Sociología de la comunicación

Ethnic media are media produced for, and frequently by, immigrants, ethnic and linguistic minority groups, and indigenous populations. These media represent a sector of the broader media industry that has seen considerable growth globally, even while many mainstream, legacy media have struggled to survive or have ceased to exist, largely due to the emergence of new communication technologies. What is missing in the literature is a careful examination of ethnic media in the digital age. The original research, including case studies, in this book provides insight into (1) what new trends are emerging in ethnic media production and consumption; (2) how ethnic media are adapting to changing technologies in the media landscape of our times; and (3) what enduring roles ethnic media perform in local communities and in an increasingly globalized world. The ethnic media that contributors discuss in this book are produced for and distributed across a variety of platforms, ranging from broadcasting and print to online platforms. Additionally, these media serve numerous immigrant, ethnic, and indigenous communities who live in and trace their origins back to a variety of regions of the world, including Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and Oceania.

Aunque algunos acostumbren a pensar el cine como un mero entretenimiento, la ficción va mucho más allá: además de una gran industria, es un mecanismo de poder social que puede marcar la agenda del debate público. Una película o serie funciona como detonante de discurso público, activa visibilidad e interés sobre un problema social. Los contenidos de ficción audiovisual -películas, series, telenovelas, unitarios- producen un efecto en la sociedad mediante las funciones que cumplen en el discurso informativo. Debates actuales como la violencia de género, la dignidad de la mujer, el principio y el fin de la vida, la ecología, los derechos humanos, el terrorismo, la participación política, el bienestar de los animales, el trato de las minorías, la prevención de ciertas formas sociales de delito, llenan el espacio de las ficciones. Actualmente, muchos de los principales debates políticos se centran en estos temas, de manera que se ha expandido el espacio político a temas sociales y culturales.

El diseño social es un campo del diseño relativamente poco explorado. Retóricas del diseño social se adentra en la problemática desde una perspectiva nueva. En un artículo introductorio apunta a delimitar el campo y a continuación examina sus producciones a la luz de la técnica de persuadir que, heredada de los griegos continúa brillando en el mundo contemporáneo: la Retórica. Focalizando diferentes aspectos de esa disciplina, una variedad de abordajes presenta diversas visualidades contemporáneas en el ámbito local. A lo largo de los diferentes artículos, se presenta cómo la retórica es usada para convencer mediante mensajes sociales persuasivos; se destacan sus fortalezas y también algunas de sus limitaciones, exponiendo las estrategias de la persuasión social.

Easy-to-understand summaries of complex and difficult issues in scholarly communication
Fair-minded analysis of controversial problems
Discusses the complementary roles of libraries, publishers, authors, etc
Addresses differing needs and perspectives of scientific and humanistic disciplines

Societal narratives arise from shared social constructions that corroborate social discourse about a given subject or object. Social representations endorse the image that society creates about people, objects, and events. The Internet constitutes a world of mediated social interactions, where communication is decontextualized several times for the distribution of disaggregated. Practices within the new social tools demonstrate individual behaviour-based that occurs in online networks. The new computer-mediated communication platforms and social media are used to create bonds and social capital from decontextualized social representations. This paper maps social representations of old age through the appropriation of social media tools, analysed from a digital storytelling perspective across images published in Instagram platform using semantic indexing techniques. A dataset of Instagram images draw through the hashtag #aavoveiotrabalhar, which is connected to an intergenerational active ageing project, will be analysed. The main aims are to identify dominant discourses and to understand if it is possible to generate engagement from the deconstruction of age and gender stereotypes.

Num momento em que se discute tanto o jornalismo, em que candidatos presidenciais e residentes de países apontam o jornalismo como opositor aos seus objetivos, importa dar a voz aos jornalistas e à sua análise da profissão, da sociedade atual e do seu jornalismo.
Os autores, que vão do apresentador de canal de informação ao jornalista de redação, passando pelo colaborador de laboratórios e centros de pesquisa, ajudam-nos a perceber melhor alguns aspetos que estão a marcar, e irão continuar a marcar, a agenda de discussão no setor. Um livro que procura ser um manual de estudo de casos e que contém reflexões que são essenciais para os alunos de licenciatura, mestrado e doutoramento na área das ciências da comunicação.

Television provides a unique account of the development of a homosexual identity across the western world, emerging as it did when ideas around sex and sexuality were themselves only just beginning to be publicly discussed. From the very earliest surviving drama featuring homosexuality in 1959, Homosexuality on the Small Screen explores each decade's programming in turn, looking at homosexual themes, storylines, and characters, situating them historically, and relating them to the broader events in British history. By doing so it examines the interactions between the medium and the reality of gay lives, showing how television mirrored the changes taking place in British society. For those with a homosexual – or emerging homosexual – sexual orientation, they were seminal in early personal and social development. For heterosexual viewers, these images were equally important in exploring a sexual other which otherwise remained hidden from them. They included positive storylines which helped improve public ideas about homosexuality, but also stereotypical images which propagated negative attitudes in the public consciousness.
Homosexuality on the Small Screen charts this fascinating journey and television's role in the construction of a gay identity.

El relato breve de eventos problemáticos que se producen en las relaciones cotidianas dentro de un grupo, una asociación o una institución verbaliza inevitablemente una tensión y, por tanto, encierra el código de un conflicto, la dialéctica de una crisis. Cada narración en ese sentido, además de constituirse como fuente primaria de conocimiento, también se configura como analizador de los dispositivos de poder y de los procesos que reproducen el dominio y suscitan sufrimiento, ansiedad, miedos, desigualdades y jerarquías. En el libro se describen los territorios en los que opera el socioanálisis y sus nociones más importantes, la cuestión identitaria y la genésis y modalidades de intervención del socioanálisis narrativo, con el fin de insertarlo en corrientes sociales más amplias.

How do the communication practices of governments, NGOs and social movements enhance opportunities for citizen-led change?

In this incisive book, Thomas Tufte makes a call for a fundamental rethinking of what it takes to enable citizens’ voices, participation, and power in processes of social change. Drawing on examples ranging from the Indignados movement in Spain to media activists in Brazil, from rural community workers in Malawi to UNICEF’s global outreach programs, he presents cutting-edge debates about the role of media and communication in enhancing social change. He offers both new and contested ideas of approaching social change from below, and highlights the need for institutions – governments and civil society organizations alike – to be in sync with their constituencies.

Communication and Social Change provides essential insights to students and scholars of media and communications, as well as anyone concerned with the practices and processes that lead to citizenship, democracy and social justice.

La presente obra se propone como análisis de las relaciones entre prácticas y teorías de la comunicación y de su desarrollo en el contexto de la lucha de clases. Armand Mattelart y Seth Siegelaub, sus compiladores, seleccionaron y presentaron 128 textos fundamentales (escritos en 51 países desde la segunda mitad del siglo XIX) para explicar tres fenómenos interrelacionados: cómo los procesos sociales, económicos y culturales condicionan los procesos de comunicación; como se desarrollaron prácticas y teorías de la comunicación como parte del modo de producción capitalista; cómo, en su lucha contra la explotación y la opresión, las clases obreras y populares desplegaron teorías y practicas propias de comunicación, junto a nuevas formas de cultura y de vida cotidiana.