Communication and Applied Technologies Proceedings of Icomta 2022 (Edition)

This book is composed of the papers written in English and accepted for presentation and discussion at the 2022 International Conference on Communication and Applied Technologies (ICOMTA’22). This conference had the support of the Universidad del Rosario (Bogota, Colombia), Universidad Politécnica Salesiana (Cuenca, Ecuador), Universidade de Vigo (Galicia, Spain), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela-Equipo de Investigaciones Políticas (Galicia, Spain), Red Internacional de Gestión de la Comunicación (XESCOM), Red de Investigadores en Comunicación de Ecuador (RICE), Observatorio Interuniversitario de Medios Ecuatorianos (OIME), Univer-sidad San Francisco de Quito (Ecuador), Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja (Ecuador), Universidad Tecnológica Equinoccial (Ecuador) and Universidad Técnica del Cotopaxi (Ecuador). It will take place at Cuenca, Ecuador, during September 7–9, 2022.The 2022 International Conference on Communication and Applied Technolo-gies (ICOMTA’22), in its second edition called “Information ecology in the network society,” invites all those within the scientific, academic and professional communi-ties to present and discuss the latest innovations, results, experiences and concerns in the various fields of communication and technologies related to it. The Program Committee of ICOMTA’22 was composed of a multidisciplinary group of 112 experts and those who are intimately concerned with communication and technologies. They have had the responsibility for evaluating, in a “double-blind review” process, the papers received for each of the main themes proposed for the conference: (A) Digital communication and processes; (B) Communication, health, politics and technology. The other pandemic: disinformation in the age of coronavirus. Automation, bots and algorithms; (C) Fact-checking experiences in Europe and Latin America at the service of journalism: a comparative perspective; (D) Persuasion and emotion: language and content analysis, and artificial intelli-gence; (E) Freedom of speech, ethics and transparency in digital society; (F) Digital social media; (G) Software, big data, data mining and intelligent systems; (H) Inno-vation, university and technology; (I) Miscellaneous (journalism, communication, advertising and public relations, political science and other aspects of social and human sciences derived from the information and communication technologies).