Comunicación y cultura

The first book-long analysis of the 'mediatization of politics', this volume aims to understand the transformations of the relationship between media and politics in recent decades, and explores how growing media autonomy, journalistic framing, media populism and new media technologies affect democratic processes. As politics becomes increasingly mediatized, the role of the media becomes more important in political processes, overlaying and subsuming political logic. This affects not only the presentational aspects of politics but, it is feared, also policymaking processes. This may in turn have far-reaching implications as to how well democracy works. Against this background, Mediatization of Politics brings together state-of-the-art chapters written by leading scholars in the field of political communication. It synthesizes relevant concepts and arguments, identifies core components of the mediatization paradigm, and sets the agenda for subsequent work on the changing relationship between media and politics in general, and on the mediatization of politics in particular.

A year after popular uprisings overthrew dictators in Egypt and Tunisia, a former diplomat and press officer travelled to Cairo and Tunis to interview local journalists and learn about both their experiences under the previous regimes and how they were navigating the political transitions. Based on these conversations, the resulting study explains the shifting red lines under the Mubarak and Ben Ali regimes, examining how these lines were enforced and how the regimes manipulated media to manufacture popular acquiescence or apathy. A map emerges of an institutional and cultural media landscape that presents challenges to establishing the genuine public service media both countries need in order to thrive as democracies.

Trust Ownership and the Future of News makes the case for an alternative structure that can sustain the forms of journalism necessary in a free, functioning democracy and which engender public confidence in the news media.
This ground-breaking study examines the past and present use of trustee governance by newspapers, public service broadcasters and news agencies in the United Kingdom, Ireland, the United States, Canada, South Africa, India, Australia and New Zealand. Its case studies of the Guardian, Irish Times and Tampa Bay Times – plus examination of the family trusts behind the Daily Mail, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post – detail the principles, practices and lessons of trustee ownership that can be applied by the digital 'new media' generation entrusted with the future of news.

Considers the changing role and perception of science in Britain at a critical turning point in the nineteenth century
Explores key works in the literature of science and their readers
Written by an internationally respected historian of science

The early 1831s witnessed an extraordinary transformation in British political, literary, and intellectual life. New scientific disciplines begin to take shape, while new concepts of the natural world were hotly debated. James Secord, Director of the Darwin Correspondence Project, captures this unique moment of change by exploring key books, including Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology, Mary Somerville's Connexion of the Physical Sciences, and Thomas Carlyle's satirical work, Sartor Resartus. Set in the context of electoral reform and debates about the extension of education to meet the demands of the coming age of empire and industry, Secord shows how the books were published, disseminated, admired, attacked and satirized.

En consonancia con el desarrollo acelerado de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación, se han realizado investigaciones sobre las campañas electorales en línea, así como sobre el uso qiue hacen de esas los principales actores políticos en democracia. Es en el marco de estos estudios, tan recientes y relevantes, que se inscribe esta publicación. En ella encontrará estudios de caso en diferentes países de la región latinoamericana, como Colombia, Chile, Costa Rica, Brasil y México sobre comunicación política digital.

Anime fans are often seen as part of a globalized entertainment system, for better or worse. They are framed as obsessive consumers, creative artists, "cultural dupes," and technological revolutionaries. Who are these anime fans, and what kinds of connections can they form across cultural difference? This book explores the world of animation fandom in East Asia and North America from its roots in the 1921s and 1930s to the online fandoms of the twenty-first century. Drawing on rarely seen gems and popular hits alike, it provides exciting new case studies of key moments when animation's changing technologies opened new avenues for audiences to connect. These cases illustrate how anime fandom today works as a transcultural community, creating both flows and frictions between viewers of different nationalities, cultures, ethnicities, and genders.

Throughout the world, people now engage with stories across multiple media, following the adventures of Doctor Who from television to the Web, exploring the Batman universe across cinema, television, comics, and more. This may seem recent, but transmedia storytelling is not a new phenomenon. History is filled with popular fiction, whose stories extend across different media as yesteryear's fan communities also participated in the act of expanding fictional worlds. In Transmedia Archaeology, Carlos A. Scolari, Paolo Bertetti and Matthew Freeman examine manifestations of transmedia storytelling not only in different historical periods but also in different countries, spanning the UK, the US and Argentina. They take us into the worlds of Conan the Barbarian, Superman and El Eternauta, and explore transmedia storytelling as part of 21th century mass culture, fandom, narrative practices, genres, and even political activism, giving us an introduction to the archaeology of transmedia.

¿Crees que sabes quién es Superman? Más allá de Clark Kent, Metropolis, Smallville o el Daily Planet, Superman es la historia de Jerry Siegel y Joe Shuster, dos jóvenes que vivieron un sueño y lucharon por él hasta verlo convertido en realidad. Este libro cuenta cómo lo consiguieron, hasta dónde llegaron y lo mucho que perdieron.

Superman: La creación de un superhéroe revisa los primeros 75 años de vida del personaje: los relatos que le dieron forma, el contexto histórico y las personas tras su escritura. Desde los primeros cómics a las tiras de prensa, de los seriales de animación a películas multimillonarias, de un personaje de tebeo a un icono cultural.

This Is Not a Love Song traza una genealogía de las relaciones entre la música pop y las artes visuales desde los sesenta hasta la actualidad , y pone el énfasis aquellos momentos en que ambas manifestaciones se retroalimentaron y se movieron en el terrirorio de la experimentación, la utopía o la incorrección política.

El libro es resultado de la colaboración de La Virreina Centre de la Imatge y los festivales Primavera Sound y Loop/Screen Projects.

Este libro pretende centrarse en el surgimiento y consolidación de nuevas tipologías museísticas que se adaptan a colecciones alternativas, y en los avances que las TICs están aportando al museo y a la obra de creación. Se estructura en tres grandes bloques dedicado a “Nuevos ámbitos de musealización” donde se recogen ejemplos de museos y exposiciones de fotografía, cine, arquitectura, patrimonio inmaterial y musealización del territorio con el caso de las ciudades mineras de Latinoamérica. Un segundo bloque dedicado a los “Museos y las TICS”, tema ampliamente abordado por la historiografía pero que requiere de actualización constante y donde se reflexiona sobre el genoma digital del museo y su problematización digital, las relaciones entre lo tecnológico y la educación, temas de propiedad intelectual y museos, TICs y discapacidad. El tercer bloque dedicado al “Arte y TICs” analiza los cambios y al surgimiento de nuevas prácticas artísticas como el computer art, el video mapping o el videojuego, también a las transformaciones que la Realidad Aumentada está otorgando a dichas manifestaciones y como se abordan los nuevos proyectos curatoriales.