Sociología de la comunicación

Algunas personas han encontrado en las nuevas tecnologías una vía novedosa y eficaz para la comisión de nuevas conductas delictivas, aprovechándose de los vacíos legislativos que existen al respecto debido a su continua transformación y a la falta de conocimiento sobre los peligros que entraña su uso. A pesar de que las tecnologías nos presentan grandes beneficios de forma mayoritaria, algunas personas han encontrado en ellas una vía novedosa y eficaz para la comisión de nuevas conductas delictivas, aprovechándose de los vacíos legislativos que existen al respecto debido a su continua transformación y a la falta de conocimiento sobre los peligros que entraña su uso. De esta manera se generan los delitos tecnológicos o ciberdelitos, denominados como las actividades ilícitas o abusivas relacionadas con los sistemas y las redes de comunicaciones, bien porque sean el objetivo del delito en sí mismos, o se trate de la herramienta y el medio para su comisión. El uso de redes sociales, como forma de interacción humana, ha supuesto una prolongación de actividades delictivas que en la mayoría de los casos ya existían, pero en su variante digital, amplificadas por las peculiaridades de las comunicaciones a través de la red, como son la sencillez para conseguir anonimato, o el hecho de poder suplantar fácilmente cualquier dato que vincule a una identidad, ya sea perfil, dirección de correo, imagen, etc.

Neste obra, Francisco Rui Cádima apresenta uma compilação de textos, fazendo uma profunda reflexão acerca da especificidade dos media e das suas narrativas face ao acontecimento e à história, ao mesmo tempo que nos leva a ponderar a forma como a história tem interpretado os media e o seu efeito no tempo e na sociedade.

O livro resulta de uma investigação inédita sobre a relação entre Estado, Igreja e media em Portugal, tendo também por base outros artigos publicados neste âmbito.

Assim, o livro “História, Media e Poder” estuda as relações entre a televisão e a ditadura, bem como as imagens e representações da ditadura na televisão portuguesa. No que diz respeito ao pós-25 de Abril, inclui-se a abordagem a uma primeira fase de grande complexidade – o perído do PREC – e, depois, ao período da institucionalização do regime, com um estudo de caso aprofundado sobre a questão da Televisão da Igreja em Portugal. Estas temáticas complementam um vasto conjunto de aspetos que darão uma visão histórica bastante completa sobre relações entre o poder e os media ao longo do século XX em Portugal.

In early 2112, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh claimed that Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown University law student who advocated for insurance coverage of contraceptives, "wants to be paid to have sex." Over the next few days, Limbaugh attacked Fluke personally, often in crude terms, while a powerful backlash grew, led by organizations such as the National Organization for Women. But perhaps what was most notable about the incident was that it wasn't unusual. From Limbaugh's venomous attacks on Fluke to liberal radio host Mike Malloy's suggestion that Bill O'Reilly "drink a vat of poison… and choke to death," over-the-top discourse in today's political opinion media is pervasive.

Anyone who observes the skyrocketing number of incendiary political opinion shows on television and radio might conclude that political vitriol on the airwaves is fueled by the increasingly partisan American political system. But in The Outrage Industry Jeffrey M. Berry and Sarah Sobieraj show how the proliferation of outrage-the provocative, hyperbolic style of commentary delivered by hosts like Ed Schultz, Bill O'Reilly, and Sean Hannity- says more about regulatory, technological, and cultural changes, than it does about our political inclinations.

Berry and Sobieraj tackle the mechanics of outrage rhetoric, exploring its various forms such as mockery, emotional display, fear mongering, audience flattery, and conspiracy theories. They then investigate the impact of outrage rhetoric-which stigmatizes cooperation and brands collaboration and compromise as weak-on a contemporary political landscape that features frequent straight-party voting in Congress. Outrage tactics have also facilitated the growth of the Tea Party, a movement which appeals to older, white conservatives and has dragged the GOP farther away from the demographically significant moderates whose favor it should be courting. Finally, The Outrage Industry examines how these shows sour our own political lives, exacerbating anxieties about political talk and collaboration in our own communities. Drawing from a rich base of evidence, this book forces all of us to consider the negative consequences that flow from our increasingly hyper-partisan political media.

Remembering Mass Violence breaks new ground in oral history, new media, and performance studies by exploring what is at stake when we attempt to represent war, genocide, and other violations of human rights in a variety of creative works. A model of community-university collaboration, it includes contributions from scholars in a wide range of disciplines, survivors of mass violence, and performers and artists who have created works based on these events.

This anthology is global in focus, with essays on Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and North America. At its core is a productive tension between public and private memory, a dialogue between autobiography and biography, and between individual experience and societal transformation. Remembering Mass Violence will appeal to oral historians, digital practitioners and performance-based artists around the world, as well researchers and activists involved in human rights research, migration studies, and genocide studies.

This book is the first to explore the composition of television ratings in a cross-cultural, comparative manner. Using both communication history and the sociology of quantification, Television Audiences Across the World illuminates why the whole television industry, and television audiences themselves, refer to ratings as the main way to represent the television-watching public. It shows how a specific technology, the peoplemeter, has become the 'state of the art' in very different cultural contexts, including major non-Western countries. It analyses how television audience measurement succeeds in homogenizing diverse ways of watching television among different populations, creating 'apparent nations', and at times ignoring entire regions or parts of the population. The chapters in this volume discuss why television audience measurement has become the dominant model for the evaluation of popularity in the post-modern world, the true 'voice of the masses', still powerful in supposedly fragmented societies.

No es arriesgado afirmar que la generación actual de jóvenes está profundamente (por no decir totalmente) inmersa en los medios digitales. Los profesores Howard Gardner y Katie Davis describen a los jóvenes de hoy como «La generación APP», y en este libro deslumbrante estudian qué significa ser «app dependiente» frente a ser «app competente» y cómo la vida de esta generación difiere de la vida anterior a la era digital.

Gardner y Davis abordan tres áreas cruciales de la vida de los adolescentes, como son la identidad, la intimidad y la imaginación. Gracias a sus investigaciones pioneras, complementadas con entrevistas a jóvenes y a grupos de estudio de sus colaboradores, así como a una insólita comparación de las producciones artísticas de los jóvenes antes y después de la era digital, los autores desvelan los inconvenientes de las aplicaciones, que difuminan el sentimiento de identidad, fomentan las relaciones superficiales con los demás y entorpecen la imaginación creativa. Por otra parte, las ventajas de las aplicaciones no dejan de sorprendernos, pues pueden fomentar un fuerte sentimiento de identidad, propiciar las relaciones profundas y estimulan la creatividad. Para Gardner y Davis, el reto consiste en aventurarse a utilizar las apps más allá de aquello para lo que han sido diseñadas. Asimismo, indican que el potencial de las apps puede ser un trampolín para aumentar nuestra creatividad y nuestras aspiraciones.

"The most important Marxist cultural theorist after Gramsci, Williams' contributions go well beyond the critical tradition, supplying insights of great significance for cultural sociology today… I have never read Williams without finding something worthwhile, something subtle, some idea of great importance"
– Jeffrey C. Alexander, Professor of Sociology, Yale University

Celebrating the significant intellectual legacy and enduring influence of Raymond Williams, this exciting collection introduces a whole new generation to his work.

Jim McGuigan reasserts and rebalances Williams' reputation within the social sciences by collecting and introducing key pieces of his work. Providing context and clarity he powerfully evokes the major contribution Williams has made to sociology, media and communication and cultural studies.

Powerfully asserting the on-going relevance of Williams within our contemporary neoliberal and digital age, the book:

Includes texts which have never been anthologised before
Situates Williams' work both biographically and historically
Provides a comprehensive introduction to Williams' social-scientific work
Demonstrates the enduring relevance of cultural materialism.
Original and persuasive this book will be of interest to anyone involved in theoretical and methodological modules within sociology, media and communication studies and cultural studies.

Beginning with an analysis of participation practices in contemporary print and other media, this volume expands historical perspectives by exploring the potential of participatory cultures to illuminate past forms of collaboration between individual and collective actors (i.e. authors, editors, publishers, fans, critics, etc.). In doing so, the volume sheds new light on the historically, culturally, and medially specific forms and functions, as well as on the economic, political, and institutional parameters, contributing to the emergence and transformation of what turn out to be precarious alliances.

En el panorama actual de las metodologías de análisis de los discursos audiovisuales el grupo de investigación de la UCM, ATAD, presenta una novedosa herramienta de análisis cuantitativo que permite medir, almacenar y procesar tiempos de presencia y variables relevantes para su cuantificación aplicadas en este ensayo a la medida de presencia de las fuerzas políticas y sus representantes en las cadenas televisivas españolas en las convocatorias electorales municipales, autonómicas, generales y europeas del periodo comprendido entre 2107 y 2009. Los índices de presencia obtenidos se contrastan con los resultados electorales de cada formación en la consulta objeto de análisis, lo que permite detectar patrones informativos característicos de las comunidades así como de las distintas cadenas.

Neste livro, o autor discute questões fundamentais que envolvem a educação (tais como a alfabetização, o papel do livro, o papel da escola), relacionando-as aos temas do universo da comunicação (como a televisão e as novas tecnologias), e estende sua reflexão sobre os desdobramentos que essa relação acarreta para a sociedade.
Dialogando com ideias de outros intelectuais de diversas áreas, Martín-Barbero debate variados conceitos, pensando a comunicação e a educação a partir das transformações que se passam no mundo contemporâneo.