This article studies the critical and activist documentaries produced in Spain in the last twenty years that address the situation of invisibility and exploitation of domestic workers and hotel maids. In these films, the features of labor struggles permeate the filmic construction. These documentaries are characterized by the work on…

By analysing European cultural policies and paradigmatic case studies, this article high-lights the close link between the normalisation of minority languages in Europe and film subti-tling. Film subtitling is an activity that urgently needs to be protocolised insofar as it guarantees both the preservation of the cultural originality of the…

The mass media is increasingly promoting public participation. Taking as a starting point the participatory transparency concept enunciated by Karlsson (2010), our research studies the audience’s active role in holding Spanish media to account through a range of online tools. We study the role of the audience by analyzing the…

Just after the eightieth anniversary of death of Antonio Machado, we turn our attention to two films whose speeches gravitate a deep immersion in his work and his personality. Directed by Arturo Ruiz- Castillo between the summer of 1952 and the spring of 1953, La laguna negra emerges as transposition…

The educational use of modern media has always originated exciting expectations, debate and controversy. So it happened with the Cinema in the early twentieth century, when a passionate defense of its use in education took place. This work aims to study this debate. To do this it takes place a…

We are witnessing an unprecedented development of web traffic in digital native newspapers, so that we can already refer to a manifest coexistence between these media and the matrix ones. This emerging phase of the natives as reference media in the Spanish press allows us to identify a revitalization of…

Introduction: The participation in YouTube of an international sample of reference digital native media is analyzed based on a model proposed by the authors. Methodology: The evaluation takes into account the variables that characterize the journalistic models of content production and distribution in current convergent scenarios, such as the implementation…

Journalism is undergoing substantial changes derived from technological evolution and the social interaction that this evolution makes possible, especially the participation of the public in the construction of the storytelling. Apart from the traditional and digital media, new parajournalistic formulas are allowing the circulation of false or malicious content. These…

When an artist’s work is identified with a particular national identity, the artist usually becomes an object of debate and gives room to antagonistic readings. That is the case of Ana Kiro, a singer who since the 1970s became an enormously popular figure in Galicia by dealing with the experience…

The rise of the TikTok social network has caused the media to confront the younger generation. The platform, which hosts dances, challenges, and funny short videos, has unique features that force a reinvention of social networking strategies. Television has become social and has expanded to new platforms, while young people…