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The aim of this paper is to analyze the relationships between emotional education and the media from two different points of view. On the one hand, the emotional dimension of the media and their implication in education. On the other hand, the media as a

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Electronic mass media are more and more visited by people interested in today´s news and they are becoming a referent to be taken into consideration. Schools should incorporate these new technologies in their academic curriculum, so that students become f

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The development of humankind has opened the way to different types of communication being reflected in how we occupy our free time. Today the machines occupy an outstanding place in our life. This situation demands the families´attention as the first social reference to today´s [...]

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Radio in Spain went through a rather peculiar news-making process between the 11th and 14th of March. Shortly after the terrorist attacks on commuter trains in Madrid during which ETA was blamed, doubts about who was actually behind the bombings produced a crisis in the construction [...]

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«Finding Nemo» has been a big success since its premiere in Spain. This film is almost a mass media event. The plot of «Finding Nemo» is about a father-son underwater adventure featuring Nemo, a boy clownfish stolen from his coral reef home. His timid father must then search the [...]

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This study treats the partial results of research directed at the analysis of soundtrack of television program Ra Tim Bum, Educational TV, obtained by applying the methodology of analysis proposed by Amparo Porta (1997). The Spanish researcher arrives at the meanings of musical discourse [...]

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Mass media, through their programs, news and the informal education they spread, show social representation on reality, being the ones referring to violence of great importance in our culture. In order to investigate on the educative influence of mass media in the social representations [...]

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This paper gives a summary of how the different information and communication technologies have changed the societies which have used them through the years. Consecration and adoption of different technologies have fulfilled beliefs and expectations that eventually have come true.[...]

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The progressive influence of the mass media in the educating of society makes it necessary to be alert and to observe very closely how the communication process is carried out. Moreover, we need to be aware of the imbalances produced in the dialogue between the sender and the receiver [...]

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Contemporary strategies of marketing and advertisement have overloaded the mass-media helping to create a materialistic society where children have become both socio-economic system’s engine and victims. Children are the engine because of their economic power, and the victims because [...]