The project "Parameters and strategies to increase the relevance of media and digital communication in society: curation, visualization, and visibility (CUVICOM)" with code PID2021-123579OB-I00 has been funded by MICIU/AEI/PID2021-123579OB-I00 and by "FEDER/EU". It runs from September 2022 to August 2025, and the principal investigators are Javier Guallar and Mari Vállez, by the University of Barcelona.

The main objective of the CUVICOM project is to systematically analyze three strategies to increase the quality and social relevance of journalism, digital media, and digital communication. These strategies are curation, visualization, and visibility.

We consider that these three factors enhance the quality of media informational products and digital communication in general, while adding credibility to digital content and media production. The increased relevance associated with them implies a greater potential to displace and counteract low-quality information and misinformation, thereby reducing polarization and fostering more inclusive societies.

The complexity of the current digital communication ecosystem requires interdisciplinary approaches for its full understanding. That's why we present an ambitious and interdisciplinary project, involving researchers from the fields of Communication and Information Sciences. The project features three main research lines and a cross-cutting line, bringing together a significant number of researchers from various national and international universities.

This approach ensures, in our opinion, the addition and confrontation of perspectives that go beyond the local and national scope, which are necessary to integrate a multifaceted understanding of the object of study.

You can contact the project at: cuvicomproyecto@gmail.com