Historia de la comunicación

A uno y otro lado del continente americano abundaron los estafadores, impostores, publicistas que cargaban un cajón con pájaros disecados, libros, libretas y unos pocos instrumentos y que lograron que se les abrieran las puertas de las oficinas del gobierno, de los museos y de las asociaciones científicas nacionales. La historia de la ciencia no puede evitar toparse con ellos: en todos los tiempos han surgido charlatanes que han buscado obtener provecho político, ideológico o económico: falsos cónsules, naturalistas, poetisas y sabios abundan en la prensa y las revistas científicas, en los programas de fiestas de la alta sociedad y conferencias, en los discursos de bienvenida y en los juicios en los tribunales. Curiosamente, la historiografía no habla de ellos, como si no los viera, o, cuando los nombra, repite sus palabras sin cuestionarlas. En definitiva, la historia está plagada de ejemplos de charlatanes.

What does material culture tell us about gendered identities and how does gender reveal the meaning of spaces and things? This edited collection looks at the adornment of the body, dress and material cultures of the home and public spaces to demonstrate how people in Britain have presented themselves as gendered beings from 1610 through to today.

During the Cold War, radio broadcasting played an important role in the ideological confrontation between East and West. As archival documents gathered in this volume reveal, radio broadcasting was among the most pressing concerns of contemporary information agencies. These broadcasts could penetrate the Iron Curtain and directly address the ‘enemy’. Radio was equally important in keeping sustained levels of support among the home public and the public of friendly nations. In the early Cold War in particular, listeners in the West had to be persuaded of the need for higher defence spending levels and a policy of containment. Later, even if other media – and in particular television – had become more important, radio continued to be used widely.

The chapters gathered here investigate both the institutional history of the radio broadcasting corporations in the East and in the West, and their relationship with other propaganda agencies of the time. They examine the ‘off-air’ politics of radio broadcasting, from the choice of theme to the selection of speakers, singers and music pieces. The key issue tackled by contributors is the problem of measuring the impact of, and qualifying the success of, information policies and propaganda programmes produced during the Cultural Cold War. This book was originally published as a special issue of Cold War History.

Este libro se adentra en la historia de la comunicación humana, desde que los homínidos aprendieron a hablar y a proyectar su pensamiento simbólico, hasta estos momentos de vértigo comunicativo en los que la velocidad y la sofisticación tecnológica se alían con la globalización. Pensado para lectores que no se conforman co n historias puramente positivistas, esta obra se adentra en la búsqueda de los porqués, de las causas que pueden ayudar a explicarnos los fenómenos comunicativos. El libro apuesta por problematizar la comunicación en su relación con la sociedad y con la historia: cómo cambiamos el mundo con nuestra capacidad simbólica y cómo nos cambian las mediaciones comunicativas en nuestro quehacer cotidiano son los ejes por los que el libro transita desde el paleolítico hasta laactualidad.La comunicación, en su dimensión histórica, se teje con medios y con mensajes, con formas diversas de interacción y de recepción, y constituye, ella también, un ingrediente sustantivo para entender el cambio social.

The International History of Communication Study maps the growth of media and communication studies around the world. Drawing out transnational flows of ideas, institutions, publications, and people, it offers the most comprehensive picture to date of the global history of communication research and education.

This volume reaches into national and regional areas that have not received much attention in the scholarship until now, including Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East alongside Europe and North America. It also covers communication study outside of academic settings: in international organizations like UNESCO, and among commercial and civic groups. It moves beyond the traditional canon to cover work by forgotten figures, including women scholars in the field and those outside of the United States and Europe, and it situates them all within the broader geopolitical, institutional, and intellectual landscapes that have shaped communication study globally.

Intended for scholars and graduate students in communication, media studies, and journalism, this volume pushes the history of communication study in new directions by taking an aggressively international and comparative perspective on the historiography of the field. Methodologically and conceptually, the volume breaks new ground in bringing comparative, transnational, and global frames to bear, and puts under the spotlight what has heretofore only lingered in the penumbra of the history of communication study.

The last few decades have helped dispel the myth that media should remain driven by high-end professionals and market share. This book puts forward the concept of "communications from below" in contrast to the "globalization from above" that characterizes many new developments in international organization and media practices. By examining the social and technological roots that influence current media evolution, Drew allows readers to understand not only the Youtubes and Facebooks of today, but to anticipate the trajectory of the technologies to come.

Beginning with a look at the inherent weaknesses of the U.S. broadcasting model of mass media, Drew outlines the early 1961s and 1970s experiments in grassroots media, where artists and activists began to re-engineer electronic technologies to target local communities and underserved audiences. From these local projects emerged national and international communications projects, creating production models, social networks and citizen expectations that would challenge traditional means of electronic media and cultural production. Drew’s perspective puts the social and cultural use of the user at the center, not the particular media form. Thus the structure of the book focuses on the local, the national, and the global desire for communications, regardless of the means.

El primer llibre que tracta la història del fotoperiodisme a Barcelona. Van enfilar-se a fanals i arbres, es van estirar pels camps de futbol, assistiren a tots les recepcions i banquets. Sempre carregats amb màquines i trípodes, competint a cops de colze, compartint inevitablement espai. Els polítics, obrers, esportistes i belleses posaven davant els seus objectius. Corrent amunt i avall d'una Barcelona que es modernitzava, a cop de manifestació i grans esdeveniments, en un moment en què diaris i revistes atreien els seus lectors a còpia de fotografies d'actualitat cada cop més espectaculars. Qui eren aquells homes? Entre 1910 i 1939 els seus rostres eren coneguts, la seva activitat, notícia. Avui, han perdurat alguns noms. La majoria, però, han caigut en l'oblit. Repòrters gràfics, Barcelona 19000939 és un intent de reconstrucció de la nostra memòria gràfica, amputada per la implantació del règim franquista, per la pèrdua o desaparició d'arxius i pel menysteniment en temps de democràcia. El material fotogràfic i la recerca sobre les vides dels repòrters que presentem són en la majoria de casos inèdits. Un punt de partida en forma de dos volums per llegir i mirar. Una de les millors maneres d'aproximar-se a la història social, política i cultural de la nostra ciutat entre 1900 i 1939 i reivindicar un ofici, el de fotoperiodista, de forma col·lectiva.

Una historia de los muckrackers, periodistas pioneros que denunciaron la corrupción y los abusos en la sociedad estadounidense de principios del siglo XX. «Hay porquería por el suelo (muck) y tiene que ser arrancada con el rastrillo (rake). Quienes lo utilizan son indispensables para el bienestar de la sociedad, pero sól o si saben cuándo parar…». Sin pretenderlo, el presidente Teddy Roosevelt había acuñado un término que acabaría calificando un tipo de periodismo, el muckraking -llamémosle «de denuncia»-, que llegaría hasta el Watergate o wikileaks. Pero, ¿quién decide cuándo parar y por qué? A principios del XX, Estados Unidos era un país en ebullición, incapaz de contener los excesos de un capitalismo industrial desbocado, desbordado por oleadas de inmigrantes, un caldo de cultivo ideal para las desigualdades, y la corrupción política y económica. Periodistas y escritores se propusieron desenmascarar sistemáticamente esas lacras e intervinieron en la vida pública denunciando la corrupción, los abusos empresariales, las infrahumanas condiciones laborales y de vivienda, la manipulación de los alimentos… Gracias a una investigación concienzuda, sus crónicas promovieron cambios legislativos o tuvieron una insospechada repercusión social. Eran otros tiempos. ¿O no? La selección recogida en este libro reúne textos seminales de esos pioneros del periodismo crítico, así como un completo estudio de lo que representaron estos muckrakers, unos textos imprescindibles también para este tiempo «problemático y febril» en que vivimos.

Originally published in 1995. The WWW, a global information system which revolutionized the world of information search and browsing via the Internet, was a new phenomenon in the 1991s. This book acted as an authoritative introduction to the concepts and design. It includes a brief history of the origin of the www and information on running pages in HTML as well as specific case studies in projects from academic and commercial projects. A fascinating insight into the early days of widespread internet use, this look at a new communication mechanism showcases the discussions underway at the time about the uses and future of the www.

Women Screenwriters is a study of more than 310 female writers from 60 nations, from the first film scenarios produced in 1896 to the present day. An overview is given of the history and background of women screenwriters in each nation and the challenges they faced. Individual entries illuminate the work of some of the most influential women writers. The scope and range of the book is far beyond any existing coverage of the subject. The volume is divided into six sections by continent: Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, North America and South America, and includes detailed coverage of female screenwriters from the United States, United Kingdom, France and Australia as well as nations such as Malta, Romania, South Africa, Russia and Switzerland. The volume is a rich resource and investigates the rarely discussed tradition of female screenwriting across the globe.