Sociología de la comunicación

Un volumen sobre la práctica del vídeo participativo y su relevancia en el entorno de los movimientos sociales en la actualidad. El libro ha sido escrito por los profesores David Montero y José Manuel Moreno, ambos miembros del Grupo Interdisciplinario de Estudios en Comunicación, Política y Cambio Social (COMPOLITICAS), que han venido trabajando en los terrenos del video digital, el activismo social y la comunicación para el desarrollo.

El cambio social a través de las imágenes. Guía para entender y utilizar el vídeo participativo ha sido co-editado por el Departamento de Periodismo I en colaboración con Los Libros de la Catarata, IEPALA y Consortium Local-Global. La guía pretende ser un instrumento de reflexión sobre el vídeo participativo, una propuesta metodológica que mezcla elementos educativos, producción audiovisual y objetivos de movilización y transformación social ante la necesidad de enfrentar patrones de desarrollo económico, políticos y sociales que han transformado la comunicación audiovisual en una forma de expresión ajena a la mayoría de nosotros. Además de una reflexión profunda sobre las características principales del vídeo participativo y su evolución histórica, la guía incluye una descripción de experiencias y ejemplos de relevancia, así como un material más práctico que pueda ser útil a las personas o colectivos que quieran abordar esta experiencia.

This book considers the lessons learnt so far from the emergence of the Internet and the development of the field of Internet studies, whilst also considering possible directions for the future. Examining broad media theories and emerging theorisations around the Internet specifically, it explores the possibility of the development of an Internet theory in the future. A comprehensive overview of the field, Internet Studies considers key issues of social importance that the study of the Internet draws upon, such as the role of the Internet in civic participation and democratisation, the development of virtual communities, digital divides and social inequality, as well as Internet governance and policy control. At the same time, it examines the role of the Internet in social research and the development of highly interdisciplinary and rapidly developing Internet research. Hence, this volume maps key areas of certainty and uncertainty in the field of Internet studies and, as such, it will be of interest to scholars and students of media and communication, sociology and social research methods.

El sector profesional de las Relaciones Públicas y la Comunicación Corporativa, al igual que la sociedad en general, se encuentra inmerso en una intensa transformación. El cambio de paradigmas económico, tecnológico, demográfico y social obligan a reflexionar en profundidad sobre cómo hacer frente a los nuevos retos impuestos por las turbulencias del cambio y así lo hacen en este libro dieciséis autores iberoamericanos, procedentes de Argentina, Brasil, España y México, abordando temas tan diversos como la medición y evaluación de las relaciones con los stakeholders y de los intangibles; el Lobbying; el Servicio de Atención al Usuario y la figura del Ombudsman; el uso de las técnicas y herramientas de Relaciones Públicas en una muestra de PYMES gallegas; el análisis de los websites de la Iglesia Católica en España y México; cómo afecta la constante transformación de las TIC al ejercicio profesional de los dircoms; y la situación de los nuevos grados de Publicidad y Relaciones Públicas en las universidades de la comunidad autónoma de Cataluña (España).

This is the first volume to focus on the role of media in processes of linguistic change, one of the most contested issues in contemporary sociolinguistics. Its 17 chapters and five section commentaries present cutting-edge research from variationist and interactional sociolinguistics, media linguistics, language ideology research, and minority language studies. The volume advances our understanding of linguistic change in a mediatized world in three ways. First, it introduces the notions of sociolinguistic change and mediatization to create a broader theoretical framing than the one offered by ‘the media’ and ‘language change’. Second, it takes the discussion beyond the notions of ‘influence’ and ‘effect’ and the binary distinction of ‘media’ vs. ‘community language’. Third, it examines the relation of sociolinguistic change and mediatization and from five complementary viewpoints: media influence on linguistic structure; media engagement in interaction; change in mass and new media language; language-ideological change; and the role of media for minority languages. Bringing these strands of sociolinguistic scholarship together, this volume examines their shared references and common lines of thinking.

Was hat Geschlecht mit den Produkten und Inhalten der Informatik zu tun? Wie können Software und Informationstechnologie feministisch gestaltet werden? Corinna Bath analysiert die vielfältigen Verknüpfungen von Geschlecht und Informatik. Im Zentrum ihrer Analyse stehen nicht »Frauen« und »Männer«, sondern die Produkte und Inhalte der Informatik, z.B. Roboter, Textverarbeitung und Modellierung. Die Studie sucht nach Möglichkeiten der Gestaltung einer – im Sinne der Geschlechterforschung – »guten« Technik und fragt, inwieweit Methoden der Technikgestaltung in der Informatik dazu beitragen können, der Fortschreibung von Hierarchie, Differenz und Zweigeschlechtlichkeit durch Technik entgegenzuwirken.

Many children's everyday lives, their identities, their relationships and their communities are increasingly interwoven with mobile internet technologies. Based upon up-to-date research and a highly robust theoretical framework, this impressive and timely volume examines the current debates in relation to childhood as a social and cultural construction, mobile internet technologies and children's everyday experiences.

Drawing on the social studies of childhood paradigm and key debates in socio-technical studies, this book provides a much-needed critical and theoretical exploration of children's interactions with mobile internet technologies in late modernity. Exploring technology in relation to relationships, changing perspectives on childhood and risk, and the role of mobile internet technologies in children's educational experiences, Childhood, Mobile Technologies and Everyday Experiences examines the complex and dynamic nature of childhood in contemporary society, and offers a significant contribution the field of childhood and youth studies.

Andy Bennett and Brady Robards bring together thirteen timely essays from across the globe that consider a range of 'mediated youth cultures', covering topics such as how stories about growing up are mediated on Facebook, the phenomenon of dance imitations on YouTube, the circulation of zines online, the resurgence of roller derby on the social web, drinking cultures, Israeli blogs, Korean pop music, and more. The collection, drawing on research conducted with young people into their social and cultural lives, provides readers with a deep, fine-grained understanding of how youth culture circulates online. It is clear that, although the internet affords young people with new opportunities and risks, many of the youth cultures covered in this collection are not 'new' in themselves, but are instead mediated – played out – in new, and imaginative forms.

This volume connects the field of Communication for Development and Social Change to theoretical thinking on the changing notions of the public sphere. It offers a space for critical analysis of how media and communication practices for social change, on the one hand, and analytic conceptions of public spheres and participation in public processes, on the other, are currently being reconfigured in both conceptual and rhetorical terms. A range of different specialists in the arts and cultural industries, as well as academics and public intellectuals, are brought together in this volume to link these multifaceted areas and arenas to the current themes, methodologies and theorizing in the field of Communication for Development and Social Change.

Humanities Computing, now in paperback for the first time and including a new preface updating the original text, is widely regarded as a foundational text and one of the definitive commentaries on humanities computing and digital humanities scholarship.

It provides a rationale for a computing practice that is of and for as well as in the humanities. It engages philosophical, historical, ethnographic and critical perspectives to show how computing helps us fulfil the basic mandate of the humane sciences to ask ever better questions. It explores the challenges of imagining and constructing new scholarly resources. It strengthens current practice by stimulating debate on the role of the computer across all disciplines, examining and developing the key notions of collaboration and interdisciplinarity. It gives practitioners a way of conceptualising their practice as an ongoing anthropological encounter, and it gives those with whom they interact a new way of understanding the interdisciplinary language of method. It sketches the complex amalgam of computer science and suggests the basis for a productive relationship, as well as outlining an agenda for the field to which individual scholars can contribute.

In paperback, the volume serves as an invaluable resource for scholars and students worldwide who are interested in this thriving, vibrant area of study.

Dead women litter the visual landscape of the 2100s. Films, television shows, and news reports are saturated with images of dead female bodies, women being murdered, women who have come back from the dead, disappeared women who are presumed to be dead, and women threatened with death. Compared to earlier decades, images of dead women are much more graphic and sensationalized in these contemporary, mainstream cultural products. In this book, Clarke Dillman explains the contextual environment from which these images have arisen, how the images relate to (and sometimes contradict) the narratives they help constitute, and the cultural work that dead women perform in visual texts. Across the visual field, the bodies of dead women have both a haunting power and a disciplining function that can be seen but not stated as such. Although many of the visual texts gesture to and acknowledge feminist gains, their use of images of dead women has the symbolic effect of forcing women's immobilization while also reaffirming constraints on women within still powerful patriarchal structures.