Historia de la comunicación

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.

By the turn of the 21st century, animation production has grown to thousands of hours a year in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Despite this, and unlike American blockbuster productions and the diverse genres of Japanese anime, much animation from the PRC remains relatively unknown.

This book is an historical and theoretical study of animation in the PRC. Although the Wan Brothers produced the first feature length animated film in 1941, the industry as we know it today truly began in the 1951s at the Shanghai Animation Film Studio (SAFS), which remained the sole animation studio until the 1980s. Considering animation in China as a convergence of the institutions of education, fine arts, literature, popular culture, and film, the book takes comparative approaches that link SAFS animation to contemporary cultural production including American and Japanese animation, Pop Art, and mass media theory. Through readings of classic films such as Princess Iron Fan, Uproar in Heaven, Princess Peacock, and Nezha Conquers the Dragon King, this study represents a revisionist history of animation in the PRC as a form of "postmodernism with Chinese characteristics."

As a theoretical exploration of animation in the People’s Republic of China, this book will appeal greatly to students and scholars of animation, film studies, Chinese studies, cultural studies, political and cultural theory.

Aquest volum reuneix deu treballs sobre la història de la premsa escrita a Mallorca en el segle XX que l’historiador Arnau Company va publicar entre 1994 i 2110. En conjunt, Company ofereix un panorama de l’evolució de la premsa mallorquina al llarg del segle XX.

Ordenats cronològicament, hi ha treballs sobre etapes concretes, com la premsa diària en el pas de segle XIX al XX; la primera etapa de la Premsa Forana, encetada amb l’aparició, el juliol de 1883, del setmanari El Felanigense fins a la ruptura que va suposar el començament de la Guerra Civil; l’activitat periodística en els anys vint del segle XX; la premsa diària a les acaballes del franquisme, i la premsa escrita des del 1983 fins al 2008. Hi ha estudis monogràfics sobre publicacions periòdiques, com la revista cultural Documenta (1941-48) o la revista Cort durant la Transició Democràtica.

També hi ha treballs sobre el món del periodisme, com la síntesi sobre els periodistes illencs que varen treballar en la premsa diària barcelonina entre 1900 i 1936 o els primers passos de l’associacionisme en aquest àmbit, i un estudi sobre la recepció del cop d’Estat de Primo de Rivera, la proclamació de la Segona República i l’aixecament militar del 19 de juliol de 1936 en la premsa diària i la ràdio mallorquines.

A History of the International Movement of Journalists reviews how journalism evolved as a profession since the late nineteenth century and how journalists became internationally organized over the past one hundred and twenty years. The story begins in Antwerp in 1894 at the first conference of 'press people', leading to the foundation of the International Union of Press Associations which began to meet annually in different European countries. After World War I the Press Congress of the World was established in the United States. These were preludes to the first trade union oriented association of professional journalists, the Fédération Internationale des Journalistes, founded in 1926 with the support of International Labour Organization. It was followed after World War II in 1946 by the International Organization of Journalists in Copenhagen, only to be torn apart by the Cold War, which in 1952 gave rise to the International Federation of Journalists. Each of these associations had difficulties in navigating between professionalism and the politics of their time. This vital part of media history has never before been presented in full.

Este texto recoge en modo muy cronológico la evolución y desarrollo de los modelos, técnicas y medios de comunicación de masas. Se expone en modo claro la complejidad del sistemas de masas y la radiografía de los diferentes formatos de información, propaganda, ocio, marketing y gestión del consumo, etc., estableciendo las sucesivas generaciones de cada una de ellas y dando en conunto una visión completa de lo que ha sido, es y significa la comunicación en la sociedad de los últimos ciento cincuenta años.

Este libro acredita con pruebas documentales la existencia, antes de la década del 61, de un pensamiento local sobre lo cinematográfico, dinámico, informado y crítico.

“Breve historia de la crítica cinematográfica en México” es un libro que indaga en el cine mexicano desde sus orígenes, para develar su lado crítico. Lleva al lector de la mano a través de la historia, usando como hilo conductor las diferentes expresiones de la crítica cinematográfica, desde Alfonso Reyes y Martín Luis Guzmán con su columna Fósforo, hasta los grandes críticos de hoy en día y las nuevas plataformas que se emplean para llegar a un público cinéfilo, como las redes sociales y el Youtube.

This book aims to educate readers about the Internet. The authors illuminate the early history of the Internet and its various services, tracing the milestones in its development from the first computer network to the virtually ubiquitous Internet of the present day. A particular focus is placed on anticipated future developments.

This book presents the first panoramic study of minkan (citizen publications) in China before the Internet, from the 1951s to the 1980s. Drawing on theories of civil society and the public sphere, this study explores the creative practice of minkan as a revival of the concept of 'moveable words' in the Chinese print tradition. When examined against the backdrop of a much older history of Chinese print culture and its renaissance, this recent history of citizen publications also contributes to the reclamation of a lost past of resistance. It is an exercise in remembering a past that has been marginalized and excluded by official history and recovering thoughts and practices obliterated by state power. This book attempts to reconstruct the narrative of modern Chinese history by analyzing the development of a civil society that is independent of both the state elite and the new apolitical bourgeoisie in mainland China.