Historia y Comunicación Social

In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust

Luis Aragón Gonzalez — 2024-05-29

Gutiérrez Jiménez, María Eugenia (ed.) (2023). Historia Crítica del Periodismo Andaluz. Trayectorias y memorias para una relectura desde la periferia (siglos XVI-XX). Granada: Editorial Comares, 332 páginas. ISBN: 978-84-1369-473-3

Julio Antonio Yanes Mesa — 2024-05-29

Paredes-Otero, Guillermo. El periodismo de videojuegos en España. Ecosistema mediático y tendencias de una especialización cultural. Editorial Aula Magna Proyecto, Clave McGraw Hill. Sevilla, 2023. 262 páginas. ISBN: 978-8419786074

Alfonso Freire-Sánchez — 2024-05-29

Iranzo-Cabrera, María (2023). El Papus (1973-1987): Contrapoder Informativo en la Transición Española. Aldea Global, València. 211 pp. ISBN: 9788419333735

Dafne Calvo — 2024-05-29

Introducción. Medios de comunicación y transición ecológica: hacia una sociedad sostenible

Aida María de Vicente Domínguez de Vicente Domínguez — 2024-05-29

La urgente necesidad de impulsar, promover y conseguir una transición ecológica, entendida como “un proceso de cambios en los sistemas de producción y consumo, así como en las instituciones sociales y políticas y en las formas de vida y los valores de la población” (García, 2018: 87), es uno de los grandes retos del siglo XXI. Debemos hacer frente a la crisis de la biodiversidad, la contaminación y la transición energética con el fin de conseguir una sociedad sostenible acorde con los recursos disponibles en nuestro planeta.

Environmental news in Spanish media verified by the International Fact-Checking Network

Jorge Gallardo-Camacho — 2024-05-29

In a context of growing misinformation on the internet, we analyze environmental news from the five Spanish media outlets affiliated with the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN): Efe Verifica, Infoveritas, Maldita, Newtral, and Verificat. We propose a quantitative methodology using a sample of 217 news articles (over a period of almost 3 years) and 1,258 posts from their X (formerly Twitter) accounts over one month. We conclude that they are committed to promoting a more sustainable society, although the primary function of the created and disseminated news is explanatory or informational, with a predominant focus on "temperatures and climate change". Additionally, we observe the absence of a common dissemination strategy among these media outlets.

Towards an increasingly environmental and ecologist television

Elvira Calvo Gutiérrez — 2024-05-29

Television has traditionally been the main source for citizens to find out about news related to the environment and ecology. This work reviews some previous scientific works that demonstrated this and contrasts them with the most up-to-date data, extracted from the Environmental Profile in Spain (2021), the Survey of Social Perception of Science and Technology of FECYT (2022) and the Observatory of Information Quality on Television (OCITV) (2023). The results not only indicate that the Internet has surpassed television as a source of environmental information; in addition, new ecological themes discussed in current television programs are classified, as well as their peculiarities and impact on citizens. Finally, the work points out some keys that could enable better, more informative television, without losing the entertainment bias and allowing it to compete with the Internet -websites, blogs and social networks.

Blue communication in regional and local administration: The case of the Andalusian Regional Government and Malaga City Council

Gema Lobillo Mora — 2024-05-29

The concept of Blue Communication arises from the need to categorise a new way of transmitting knowledge and dissemination, hand in hand with the Blue Economy (Pauli, 2010). The objective is to analyse Blue Communication in the Andalusian (Department of Sustainability, Environment and Blue Economy) and local (Department of Sustainability and Environment of Malaga City Council) public administration through their Facebook profiles; in addition to the media coverage of two media (Diario Sur and Ideal de Andalucía) for seven months. A methodology has been designed that integrates a formal-descriptive, thematic and interaction analysis of own and earned media. A positive and informative treatment of the topic is identified, as well as an evaluation of errors.

Presence and framing of climate change in the digital press of Uruguay

Juan Manuel Gari — 2024-05-29

Nearly 80% of Uruguayans perceive a low presence of climate change in the press (PNUD Uruguay, 2021). This article analyses how digital media in Uruguay inform about and frame climate change and identifies opportunities for improving journalistic coverage of the issue and of the National Climate Change Policy. The content analysis reveals, among other findings, lack of emphasis in scientific explanations of and potential technological solutions to the problems of climate change, policy measures that are unattended by the media and quasi non-existent use of audiovisual content to inform. The article concludes with recommendations on how political authorities and the media can communicate about climate change so that citizens may understand the phenomenon and their relationship with it.

Communication strategies for sustainability and the circular economy in the digital editions of Spanish fashion magazines

Francisco Javier Ruiz del Olmo — 2024-05-29

The fashion industry is highly polluting due to unsustainable manufacturing processes and the use of unsustainable fabrics. To change this paradigm and seeking the use and consumption of recyclable and more environmentally friendly materials, the role of digital fashion magazines is essential. The general objective of this study is to describe and analyze the treatment of sustainability and the circular economy in the main Spanish fashion magazines, identifying the communication strategies used, using a mixed methodology based on content analysis. This shows a constant and transversal presence of these issues, but often linked to promotional strategies of the brands and through celebrities.

Narratives about the 2030 Agenda at the Madrid Assembly

Claudia López Frías — 2024-05-29

As a public forum, the duty of the Assembly of Madrid is twofold: on the one hand, to reflect the feelings of its citizens and, on the other, to work for the common good to improve the lives of the citizens of Madrid. This work collects the views of our regional politicians on the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals. The objective is reviewing whether there is consensus around the magnitude of the climate emergency and the need to communicate and implement the aforementioned objectives.

Narrative-environmental journalism of Eliane Brum's, a defense to the lungs of the planet

Andrés Puerta Molina — 2024-05-29

This article analyzes how, through narrative and environmental journalism, Eliane Brum, author of La Amazonía. Viaje al centro del mundo, have defended the largest tropical forest on the planet. The brasilian chronicler bets to return to journalism its character of denunciation and make its texts become a form of memory. The book is written from inside an approach that suggests that the current crisis cannot be understood without knowing that it is crossed by issues of race, species, class, and gender.

Survival strategies between submission and dissent: a reading of francoist repression in terms of gender

Matilde Peinado Rodríguez — 2024-05-29

In this work, a reading of Franco's repression is made in the light of the gender perspective, to deconstruct the foundations around which the participation of the female collective has been historicized and demonstrate the androcentric and patriarchal biases that still prevail. To this end, we propose a situated approach to primary sources, the integration of secondary sources as well as the conjunction of the perspective of macro and microanalysis of oral history, to defend a much greater and prolonged role in time of women, for whom the Francoist model of femininity was erected in an exclusive tool of "sexual repression".

In this context, the daily survival carried out to a large extent by women, far from being submissive acceptance of their social, generic and family destiny, provides us with new arguments to build history "from below" with vital trajectories of resistance and dissidence.

The representation of the other as an enemy. Journalistic narratives on the mobilisations of the indigenous movement in Ecuador (2019-2022)

Verónica Luna Báez — 2024-05-29

This article examines the news, interviews, and reports from television, newspapers, and digital media that received the most attention in Ecuador during the coverage of the indigenous movement's social mobilizations in October 2019 and June 2022. A qualitative and quantitative content study of 1,274 news reports is conducted with the goal of detecting repeating media practices to construct a depiction of an "enemy" oriented as an uneducated peasant opposed to the better urban paradigm.

Best years of our lives? Classification and categorization of the comedies during first socialist governments (1982-1986)

Ernesto Pérez Morán — 2024-05-29

On October 28, socialists won 1982 General Elections in Spain with an absolute majority that would allow them to begin a 14-year mandate. I propose a classification of the Box-Office-Hits comedies in these first socialist governments (1982-1996), beginning with those linked to the Francoist or late-Francoist films, and which I call Another Time Comedies. Secondly, what I call Period Movies with Comic Effects as a second group; and as a third one, what I call New Era Comedies, which are exponents of the Spanish cinema renovation. This last two groups have been widely studied. Once this tentative taxonomy has been established, I will outline the main characteristics of this tripartite corpus.

La ciudad perdida and Terroristi a Madrid (1955): two film versions based on the novel by Mercedes Formica

Mª Isabel Rodríguez Fidalgo — 2024-05-29

This article analyses, from a comparative point of view, the film adaptation of La ciudad perdida (1951), an original literary work by Mercedes Formica. Like the novel, the film directed by Margarita Alexandre and Rafael María Torrecilla suffered the consequences of censorship, giving rise to two versions: a Spanish one (La ciudad perdida) and an Italian one (Terroristi a Madrid). This research has made it possible to identify substantial changes between the two films that affect such important aspects as the script and editing, and which are linked to the construction of the image of the two main protagonists, Rafa and María. This leads to two different views: that imposed by censorship and that of the authors.

Pornography, a narrativa of sexual violence against the women

Rosa Cobo Bedia — 2024-05-29

Pornography is a global social reality that permeates contemporary culture. It is a language and a narrative that produces images and representations. And in all of them, women are hypersexualized, thus setting in motion intense processes of commodification of their bodies. Men are represented as active beings with the right to satisfy their sexual desires. They are shown as subjects and women as objects. The pornographic imaginary is in reality a libertine imaginary in which men can access women's bodies without conditions, without prohibitions, without limits. Porn is the most resistant symbolic core of the misogynist imaginary, and at the same time it makes it possible to draw the map of sexual violence.

Age, aging and ageism in Julieta (2016) by Pedro Almodóvar

Agustín Gómez Gómez — 2024-05-29

We analyze Julieta (Pedro Almodóvar, 2016) from her age theme. There are three major characters: a man who commits suicide, a housekeeper, and the father of the protagonist. In parallel, we witness the aging of three characters, two who are retiring and a third, the protagonist, who goes from an extroverted and joyful youth to a mature woman psychologically dejected by the loss of her husband and the flight of her daughter, events for which she will blame herself. With these presuppositions, Almodóvar establishes a series of contrasts with the ages, breaks some ageist stereotype and maintains some of the characteristics of his characters. We take into account that it is a free adaptation of three stories by Alice Munro.

Study and method to know the ideal party to win elections: the case of the Community of Madrid for the 2019-2023 electoral period

Miguel Angel Martín Crespo — 2024-05-29

This research analyzes how political parties are perceived with respect to the ideal party by young people in the regional elections during the period 2019 to 2023, using a methodology that combines qualitative research through the discussion group technique with another quantitative one that uses the questionnaire, being the sample selected in both cases university students from the Community of Madrid. The analysis of the results allows to establish the perceptual positioning of the parties and conclude that the PSOE is the party to which more attributes are associated and the one that most cares about young people, being the formation closest to the ideal party.

Participation and value generation in Colombian independent and online media

Néstor Julián Restrepo Echavarría — 2024-05-29

Audience participation is an essential component of online content production and financing. This study aims to identify how participation contributes to creating, capturing, and networking value in Colombia’s digital and independent media. Based on 17 semi-structured interviews with media leaders and organizations that promote and associate these media in Colombia and Latin America, it is recognized that these journalistic projects have audience participation scenarios mainly in production processes, the selection and creation of content, funding strategies, and cultural and political advocacy activities.

The contestant's jouney. Television Quiz Shows and the Hero’s Journey

Sergio Toledo Aral — 2024-05-29

Considering Campbell’s, Vogler’s, and Sánchez-Escalonilla’s scholarship on the concept of Hero’s Journey, this research focuses on the study of television programmes’ narratives based on a question/answers model or, in other words, Quiz show’s narratives. For this purpose, the present study has applied this lens to a significant sample of Spanish Quiz shows, used as case studies, in comparison to fictional stories with narratives based on this paradigm. This has ultimately allowed to establish a parallelism between both, uncovering structural and semantic similarities between epic fictional storylines and the case studies explored. In addition to these findings, the research has also contributed this field’s scholarship with the design of a useful research matrix based on the Hero’s Journey specifically applicable to quiz shows, known as the contestant’s journey.

Representation of women in authoritarian Chile. An approach from advertising

Enrique Vergara Leyton — 2024-05-29

The objective of this article is to analyze advertising directed at women in the context of the dictatorship in Chile (1973-1990). In retrospect, advertising constitutes a valuable testimonial resource and is an eloquent expression of the transformations that Chile underwent during the authoritarian regime before neoliberalism expanded to other regions. Using a mixed methodology that combined content analysis and semiotics, the results reveal a modernizing emphasis within the female consumer imaginary, associated with the values of the imposed neoliberal order that positioned consumption as one of the main drivers of social relations. However, this proposal did not significantly alter the roles that advertising has traditionally assigned to women. The conclusion drawn is that advertising reflects both the modernizing dynamics of the time as well as the contradictions and conflicts inherent in the stereotypical representation of women in the media.

The images in the media discourse of the information on Artificial Intelligence in Spanish media (2017-2021). A gender perspective analysis

Xiaoyu Gai — 2024-05-29

This paper aims to study the photographs published by Spanish digital newspapers (2017-2021) on Artificial Intelligence (AI), with particular attention to gender differences and the role of women. The final sample is 6,466 images. As a result, it is worth highlighting the underrepresentation of women, which is in itself a feedback of the gender segregation that currently exists in this sector. From a qualitative point of view, the images that promote gender stereotypes respond to three key concepts: the sexual division of labor, present in the design of robotics and AI; the sexual objectification of women by associating an image of femininity to sex robots; and, additionally, the underrepresentation of women and their lack of prominence in the scientific advances reported.

The disappearance of the evening newspapers in Spain (1964-1999)

José Luis Zurita — 2024-05-29

In 1967, in Spain there were 32 evening newspapers. Little more than thirty years later they had disappeared. Some press companies looked for a rescue board in the jump to the morning edition. And they found it. Today, six headers survive from those that were founded to be read at sunset: Diario de León, El Adelantado de Segovia, El Diario de Ávila, Extremadura, Lanza and Última Hora. This paper derives from a doctoral thesis now expanded with novel contributions, such as the study of Lanza, a digital newspaper. The methodology used is based on the content analysis of newspapers, in qualitative interviews, in the collection of data in archives, libraries and newspaper archives, translated into the preparation of tables and graphs, and in the bibliographic review.

Communicative reaction or proaction: A diachronic analysis of parliamentary interventions on migration

María Calzada Pérez — 2024-05-29

From the perspective of corpus linguistics, this paper proposes a quantitative/qualitative methodology to perform a critical and diachronic análisis of parliamentary communication on migratory phenomena (specifically, about refugees). After the introduction (in section 1), section 2 describes the basic concepts by Zapata-Barrero and Wodak, with which the analytical method is constructed. Section 3 describes the texts, tools and phases of the article. In section 4, the model is tested by examining the collocations around the node REFUG* in the course of three historical phases of the Spanish Congress of Deputies. The article concludes by confirming the effectiveness of the proposed analytical model.