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Political memes spread by Twitter users. Analysis of the 26J 2016 election day. The popularity of memes in politics is analyzed; memes are a way in which users express their feelings, usually with humor and satire. The aim of this study is to examine the use of memes that were posted on Twitter on Spain's election day, 26J 2016. The methodology used in this study is a combination of case, content, and discourse analysis of 91 memes using a 30-item form created for this study. It is interesting to note that regardless of the political leader's reputation, memes were used equally for all candidates, and the most creative activity coincided with the most outstanding events of 26J.

The global health crisis arising from the expansion of Covid-19 has led the WHO to coin the term infodemics to define a situation of fear and insecurity in which the dissemination of false information has become widespread. These hoaxes take advantage of this type of emotion to spread faster than the coronavirus itself, generating fear and distrust in the population. The spread of these lies, part of which circulates on social networks, is dangerous because it affects health and can make the contagion worse and cause people to die. This research aims to analyse and visualise the network created around the false news circulating on Twitter about the coronavirus pandemic using the technique of social network analysis. NodeXL Pro software has been used. Several measures of network centrality have been used to generate the network of connections between users, to represent their interaction patterns and to identify the key actors within the network. In addition, a semantic network has also been created to discover the differences in the way groups of people talk about the topic. The results show that the situation in the USA dominates the conversation, despite the fact that at that time there were hardly any cases, and Europe had become the global epicentre of the Covid-19. Despite reports of inaction by journalists and critics of the Trump government, there are several weeks in which disinformation distracts from taking more effective action and actually preventing contagion. Moreover, among the actors with the most prominent positions in the network, there is little presence of scientists and institutions that help to disprove the hoaxes and explain the hygiene measures.

Las redes sociales han venido a revolucionar la forma de consumo de información pero también la forma en la que el periodismo se adapta a nuevos públicos y a nuevas maneras de acceder a esa información. Para conocer cómo se utilizan estas aplicaciones sociales desde dentro de los medios, se confeccionó un cuestionario, desde la perspectiva de género, que se aplicó a los profesionales de los medios de comunicación del País Vasco diferenciando entre grupos de edades, haciendo especial hincapié en las generaciones centenials y milenials. Los resultados de las más de 500 encuestas nos muestran un panorama donde el uso de las redes sociales está plenamente asentado en las redacciones de los medios de comunicación pero donde no encontramos especiales sesgos generacionales en el uso de las principales herramientas sociales. Por su parte, las mujeres periodistas son las que emplean mayoritariamente las redes sociales y las más utilizadas son Twitter, Facebook e Instagram en detrimento de otras como Telegram, Linkedin o diferentes recursos audiovisuales. El desconocimiento y la desconfianza son las principales causas de la primacía de unas sobre otras.