The Audiovisual Studies Research Group —Audiovisual Communication: contents, formats and technology— (GEA) is a Group of Competitive Reference from the University of Santiago de Compostela, coordinated by professor Enrique Castelló Mayo and attached to the Department of Communication Sciences.
The mission and objectives of the group are the analysis of the communication processes as cultural constructors and capital instruments in the formation of societies. Based on different approaches -political, social, economic…- and with special attention to the construction of identity(s) and the preservation of cultural diversity, it offers interdisciplinary research proposals whose results are directed to the scientific community, those responsible of public policies, the professionals of the sectors involved and the citizenship in general.
The approval of the General Audiovisual Law in 2022 updated the Spanish regulatory framework, tackling some of the challenges presented by agents such as streaming platforms, but also leaving open some other related to diversity protection. The LEXCAV project, financed by the Programa Estatal de I+D+i Orientada a los Retos de la Sociedad and developed […]
The Teatro Colón in A Coruña was the setting this Friday for the 5th Culture Gala, an event in which the Deputación of A Coruña brought together 19 award winners in 13 categories. The event, hosted by journalist Susana Pedreira and actor and musician Xoán Fórneas, featured a performance by Caamaño & Ameixeira and a […]
Last Friday, April 17th, Rocío del Pilar Sosa Fernández, a member of GEA, presented the paper Accessibility and Efficiency in Virtual Production: A TAM-Based Comparison of Luma AI (NeRFs) and Smartphone LiDAR at the 2026 SJTU-IAMCR Emerging Media Conference: Creative Communication and Empowerment. The event was organised by the International Association for Media and Communication […]