This paper analyzes the current relationship between Peruvian teenagers and television. The information accessed from various sources concluded that adolescents are consuming television extensively, especially the poorer within the country. Teens appreciate the cable television as a source of learning, and its variety and ability to relate it with the world. The interest in cartoons, […]
Communicating Culture: An Evolutionary Explanation
Whether gathering around bonfires, watching TV, or sitting in front of computer screens, the pressures of Darwinian natural selection have forced individuals into tight patterns of interdependency, welded together by communication links. Can the information-sharing behavior of our species ever be brought into broader perspective and eventually foster greater harmony for all humankind? The authors […]
A New Meaning of Educational Television: from School to Audience’s Everyday Life
When analyzing the reception of different Latin American television genres, it can be seen how education is conceptualized –from the point of view of subjects inserted in their daily social practices– as more greatly linked to affectivity than to cognition, thus distinguishing it from knowledge generated through formal schooling. In this sense, television programming has […]
“Promoting digital literacy. Understanding digital literacy”
The report “Promoting digital literacy. Understanding digital literacy” carried out by the UAB focuses on: a) identify and analyze various successful and innovative experiences in promoting digital and media literacy; b) analyze strengths and weaknesses of these mentioned experiences, and c) develop recommendations for the promoting digital literacy. The document sets out the factors to […]
The Musical Offers of Children’s Programming on «Televisión Española» as its Hearing Universe
The music that children are exposed to in their everyday lives plays an important role in shaping the way they interpret the world around them, and television soundtracks are, together with their direct experience of reality, one of the most significant sources of such input. This work is part of a broader research project that […]
Classroom 2.0 Experiences and Building on the Use of ICT in Teaching
Recognising the importance of new technology in the classroom, our aim is to promote the integration of information and communication technology (ICT) in teaching practice from a collaborative research in which action research style methods are applied involving 21 primary and secondary schools in Spain. In these research seminars, the participating teachers receive a progressive […]
The Risk of Emergence of Boomerang Effect in Communication against Violence
Violent behaviors cause concern among people, policy makers, politicians, educators, social workers, parents associations, etc. From different fields and perspectives, measures are taken to try to solve the problem of violence. Institutional communication campaigns against violence and the publication of news related to violent events are often some of the actions used by policy makers. […]
Bibliometric and Social Network Analysis Applied to Television Dissertations Presented in Spain (1976/2007)
This paper analyses the productive structure in Spanish television research. Data from theses about Spanish television which had been defended in this country over the period 1976/2007 was extracted. Two methodologies are used within this analysis: a bibliometric analysis and Social Network Analysis (SNA). Results show the production of theses by time period, university, these […]
Spaniards’ Perspective of Immigration. The Role of the Media
With the transformation of Spain into an immigration country, society has become a major change by setting up a social space characterized, increasingly, by cultural, ethnic and religious diversity. In this new frame is interesting to investigate the overall value of diversity into the Spanish society. The two aims for of this paper are, on […]
Television Fiction Series Targeted at Young Audience: Plots and Conflicts Portrayed in a Teen Series
This paper presents the main findings of a research project on teen series, which are television fiction series featuring teenagers and specifically targeted at a young audience. The analysis of the portrayal of young people in television fictional series specifically targeted at a young audience has a meaningful value both for television production and for […]
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