Spanish Asylum Fernando Fernán-Gómez’s Eccentric Debut as a Film Director Adapting Gómez de la Serna, Poe, Kuprin and Andreiev (Manicomio, 1953)
In 1953, Fernando Fernán-Gómez, whose birth ́s first centenary is held in 2021, made his debut as a film director with a movie called Manicomio (Madhouse). At the time, not only was he in full intelectual maturity process but also he was one of the most acclaimed actors in the…
The Algorithm Is Not My Boss Anymore: technological appropriation and (new) media strategies in Riders x Derechos and Mensakas
This paper studies how a group of delivery workers in Barcelona were able to organize a successful traditional and a social media strategy in order to claim for their rights as wage workers. They created a union, RidersxDerechos, and they also decided to create a worker’s cooperative, Mensakas, with their…
European Public Television’s innovation in the digital audiovisual offer: new platforms for Generation Z
The digital revolution experienced in recent years has forced television corporations to develop new strategies of content production and dissemination. The commitment to complement its main offer with other services aims to adapt television corporations to the consumption habits of new generations. In this investigation, through a quantitative exploraty-descriptive analysis…
Transgressive humour and extreme speech on social media. PewDiePie’s fandom response to the #killalljews controversy
On March 15, 2019 the Australian Brenton Tarrant broadcasted in Facebook live his attack to the mosque Al Noor in Christchurch, which caused 42 deaths. In the beginning of his broadcast Tarrant reminded his audience to subscribe to PewDiePie YouTube channel. The account of PewDiePie, the Swedish youtuber Felix Kjellberg,…
Family cinema and emigration: Image, reconstruction and memory
Family cinema is a very revealing tool for us to inquire into a visual knowledge of an intimate and personal past, itself useful to rebuild customs that would help us understand how contemporary societies have evolved. Our work is based in considering the words of Patricia Zimmerman, its core location…
Education and Communication Public Policy: Discussions and Developments
Relations between citizens and mass media are becoming increasingly complex, making it necessary to plan and design education in a hypermediatic society, where new challenges arise: education has got the primary responsibility of training citizens to consume and produce in a media ecosystem with great capacities and potentialities for new…
Underrepresentation and distortion of identity in mass media during labour dispute: The case of the Bershka workers
News in mass media is still a battlefield during labour conflicts, even if social media has an increasing role because media are a pressure strategy and conflict socialization space. Workers usually fight against silence and distortion. This paper analyzes media coverage on the larger strike developed against Inditex, that has…
Emerging Journalistic Profiles Recognized in the University: Research, Conceptualization and Offer in the Degree
Emerging Journalistic Profiles Recognized in the University: Research, Conceptualization and Offer in the DegreeThe reshaping of journalistic profiles poses one of the main professional and formative challenges in the coming decades. While the media assume the new roles in a changing process of ‘trial and error’, universities look into these…
Homenaxe da Asociación Española de Investigación en Comunicación (AE-IC) ao Dr. José Marqués de Melo
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A crítica feminista desde as orixes até a actualidade
«Un her article “The Crisis of Naming in Feminist Film Criticism”, published in Jump Cut in 1978, Ruby Rich recuperated the main events and publications of the feminist film criticism of the decade, as well as the premieres of the first feminist films according to this criticism. Rich thus made…