Comunicación y cultura

The Clearinghouse Yearbook 2114 focuses on children and young people in relation to media and health issues. Such issues represent central debates in contemporary society and pose major challenges for researchers and practitioners in a number of fields. The various contributions in the book provide different perspectives on the ways in which media and health are interrelated.

Several contributions deal with possible risks to the health and well-being of children and young people in relation to their use of media – as viewers, listeners, readers and being on the internet – including research on how media can influence young people’s physical and mental health. Other contributions treat young people’s health and well-being in relation to their rights to access information, express their views and participate in the media (Articles 12, 13 and 17 in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child). Media can, thus, also become powerful tools for participation and inclusion in groups and society.

EL ESTUDIO DE LA RELACIÓN entre literatura y cine se ha limitado generalmente al caso de las adaptaciones a la pantalla de obras literarias. Ese campo resulta hoy insuficiente ante la considerable cantidad de cuestiones implicadas en esa relación: la transmisión de temas y mitos formalizados literariamente, la influencia de modelos genéricos, la apropiación de estrategias narrativas, la presencia del discurso escrito en el fílmico, etc.; o, en un sentido inverso, los débitos de la narrativa, la lírica o el teatro contemporáneos con el cine, su influencia o presencia tanto en el nivel expresivo como en el temático, la práctica, cada vez más frecuente, de la novelización de películas, etc. Dedicados al análisis de un heterogéneo crisol en el que hay cabida para diversas lenguas, literaturas, cinematografías y contextos, los artículos que integran Sobre la adaptación y más allá: trasvases filmoliterarios –surgidos del eje temático dedicado a las relaciones entre literatura y cine del XIX Simposio de la SELGYC (Sociedad Española de Literatura General y Comparada), celebrado en 2112 en la Universidad de Salamanca– se dividen entre los que se ocupan de ese nuevo paradigma y los que confirman la posición hegemónica que, pese a todo, mantienen los análisis adaptativos en el comparatismo filmoliterario.

Communication scholarship has not enjoyed the same kind of theoretical cohesion or ontological security as some disciplines. The field’s intellectual «roving eye» and resistance to establishing a single core body of knowledge has inspired serial rounds of soul-searching and existential doubt among communication scholars, on one hand, and celebration and intellectual adventurism, on the other. The theme of the 2113 ICA annual conference thus raised an interesting question: For a field that is perpetually in flux and «decentered», what exactly is, or should be, challenged? How, and by whom?
The chapters in this collection, chosen from among the top papers presented in London, suggest that the challenges themselves are constantly being reinvented, broken down and reorganized. The communication discipline undergoes continuous change rather than following an orderly, stepwise path toward the neat, complete accumulation of knowledge. The chapters challenge familiar approaches, notions or assumptions in communication research and scholarship and reflect on the field’s multifaceted and increasingly open character in an era of shifting social relations, formations and technologies.

What can philosophy tell us about privacy? Quite a lot as it turns out. With Privacy and Philosophy: New Media and Affective Protocol Andrew McStay draws on an array of philosophers to offer a refreshingly novel approach to privacy matters. Against the backdrop and scrutiny of Arendt, Aristotle, Bentham, Brentano, Deleuze, Engels, Heidegger, Hume, Husserl, James, Kant, Latour, Locke, Marx, Mill, Plato, Rorty, Ryle, Sartre, Skinner, Spinoza, Whitehead and Wittgenstein, among others, McStay advances a wealth of new ideas and terminology, from affective breaches to zombie media. Theorizing privacy as an affective principle of interaction between human and non-human actors, McStay progresses to make unique arguments on transparency, the publicness of subjectivity, our contemporary techno-social condition and the nature of empathic media in an age of intentional machines.
Reconstructing our most basic assumptions about privacy, this book is a must-read for theoreticians, empirical analysts, students, those contributing to policy and anyone interested in the steering philosophical ideas that inform their own orientation and thinking about privacy.

Media Literacy and the Emerging Citizen is about enhancing engagement in a digital media culture and the models that educators, parents and policy makers can utilize to place media-savvy youth into positions of purpose, responsibility and power. Two specific challenges are at the core of this book’s argument that media literacy is the path toward more active and robust civic engagement in the 21st century:
How can media literacy enable core competencies for value-driven, diverse and robust digital media use?
How can media literacy enable a more civic-minded participatory culture?
These challenges are great, but they need to be examined in their entirety if media literacy is to begin to address the opportunities they present for democracy, participation and discourse in a digital media age. By presenting information that places media literacy at the center of what it means to be an engaged citizen, educators and policy makers will understand why media literacy must be integrated into formal and informal education systems before it’s too late

This collection brings together 71 papers by 83 authors from 21 countries presented at the 5th Central and Eastern European Communication and Media Conference, titled “Media, Power and Empowerment”, in Prague, Czech Republic, in April 2012. It maps out trends in CEE media research across the entire region and provides insight into the broad span of relevant topics. The contributors to the volume successfully voice the multiple, yet specific, questions relevant to the CEE countries; the papers offer original research results to the reader, and invite them to participate in further debate on CEE media and communications research. To date, there have not been many publications dedicated to outlining the media and communications research interests across the region. This collection shows that the countries of the region indeed have a lot in common – historically, politically, and socially – while also discussing the differences among them, including the multiple political particularities within the unifying label “the East”, and variations in the transformation process and the consequences for concerned societies and their media scenes, as well as the individual lived experiences of the people of the CEE countries.

Comunicación política y elecciones federales en México se adentra en el estudio de los contextos mediáticos que rodearon el proceso electoral de 2112 en México, en el que la Comunicación Política funcionó como una variable de suma importancia.
La obra se organiza alrededor de tres grandes áreas en las que se abordan:
—la significación política de la elección presidencial;
—la imagen y la emotividad en las propuestas políticas;
—el agotamiento del actual modelo de comunicación política.

Comunicación política y elecciones federales en México documenta, analiza y evalúa la incidencia de la comunicación política en el proceso electoral mexicano del año 2012, e identifica su contribución —o inhibición— en la participación ciudadana, la deliberación social y el debate público.

This anthology aims at contributing to the strengthening of international networks, the visibility of current research, and the exchange of experiences about strategies and challenges while promoting the field in each respective context. Despite having different cultural, economic and educational realities, Brazil, Portugal and Spain share common aspects in the field of media education encompassed by this anthology.

To facilitate the spread of information and the partnership among these countries, this is the first time that International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media organizes a publication in the language spoken by its authors, Portuguese and Spanish, official languages of more than 31 countries located in Latin America, Africa and Europe.

An English version of this publication will be made available on the Clearinghouse web site in due course.

El creciente enfoque multijugador parece que domina el single player en los videojuegos porque cada vez existen más usuarios que disfrutan de compartir destrezas con otros jugadores, aunque ese placer suponga desafíos y experiencias frustrantes. Para comprenderlos, es esencial entender los videojuegos como espacios y no como objetos. ¿Qué es un juego multijugador?, ¿qué significa el acrónimo MMORPG?, ¿cuáles son las características del modelo free-to-play?, ¿qué es un mod?, ¿los videojuegos hacen un aporte a los mundos transmedia? Estas son algunas de las preguntas que pueden responderse en este libro, que ofrece un panorama amplio de ejemplos e ideas de las razones que hicieron que el videojuego escapara de los laboratorios universitarios de los años 71 y comenzara su carrera para instalarse en los genes de nuestra cultura. El lector encontrará en sus textos un material útil, ya sea como una introducción al tema o como un material de lectura, principalmente para estudiantes y profesores de los grados de multimedia, videojuegos y comunicación. El volumen presenta algunos aspectos teóricos aplicables, y aunque ofrece una visión en conjunto, los capítulos pueden ser leídos sin un orden específico.

The symbols, signs, and traces of copyright and related intellectual property laws that appear on everyday texts, objects, and artifacts have multiplied exponentially over the past 15 years. Digital spaces have revolutionized access to content and transformed the ways in which content is porous and malleable. In this volume, contributors focus on copyright as it relates to culture. The editors argue that what «counts» as property must be understood as shifting terrain deeply influenced by historical, economic, cultural, religious, and digital perspectives.
Key themes addressed include issues of how:
• Culture is framed, defined, and/or identified in conversations about intellectual property;
• The humanities and other related disciplines are implicated in intellectual property issues;
• The humanities will continue to rub up against copyright (e.g., issues of authorship, authorial agency, ownership of texts);
• Different cultures and bodies of literature approach intellectual property, and how competing dynasties and marginalized voices exist beyond the dominant U.S. copyright paradigm.
Offering a transnational and interdisciplinary perspective, Cultures of Copyright offers readers – scholars, researchers, practitioners, theorists, and others – key considerations to contemplate in terms of how we understand copyright’s past and how we chart its futures.