Comunicación y cultura

El coloquio 2018-a partir del cual este libro surge- fue planificado alrededor de resultados y discusiones sobre cómo las mediatizaciones impactan (o se ven impactadas por) los territorios y las segmentaciones de públicos, usuarios, audiencias, consumos, prácticas de intercambios. Esa búsqueda de resultados variados y no obligadamente en coincidencia, fue favorecida por el título mismo del Coloquio: Mediatizaciones: Territorios y Segmentaciones. Si tuviéramos que describir hacia dónde avanzan los estudios sobre las nuevas mediatizaciones, sus redes y sus plataformas, no hay duda de que es hacia transformadoras concepciones y prácticas territoriales y de construcción de audiencias, incluso bajo las tensiones (algunas novedosas, otras renovadas) entre colectivos e individualidades.

This book brings together contributions from scholars across Europe to present findings from a foresight analysis exercise on audiences and audience analysis, looking towards an increasingly datafied world and anticipating the ubiquity of the internet of things. The book uses knowledge emerging out of three foresight exercises, produced in co-operation with more than 51 stake-holding organisations and building on systematic reviews of audience research. It works through these exercises to arrive at a renewed agenda for audience studies within communication scholarship in the context of intrusive and connected interfaces and emerging communicative practices.

La fantasía, la invención y la creatividad no son patrimonio de unos pocos iniciados -los artistas-, sino facultades esenciales del ser humano que todos deberíamos comprender. Con la generosidad y la vocación pedagógica que siempre lo caracterizó, Bruno Munari desvela en este ensayo pionero algunos de los secretos de estas tres capacidades básicas que hoy englobaríamos bajo la palabra “creatividad”. La fantasía nace de la libertad. La invención y la creatividad nacen, en cambio, de la función y la necesidad. Pero a la hora de generar nuevos mundos, en todas ellas la inteligencia, la memoria y la imaginación juegan un papel crucial. ¿Qué mecanismos se activan para alumbrar una idea o construir una obra de arte? ¿Cómo podemos potenciar -en lugar de coartar- la creatividad infantil? ¿Cómo fomentar la elasticidad del pensamiento para que este no se quede estancado en fórmulas prefijadas? Munari responde a estas y otras preguntas con un estudio delicioso, a caballo entre la erudición y el divertimento, que no solo pretende potenciar nuestra capacidad creativa, sino contribuir a nuestro desarrollo integral como personas.

How do we learn what it means to be a man? And how do we learn to question what it means to be a man? This collection comprises a set of original interdisciplinary chapters on the linguistic and cultural representations of queer masculinities in a range of new and older media: television, film, online forums, news reporting, advertising and fiction. This innovative work examines new and emerging forms of gender hybridisation in relation to complex socialisation and immigration contexts including the role of EU institutions in ascertaining asylum seekers’ sexual orientation, and the European laws on gender policy. The book employs numerous analytical approaches including critical discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, multimodal analysis, literary criticism and anthropological and social research. The authors show how such texts can disrupt, question or complicate traditional notions of what it means to be a man, queering the idea that men possess fixed identities or desires, instead arguing that masculinity is constantly changing and negotiated through the cultural and political overlapping contexts in which it is regularly produced. These nuanced analyses will bring fresh insights for students and scholars of gender, masculinity and queer studies, linguistics, anthropology and semiotics.

This book offers an analytical account of the consensus and contestations of the politics of Chinese media at both institutional and discursive levels. It considers the formal politics of how the Chinese state manages political communication internally and externally in the post-socialist era, and examines the politics of news media, focusing particularly on how journalists navigate the competing demands of the state, the capital and the urban middle class readership. The book also addresses the politics of entertainment media, in terms of how power operates upon and within media culture, and the politics of digital networks, highlighting how the Internet has become the battlefield of ideological contestation while also shaping how political negotiations are conducted. Bearing in mind the contemporary relevance of China’s socialist revolution, this text challenges both the liberal universalist view that presupposes ‘the end of history’ and various versions of China exceptionalism, which downplay the impact of China’s integration into global capitalism.

In today’s digital world our social interactions often take place in the form of written comments. We chat, disagree, worship, vent, confess, and even attack in written form in public digital spaces. Drawing on scholarly literature from media and cultural studies, psychology and sociology, Uncovering Commenting Culture charts this commenting territory and outlines why we behave in these ways online. In this timely book, Renee Barnes provides a participatory model for understanding commenting culture that is based on the premise that our behaviours online–including those that cause us most the concern–are not so much an internet problem as a social problem. By looking at a wide variety of online commenting habitats, from the comment threads following news stories, through to specialist forums and social media platforms, the volume provides a comprehensive understanding of the role of online commenting in society and provides suggestions for how we might mitigate bad behaviours.

This volume has been brought together to generate new ideas and provoke discussion about what constitutes arts education in the twenty-first century, both within the institution and beyond. Art, Artists and Pedagogy is intended for educators who teach the arts from early childhood to tertiary level, artists working in the community, or those studying arts in education from undergraduate to Masters or PhD level.

From the outset, this book is not only about arts in practice but also about what distinguishes the ‘arts’ in education. Exploring two different philosophies of education, the book asks what the purpose of the arts is in education in the twenty-first century. With specific reference to the work of Gert Biesta, questions are asked as to the relation of the arts to the world and what kind of society we may wish to envisage. The second philosophical set of ideas comes from Deleuze and Guattari, looking in more depth at how we configure art, the artist and the role played by the state and global capital in deciding on what art education has become.

This book provides educators with new ways to engage with arts, focusing specifically on art, music, dance, drama and film studies. At a time when many teachers are looking for a means to re-assert the role of the arts in education this text provides many answers with reference to case studies and in-depth arguments from some of the world’s leading academics in the arts, philosophy and education.

Situation Comedy, Character, and Psychoanalysis puts the sitcom character on the analyst's couch and closely examines the characters of Basil Fawlty, Lucy Ricardo and Kim from Australia's Kath & Kim, in order to reveal the essential elements that must exist in a sitcom before even the first joke is written. Original in its approach, D.T. Klika uncovers major findings about the sitcom as well as human behavior and relationships that we find 'arresting' and even “familial”.

By offering a new way of reading the sitcom using psychoanalytic theory, this book can be used as a basis for engaging in critical discourses as well as textual analysis of programs. Psychoanalytic theory enables a reading of character motivations and relationships, in turn elucidating the power struggle that exists between characters in this form of comedy. Situation Comedy, Character, and Psychoanalysis shines a light on what is at play in the sitcom that makes us laugh, and why we love the characters we do, only to discover that this form of comedy is more complex than we first thought.

«La historia de las imágenes se inicia en las cavernas y finaliza, por ahora, en la pantalla del ordenador. ¿Quién sabe hacia dónde irá en el futuro? No obstante, el desafío sigue siendo el mismo: cómo representar el mundo tridimensional sobre una superficie de dos dimensiones». David Hockney

Para David Hockney, una imagen es la única forma en que podemos dar razón de lo que vemos. Sin embargo, todos los creadores de imágenes se enfrentan a un problema común: cómo plasmar lo tridimensional, personas, objetos y lugares, sobre una superficie plana. Los resultados suelen clasificarse como cuadros, fotografías o películas. También pueden catalogarse por fechas y estilos: medievales, renacentistas, barrocos… Hockney afirma que, en primer lugar y de manera fundamental, todos son imágenes, ya estén hechos con un pincel, una cámara o un programa digital, ya se encuentren sobre la pared de una caverna o en la pantalla de un ordenador. Y para que comprendamos cómo vemos el mundo que nos rodea —y por tanto a nosotros mismos— es necesaria una historia de las imágenes. Eso es lo que propone este libro.

Con la experiencia y el entusiasmo de toda una vida dedicada a pintar, dibujar y crear imágenes con cámaras, Hockney —en colaboración con el crítico de arte Martin Gayford— explora cómo y por qué se han creado las imágenes a lo largo de los milenios. ¿Qué hace que unas marcas sobre una superficie plana sean interesantes? ¿Cómo se muestra el movimiento en una imagen fija, y, a la inversa, cómo conectan el cine y la televisión con los grandes maestros? ¿Qué maneras hay de condensar espacio y tiempo en una imagen estática sobre un lienzo o en una pantalla? ¿Qué muestran las imágenes: verdades o mentiras? ¿Presentan las fotografías el mundo tal y como lo percibimos?

Con la yuxtaposición de una rica variedad de imágenes —un fotograma de una película de Disney con una xilografía de Hiroshige, una escena de una película de Eisenstein con un cuadro de Velázquez—, los autores traspasan las habituales barreras entre la cultura elevada y el entretenimiento popular, y establecen así unas inesperadas relaciones a través del tiempo y de los diferentes medios, afirmando al mismo tiempo que el cine, la fotografía, la pintura y el dibujo están profundamente interrelacionados. Una historia de las imágenes, obra lúcida y perspicaz, supone pues una importante contribución a nuestra manera de percibir la forma en que representamos la realidad.

There’s Santa Claus, Shakespeare, Mickey Mouse, the Bible, and then there’s Star Wars. Nothing quite compares to sitting down with a young child and hearing the sound of John Williams’s score as those beloved golden letters fill the screen. In this fun, erudite, and often moving book, Cass R. Sunstein explores the lessons of Star Wars as they relate to childhood, fathers, the Dark Side, rebellion, and redemption. As it turns out, Star Wars also has a lot to teach us about constitutional law, economics, and political uprisings.

In rich detail, Sunstein tells the story of the films’ wildly unanticipated success and explores why some things succeed while others fail. Ultimately, Sunstein argues, Star Wars is about freedom of choice and our never-ending ability to make the right decision when the chips are down. Written with buoyant prose and considerable heart, The World According to Star Wars shines a bright new light on the most beloved story of our time.