Sociología de la comunicación

A través de la fantasía, el horror y la ciencia ficción comprendemos mejor el tiempo en el que vivimos. Se ha dicho que estos son géneros escapistas, y a menudo lo son, pero no por ello dejan de plantear los temores de los que la sociedad quiere escapar y los anhelos que se plasman en ese lugar al que quisiéramos fugarnos: la utopía, la Tierra Media, otros planetas. La fantasía, el horror y la ciencia ficción son géneros que nos hablan de la Historia, que nos distraen de nuestras preocupaciones cotidianas para volver a planteárnoslas transformadas, disfrazadas de alienígenas o de monstruos de otros tiempos. Imaginar el pasado, temer el futuro recopila una serie de textos imprescindibles que abordan la fantasía desde una perspectiva histórica y de género, planteando diferentes maneras de investigar la ficción en busca de lo real a través del análisis de obras como Juego de tronos, Los juegos del hambre, Her, The Congress o el cine de zombis posterior al 11-S. Las tres partes en que se divide la obra, dedicadas, respectivamente, a la ciencia ficción, el horror y la fantasía suponen una visión minuciosa y rigurosa de algunas de las principales proyecciones en las que se han visto plasmados nuestros sueños colectivos, desde las aventuras cartográficas de un mundo todavía por descubrir, en la Antigüedad, hasta los temores frente a un futuro siniestro, en el que la continuidad misma de la vida en el planeta queda en entredicho; desde los mitos del bosque como umbral hacia otros mundos hasta la pesadilla distópica de El cuento de la criada. Habitamos hoy un tiempo de lo incierto, a menudo incomprensible, pero investigar sobre la fantasía nos permite entender mejor qué es lo que deseamos como sociedad y a qué tenemos miedo.

Este libro analiza la relación entre la comunicación y el cambio social, tanto desde una perspectiva de legitimación y reproducción de la violencia como a partir de un enfoque de comunicación transformadora, que propone alternativas a estos escenarios inculcando valores, principios y conductas basadas en la justicia social y la cultura de paz. El libro incluye 17 capítulos que se organizan en 3 áreas temáticas: Comunicación para el cambio social y la sensibilización; Comunicación y confl ictos; Imagen, comunicación audiovisual y transformación social. A través de este libro, los/las lectores/as podrán conocer diferentes casos de estudios nacionales e internacionales, en contextos actuales como también situaciones del pasado reciente. Su publicación contó con el patrocinio de la Conselleria de Educación, Investigación, Cultura y Deporte de la Generalitat Valenciana a través de la ayuda AORG/2117/08 para la organización y difusión de congresos, jornadas y reuniones científi cas, tecnológicas, humanísticas o artísticas de carácter internacional.

Mobile phones are widely viewed as the information and communication technology that holds the most promise for bridging global digital divides.

Gendered Power and Mobile Technology uses empirical research to focus on changing intersections between technology, gender and other categories of social and cultural power difference (such as age, race, class, and ethnicity) in the use of mobile communication technologies. Asking how these intersections can inform development discourse, practice, and research, this volume seeks to rectify the lack of attention to the Global South, calling for more sensitivity to the contexts and consequences of mobile phone use. Indeed, drawing on case studies from Ecuador, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Peru, Tanzania, and Uganda, this book engages with the intersectionality paradigm to tease out the complexities of using mobile technologies for development purposes.

Gendered Power and Mobile Technology will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as media studies, development studies, gender and technology, feminist technoscience, anthropology, and sociology.

Examining the ways in which the media represents language-related issues and how it shapes and constructs what people think language is, this book offers a multilingual survey of the construction of language in and by the media.

Tackling the big issues of identity, gender, youth, citizenship, politics and ideology across a range of mediums including television, radio, newspapers, magazines and the internet, Language in the Media brings together an international team of experts to examine how the media gives language distinctive forms and values. This is an essential text for students and researchers of sociolinguistics or language and communication. At a time when trust in the mainstream media is at an all-time low and world leaders are using new media to deride so called 'fake news', this classic text offers insight and critical analysis into the key issues surrounding the relationship between language, the media and its audience.

Storyville was the infamous red-light district of New Orleans. It was a world where normative social values didn't apply and was shrouded in mystery and myth until the photographs of E.J. Bellocq were rediscovered. Bellocq's depictions of Storyville's sex workers have typically been treated as tragic, ominous and emblematic of New Orleans' singularity. Yet, such interpretations have projected gendered stereotypes of frailty and victimhood onto the women they portrayed. In Images of Sex Work, Mollie LeVeque interrogates these glib readings and argues that sex work was a routine aspect of life in a modern city. She supports this theory by examining a range of cultural forms such as crime fiction, illustrations and paintings from contemporary urban centres like Paris, London and New York. In doing so, she advances the new argument that Bellocq humanised his subjects, de-sensationalised sex work and gave these women the dignity they were all too often denied.

Media and Society is an established textbook, popular worldwide for its insightful and accessible essays from leading international academics on the most pertinent issues in the media field today. With this updated edition, David Hesmondhalgh joins James Curran and a team of leading international scholars to speak to current issues relating to media and gender, media and democracy, sociology of news, the global internet, the political impact of the media, popular culture, the effects of digitisation on media industries, media and emotion, and other vital topics. The media are in a state of ferment, and are undergoing far-reaching change. The sixth edition tries to make sense of the media's transformation, and its wider implications.

Purely descriptive accounts date fast, so the emphasis has been on identifying the central issues and problems arising from media change, and on evaluating its wider consequences. What is judged to be the staple elements of the field has evolved over time, as well as becoming more international in orientation. Yet the overriding aim of the book – to be useful to students – has remained constant. This text is an essential resource for all media, communication and film studies students who want to broaden their knowledge and understanding of how the media operates and affects society across the globe.

En un día promedio de principios del siglo xxi, los seres humanos que buscan en Internet acumulan ocho billones de gigabytes de datos. Esta asombrosa cantidad de información puede decirnos mucho sobre quiénes somos, los miedos, deseos y comportamientos que nos impulsan y las decisiones conscientes e inconscientes que tomamos. De lo profundo a lo mundano, podemos obtener un asombroso conocimiento sobre la psique humana que hace menos de veinte años parecía insondable. Stephens-Davidowitz nos ofrece información fascinante, sorprendente y a menudo graciosa, sobre temas que van desde la economía hasta la ética, los deportes, el sexo, etc. Todo ello extraído del mundo del big data. A partir de estudios y experimentos sobre cómo vivimos y pensamos realmente, el autor demuestra en qué medida todo el mundo es un laboratorio. Con conclusiones que van desde lo extraño pero cierto hasta lo provocador y lo perturbador, explora el poder de este suero de la verdad digital y su potencial más profundo, revelando sesgos profundamente arraigados en nosotros; una información que sin duda podemos utilizar para cambiar nuestra cultura. La influencia del big data se está multiplicando exponencialmente, y Stephens-Davidowitz nos desafía a pensar de una manera diferente sobre el mundo y la forma en que lo vemos.

Combining theoretical and empirical discussions with shorter “thick description” case studies, this book offers an anthropological exploration of the emergence in Malaysia of lifestyle bloggers – precursors to current social media “microcelebrities” and “influencers.” It tracks the transformation of personal blogs, which attracted readers with spontaneous and authentic accounts of everyday life, into lifestyle blogs that generate income through advertising and foreground consumerist lifestyles. It argues that lifestyle blogs are dialogically constituted between the blogger, the readers, and the blog itself, and challenges the assumption of a unitary self by proposing that lifestyle blogs can best be understood in terms of the “dividual self.”

This book is an extensive investigation of the complexities, ambiguities and shortcomings of contemporary digital activism. The author deconstructs the reductionism of the literature on social movements and communication, proposing a new conceptual vocabulary based on practices, ecologies, imaginaries and algorithms to account for　the communicative complexity of protest movements. Drawing on extensive fieldwork on social movements, collectives and political parties in Spain, Italy and Mexico, this book disentangles the hybrid nature of contemporary activism. It shows how activists operate merging the physical and the digital, the human and the non-human, the old and the new, the internal and the external, the corporate and the alternative.