News Media and Hate Speech Promotion in Mediterranean Countries

|Elias Said-Hung - Editor| is a tenured lecturer at the Faculty of Education, member of the SIMI research group and Director of the University Master's Degree in Inclusive and Intercultural Education at the Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR), and President of the Science, Technology and Society Association (CITESOC). He received his Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the Central University of Venezuela and his Ph.D. in Communication Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. He has published more than 100 academic publications (articles, chapters and books, among others). He has participated in more than 10 R & D & I projects financed in competitive calls for Administrations or public and private entities. |Julio Montero-Diaz - Editor| is a Professor at the Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (since October 2014) and on leave of absence as a University Professor in Journalism (since 2007) at the Complutense University of Madrid. He is President of the Commission of degrees and Master of Social and Legal Sciences 1 of the VERIFICA Program of ANECA between 2013 and 2016. Since 2016, he is President of the same commission at Fundación Madri+d (bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees). He has worked in institutional evaluation programs since 2003 in the Valencian, Andalusian, and Galician Community agencies. He is also an evaluator of research projects in various state agencies (ANEP, corresponding ministries, and State Research Agency).