WhatsApping terror: how media applied instant messaging to cover Barcelona terrorist attack

Audiences love live communication (Deuze, 2011), the possibility of reaching news in real time. Previous research focus on the reporting of natural disasters or emergency news like terrorist attacks show that the concept “news now” (Sheller, 2014) is an audience imperative in those contexts. Bauman’s (2000) liquid society is the objective public of this kind of content, characterized by mobility and the individualization of media consumption. Our paper analyzes how media adapted their publishing strategies to reach this public through mobile instant messaging during Barcelona terrorist attack coverage in August 2017. This type of social news and information flow is characterized by unpredictability, classlessness, and a lack of hierarchy (Rampazzo & Peret, 2017). In order to reach this main goal we applied mixed methods, based on quantitative and qualitative techniques. Firstly, we designed a directory of Spanish media applying Whatsapp and Telegram to connect with audiences. Then we analyzed the content distributed by all national, regional and local media through these platforms from 17th to 21th August 2017. The first informative alert appeared 25 minutes after the van was driven into pedestrians in Las Ramblas. According to our results, 214 headlines in WhatsApp and Telegram were directly connected with the terrorist attack, but not all of them offered the appropriate tone and/or respectful emoticons. Most of the media made a great effort increasing the regularity of their messages during those days, but only the national media focused their MIM (Mobile Instant Messaging) strategy on the attack. Finally we classified the reaction into three types of content: last minute alerts, contextualizing news and solidarity content.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Open heavy flavour and quarkonium production as a function of the multiplicity in pp and p-Pb collisions with ALICE at the LHC

Due to the large masses of beauty and charm quarks, their production cross sections can be computed in the framework of perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics. The correlation of quarkonium and open heavy-flavour hadron yields with charged particles produced in proton-proton (pp) and proton-lead (p-Pb) collisions can shed light on the interplay between hard and soft mechanisms in particle production. In this proceeding the results from D-meson and J/$\psi$ yields as a function of the charged-particle multiplicity in pp and p-Pb collisions are presented. Comparisons to theoretical models are also discussed.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures, Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Multiple Partonic Interactions at the LHC, Chiapas, Mexic

A review of convex approaches for control, observation and safety of linear parameter varying and Takagi-Sugeno systems

This paper provides a review about the concept of convex systems based on Takagi-Sugeno, linear parameter varying (LPV) and quasi-LPV modeling. These paradigms are capable of hiding the nonlinearities by means of an equivalent description which uses a set of linear models interpolated by appropriately defined weighing functions. Convex systems have become very popular since they allow applying extended linear techniques based on linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) to complex nonlinear systems. This survey aims at providing the reader with a significant overview of the existing LMI-based techniques for convex systems in the fields of control, observation and safety. Firstly, a detailed review of stability, feedback, tracking and model predictive control (MPC) convex controllers is considered. Secondly, the problem of state estimation is addressed through the design of proportional, proportional-integral, unknown input and descriptor observers. Finally, safety of convex systems is discussed by describing popular techniques for fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control (FTC).Peer ReviewedPostprint (published version

Detectors and Concepts for sub-100 ps timing with gaseous detectors

We give a short compendium of the main ongoing detectors and concepts capable of performing accurate sub-100 ps timing at high particle fluxes and on large areas, through technologies based on gaseous media. We briefly discuss the state-of-the-art, technological limitations and prospects, and a new bizarre idea

Corregir letras para unir espíritus. Los jesuitas y las cartas edificantes en el Portugal del siglo XVI

Since its foundation, in 1540, a complex system of flowing information inside the new Order was promptly launched by the Society of Jesus. Letters became not only an important tool in order to built its powerful and bureaucratic machine but they were also regarded as a method for connecting the diverse Jesuit communities. The diffusion of apostolic action models and edifying news was maintained by a controlled epistolographic exchange and this contributed to reinforce a common religious identity among Jesuits. This paper is devoted to improving our comprehension about this specific aim of Jesuit letters and firstly focuses on some aspects related to the framework where these edification letters were elaborated; secondly, the reiterative use of specific narrative structures, precise spiritual references and apostolic images re highlighted; finally, this essay attempts to draw attention to the ffects that the letters encouraged in the particular nvironment of both reception and appropriation of he Portuguese Jesuit communities during the second half of 16th century

Entre vericuetos cortesanos y empresas religiosas. Francisco de Borja y el mundo portugués de mediados del siglo XVI

Català: Importància de la connexió portuguesa en la biografia de Francesc de Borja en l’àmbit personal –casament amb Leonor de Castro, servei de l’emperadriu Isabel–, polític –missions diplomàtiques en nom dels Àustria– i religiós –relacions amb els jesuïtes portuguesos i expansió de la Companyia al Nou Món. Paraules clau: Francesc de Borja; Jesuïtes; Portugal s. XVI. Castellano: Importancia de la conexión portuguesa en la bio-grafía de Francisco de Borja en el ámbito personal –boda con Leonor de Castro, servicios a la emperatriz Isabel–, político –misiones diplomáticas como representante de los Austrias– y religioso –relaciones con los jesuitas portugueses y expansión de la Compañía en el Nuevo Mundo. Palabras clave: Francisco de Borja; Jesuitas; Portugal s. XVI