within one or more scientific disciplines in order to be able to monitor them, and share information contacts, projects, documents, notes, collaborations and research studies with them; to create scientific networks; to access and download references and scientific works available online; and to calculate and monitor the qualitative and quantitative value (scientific social capital), popularity and impact of their own and others’ citations, interactions and publications. The results of the metrics used by these new research networks are moderately similar to those provided by the major university and scientific evaluation systems, but are still inadequate to measure research institutions in developing non-Anglo-Saxon countries. The challenge of the universities from developing countries and the new online research networks –launched after 2007– is to manage the efficiency and recognition of their scientific reputation.

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Author Biographies

Francisco Campos Freire, University of Santiago de Compostela

Journalist and Professor of News and Audiovisual Media Business Management at the School of Sciences of Communication Sciences of the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). Francisco Campos Freire holds a BA degree in Information Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid; an MBA degree in Industrial and Service Enterprises Management; and a PhD degree from the University of Santiago de Compostela. Professor recognised by Spain’s National Agency for Quality Assessment (ANECA) in 2011. European expert in Corporate Social Responsibility and Quality, certified by the European Organization for Quality (EOQ) and the Spanish Association for Quality (AEC).

In the journalistic profession he has worked as delegate of Lugo’s La Voz de Galicia regional newspaper (1979-1985); as Deputy director and Director of La región de Orense newspaper (1985-1990); as Managing Director of the Galician News Agency (AGN) (1990-94); as Director general of Galicia’s Radio and Television Corporation (1994 to 2005); and as President of the Spanish Federation of Regional Radio and Television Organisations (FORTA) in 1994, 1997, 2001 and 2004.

As academic, he has published nearly a hundred research articles and a dozen of books, including: Gestión de nuevas empresas periodísticas (“Management of new news media companies”, 2008); El cambio mediático (“The media change”, 2009); El nuevo escenario mediático (“The new media landscape”, 2010); Gobernanza y comunicación en Europa (“Governance and communication in Europe”, 2011); and La gestión e investigación de las redes sociales digitales (“Management and research of online social networks”), published in 2013 by Cuadernos Artesanos de Comunicación

Diana Rivera Rogel, Technical Particular University of Loja

Diana Rivera Rogel is a Full Professor of Print media at the Technical University of Loja (Ecuador). Holds a BA degree in Social communication from the Technical University of Loja (2006); and Specialisation degree (DEA) and a PhD degree in Communication and Journalism from the University Santiago de Compostela (Spain).

Director of the Department of Communication Sciences of the Technical University of Loja since May 2012. International co-editor of the scientific journal Comunicar.

She has participated in four funded research projects: 1) Historia de la comunicación de Ecuador. Prensa, radio, televisión, fotografía y medios digitales (“The history of communication in Ecuador. Press, radio, television, photography and digital media”); 2) Estudio del estado de la empresa periodística en Ecuador (”Study of the state of the journalistic enterprise in Ecuador”); 3) Mapa de la comunicación del Ecuador” (“Map of Ecuador’s media landscape”); and 4) Análisis de la agenda setting de los medios de comunicación televisivos, impresos y digitales de Ecuador (”Analysis of the agenda setting in Ecuador’s television, print and digital media”).

Selected by UNESCO and FELAFACS to teach the course on “Online and multimedia journalism for Andean countries”.

Claudia Rodríguez Hidalgo, Technical Particular University of Loja

Contents Editor at the Communication department of the Technical University of Loja (UTPL). Columnist and writer in the blog of the communication journal Comunicar.

She has participated in four research projects funded by the Technical University of Loja: Mapa de la comunicación del Ecuador” (“Map of Ecuador’s media landscape”); Historia de la comunicación de Ecuador. Prensa, radio, televisión, fotografía y medios digitales (“The history of communication in Ecuador. Press, radio, television, photography and digital media”); Análisis de la agenda setting de los medios de comunicación televisivos, impresos y digitales de Ecuador (”Analysis of the agenda setting in Ecuador’s television, print and digital media”); and Herramientas de la Web Semántica aplicadas a la comunicación Institucional (“Tools of the Semantic Web, applied to institutional communication”).

She is currently a student of the Master’s degree programme in Communication research of the University of Navarra.

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