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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 children, adults of the future.

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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 of the news characterized by the absence of a clear perpetrator. The debate on this phenomenon brought about an ideological struggle taken up by the general public who demonstrated their opposition to the information policy of Government. This article is an attempt to analyze the main features of this piece of radiophonic news and how the audience participated on the news-making process.

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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 ocean with a special friend to find him. This paper analyzes some special scenes to focus on reflections about standard families, attitudes to difference, values and stereotypes which are very interesting from an educational point of view.

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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 by way of three levels of approach: (1) the provable point of reference, the nuclear level of analysis, referring to qualities of the sound, as well as to certain characteristics of style; (2) the poetic approach, taking as a text of reference the musical structure of the television program, observing how is constructed and it types of conclusion; (3) the topic approach, the topical dimension of the discourse is that which confers more stability, sharpness and coherence from the ideologic point of view, and so far as a topic is a discourse used by a group, sector or tendency. For this reason, the entire and enable of musical text is necessary. The analysis of one of the most profound aspect of the program, which seeks to transmit the meaning of the concept of equilibrium and disequilibrium, lead us to conclude that, the spite the educational intention advertised at the conception of the program, culturally questionable stereotypes have been transmited: the concept of equilibrium was associated with the musical peaces with characteristics of erudite music of the classical period or the beginning of the romantic period: tonal, measured, resolution of dissonances, while the concept of this disequilibrium was associated with the non-resolution of dissonances, the random relationship of sound in an unmeasured bays. There was stabilished and antithesis, in terms of value between the erudite music of the classical-romantic style and that of contemporary style.

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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 on violence and the social practices that such representations favour, its characteristics and their school discussion make specific the content of this paper.

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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 which can lead to interference which alters the message transmitted, and which could lead to the manipulation of news. Journalistic design has become an invisible agent of this process of communication that the mass media use to transmit messages more effectively.

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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 of the emotional effects that this socio-economic system has developed on them: results of some studies showed that 62% of American children are only interested in making money, and 80% of anti-depressant prescriptions are written for children.