Abstract

Education used to be in the hands of three actors: parents (and/or other family members or tutors), educators or teachers, who shared time inside the classroom with the children; and of course, the children who received the educational activity. But now we know that a lot of children spend a huge number of hours watching TV or playing video games in front of a screen. Keeping in mind that the programs they watch have a clear influence on their values and on their perception of the world and of their social reality, parents and educators must be careful with the use of mass media. A fourth actor called television has appeared on the stage and it is necessary to take it into consideration as a potential ally, rather than as an enemy.

Abstract

Media researchers frequently need to record and store a huge amount of media content. Until recently, the Department of Communication at the Pompeu Fabra University  in Barcelona handled this problem in an old-fashioned analog and manual way. After migration to iptv, the department designed the MRecIPTV  software to record, store and access digital media content. This solution has transformed the way researchers work, simplifying data collection and analysis. Moreover, MRecIPTV has allowed the creation of a documentary heritage for future research.

Abstract

A mass media information management web portal that effectively integrates access to documentation of a thematic channel via iptv was created to disseminate content and generate programmes related to documentation. This is accomplished in a distributed and collaborative fashion, using the web 2.0 or social web parameters. The web portal is an online university platform that supports the creation and diffusion of a wide variety of multimedia and didactic materials as a resource to lecturers, students and professionals. The TV channel is able to transmit live or on demand, carrying content from the newspaper library, image library, video library, or the complete media library using streaming and other technologies. This web portal also benefits from the fact that the multimedia documentation service coordinates access to e-learning tools in the Information Sciences Faculty. E-DocuInfo/TVDoc emerged precisely at the centre of this environment.