Comunicación y cultura

Wissenschaft beruht auf dem dialogischen Prinzip, das sowohl in der Kommunikation zwischen Forschenden derselben Disziplin als auch disziplinenübergreifend den Erkenntnisprozess in der Wissenschaft möglich macht. Das dialogische Prinzip greift in der Wissenschaft, aber auch im Verhältnis von forschendem Subjekt und zu erforschendem Objekt. Ob wir hypothesengetrieben arbeiten oder meinen, die Erkenntnisse voraussetzungslos dem Gegenstand entlocken zu können, der Prozess der Erkenntnisfindung ist in der Wissenschaft ein Dialog des Forschenden mit dem Gegenstand der Forschung und damit auch ein Prozess der Kommunikation. Kommunikation ist der Wissenschaft inhärent und zugleich in vielen Wissenschaftsdisziplinen ein Gegenstand der Forschung. Sie ist aber auch das wichtigste Bindeglied zwischen Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft. Ohne diese zusätzliche Funktion von Wissenschaft in der Gesellschaft würde sich diese der Fähigkeit berauben, ihre Erkenntnisse in eine breitere Öffentlichkeit zu tragen und im Dialog mit dieser Öffentlichkeit neue Anstöße für die Forschung zu identifizieren.

Este livro apresenta o percurso quantitativo e qualitativo dos posicionamentos basilares e seus respectivos argumentos e prognósticos acerca das políticas de cotas. Ciente de que a mídia é isenta de uma total imparcialidade, esta leitura visará lançar luz para o debate maior que foi incitado pelas ações afirmativas e consequentemente pautado por elas: Estamos satisfeitos com a configuração racial, simbólica e econômica de nossa nação? Em outras palavras, que Brasil queremos ser?

Nunca hizo falta la web para cometer un delito. Acaso la red, al igual que un bisturí, podrá usarse para salvar una vida o para quitarla. La Internet profunda puede generar confusión; descubre la leyenda y la realidad contenida debajo del iceberg virtual.

En 1993 decía en un artículo de la revista Chasqui: Tener la palabra significa tener el poder. Aparentemente incluso bajo regímenes autoritarios todos hablan. Pero ¿de qué habla el pueblo?, ¿a través de qué vías se expresa? Y recurriendo a Daniel Prieto Castillo agregaba: Existe una división social del poder decir, que consagra un orden social regido por las desigualdades.
Describía así una realidad que luego de veinte años no ha cambiado mucho. Durante estos últimas dos décadas he sido un observador de los procesos comunicacionales que se han dado en América Latina, particularmente en Ecuador y Uruguay. He sido investigador y docente en comunicación. Y además he trabajado en diferentes medios.
Este libro reúne artículos y ensayos que escribí en los últimos veinte años y, de cierta forma, nos ubican en temas y momentos importantes sobre la comunicación en nuestra región.
De aquellos años en que analizaba la cultura del silencio, la comunicación desde la vida cotidiana, los intereses de los grandes medios y su necesaria democratización; al 2110 que señalo la necesidad estratégica de Ecuador y los países de América Latina de transparentar los cables de Wikileaks, analizar y profundizar en su contenido y mi disposición de invitar a Julián Assange, a quien consideraba un perseguido político, mucho se ha debatido sobre la democratización de la comunicación en medio de transformaciones tecnológicas fundamentales. Sin embargo, a pesar de los avances, la democratización de la comunicación sigue siendo una tarea pendiente, y la comunicación sigue siendo una especie de “Arca de la Realidad” a la que no todos pueden ingresar.
En un momento que irrumpen con mucha fuerza la redes sociales y la comunicación personal se traslada a las computadoras, que surge con fuerza el debate sobre la libertad de expresión, que la comunicación política pasa a ser el centro de las gestiones gubernamentales y las campañas electorales, que se retoma el viejo debate ético sobre el acceso a la información, a partir de la divulgación de los cables diplomáticos por parte de Wikileaks y la persecución de Assange, este libro intenta ser un aporte para seguir democratizando la comunicación y continuar construyendo una comunicación para todos y todas, desde todos y todas, una comunicación propia desde América Latina.

Media Framing of the Muslim World is a fascinating account of how news about Islam and the Muslim world is produced and consumed, and how it impacts on relations between Islam and the West. The topics addressed in this book include how news values and media frames contribute to Western audiences' perceptions and understandings of Islam and Muslims; the extent to which historic conceptions of orientalism remain salient and are manifested in Islamophobia; how reporting on terrorism and asylum seekers impacts on public opinion and policy making; how the relationship between mass and social media contribute to the changing socio-political landscape of the Middle East and our understanding of the Muslim world; and how journalism and audiences have evolved in the decade since 9/11. Together, these topics make essential reading for scholars, students and anyone interested in the Western media's coverage of the Muslim world and its impact on Islam-West relations.

Digital Textuality explores the ways in which the English language is used in new media technologies. This undergraduate textbook covers a range of digital text genres, including news sites, social media, collaborative fiction, hypertext fiction and poetry. Using Hallidayan linguistics, along with other approaches, such as Discourse Analysis, Multimodal Semiotics and Text World Theory, this book reflects the latest language-based research in digital texts. Topics included in these chapters are digital literacy, identity, online communities, hybridity and superdiversity.

This book is about new media, young people, the crisis of democracy and political renewal. It addresses a mixture of traditional and new questions: What is the political and political legitimacy? How do we understand politics in a 'network age'? Can we talk sensibly about the concept of a generation and generational change? Does democracy have a future? This book offers an optimistic assessment of how digital media supports new and distinctive forms of politics. Four case studies are offered: one considers performance art and protest in Russia, another investigates new media campaigns to defend the rights to freedom of speech and copyright in America, another inquires into indigenous art and interactive cartoons as politics in outback Australia and the last explores new forms of student action in schools and in the modern university.

This collection investigates the relationship between contemporary screen narratives and their varied contexts of production, circulation and reception, exploring storytelling practices across a range of different media and national and institutional sites. While convergence and globalisation blur the boundaries between media and nations, it is still vital to account for the persistent national, medium, institutional and technological specificities that give rise to different narrative forms. The chapters study the ways in which these factors shape events, characters and settings; inform modes of narrative presentation; influence, via paratextual surround, potential interpretations; and accord certain stories more value than others. The authors use case studies drawn from a range of media, from Hollywood franchises to digital comics, and a range of countries, from United States to Japan. In connecting contemporary screen media narratives to their contexts, this book offers a new perspective on recent transformations in screen media culture.

Cyber Ireland explores, for the first time, the presence and significance of cyberculture in Irish literature. Computers are intimately tied up with the socio-economic phenomenon known as the Celtic Tiger, as some critics have argued, funding the boom and then creating the bust. Through novels by contemporary Irish writers including Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright, Colum McCann, Paul Murray and Élís Ní Dhuibhne, Claire Lynch introduces a new strand of Irish studies for the twenty-first century. Cyber Ireland draws on Joycean hypertexts, the avatars and identity experiments of Second Life, the parallels between Irish chick lit and blogging, the digital divide created by new wealth and social class, and even the reinvention of Cúchulainn in computer games.

How can a society communicate a collective trauma? This book offers a cross-media exploration of Israeli media on Holocaust Remembrance Day, one of Israel's most sacred national rituals, over the past six decades. It investigates the way in which variables such as medium, structure of ownership, genre and targeted audiences shape the collective recollection of traumatic memories. Following their previous conceptual work on media memory, the authors argue that a combination of the aforementioned factors, anchored in the political arena as well as in the realm of media practices and conventions, lead Israeli media to operate on Holocaust Remembrance Day in a manner that 'acts out' the collective trauma. Thus, the underlying narrative that is performed by the media on Holocaust Remembrance Day frames the Holocaust as a current, ongoing Israeli event, rather than an event that took place in Europe and ended decades ago.