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Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies - Volume 2, Issue 1, 2010
Volume 2, Issue 1, 2010
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Assessment and comparison of current media and journalism systems in the Catalan, Galician and Basque languages
Authors: Iñaki Zabaleta, Nicolás Xamardo, Arantza Gutierrez, Santi Urrutia and Itxaso FernandezThis article studies and compares the current print and broadcast media and journalism structures in the Catalan, Galician and Basque linguistic communities, and also the degree of website development among traditional media organizations (press, radio, television). The media systems serving the three autochthonous languages are studied in terms of media type, ownership and circulation. Full-time journalists working in the monolingual minority-language media organizations were assessed in terms of numbers and profiles. The relative weight of the media systems in terms of the population of speakers was also evaluated and results showed that the Catalan and Basque systems were proportionately balanced, contrary to the Galician media, which had a negative relative weight.
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Press news coverage of GM crops in Catalonia in 2005: A case study in environmental communication
More LessDespite the fact that the introduction of genetically modified (GM) crops into agriculture and the food chain has caused great controversy worldwide over its impact on the environment and human health, Spain has become the first producer of GM crops in the European Union. Given the expansion of GM crops and the spread of GM contamination in the absence of any legal framework, in 2005 the Catalan government proposed a coexistence decree to regulate GM, conventional and organic agriculture. Protests against this proposal created a political scenario for public debate on GM crops in which the media played an important role. We focus on this political moment in Catalan politics and examine press coverage of GM crops in 2005 in popular Catalan newspapers through content and frame analyses. Results show how, despite civil protests against the measure reflected in a press coverage peak regarding GM agriculture, this issue progressively disappeared from the media agenda following a pattern of institutional marginalization. Frame analysis also reveals that the framing of GM crops as a social and environmental conflict is highly contested, whereas framing as a scientific and therefore safe biotechnology is hardly questioned. This article discusses previous research on public opinion and biotechnology, which assumed that media are responsible for public rejection of GM crops.
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New documentary productions: A new speaking position for migrants in Extranjeras and Si nos dejan
More LessThe main purpose of this article is to introduce an alternative way of discussing documentaries in terms of two recent works by Helena Taberna and by Ana Torres, portraying migrant subjects in Madrid and Barcelona. Both documentaries offer innovative ways of projecting a vision of migrant experiences in urban settings. Departing from Gayatri Spivack's question, can the subaltern speak?, I formulate a new position for migrant subjects from both documentaries. Both films offer a rejection of legal practices promoting exclusion by European governments. A new multicultural identity emerges based on interaction and the strong determination of the film-makers to project a reflection on immigration which stands out against current derogatory images associated with prostitution and delinquency in contemporary cinematography.
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Techno-society at the service of memory institutions: Web 2.0 in museums
Authors: Federica Mancini and César CarrerasSocial media have the potential to transform the museum visitor into an active participant involved in the creation of knowledge. Nevertheless, the application of the relatively new social computing concept to the cultural heritage sector faces many challenges. Consequently, a greater understanding of the features of the different communication channels and the new methods for measuring the success (or failure) of an exhibition is required. First, we analyse the impact of the use of Web 2.0 technologies on cultural institutions while highlighting the opportunities and risks of user participation. Secondly, we examine some of the experiments implemented by memory institutions paying particular attention to these institutions' interactive relationships with their publics on the Internet. Finally, we explore some hypotheses about the fears of many Catalan institutions in relation to the sociocultural web, and provide a series of recommendations for the introduction of Web 2.0 technologies in museums that will achieve positive results.
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Gender and sexual scripts in popular US teen series: A study on the gendered discourses in One Tree Hill and Gossip Girl
More LessIn recent years, research focusing on the representation of youth and sexuality in the media has gained momentum. The sexual content in programmes can sometimes be characterized as hypersexual, and, according to Jacobson, we find such hypersexual representation in two-thirds of television programmes. Not only do the media offer teenagers more sexual content than previously, but the nature of the content itself has changed. Sexual acts are more explicitly depicted or referenced, the teenagers shown have their first sexual contact at an earlier age, and sexuality is no longer exclusively part of a committed relationship. We live in a mediated reality, and it is therefore necessary to study the content of contemporary media programmes directed at teenagers. This article examines the represented gender scripts in two popular US teen series (One Tree Hill and Gossip Girl) using a qualitative textual film analysis. Specifically, it focuses on the relation between gender and sexuality. Several stereotypical gender scripts are revealed, although more positive and emancipative discourses are found as well. A tendency to casualize sexuality is noticed, which pinpoints the possibility that it may be time to reconsider sexual licence in the twenty-first century as part of youth-as-fun instead of youth-as-trouble.
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Barcelona: centre and periphery
By Lluís CalvoBarcelona needs to exercise its function as a capital city with an unshakeable faith in Catalan culture by establishing communication and exchange networks with its Catalan hinterland. Although the Catalan creative sector is confident and convinced of its potential, it needs Barcelona to believe in it, and it needs to shake off the fetters, ambiguities and diffident attitudes of the past.
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Reviews
Authors: David Atkinson, Arantxa Capdevila and Joaquim RabasedaEl Malestar en la Cultura Catalana, Josep-Anton Fernndez (2008) Barcelona: Biblioteca Universal Empries. 410 pp., ISBN 978-84-9787-341-3, Paperback. 20
La Construccin Meditica de las Crisis Polticas, Andreu Casero (2009) Madrid: Editorial Fragua, 342 pp., ISBN 978-84-7074-275-0, paperback, 35
Dodat De Sverac. Musical Identity in Fin de Sicle France, Robert F. Waters (2008) Hampshire: Ashgate, 288 pp., ISBN 978-0-7546-4105-6, 54
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