Introduction. The emergence of the so-called Web 2.0 has substantially modified the forms of communication and teaching in said sector must also keep the new context in mind. The present paper performs an analysis of research about university teaching and social media in the 2010-2015 period. Methodology. We have collected all articles published in the Spanish communications journals indexed in Scopus that talked about the phenomenon. We intended to investigate the relevance of the theme in the research agenda of the last years, as well as to synthetize the areas of knowledge, the field of application, the time evolution, methodologies, tools and the main results and conclusions of said studies. At methodological level, contents analysis has been used to delve deeper into what has been theorized and analyzed empirically. A total of 2344 articles have been reviewed, whereas 103 configured as study sample. Results and conclusions. The research concludes that it is a theme of increasing interest for teachers of different fields of knowledge, that initiatives of Teaching 2.0 are being developed specially in graduate studies of Journalism and that the technological potentialities of the so-called participative Web are embraced with more optimism than critical perspective.