Comunicación y cultura

Persiguiendo mi sombra es, en palabras del propio Juan Maestre, «[…] una inmersión en mí mismo y en mi entorno. Un escenario por el que atravesaron padres, madres, tíos y demás familia; padres espirituales, padres prefectos, padres confesores; hijos de puta y muy buena gente que haberla haila; variopintos sargentos, coroneles y generales, hasta aspirantes a golpistas y sus arquetipos opuestos; defensores de lo propio y de lo ajeno; pobres y ricos; buenos, malos y vete a saber qué, pues ni ellos mismos están seguros de lo que son, quieren ser y menos aún del qué serán; prochinos del barrio de Salamanca y auténticos rusos en El Escorial… De todo o de casi todo y para casi todos.»

Una investigación por medio de técnicas autobiográficas referente a la historia de la vida cotidiana española durante el franquismo que se lee como una novela.

Anonymous. WikiLeaks. The Syrian Electronic Army. Edward Snowden. Bitcoin. The Arab Spring. Five years ago, these terms were meaningless to the vast majority of people in the world. Today, they and many like them dominate the news and keep policymakers, security experts, and military and intelligence officials up at night. These groups and individuals are enabled and empowered by digital technology to confound and provoke the state in a way not possible before the Internet revolution. They are representative of a wide range of 21st century global actors and a new form of 21st century power: disruptive power. In Disruptive Power, Taylor Owen provides a sweeping look at the way that digital technologies are shaking up the workings of the institutions that have traditionally controlled international affairs: humanitarianism, diplomacy, war, journalism, activism, and finance. The traditional nation state system and the subsequent multinational system were founded on and have long functioned through a concentration of power in the state, through the military, currency controls, foreign policy, the rule of law, and so on. In this book, Owen argues that in every aspect of international affairs, the digitally enabled are changing the way the world works and disrupting the institutions that once held a monopoly on power. Each chapter of Owen's book looks at a different aspect of international affairs, profiling the disruptive innovators and demonstrating how they are challenging existing power structures for good and ill. Owen considers what constitutes successful online international action, what sorts of technologies are being used as well as what these technologies might look like a decade from now, and what new institutions will be needed to moderate the new power structures and ensure accountability. With cutting edge analysis of the fast-changing relationship between the declining state and increasingly powerful non-state actors, Disruptive Power is the essential road map for navigating a networked world.

The Internet has transformed the manner in which information is exchanged and business is conducted, arguably more than any other communication development in the past century. Despite its wide reach and powerful global influence, it is a medium uncontrolled by any one centralized system, organization, or governing body, a reality that has given rise to all manner of free-speech issues and cybersecurity concerns. The conflicts surrounding Internet governance are the new spaces where political and economic power is unfolding in the twenty-first century. This all-important study by Laura DeNardis reveals the inner power structure already in place within the architectures and institutions of Internet governance. It provides a theoretical framework for Internet governance that takes into account the privatization of global power as well as the role of sovereign nations and international treaties. In addition, DeNardis explores what is at stake in open global controversies and stresses the responsibility of the public to actively engage in these debates, because Internet governance will ultimately determine Internet freedom.

This book is a collection of articles that reflect on various connectivities between art and social justice and media which are pertinent to studying contemporary societies. How different forms of media and art, in the broadest possible meaning of these terms, reflect on, relate to, and campaign for social justice is an important topic to consider as artists, academics and activists.

The subject matter of the book is also contextualized, with attention being paid to historical, cultural and communication factors, and with chapters referencing situations and collaborations in Brazil, Cyprus, Greece and South Africa. This is the first time that such a broad range of contexts are being considered together within the pursuit of studies on art and social justice. Furthermore, this book concentrates on how different art forms are manifest, in relation to social justice issues in an ever-changing world mediated by the Internet. How much mobilization happens online through art and media, and how much happens in ‘reality’ (offline) are issues explored at length with regard to youth and participation in social change.

Con la aparición del lenguaje se manifiesta la consciencia de ese estar juntos Hace más de 5.100 años los pueblos indoeuropeos llamaron «ko» a ese vivir juntos. «Ko» nos hizo posibles y es el inicio de muchas de las palabras que describen actividades vinculadas a nuestra supervivencia: colaborar, conoce (Tolosa, 2012: 1).1. INTRODUCCIÓN: COMUNICAR ES MÁS QUE HACER SABER. El verbo comunicar procede del latín communicare (compartir información), y este a su vez de communis (común, mutuo). Los diccionarios de uso de la lengua española de María Moliner (1991) y Seco, Andrés & Ramos (1999) coinciden en ofrecer como primera acepción del término hacer saber [algo a alguien], esto es, poner en común con otro una información. Sin embargo, a esta siguen otras muchas acepciones y propuestas de sinónimos entre los que encontramos verbos tan dispares como avisar, exponer, inculcar, insinuar, proclamar, hacer partícipe, dar publicidad, radiar, revelar o transmitir. Tal variedad de sinónimos nos da una idea de las dificultades de determinar los límites de la Comunicación en tanto que disciplina científica. En efecto, la multiplicidad de visiones sobre la Comunicación, incluso entre sus propios investigadores, no facilita la tarea de delimitar con claridad su objeto específico. Algunos autores proponen que la comunicación tiene como objeto científico específico toda acción significativa que tenga como finalidad que otro comprenda lo que significa esa acción y que sea efectivamente comprendida (Martín Algarra, 2003). Desde una perspectiva más amplia, sin embargo, Comunicación puede dar cabida a objetos científicos más diversos. La National Communication Association (NCA) de Estados Unidos identifica los siguientes ámbitos de estudio dentro de la disciplina general de Comunicación.

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.