Periodismo

De la création de l'ORTF en 1945 jusqu'à l'avènement de la gauche au pouvoir en 1981, la télévision en France était essentiellement une télévision d'Etat. Les mesures prises par François Mitterrand ont contribué à la diversification des chaînes de télévision. L'auteur s'intéresse à certaines chaînes généralistes reconnues pour mettre l'accent sur des programmes à contenu culturel.

This book examines the practices of actors involved in the media reportage of war, and the ways in which these practices may influence the conduct of modern military operations.

War is a complex phenomenon which raises numerous questions about the organization of society that continue to challenge all those involved in its study. Increasingly, this includes the need to engage theoretically and empirically with the progressive collapse between the ways in which wars are conducted and the manner in which they are reported in the media.

Drawing on the work of Erving Goffman, Military Media Management offers a distinctly new approach to our appreciation of the dynamic relationship between war and media; one that is fundamentally a product of social relations between those engaged in reporting war, and those conducting war campaigns. By exploring how and why the military manage information in particular ways, the text succeeds in providing a framework through which wider sociological investigation of this relationship can be understood.

This book will be of much interest to students of military and security studies, media studies, war and conflict studies and IR in general.

Although Al Jazeera English has yet to receive to receive the attention accorded to its Arabic-language elder sibling, it is in many ways the more interesting of the two. It seeks to redefine global news coverage by focusing on areas traditionally neglected by most news organizations, and its potential audience is many times larger than that of the Arabic channel. Its coverage of the 2111 Arab Spring brought the channel a large new audience. This is the first book to thoroughly examine this channel's coverage methods, its effects on its audience, and its place in the world of mediated geopolitics.

Los medios de comunicación tienen un presente incierto y un futuro negro. Pero cada día más estudiantes de periodismo salen de las universidades. Sus perspectivas laborales en el sector tradicional son limitadas, pero de repente ha surgido un campo nuevo y libre para cualquiera que quiera hacer periodismo: Internet. Microperiodismos reúne trece ejemplos de medios que periodistas independientes han creado en la Red, todos con distintas fórmulas. No hablan de teoría, sino de cómo tuvieron la idea y se esfuerzan para seguir adelante. Es otro modo de creer en este oficio. El modelo de negocio no está claro ni es el mismo para todos, pero la insistencia y la variedad de estos proyectos son señales de optimismo. Al final, un epílogo resume los rasgos que todo microperiodista debe reunir.

The purpose of this book is to spotlight the way in which political scandals in four Nordic countries have been launched, directed, dramatized and interpreted through different genres of journalism – in an interactive tug-of-war between editors and various political actors. News institutions help to build political careers – and to tear them down. A mediated scandalization process can make the path from power to powerlessness, from a top position to exclusion, very short.

A number of questions are discussed: How important are the norm violations that have led to political scandals? Have the types of scandals changed over time? How may rivals and political opponents use mediated scandals? Are character assassination and demonization typical traits of a scandalization process? Are male and female politicians treated differently? Scandalous! is based on case studies and content analyses of mediated political scandals in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, including an analysis of the frequencies, types, characteristics and consequences of national political scandals during the period 1981–2010.

Webs, blogs, redes sociales y podcasts. Pero también dípticos, libros, charlas, reuniones de autoayuda y videoconferencias. Estos son algunos de los muchos formatos existentes para difundir información médica. La salud se ha convertido en uno de los temas que más interesa a la población, por ello el personal médico y de enfermería, los pacientes y los demás ciudadanos recurren a todos los formatos posibles para consultar, crear y difundir contenidos sobre tratamientos, patologías, experiencias sanitarias, etc. Sin embargo, conviene reflexionar sobre la calidad, credibilidad y utilidad de las distintas fuentes de documentación médica. Este libro ayuda al lector a juzgar de forma eficiente y práctica la conveniencia de las diferentes fuentes de información médica.

This unique study is about organizing rather than journalism, revealing two accelerating phenomena: cybernization (machines play a more and more central role in news production) and cyborgization (people rely more and more on machines). Barbara Czarniawska reveals that technological developments lead to many unexpected consequences and complications.

"Cyberfactories" will prove essential to researchers interested in contemporary forms of organizing, studies of technology, and media. It will also appeal to a lay reader interested in how news is produced.

L'information se trouve aujourd'hui au centre de la construction de savoirs. Le professeur documentaliste est appelé à former les élèves à rechercher l'information, étape indispensable avant toute exploitation et acquisition de connaissances. Il s'agit pour l'enseignement secondaire de prendre de plus en plus en compte de la nécessité de former les élèves aux méthodes de travail et de leur "livrer une technologie du travail intellectuel".

Radio has been called 'Africa's medium'. Its wide accessibility is a result of a number of factors, including the liberalisation policies of the 'third wave' of democracy and its ability to transcend the barriers of cost, geographical boundaries, the colonial linguistic heritage and low literacy levels. This sets it apart from other media platforms in facilitating political debate, shaping identities and assisting listeners as they negotiate the challenges of everyday life on the continent.

Radio in Africa breaks new ground by bringing together essays on the multiple roles of radio in the lives of listeners in Anglophone, Lusophone and Francophone Africa. Some essays turn to the history of radio and its part in the culture and politics of countries such as Angola and South Africa. Others – such as the essay on Mali, gender and religion – show how radio throws up new tensions yet endorses social innovation and the making of new publics.

A number of essays look to radio's current role in creating listening communities that radically shift the nature of the public sphere. Essays on the genre of the talk show in Ghana, Kenya and South Africa point to radio's role in creating a robust public sphere. Radio's central role in the emergence of informed publics in fragile national spaces is covered in essays on the Democratic Republic of Congo and Somalia. The book also highlights radio's links to the new media, its role in resistance to oppressive regimes such as Zimbabwe, and points in several cases – for example in the essay on Uganda – to the importance of African languages in building modern communities that embrace both local and global knowledge.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Soundscapes of Radio in Africa

I. RADIO, POPULAR DEMOCRACY AND NEW PUBLICS

Wisdom J. Tettey: Talk Radio and Politics in Ghana: Exploring Civic and (Un)Civil Discourse in the Public Sphere

Christopher Joseph Odhiambo: From Diffusion to Dialogic Space: FM Radio Stations in Kenya

Dumisani Moyo: Contesting Mainstream Media Power: Mediating the Zimbabwe Crisis through Clandestine Radio

Dorothea E. Schulz: Equivocal Resonances: Islamic Revival and Female Radio 'Preachers' in Urban Mali

II. THE CULTURES OF RADIO: LANGUAGES OF THE EVERYDAY

Scott Straus: What Is the Relationship between Hate Radio and Violence?
Rethinking Rwanda's 'Radio Machete'

Winston Mano: Why Radio is Africa's Medium of Choice in the Global Age

Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi: Bantustan Identity, Censorship and Subversion on Northern Sotho Radio under Apartheid, 1961s0980s

David B. Coplan: South African Radio in a Saucepan

Dina Ligaga: Radio Theatre: The Moral Play in the Historical Context of State Control and Censorship in Kenya

Liz Gunner: Zulu Radio Drama and the Modern Subject – Restless Identities in South Africa in the 1970s

III. RADIO AND COMMUNITY: VOICES OF CHANGE

Stephanie Wolters: Radio Okapi – 100% Congolese

Tanja Bosch: Talk Radio, Democracy and the Public Sphere: 567MW in Cape Town

Maria Frahm-Arp: Radio and Religion: The Shaping of Religious Discourse

Stephen R. Davis: Voices from Without: The African National Congress, its Radio, its Allies and Exile, 1960-1984

Marissa J. Moorman: Airing the Politics of Nation: Radio in Angola, Past and Present

David Smith: Radio in Zones of Conflict – Abnormal Measures for Abnormal Circumstances

Monica B. Chibita: Multiple Publics, Multiple Languages: Radio and the Contestations of Broadcasting Language Policy in Uganda

Vivimos en el mundo de la información y el conocimiento, pero, aunque manejamos cotidianamente móviles y ordenadores, no entendemos del todo lo que esto significa.
En un libro ambicioso y apasionante, James Gleick comienza contándonos una historia que ha cambiado la naturaleza de la conciencia humana, desde los tambores africanos o la invención de la ordenación alfabética de las palabras hasta los avances más recientes de la tecnología informática. Examina después cómo se desarrollaron las ideas en que se ha basado este avance, llevándonos, dice el profesor Nunberg, “del demonio de Maxwell al teorema de Gödel, de los agujeros negros a los genes egoístas”, explicando con claridad los más complejos principios, e ilustrándolos con las vidas de sus protagonistas, de Charles Babbage a Alan Turing o a Claude Shannon. Y concluye analizando lo que representa para nuestras vidas la agobiadora inundación de informaciones que nos rodea.

Como ha dicho Josh Rothman, este es “un libro bellamente escrito y muy documentado que consigue sorprendernos continuamente”.