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Due to its converging relationship to computer science and telecommunications, the audiovisual sector is experiencing a number of fundamental changes that will lead to the [...]

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The human species is a communicative life. The persons are realized in the communication, necessary generator of the concrete reality of myself. To be exposed today to an [...]

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It's essential to explain the relationship between television and education, and by so much, between Television and Audiences, to scan the different perspectives of television [...]

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This paper presents new aspects to think about public service broadcasting, emphasizing the role of emotion and entertainment to the understanding of the television experience. [...]

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As the present world increase its complexity and speed in a society filled with information, it seems necessary to imagine the future. And media education must be included [...]

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The discussion about the quality of television contents, which has so strongly arisen in recent years, provides both elements for optimism and aspects that foster a sceptical [...]

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Parents usually think they and their children are victims of TV. This thought usually involves that they think they can not be guilty. Parents are responsible for the quality [...]

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TV stands at a predominant place is the audiovisual world. At present we share our lives and homes with this media. We use it and try to take advantages from it. TV is a powerful [...]

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The appearance of the television supposed a revolution in the form of spending the free time, however nowadays to is far from its original interest and aims. At this time [...]

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This project presents some ideas about the way the author perceives the television we have in Spain nowadays. During the presentation, it develops some audiovisual and academic [...]

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Television has a great influence in the mode of thinking and life-styles of its viewers. This article defines the concept of manipulation and explains the audiovisual and [...]

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In this presentation the impacts, influence an effects that the television has on the viewers is analyzed. Special attention is put on one of the most questioned aspects of [...]

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At present, TV is a powerful language, and so with a successful future ahead, which the mighty virtual possibilities of the Internet could hardly exceed.Although some people [...]

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At the height of the information society, in a society permeated by communication media, screens take a special relevance thanks to technological advances. Television continues [...]

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With this presentation we try to reflect upon the concept of quality with regards to television for children. In addition, we aim to identify a set of criteria which can allow [...]

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TAC is a civil, non-profit, association created in Barcelona in 1985. Nowadays we have more than 15.000 associates and we are still fighting for an objective and transparent [...]

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The generalization of a technological and digital screen world shows a complex reality. Traditional communication systems and new unknown relation with other novel and strangers [...]

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One of the main challenges facing the information society is the decline of citizen participation. Despite the ease of communication, citizens close into themselves within [...]

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One of the problems of the society of the information is the information credibility and its sources that we find available in the media. The amount of on-line information [...]

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Nowadays there is a debate about the relationship we can find between teenagers and TV. Maybe sometimes we do not take into account many important aspects and we only focus [...]

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Teenagers have a close relationship of complicity with television, tainted by narcissism: only exist for them evident, agreeable and gratifying things. A serious and useful [...]

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Nowadays the pitched battle for the audience degrades viewers with increasingly more violent and pornographic programmes. Viewers stop being individuals and become part of [...]

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This paper analyzes how television often disappoints the viewer, although he or she will anyway continue watching what he or she did not mean to watch. The author asserts [...]

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The aims of this paper are: to awake the public to their responsibility for contributing to a better media services, to give protection from the consequences of an excessive [...]

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The false and negative image of the audiovisual association movement stems in part from the associations themselves. The difficulties we encounter in our work are related [...]

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This article arises from some conclusions of the «Wise´s Report » and examines the difficulties to obtain a quality TV at the moment. Data demonstrate that the audiences [...]

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Television plays a very important role in our societies but, until now, we have not been capable to stress on its social discussion and to promote a deep change of this media. [...]

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Due to the development of so many different educational experiments in radio and television with more than 40 years of existence in many Latin American countries, the appearance [...]

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XXI Century television is undergoing a process of transformation. New actors, new products and new ways of consuming television are on the lookout. Interactivity will make [...]

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The majority of the Spanish society is worried about the crisis of traditional values. They make television responsible of this situation and they claim deep changes to transform [...]

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Quality TV is immersed in a cultural context which is yet to be clarified. In this sense, this paper contemplates the concept of culture from an anthropological and journalistic [...]

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The variety of revolutions in human communication history goes from the Roman roadway to the printing, radio, TV and Internet. At present, the only global media is the TV [...]

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This paper shows a series of recommendations to every institution or field directly related to the promotion of the so called «TV competence» which means the citizens´ [...]

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Nowadays national and international reflection on television and mass media in general is based on the activities that the European Observatory for Children´s Television [...]

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In 2005, the current socialist government has set out to undertake the greatest update in broadcasting policy since 1956, the moment in which television was born in Spain. [...]

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In the endless debate about quality television, we should first deal with the definition of quality, with its investigation and evaluation and with the exigible conditions [...]

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The author makes her proposal of a quality TV which means closed to European models designed as a public service and full of politic pluralism. She proposes a less passive [...]

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Entre los días 25 y 30 de julio de 2004 se celebró en la ciudad brasileña de Porto Alegre el 24º Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Estudios de Comunicación [...]

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Is it feasible to perform a therapy or a so called psychological intervention omitting the usual ways, that is, omitting a clinical intervention? The technical advances that [...]

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Considering the problems that occur in the teaching and learning of the journalistic essay in the career of Social Communication and the importance of this text in the practice [...]

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This paper presents theoretical reflections on the concept of literacy and its current complexity. Then, a serie of films is introduced to be worked on and applied in the [...]

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«Encyclomedia» is a teaching strategy based on a system that integrates media and resources for learning in the classroom with the support of a computer, an electronic blackboard, [...]

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The authors maintan and develop some basic principles of the knowledge management model from a conceptual approach to educational technologies, their relationship with education, [...]

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This paper presents the preliminary analysis of a research carried out with seventeen teachers who live in the interior of the southern area of Rio Grande do Sul, and are [...]

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History text books officially used in Mexican schools have been and still are supporters of political values since their creation in the sixties. History text books in 1960 [...]

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New technologies in education have changed the ways people know and think, the mechanisms of apprehension of the reality. In communication terms, the «receptive» use is [...]

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Getting to know the young person of the 21th century better in his relationship with the media will allow us to understand his daily life in different ways and the meanings [...]

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This paper analyses the evolution of childhood image throughout History from the most ancient times, when realistic representation of specific infant features is practically [...]

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This paper exposes the author´s reflection on his research in the project «Uses of fictional video for scientific education». The text deals with some key questions about [...]

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This paper outlines the evolution of education for the communication in Cuba since 1959. Film education, which once had a protectionist approach influenced by the critical [...]

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Nowadays, teachers often face apathethic and demotivated pupils. Nevertheless, these students do not show either apathy or demotivation when they stop being students and become [...]

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This paper relates an experience of the project «Education and communication» concerning values teaching from a cross-curricular perspective, as proposed by the Bolivian [...]

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This paper makes a brief description of a distance learning experience. It has been promoted by some research of the Institute of Communication (ININCO) based on the project [...]

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Digital divide in Chile is not as large as it seems. Last figures obtained from a research made in aproximately twenty countries shows that at least 65% of the Chilean people [...]

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Since 2002 the Media Studies Institute at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile is working with extremely poor children and adolescents in a public boarding school set [...]

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Television is a family issue. Concerning the relationship between family and media we should consider at least three aspects: the family on the TV, TV in the family and finally, [...]

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The common point of the state policies has been the almost total absence of training components and updating on media education. In Mexico, with the exception of design and [...]

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A survey carried out by CEPAL shows that the percentage of high qualified people in the developed countries, those who finished university and technical studies, almost doubles [...]

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The Mentor International Association for Media Education was founded in Barcelona at the end of May 2004 during the media education workshop organized by Unesco and the Universidad [...]

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In the Iberoamerican context the need for the mass media integration in formal education and teacher training is increasing. This paper presents and analyzes the main results [...]

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In spite of the massive presence of the mass media, the individuals of the developed societies are more and more isolated due to the overcharge of information. To avoid it, [...]

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Many changes are in progress in the field of media education in Latin American context. These changes have made possible that we can find new actors, new languages and new [...]

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The need for reflection on the incorporation of a media education curriculum has brought about a concern about that has arisen in the new contexts of the information society. [...]

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Reviews Caplletra 38 (Spring, 2005) Ferran Carbó, ressenya de Joan Mas i Vives, Domini fosc (Assaigs sobre poesia), Barcelona, Publicacions de l'Abadia de Montserrat («Biblioteca [...]

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Reviews Caplletra 39 (Autumn, 2005) Carme Gregori, Francesco Ardolino, La solitud de la paraula. Estudi sobre l'obra narrativa de Jordi Sarsanedas, Barcelona, Publicacions [...]

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In this article we will discuss the causal and final adverbial values connected to the conjunction «que» in Catalan and in other Romanic languages. In the first part, we [...]

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In this article, we analyse the characteristics of the grammaticalization process that originates connectors, taking as analysis corpus the book «Costums de Tortosa». We [...]

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The article offers a microsyntactic study about the clitics position in the sentences with impersonal existential verbs belonging to the class of caldre ‘to be necessary’. [...]

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In this article it is shown that, taking into account the main ideas of Sorace’s (2000, 2004) descriptive works on auxilary selection, you can explain in a natural way some [...]

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The study of auxiliary verbs in compound tenses («haver» vs. «Ésser») in Old Catalan is a topic discussed in many works. But no research deeply analysing literary works [...]

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In this article a classical topic of the studies on historical syntax is analysed: the enclitical or proclitical collocation of atonic pronouns in Catalan. From a Romanic [...]

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Stylistic Fronting is a phenomenon that has been intensively studied with respect to the symmetric Germanic Verb Second languages: Old/Modern Icelandic, Old/Modern Faeroese [...]

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Taking as a point of departure the classification of modern Spanish quantifiers, the paper opens with a brief description of the inventory of these items in medieval language [...]

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The article focuses upon the analysis of the treatment of the topic of the Civil War in the novel «Panorama amb dona» (1983) by Miquel Àngel Riera. The search of the culprit [...]

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This paper deals with Catalan perception verbs reanalyzed as discourse markers. The study focuses on the forms «aviam, a veure» (derived from veure ‘to see’), «miri» [...]

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The present article speaks about Juli Francesc Guibernau, a festive author who obtained a great popularity under the pseudonym of C. Gumà during the decades of 1880 and 1890. [...]

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This article approaches the task of analyzing the autobiographical activity of Joan Puig i Ferrater. Particular attention is paid to «Camins de França», one of the most outstanding [...]

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The «Elegia di madonna Fiammetta» has an evident impact of the story of Leandre and Hero, especially in the moments in which the lady suffers while waiting for her lover, [...]

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According to a letter written in 1390, Guillem Nicolau attached a full commentary to his Catalan translation of Ovid’s Heroides. Although these glosses have not survived in [...]

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Jordi de Sant Jordi uses more than thirty comparisons in his lyric poetry. These may be classified on the basis of their typology and semantic functions: true comparisons [...]

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The Occitan «mala cansó» of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and the Catalan «maldit» of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries both display a singular aspect of [...]

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What is the aim today of talking about philology, either in absolute terms or related to other concepts such as linguistics or language sciences? On the one hand, it seems [...]

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The paper examines aspectual and selectional properties of Old Catalan prefixed verbs in comparison with their non prefixed counterparts. We ground our analysis on Talmy’s [...]

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This article intends to present a brief study on the semasiologic extension of the Catalan verb «venir» —«to come»— in the old and mediaeval language, in contrast [...]

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The article offers a panoramic review of the relationship that Catalan poetry had with diverse sciences and technology, in the period which goes from the beginnings of Romanticism [...]

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The Catalan chivalresque literature has been preserved in very few testimonies, most of them just excerpts. The same situation happens with other texts written or spread in [...]

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In this paper, a thermo-mechanical constitutive model for the predictions of fatigue in structures using the finite element method is formulated. The model is based on the [...]

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An important concern in sheet stamping is the risk of obtaining brittle final products that can be affected by fracture. Monte Carlo simulations presented herein show that [...]