Teorías de la comunicación y metodología

Fattorello's The Theory of the Social Practice of Information is the only Italian theory of communication. It is not only relevant to journalism and communication, but also to society in general. Fattorello addresses the differences between contingent and non-contingent information. The theory is translated into English for the first time and is contextualized and put into a historical framework by Prof. Ragnetti's additional text. The article by Ragnetti and Dr. Francesca Romana Seganti, reprinted at the end of the book, shows the theory's utility today. Translated for the first time into English, this book will add to the cannon of theoretical works in communication at a time when works from outside the Anglo-American milieu are increasingly being considered.

Esta obra presenta y explica, de manera unificada, diez grandes leyes de la Teoría de la Información procedentes de tres fundamentales formulaciones teóricas: los llamados axiomas comunicacionales, de los teóricos de la comunicación de la Escuela de Palo Alto, Watzlawick, Beavin y Jackson; la tétrada de leyes de los medios, enunciadas por Marshall y Eric McLuhan; y la ley de la carga informativa, desarrollada por George Miller en el nivel de estudio de la comunicación intrapersonal. Se trata de diez principios generales que dominan la comunicación y la información en niveles de análisis muy distintos. Este libro, además de proporcionar ideas creativas y de investigación, resultará de utilidad a los estudiantes de la Teoría de la Información y la Comunicación, porque presenta los contenidos en una estructura transversal y sencilla de abordar, de forma diferente a la tradicional de los manuales de texto.

Communication is at the heart of any complete understanding of the end of life. While it is true that individuals physically die as a single entity, the process of ending an individual life is located within a complex system of relationships and roles connected and constructed through communicative processes. In this volume, top scholars from numerous disciplines showcase the latest empirical investigations and theoretical advances that focus on communication at the end of life. This multi-contextual approach serves to integrate current findings, expand our theoretical understanding of the end of life, prioritize the significance of competent communication for scholars and practitioners, and provide a solid foundation upon which to build pragmatic interventions to assist individuals at the end of life as well as those who care for and grieve for those who are dying. This book is suitable for undergraduate and graduate courses in Death and Dying, Communication and Aging, Health Communication, Life Span Development, Life Span Communication, Long term care, Palliative care and Social Work.

Continuing the explorations begun in the first Produsing Theory volume, this book provides a site at which varied theories – some still emerging – can intersect and shine a light into the spaces between what previously had been neatly separated and discrete components of media systems. In some settings, division by audience, content, and production settings remains useful, but this volume, like the first, is all about the interstices.
Contributors reflect varied perspectives in their approaches to the spaces formed as a result of rapidly developing and swiftly deploying new communications technologies and social software. They shine multiple spotlights into the intersection of audiences and production, providing a guide toward a nuanced understanding of the interstitial spaces.

A l'heure des débats sur la liberté d'expression et des polémiques liées à la légitimité de sa limitation, cet ouvrage passe au crible les lois françaises réprimant les discours racistes en France, L'auteur montre que la «loi Pleven» de 1972 et la «loi Gayssot» de 1991 ont en effet été justifiées de façon peu satisfaisante par ceux qui les ont votées. Après avoir analysé la législation elle-même ainsi que les justifications qui furent avancées à son appui au Parlement, il démontre que trois voies théoriques plus solides et plus cohérentes auraient pu être empruntées : une théorie de la traduction des discours en actes, une théorie des rapports entre droit et vérité, enfin une théorie tout à la fois de l'expression et de la défense des valeurs en démocratie et de la discussion.
Un ouvrage de philosophie politique et juridique salutaire pour mieux comprendre les enjeux de l'équilibre restant à instituer entre deux ambitions démocratiques : la liberté d'expression et la condamnation des discours racistes

Mediale Bezugnahmen wie Intertextualität, Metamedialität, Translation, Umschrift oder Umkodierung von Text- und Bildformaten können als Medienprothetik aufgefasst werden: Wenn Marshall McLuhan Medien grundsätzlich als extensions of man versteht, so beinhaltet dies die zunehmende Ausweitung körperlicher oder medialer Begrenztheit mittels technologischer Innovationen. Als derart verstandene Prothesen können Medien Defizite indes nicht nur kompensieren, es kann auch zu Widerständen gegen die mediale Übertragung kommen. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes beleuchten den kulturkritischen Hintergrund der McLuhanschen Medientheorie (Freuds Prothesenlogik), und in zahlreichen Fallstudien loten sie die Bandbreite der medialen Kollisionsmöglichkeiten an Beispielen aus Literatur, Comic, Film, bildender Kunst, Fotografie, Musik, Theater und Internet aus.

La investigación cualitativa conlleva, en todo su proceso, la toma de decisiones por parte del investigador que están encaminadas a resolver: qué y con qué método investigar, cómo acceder a los datos y cómo interpretarlos y, por último, cómo representar los resultados obtenidos. Este Volumen ofrece una variada y amplia gama de prácticas metodológicas (estrategias de recolección, de análisis de datos y formas de representación) para facilitar al investigador la toma de decisiones.

Le statut scientifique de la communication reste vague et de nombreuses disciplines lui consacrent leurs théories et méthodologies. Afin d’approcher ce problème contemporain, ce livre présente la théorie communicationnelle de l’écologie du sens et une proposition méthodologique ancrée, à la fois, dans la recherche-action et la sémiotique constructiviste-critique. Au fil du texte, l’auteur navigue au cœur de la recherche contemporaine entre les écueils de la radicalisation épistémologique, tissant les contributions de Jean Piaget, Jean-Blaise Grize et Jürgen Habermas avec les siennes en quête d’un consensus épistémologique éthique et équilibré. L’essai met en valeur la transdisciplinarité de la communication, essayant de démontrer sa pertinence dans la construction critique des connaissances dans toutes les disciplines scientifiques, des mathématiques aux sciences sociales.

This book engages with the mediatized dynamics of political, military and cultural conflicts. In today’s global and converging media environment, the interrelationship between media and conflict has been altered and intensified. No longer limited to the realms of journalism and political communication, various forms of new media have allowed other social actors to communicate and act through media networks. Thus, the media not only play an important role by reporting conflicts; they have also become co-constitutive of the ways conflicts develop and spread.
The first part of the book, Transnational Networks, addresses the opportunities and challenges posed by transnational media to actors seeking to engage in and manage conflicts through new media platforms. The second part, Mobilising the Personal: Crossing Public and Private Boundaries, concerns the ways in which media framings of conflicts often revolve around personal aspects of public figures. The third part, Military, War, and Media, engages with a classic theme of media studies – the power relationship between media, state, and military – but in light of the mediatized condition of modern warfare, in which the media have become an integrated part of military strategies.
The book develops new theoretical arguments and a series of empirical studies that are essential reading for students and scholars interested in the complex roles of media in contemporary conflicts.

Is there a significant difference between engagement with a game and engagement with a movie or novel? Can interactivity contribute to immersion, or is there a trade-off between the immersive "world" aspect of texts and their interactive "game" dimension? As Marie-Laure Ryan demonstrates in Narrative as Virtual Reality 2, the questions raised by the new interactive technologies have their precursors and echoes in pre-electronic literary and artistic traditions.

Approaching the idea of virtual reality as a metaphor for total art, Ryan applies the concepts of immersion and interactivity to develop a phenomenology of narrative experience that encompasses reading, watching, and playing. The book weighs traditional literary narratives against the new textual genres made possible by the electronic revolution of the past thirty years, including hypertext, electronic poetry, interactive drama, digital installation art, computer games, and multi-user online worlds like Second Life and World of Warcraft.

In this completely revised edition, Ryan reflects on the developments that have taken place over the past fifteen years in terms of both theory and practice and focuses on the increase of narrativity in video games and its corresponding loss in experimental digital literature. Following the cognitive approaches that have rehabilitated immersion as the product of fundamental processes of world-construction and mental simulation, she details the many forms that interactivity has taken―or hopes to take―in digital texts, from determining the presentation of signs to affecting the level of story.