Periodismo

Este titulo aborda de modo sistematico los aspectos esenciales que nos ayudan a entender como funciona el periodismo en Internet: manifestaciones que adopta, caracteristicas mas importantes y en su caso, si es posible trazar unas lineas de fuerza que recorren infinidad de propuestas, formatos y escenarios.

Investigative Journalism in the Arab World is the first book to date that looks into the state and role of investigate journalism in the Arab world before, during, and after the protests of the 'Arab Spring'. The fact that the Arab Spring is still happening in parts of the Arab world, such as Syria at the time of writing this book, means that this topic is not only timely but also one that could be ongoing. The necessity of this book lies in the vital role the media could potentially play in informing and empowering society, in order for them to assist in opening up the communicative space in a region where this has previously been taboo. This book, therefore, explores how investigative journalism training and practice can be used to develop and promote deliberative social and political systems in Arab countries.

This book examines the history, theory and journalistic practice of profile writing. Profiles, and the practice of writing them, are of increasing interest to scholars of journalism because conflicts between the interviewer and the subject exemplify the changing nature of journalism itself. While the subject, often through the medium of their press representative, struggles to retain control of the interview space, the journalist seeks to subvert it. This interesting and multi-layered interaction, however, has rarely been subject to critical scrutiny, partly because profiles have traditionally been regarded as public relations exercises or as ‘soft’ journalism. However, chapters in this volume reveal not only that profiling has, historically, taken many different forms, but that the idea of the interview as a contested space has applications beyond the subject of celebrated individuals. The volume looks at the profile’s historical beginnings, at the contemporary manufacture of celebrity versus the ‘ordinary’, at profiling communities, countries and movements, at profiling the destitute, at sporting personalities and finally at profiling and trauma.

Media Control: News as an Institution of Power and Social Control challenges traditional (and even some radical) perceptions of how the news works. While it's clear that journalists don't operate objectively – reporters don't just cover news, but they make it – Media Control goes a step further by arguing that the cultural institution of news approaches and presents everyday information from particular and dominant cultural positions that benefit the power elite. From analysing how the press operate as police agents by conducting surveillance and instituting social order through its coverage of crime and police action to bolstering private business and neoliberal principles by covering the news through notions of boosterism, Media Control presents the news through a cultural lens. Robert E. Gutsche, Jr. introduces or advances readers' applications of critical race theory and cultural studies scholarship to explore cultural meanings within news coverage of police action, the criminal justice system, and embedding into the news democratic values that are later used by the power elite to oppress and repress portions of the citizenry. Media Control helps the reader explicate how the power elite use the press and the veil of the Fourth Estate to further white ideologies and American Imperialism.

Ta Kung Pao is one of the most influential newspapers in modern China. The inaugural issue was published in Tianjing in 1912, and it was subsequently published in Shanghai, Hankou, Hong Kong, Guiling and Chongqing, followed by Hong Kong and Macao after 1949. The last mainland China issue of TKP was published in 1966. TKP has witnessed some of the key events in the creation of modern day China, including the Revolution of 1911 and the founding of the new republic. It was then designated by the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the CPC as the government's official newspaper covering all international, political and economic news. Now available outside of China for the very first time, this insightful book is a detailed study of the evolution of the media in China, as seen through the history and the pages of TKP. It's a faithful documentation of China's political and economic modernisation. Rong Xinchun discloses for the very first time the stories behind the stories, and the paper's true status and function within China's foreign relations strategies. The coverage includes the author's dissections of the key articles, commentaries and editorials. These documents are important historical material for anybody studying the development of modern day China.

23 collected interviews with the renowned French philosopher and cultural commentator, Jean Baudrillard

This new collection gathers 23 highly insightful yet previously difficult-to-find interviews with Baudrillard, ranging over topics as diverse as art, war, technology, globalisation, terrorism and the fate of humanity.

From familiar themes to the less well understood aspects of his thought, these interviews give you an overview of Baudrillard's ideas – without the jargon typical of written texts. Read as Baudrillard himself discusses, explains and elaborates on his ideas, making this collection essential for understanding many of his other works.
Key Features

The first book of collected interviews with Baudrillard for over two decades
Valuable to new and seasoned readers of Baudrillard and to students and academics in philosophy, sociology, literary theory, art history, architecture, film and photography, cultural studies, human geography and media studies
Gathers many unknown and otherwise unavailable pieces into one volume

List of Interviews

Interview 1: Too Bad about Patagonia

Interview 2: Disappearance beyond Disappearance

Interview 3: After Utopia: The Primitive Society of the Future

Interview 4: The Possibility of Another Game

Interview 5: Politics of Performance: Montand, Coluche = Le Pen?

Interview 6: A Time of Promiscuity

Interview 7: Forgetting Critiques

Interview 8: Cover Story

Interview 9: Symbolic Exchange: Taking Theory Seriously

Interview 11: Vivisecting the 90s

Interview 11: Things Surpass Themselves

Interview 12: On the New Technologies

Interview 13: I’m Not a Prophet

Interview 14: Endangered Species?

Interview 15: Hate: A Last Sign of Life

Interview 16: Europe, Globalisation and the Destiny of Culture

Interview 17: Between Difference and Singularity

Interview 18: The Catastrophe of Paradox

Interview 19: This is the Fourth World War

Interview 20: The Matrix Decoded

Interview 21: Continental Drift

Interview 22: The Art of Disappearing

Interview 23: The Antidote to the Global Lies in the Singular

El terremoto digital que comenzó a mediados de la última década del siglo XX tras el surgimiento de Internet, y que se extiende hasta hoy con la revolución de las redes sociales y los dispositivos móviles, erosiona tanto la relevancia social como la sustentabilidad económica de la industria de los medios de comunicación.

Acostumbrados por décadas a exitosos modelos industriales de producción y distribución de las noticias, con altos niveles de rentabilidad y confianza pública, los ejecutivos de las compañías de medios y los periodistas deben adaptarse ahora a nuevas formas de consumo propiciadas por la aceleración tecnológica.

La prensa de calidad necesita refundar sus modelos periodísticos, organizacionales y de negocio para atravesar con éxito la transición digital. Reconvertir el portfolio de productos, y principalmente la propuesta de valor social, junto a una transformación de la cultura y los perfiles profesionales, son imperativos de la época.

Los compiladores y autores de este libro, cada uno desde su campo profesional o académico, ofrecen miradas y reflexiones para comprender la naturaleza disruptiva de los cambios que enfrentan los medios de comunicación. En conjunto, construyen un plan de acción inmediato para el futuro sustentable de los medios.

Porque el momento es ahora.

Media companies are in the midst of fundamental transformation. For those reconfiguring their business models, consolidation into larger entities seems an obvious strategy for survival and there's growing pressure for a more relaxed approach to concentration of media ownership. Such industrial pragmatism, however, collides with the need for diversity of voice in a healthy democracy. Such tensions raise crucial questions about the nature and significance of different ownership regimes for journalism. It's important that we understand the trajectory of current policy thinking and explore alternative and more creative policy initiatives which might promote diversity without prejudicing business interests. Media Ownership, Journalism and Diversity analyses these issues within the UK using evidence gathered from personal interviews with senior policy makers and through analysis of evidence to a 2108 House of Lords select inquiry committee on news and media ownership, for which the author was specialist advisor. The material is set within a broader international context, and up through the period of the crises enveloping News Corp.

So….what just happened?

The people who fuel our civic conversation—reporters, writers, storytellers—have been asking each other that question a lot lately. So have people who consume their work. Both agree: Waves of technological change have greatly altered the news. How, exactly? Hard to say.

This much is known: What adds up to what we are calling The Great Disruption upended certainties, assumptions, and behavior in media institutions, as well as the lives of the men and women who occupied those institutions. The Disruption is changing what journalists do and thus how we think as citizens. What just happened?

Media gurus often speak with the confidence of con men. We are not them. Tales From the Great Disruption has no grand theory. Instead, it presents original reporting about what did happen when the waves of change struck and what came in their wake. The first half of the book, “The Gathering Storm,” looks back for insight while its second half, “All the Space in the World,” explores the new context.

These are stories of people and, as such they are about conflict, joy, terror, disappointment, betrayal, loss, and discovery. They illuminate a complex period still in motion. Taken together, they offer lessons on how journalism can better face its Great Disruption.

The first book-length study of the acclaimed artist who brought journalistic reportage to comics Contributors: Georgiana Banita, Lan Dong, Ann D'Orazio, Kevin C. Dunn, Alexander Dunst, Jared Gardner, Edward C. Holland, Isabel Macdonald, Brigid Maher, Ben Owen, Rebecca Scherr, Maureen Shay, Marc Singer, Richard Todd Stafford, and Øyvind Vågnes The Comics of Joe Sacco addresses the range of his award-winning work, from his early comics stories as well as his ground-breaking journalism Palestine (1993) and Safe Area to Gorade (2100), to Footnotes in Gaza (2009) and his most recent book The Great War (2013), a graphic history of World War I. First in the new series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists, this edited volume explores Sacco's comics journalism, and features established and emerging scholars from comics studies, cultural studies, geography, literary studies, political science, and communication studies. Sacco's work has already found a place in some of the foundational scholarship in comics studies, and this book solidifies his role as one of the most important comics artists today. Sections focus on how Sacco's comics journalism critiques and employs the "standard of objectivity" in mainstream reporting, what aesthetic principles and approaches to lived experience can be found in his comics, how Sacco employs the space of the comics page to map history and war, and the ways that his comics function in the classroom and as human rights activism. The Comics of Joe Sacco offers definitive, exciting approaches to some of the most important–and necessary–comics today, by one of the most acclaimed journalist-artists of our time. DANIEL WORDEN, Albuquerque, New Mexico, is associate professor of English at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of Masculine Style: The American West and Literary Modernism and the coeditor of Oil Culture.