Historia de la comunicación

The Cold War between the East and West during the period 19451991 was a rivalry where the world’s doom constantly emerged as a possible result. It was global and included northern European countries like Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway in different ways. Historians are still discussing how Cold War history should be understood in these countries, but they have rarely been concerned about mass media and communications. Meanwhile, many media scholars have neglected the theme entirely. In this book, these two areas of knowledge are combined in new research on the Nordic mass media, and their significance during the Cold War.

A number of controversial topics are covered. Nineteen Nordic scholars sheds new light on Nordic print media in all four countries, but also write about radio and the television broad­casting. Extending the traditional Cold War research on media and communication to include sport, magazines for men, political cartoons, and films, the book lays the foundation for Cold War studies to become an integrated interdisciplinary field of knowledge, and a more central part of the Nordic media research than before – with countless opportunities for exciting new research, with high relevance to world conflicts in our own time

La prensa del período republicano (19311939) protagonizó un tiempo de vértigo, donde la crítica y la información a menudo constituían una arriesgada apuesta personal. Las apasionantes trayectorias del falangista Jacinto Miquelarena, el anarquista Mateo Santos, el antifascista José Luis Salado y el frívolo León Vidaller ejemplifican las vicisitudes de aquellas hojas volanderas, cuya consulta abre interrogantes, esclarece circunstancias y erradica lugares comunes acerca de una España convulsa. JUAN A. RÍOS CARRATALÁ es catedrático de la Universidad de Alicante y completa con este ensayo una trilogía dedicada al período republicano cuyos títulos anteriores son Una arrolladora simpatía: Edgar Neville, de Hollywood al Madrid de posguerra (Ariel, 2007) y El tiempo de la desmesura. Historias insólitas del cine y la guerra civil (Barral y Barril, 2010).

La fotografía a lo largo de los años. De chico de los recados a uno de los industriales más importantes en la historia de Estados Unidos, la trayectoria de George Eastman se desarrolló de un modo singularmente norteamericano. El fundador de Kodak murió en 1932 y legó su casa a la Universidad de Rochester. Desde 1949, el lugar ha funcionado como un museo internacional de fotografía y cine y hoy acoge la colección de su categoría más grande del mundo. Continuamente en expansión, la colección de fotografía contiene más de 410.000 imágenes y negativos —entre ellos la obra de Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Ansel Adams y otros—, así como 23.000 películas de cine, cinco millones de fotos de films, una de las colecciones de cine mudo más importantes, equipo técnico y una biblioteca de 40.000 libros sobre fotografía y cine. La Casa George Eastman es un sitio de peregrinación y un lugar de adoración para investigadores, fotógrafos y coleccionistas de todo el mundo. Este volumen muestra en orden cronológico las imágenes más impresionantes y los desarrollos más importantes en el arte de la luz que es la fotografía. Proporciona en su inmensa colección y sus temas un estudio único del medio desde sus orígenes hasta hoy.

"Mining comics and cartoons as historical sources, this is an innovative, theoretically sophisticated study that crosses national and geographical boundaries. It makes a pioneering contribution to print, labour, gender and new cultural history, and the expanding field of humour studies, through a captivating series of case studies from both World Wars." – Bridget Griffen-Foley, Macquarie University, Australia "This study's focus on homefront and front-line comics from the two world wars brings welcome attention to texts generally ignored by scholars of history and comic art alike. Its argument for the significance of these largely overlooked comics as valuable source material opens the doors for further studies in these two fields and beyond." – Gene Kannenberg, Jr., Northwestern University, USA "This book establishes the significance of comics as a cultural record, with lesser-known and forgotten titles giving important insights into everyday lives and mentalities across the English-speaking world in times of war. Comics are an exciting addition to the repertoire of sources that inform commemorative activities in the 21st century as well as historical studies of the period." – Sarah Lloyd, Director of Everyday Lives in War, an AHRC-funded First World War Engagement Centre, UK "I found particular value in the close readings of comics of William Haselden, more obscure artists from the left wing press in America and Australia, and soldier artists from the trench papers. The authors tackle issues of gender representation and certainly Kathleen O'Brien's 'Wanda the War Girl' comic warrants closer attention." – Ian Gordon, National University of Singapore, Singapore

This much-expanded and updated second edition of New Media, Old Media brings together original and classic essays that explore the tensions of old and new in digital culture. Touching on topics including media archaeology, archives, software studies, surveillance, big data, social media, organized networks, digital art, and the Internet of Things, this newly revised critical anthology is essential reading for anyone studying the cultural impact of new and digital media.

Los primeros rastros del humor gráfico en esta zona del Río de la Plata se remontan a los tiempos de la Colonia, aún antes de que se declarara la independencia de la Argentina. Desde entonces, las caricaturas, las viñetas y las tiras cómicas acompañaron el devenir de la Nación. Por momentos lo hicieron con un tinte marcadamente político y de a ratos con rasgos costumbristas. Exportadora del talento de guionistas y de historietas, la Argentina forjó una escuela reconocible en el mundo a la vez que encontró en la creatividad de sus artistas el modo de salir culturalmente a flote de sus cíclicas crisis. En los momentos de oscuridad catacumbas el humor gráfico devino también en trinchera de resistencia.

La constitución de una política y reforma de los GTs, el despliegue de las representaciones regionales, la priorización del tema del "pensamiento crítico" en los Congresos de Bogotá, Montevideo y Lima, la promoción de los seminarios regionales (destinados a aumentar el diálogo y la acción conjunta con las asociaciones nacionales de investigadores, cuyo número ha crecido mucho en el período), los seminarios de Säo Pablo y La Paz, la nueva política de publicaciones, la reestructuración del portal de ALAIC, el sostenimiento de su revista papel y divulgación on line y la creación de una nueva publicación (el Journal of Latin American Communication Research), así como la búsqueda de acciones coordinadas con otras asociaciones macro-regionales de todo el mundo, han caracterizado esta gestión. Este libro es parte de ese esfuerzo. Para su concreción fueron invitados ex-coordinadores de GTs que estuvieron un largo período al frente de los grupos y otros actuales, así como algunos colegas a los que ellos dieron participación. Todos especialistas destacados en sus sub-áreas de conocimiento y con una experiencia acumulada de privilegio para poder reflejar la historia y la situación actual de cada uno de ellos.

This book presents an historical account of media and catastrophe that engages with theories of biopolitics in the work of Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri and others. It explains how responses to catastrophe in media and cultural criticism over the past 151 years are embedded in biological conceptions of life and death, contamination and immunity, race and species. Mediated catastrophe is often understood today in terms of collective memory and according to therapeutic or redemptive accounts of trauma. In contrast to these approaches this book emphasizes the use of media to record, archive and analyze physical appearance and movement; to capture viewer attention through shock; to monitor and control bodies in economies of production and consumption; to enmesh social relations in information networks; and situate subjects in discourses of victimhood, immunity, survival and resilience. Chapters are focused on historical case studies of early photography, Nazi propaganda, colonial stereotypes, Hiroshima, the Holocaust, the Cold War and the war on terror.

Revolutions in Communication offers a new approach to media history, presenting an encyclopedic look at the way technological change has linked social and ideological communities. Using key figures in history to benchmark the chronology of technical innovation, Kovarik's exhaustive scholarship narrates the story of revolutions in printing, electronic communication and digital information, while drawing parallels between the past and present. Updated to reflect new research that has surfaced these past few years, Revolutions in Communication continues to provide students and teachers with the most readable history of communications, while including enough international perspective to get the most accurate sense of the field. The supplemental reading materials on the companion website include slideshows, podcasts and video demonstration plans in order to facilitate further reading.

This book explains how designing, playing and modifying computer games, and understanding the theory behind them, can strengthen the area of digital humanities. This book aims to help digital humanities scholars understand both the issues and also advantages of game design, as well as encouraging them to extend the field of computer game studies, particularly in their teaching and research in the field of virtual heritage.

By looking at re-occurring issues in the design, playtesting and interface of serious games and game-based learning for cultural heritage and interactive history, this book highlights the importance of visualisation and self-learning in game studies and how this can intersect with digital humanities. It also asks whether such theoretical concepts can be applied to practical learning situations. It will be of particular interest to those who wish to investigate how games and virtual environments can be used in teaching and research to critique issues and topics in the humanities, particularly in virtual heritage and interactive history.