What is the function of the University in our days is one of the questions that those of us who dedicate ourselves to it should ask ourselves. The transfer of knowledge emerges as the third mission of the academy that must promote change and social development in the society. This paper aims to analyze the meaning of transfer in Social Sciences and, more specifically, in Communication Sciences, based on the experience of the 2018 transfer six-year call, and what happens in other disciplines. The contributions of the university community in terms of transfer remain in a distant position with respect to other countries of the Spanish environment. Only approximately 1% of international patents come from Spanish research. This gap between the two spheres highlights the need to encourage the transfer of knowledge as the third helix of an interactive and dynamic university model in dialogue with institutions and social agents.
This study analyses the media coverage of immigration in Melilla, the land frontier between Spain and Morocco and one of the access points where immigrants enter the European Union, and the role that journalists and other agents play in spreading news on immigration. By means of a field study we analyse the type of news professionals and media that are present near the border, the logics followed by institutional press offices when providing information, and the particular conditions in which journalism is practiced in a space of juridical exceptionality. Amongst the results obtained we underscore: the predominance of a media market that, while apparently diverse, is highly dependent on institutional advertising; the relevance of figures like activists or freelance journalists in providing differentiated news on immigration; and the difficulties in working that journalists face due to arbitrariness and obscurantism when accessing images and data.
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