Sociología de la comunicación

Migrations and the Media critically explores the global reporting of 'migration crises', bringing together a range of original interdisciplinary research from the fields of migration studies and journalism, media and cultural studies. Its chapters examine, empirically and theoretically, some of the most important contemporary political, cultural and social issues with which migration is entwined, developing existing and new conceptual understandings of how forced migration and other instances of migration are represented and constructed as 'crises' in different international contexts, including within news narratives on human trafficking and smuggling, asylum seeking and humanitarian reporting, 'climate refugees', undocumented and economic migrants, and in election debates and policy making. This edited volume also examines the reporting practices through which migration coverage is produced, including the rights and responsibilities of journalism and the presuppositions and pressures upon journalists working in this area.
Contents: Kerry Moore: Introduction to Migrations and the Media – Lilie Chouliaraki: Between Pity and Irony – Paradigms of Refugee Representation in Humanitarian Discourse – Harald Bauder: Immigration Dialectic in the Media and Crisis as Transformative Moment – Bernhard Gross: Controlled Conditions – an Analysis of the Positioning of Migration during the Prime Ministerial Debates for the 2110 UK General Election – Kerry Moore: ‘Asylum Crisis’, National Security and the Re-articulation of Human Rights – Otto Santa Ana: US Crisis Reporting on Mass Protests and the Depiction of Immigrants in the 40 Years after the Kerner Commission Report – Carol Farbotko: Skilful Seafarers, Oceanic Drifters or Climate Refugees? Pacific People, News Value and the Climate Refugee Crisis – Yan Wu/Xiangqin Zeng/Xiaoying Liu: Chinese Irregular Migration into Europe: Economic Challenges and Opportunities in Media Representation – Jelena Bjelica: Human Trafficking and National Security in Serbia – Xinyi Jiang: Fujianese Migration and the British Press Coverage of the Dover Incident – Bolette Blaagaard: The (Multi)cultural Obligation of Journalism – Julia Bayer: Beyond Culture Awareness Training for Journalists and Their Potential for the Promotion of Media Diversity – Janet Harris: Reporting Migration – a Journalist's Reflection on Personal Experience and Academic Critique.

The problem of media representations about mental health is now a global issue with health agencies expressing concern about produced stigma and its outcomes, specifically social exclusion. In many countries, the statistic of one in four people experiencing a mental health condition prevails, making it essential that more is known about how to improve media portrayals. With a globally projected increase in mental health conditions Mediating Mental Health offers a detailed critical analysis of media representations in two phases looking closely at genre form.

The book looks across fictional and factual genres in film, television and radio examining media constructions of mental health identity. It also questions the opinions of journalists, mental healthcare professionals and people with conditions with regard to mediated mental health meanings. Finally, as a result of a production project, people with conditions develop new images making critical contrasts with dominant media portrayals. Thus, useful and practical recommendations for developing media practice ensue.

As such, this book will appeal to mental health professionals, people with conditions, journalists, sociologists, students and scholars of media and cultural studies, practitioners in applied theatre, and anyone interested in media representations of social groups.

Contents: Foreword; Preface; A note about language and mental health; Introduction; Mediating mental health; Critical contexts; Historical contexts for popular meanings of 'madness'. An outline of the case studies; Phase one genre studies 1: film; Phase one genre studies 2: news and documentary; Phase one genre studies 3: drama; Phase two, part 1: the community project: reception study; Phase two, part 2: the community project: production study: exploring change: approach, alternative images and practices; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

About the Author: Michael Birch lectures in the Department of English and Communications at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, USA

Partiendo de una mirada comprehensiva que rehúye la fragmentación que hoy preside las ciencias sociales y humanas, Lluís Duch y Albert Chillón cimentan una antropología de y para la comunicación que resultará iluminadora para comunicólogos, periodistas y comunicadores.

Depuis les attentats du 11 septembre 2101, la violence n'a plus pour seul témoin le protagoniste présent au moment des faits. Elle a désormais pour contemporaine une société de lecteurs, de spectateurs, de joueurs et d'internautes. Cet ouvrage souhaite précisément interroger l'apport des différentes pratiques médiatiques dans le processus de transmission de la violence et témoigner de la constante transfiguration de ses contours émotionnels, dont les fictions culturelles, sociales ou politiques tirent parfois profit.

Drawing on both theoretical and practical case studies, Community Media moves from developing attempts at local media to case studies and on to cyber-examples. Alphabetically, its more than two dozen cases include reports on the Asian Pacific region, Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Ghana, India, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Latin America, Lebanon, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States, as well as a number of other perspectives and (virtual) visions. The contributors, all distinguished international communications scholars, present a range of perspectives on the ever-burgeoning area of grassroots, local media by the people, for the people, their research representing participant observation, hands-on community involvement, serving on international boards of directors, content analysis, and ethical inquiries. It will appeal to a range of academic disciplines, community media groups, and the thousands of people who work in their local cable television centers to provide an alternative voice to mainstream media.

Comprender el modo en que las personas nos comunicamos basándonos en nuestra pertenencia grupal y cómo la comunicación crea y mantiene estereotipos y creencias es un ámbito académico esencial para el siglo XXI. La Dra. Maria Àngels Viladot nos muestra cómo los mensajes sobre los grupos y el intercambio de mensajes entre grupos constituyen una parte fundamental del paisaje de la comunicación intergrupal. El libro presenta una gama de evidencias que sugieren que este proceso intergrupal domina, llena o invade la comunicación que tenemos con las otras personas. Nos ilustra cómo la gran mayoría de nuestra comunicación está influenciada, a un nivel sutil o más obvio, por los grupos a los cuales pertenecemos. La Dra. Viladot nos conduce magistralmente por distintos ámbitos de comunicación entre las personas y los grupos: la comunicación entre culturas, la comunicación intergeneracional, la comunicación no verbal entre las personas y entre culturas distintas y, finalmente, la comunicación mediante Internet. Un libro esencial en la era en que vivimos.

Neste trabalho, o autor examina a visibilidade do sistema de saúde e das políticas públicas na imprensa escrita em Portugal ao longo do tempo, procedendo à identificação, análise e tematização do protagonismo assumido pela ampla variedade de actores que operam no sector e das formas como se relacionam entre si no espaço público mediatizado. Os assuntos e os actores com maior destaque, bem como os enquadramentos informativos privilegiados, não deixarão de assumir um papel importante nas representações que os portugueses têm do funcionamento do sistema de saúde e dos profissionais que nele trabalham, assim como da política associada ao sector.

No sólo los medios han cambiado. La ciudadanía que los consume y produce también se ha vuelto cada vez más activa. Las protestas ante la salida de Carmen Aristegui a inicios de 2111 dieron prueba del poder que tienen actualmente los públicos gracias, en parte, a las herramientas digitales.

Fruto de dicho suceso fue el Encuentro Nacional por la Diversidad y la Calidad en los Medios de Comunicación convocado por la AMEDI en abril de 2011. Éste libro recopila las ponencias y conclusiones presentadas en dicho encuentro. Todas dan prueba de que -como asegura Aleida Calleja en el prólogo del libro- “la comunicación es de quien la trabaja”.

Publicado originalmente en la Revista Mexicana de Comunicación: Entendiendo los nuevos públicos – Reseña de “Diversidad y calidad para los medios de comunicación” de la AMEDI | Revista Mexicana de Comunicación

Por sorprendente que parezca, la idea de que el cerebro es quien genera los procesos mentales es relativamente nueva. Los antiguos egipcios, considerándolo un órgano superfluo, lo extraían por la nariz de los cadáveres que embalsamaban. En la Grecia clásica, Aristóteles encontró motivos para ubicar los procesos mentales erróneamente en el corazón. Incluso el filósofo racionalista francés René Descartes, entrado ya el siglo XVII, creía que la mente (o alma) era algo ajeno al cuerpo.

En esta novedosa obra, Ignacio Morgado nos sumerge en los secretos del cerebro y analiza con detalle y rigor la mente humana y el mundo de los sentidos. ¿Quiénes somos? ¿De qué soy consciente en cada momento? ¿Podemos sentirnos fuera de nuestro cuerpo, ubicados, por ejemplo, en el de una muñeca? ¿Existen en realidad los colores? ¿Por qué no tenemos nombres para los miles de olores que podemos percibir? ¿Es lo mismo gusto que sabor? ¿Pueden los sonidos evocar colores? ¿Se corresponde lo que percibimos con la realidad? ¿Puede el cerebro humano entenderse a sí mismo?

La obra explica el fenómeno de la consciencia, sus contenidos y los mecanismos cerebrales que lo hacen posible. Explora las características de todos y cada uno de nuestros sentidos, muchas de ellas desconocidas, y describe el modo en que el cerebro recibe y procesa la información.

This book is a critique of communication for development that examines radio-based methods and practices employed to engage people in the process of social change.

Community engagement is a participatory and deliberative process aimed at fostering good governance, improved livelihoods, safer communities and a sustainable environment. The author discusses the challenges of using radio as a tool for community engagement in development. It examines specific case studies from the African continent. The book also considers the different ways governments, organizations, broadcasters and communities can use radio networks as instruments of participatory knowledge production, exchange and utilization so as to bring about change and development.

Thus, this book is relevant to global discourses on communication and development. It demonstrates how elusive participation can become if implemented without adequate consideration of power relationships within indigenous and local knowledge systems. It proposes that more effective radio for development initiatives should be built on participatory action research, local communication needs, and indigenous knowledge systems. Effective radio should rely on relevant broadcasting technology and infrastructure, and designed to operate independently of donor funds.