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https://hdl.handle.net/10171/42838
2024-03-29T12:59:45ZToril AALBERG, Frank ESSER, Carsten REINEMANN, Jesper STROMBACK y Claes DE VREESE. Populist Political Communication in Europe. Routledge, 2016, 402 pp.
https://hdl.handle.net/10171/56890
Title: Toril AALBERG, Frank ESSER, Carsten REINEMANN, Jesper STROMBACK y Claes DE VREESE. Populist Political Communication in Europe. Routledge, 2016, 402 pp.2017-01-01T00:00:00ZYouth and Political Participation: #YoSoy132 and the Struggle for Freedom of Expression in Mexico
https://hdl.handle.net/10171/43930
Title: Youth and Political Participation: #YoSoy132 and the Struggle for Freedom of Expression in Mexico
Abstract: The mobilization of the student movement #YoSoy132 inspired new political and civic participation among young students in the urban context of Mexico City. This study explores the habits and perspectives around political participation, freedom of expression, and the use of social networks among these university students. Based on survey data from two samples, we contrast the relationship between online and offline political practices during the birth of #YoSoy132. For the first sample, we administered a questionnaire to college students who took part in a public demonstration organized by the #YoSoy132 movement just one week before the 2012 Mexican federal election. We collected the second sample via social media online, with a focus on college students from different universities across Mexico City. We compare the similarities and differences across youth participation via the samples In Situ and Online groups. We demonstrate that digital penetration and the presence of a convergent culture are important elements that favor hybrid political and civil participation. Our findings allow us to infer, at least from our samples of college students, that social networks are gaining unprecedented importance in the formation of youth imaginaries when a strong correlation between online and offline practices exists. In the face of widespread accusations of the corruption of mass media in Mexico and systemic threats to freedom of expression, social networks provided an alternative and trustworthy route for expression, dialogue, and mobilization.2017-01-01T00:00:00ZParatextual Activity: Updating the Genettian approach within the transmedia turn
https://hdl.handle.net/10171/43923
Title: Paratextual Activity: Updating the Genettian approach within the transmedia turn
Abstract: Fictional transmedia universes have been the objects of communication research throughout the last ten years. There has been such a proliferation of these universes that it can be argued that a ‘transmedia turn’ has occurred in research on the narratives of the early 21st century. This has generated interest in avant la lettre transmedia universes, i.e., not only those universes created after The Matrix and The Blair Witch Project, but even those created after The Wizard of Oz and The Lone Ranger. In parallel, the phenomenon has shed new light on the theoretical bases of transmediality. This article argues that this transmedia turn has been the cause of the revitalization of the Genettian concept of paratext, an intertextual modality found in the fuzzy threshold that exists between the diegetic and non-diegetic worlds, between products and by-products, between monomedia and transmedia, between ownership and creative freedom, and between content and promotional material. This article describes and compares the modulations suffered by paratextuality through the authors who have resumed and extended the reach of the Genettian term, and illustrates them with examples taken from official paratexts of recent transmedia fictional franchises.2017-01-01T00:00:00ZInfographics as a Mnemonic structure: Analysis of the informative and identity components of infographic online compositions in Iberic newspapers
https://hdl.handle.net/10171/43922
Title: Infographics as a Mnemonic structure: Analysis of the informative and identity components of infographic online compositions in Iberic newspapers
Abstract: Infographics as a transdisciplinary component that permits to objectify depth that amplifies and potentiates time and space, is the proper structure for the reading characteristics of Net Generation and outputs the dynamic skills of visual intelligence, creating mnemonic frameworks. This article analyses the use of its Informative content, and its appliance to the qualities of Online Information (accurate, timely, complete and concise), its components of Identity (periodicity, animation, stateness, interactivity, image, multimedia and typology) and its Informative components (structure, clarity, content and readability) through revision, over two weeks (2014 and 2015), of the six daily general online newspapers of Iberian Peninsula that, according to the Asociación para la Investigación de Medios de Comunicación and Marktest, have more views: El País, 20minutos, Público, Correio da Manhã, Jornal de Notícias and Diário de Notícias. Is also registered in this analysis, the vision of content producers through a survey of members of the Infographic Society (the only professional association of this particular profession established in the Iberian environment) and the results of the study are contrasted with an in-depth interview with structured questionnaire relating to four global infographic designers working for The Guardian, The Times and National Geographic. Although the results reflect a low Multimediality and Interactivity, the analysis finds that there is a sensory and affective effort Permanence and Narrative in the mnemonic meshing of skills in Journalistic Online Infographics limited by a poor Visibility of the Infographic compound given by the media, either by failure of Production, of Continuity, Informative, of Usability and/or integration.2017-01-01T00:00:00Z