Comunicación y cultura

This study explores various intersections between the traditional utopian discourse and such media as music, comic books, TV series, feature films, documentaries, fan fiction, computer games and web projects, bringing to focus the transformative role of the media used for the presentation and implementation of utopian projects. It shows both the variety of forms of expression of utopian impulses and the relocation and reinterpretation of utopia in the contemporary culture of convergence.

This book provides an important discussion of the conceptual and practical interconnections between international public relations and public diplomacy. Written by some of the leading thinkers in both disciplines, the volume provides key lessons regarding global relationship-building and stakeholder engagement. Written from a government, corporate, and not-for-profit perspective, the book deals with such topics as mediated public diplomacy and information subsidies, international broadcasting, nation-branding, diaspora relationships, international exchanges, and soft power. A variety of international conceptual pieces and real-life case studies present an in-depth analysis of the strategic application of public relations tactics in governmental and organizational global relationship management efforts. The book is recommended for students, scholars, and practitioners in the fields of international public relations, public diplomacy, and international relations.

This collection brings together for the first time a set of researchers whose research methodologies centre on Bourdieu's concept of habitus. Full of insight and innovation, the book is an essential read for anyone wanting to know more about approaches to social theory and its application in research. One of its core objectives is to assist social researchers in their capacity to harness the potential of habitus as a methodological tool, thereby helping to bridge the often troublesome dichotomy between theory and method in the social sciences. It also provides a useful and practical resource on how effectively to apply the concept of habitus to scholarship/research, and can easily be used as a reference book in postgraduate programmes.

Issues around the environment provoke ethical, cultural, scientific and political debates. This unique inter-disciplinary introduction guides readers through these debates, drawing on recent and influential social theory and empirical cases to map out scholarship in the area. It is essential reading for anyone interested in social environmentalism.

This Handbook provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for theory, research and practice with regard to environment and communication, and it does this from a perspective which is both international and multi-disciplinary in scope. Offering comprehensive critical reviews of the history and state of the art of research into the key dimensions of environmental communication, the chapters of this handbook together demonstrate the strengths of multi-disciplinary and cross-disciplinary approaches to understanding the centrality of communication to how the environment is constructed, and indeed contested, socially, politically and culturally.

Organised in five thematic sections, The Routledge Handbook of Environment and Communication includes contributions from internationally recognised leaders in the field. The first section looks at the history and development of the discipline from a range of theoretical perspectives. Section two considers the sources, communicators and media professionals involved in producing environmental communication. Section three examines research on news, entertainment media and cultural representations of the environment. The fourth section looks at the social and political implications of environmental communication, with the final section discussing likely future trajectories for the field.

The first reference Handbook to offer a state of the art comprehensive overview of the emerging field of environmental communication research, this authoritative text is a must for scholars of environmental communication across a range of disciplines, including environmental studies, media and communication studies, cultural studies and related disciplines.

La creatividad es una facultad innata de todos los seres humanos. Todos somos creativos. Sin embargo son muchos los bloqueos, condicionantes, miedos o rutinas lo que limita de forma progresiva nuestra capacidad de crear. Gracias a distintas técnicas creativas podemos recuperar y potenciar toda nuestra creatividad. La creatividad aporta recursos aptos para provocar cambios, generar nuevos enfoques y adaptarse de la forma más práctica posible a nuevas situaciones. Por suerte, la creatividad, aunque sigue guardando secretos a los investigadores, se ha democratizado, para hacerse más accesible a todos, gracias a su susceptibilidad de ser desarrollada.

Este ebook te proporciona toda la información necesaria para establecer tu presencia en las redes sociales y crear tu autoridad en línea. Descubre las cuestiones obvias y no tan obvias de las redes sociales y una ventaja competitiva para tu marca gracias a los medios sociales.

El uso institucional de informacion digitalizada presenta vulnerabilidades que hat que mitigar. En este libro se analiza este poblema y se ofrecen recomendaciones practicas para mejorar la seguridad de la informacion digital.

La présente anthologie collige des textes d’Armand Mattelart publiés entre 1971 et 1986, dont beaucoup sont peu connus des lecteurs francophones. Ces travaux sont pourtant d’un très grand intérêt et s’avèrent essentiels pour qui souhaite comprendre le rôle que jouent la production médiatique, la culture et la communication dans la lutte des classes. Ils le sont également pour mettre en perspective l’oeuvre d’Armand Mattelart, aujourd’hui considéré comme une figure importante des sciences de l’information et de la communication.

Les textes de ce premier tome constituent les éléments de base d’une critique de l’économie politique des phénomènes de communication. Ils sont le fruit de recherches sur la société chilienne des années 1960 et de la période de l’Unité Populaire (19700973). Le Chili va en effet devenir l’un des premiers laboratoires des enjeux géopolitiques de la globalisation et de ses réseaux. Il servira de test grandeur nature à des stratégies locales et transnationales, à la fois économiques, politiques, médiatiques et de renseignement, dont l’objectif est alors d’empêcher tout processus de transition vers des sociétés plus démocratiques. Afin d’appréhender dans son historicité cette réalité sociale singulière, Armand Mattelart convoque, loin d’un marxisme dogmatique, les apports d’un matérialisme culturel attentif aux thèmes de l’idéologie, de l’hégémonie, de la conscience de classe, ou encore de l’impérialisme.

Grand Theft Auto IV saw more copies being sold than the latest superhero blockbusters or the last Harry Potter novel. Most of its players and critics commend its storytelling experience; however, when it comes to academic analysis, mainstream humanities research seems confused about what to do with such a phenomena. The problem is one of classification, in the first instance: 'is it a story, is it a game, or is it a machine?' Consequently, it also becomes a problem of methodology – which traditional discipline, if any, should lay claim to video game studies becoming the moot question. After weathering many controversies with regards to their cultural status, video games are now widely accepted as a new textual form that requires its own media-specific analysis. Despite the rapid rise in research and academic recognition, video game studies has seldom attempted to connect with older media and to locate itself within broader substantive discourses of the earlier and more established disciplines, especially those in the humanities. Video Games and Storytelling aims to readdress this gap and to bring video games to mainstream humanities research and teaching. In the process, it is also a rethinking story versus game debate as well as other key issues in game studies such as time, agency, involvement and textuality in video game-narratives.