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No professional of the mass media would dare to say without much ado that ‘anything goes’ to obtain publicity, to gain hearing or to compete with the adversary. That's [...]

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This paper presents the results obtained from a sample of adolescents from the Basque Country (Spain) regarding the relationship between their personal values and the values [...]

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Our general aim is to analyze whether television viewing habits contribute to defining the meaning of gender in a sample of 577 teenagers (270 boys and 307 girls) from the [...]

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This paper provides an analysis of 37 short audio-visual stories told in sketches (like a storyboard). These works were drawn by teenagers of two high-schools of Federal District [...]

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The family and mass media are the power of the society nowadays. The relationship established between them is necessary because they determine each other. This article develops [...]

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This essay approaches the problem of TV consumption regarding children in the present situation. It gives an opinion about the former proposals and offers the only possible [...]

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The audiovisual design of television continuity, as a model of corporate communication specific of television, is an identifying wrapper of the television channels. It has [...]

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Television is the most important mass media. Spain and Europe are facing deep changes caused by the implantation of digital technology. In this context, it is very important [...]

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Being part of the Society of Knowledge implies to accept the importance of the mass media in the construction of the social structure. There is no doubt about the hegemony [...]

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This article presents the preliminary results of an investigation on the meaning of television in the daily life of children, which corresponds to a study carried out on with [...]

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This paper presents part of an investigation titled «Child and television: contributions to the teacher’s work in children’s education». It studies the way in which [...]

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This work focuses on a multiple perspective of literacy adopted in accordance with the deep changes taking place in society as a result of the new Information and Communication [...]

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The focus of this contribution is the relationship between education and television. The main idea is that it is not only possible to teach television, but it is often television [...]

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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 [...]

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This article shows some results of a present study about the main childhood stereotypes in TV programmes (soap operas, sitcoms), news and advertising. The application of content [...]

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The purpose of this study is to provide a social and educational description of the influence of TV in children’s lives. The sample included children from the 2nd level [...]

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Elderly people spend long hours in front of TV without any kind of planning. Thus, it is necessary to study TV consumption and offer guidelines to help them to watch TV from [...]

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TV has an ever-increasing power to penetrate into our homes, into public spaces and into our schools. This reality issues a challenge to parents, families, public administrations [...]

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TV has a great power as an educational tool for children. Teachers, politicians, directors, parents and general public should join forces to take advantage of TV as an instrument [...]

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This paper shows the results of a study on TV consumption at home that has been developed both in state and private Primary and High schools. This paper tries to emphasize [...]

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This paper presents some ideas about how the author sees the current television in Spain. It has been calculated that today in Spain one student of Primary or Secondary school [...]

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The increasing influence of television on childhood is unfortunately not always in accordance with the established values, principles and behaviours practised at home. This [...]

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This research tries to contribute with some information, reflections and proposals on television, and its main goal is to explore the possibilities that television offers [...]

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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; [...]

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Frenzy journalism involves a determined endeavour to take active part in the subsequent future and development of an event: a journal introduces a topic for several days. [...]

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Unfortunately for visual impaired people, our society is characterised by the exaltation of the image and audiovisual media with a strong visual component. In spite of this [...]

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A new debate has arrived to the Education System. It deals with the need of an alternative teaching, an education that exceeds the academic traditions and studies the social [...]

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Infant television newscasts are news programs for children and teenagers. In some countries they are among top places. This article will research on the origin of the first [...]

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This article analyzes the strategies followed by the BBC channel to legitimize its role as public television through an approach to the citizens and a diversification of contents [...]

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What does watching a movie mean? In the first place the spectator places itself facing to a constructed reality, a story and a plot. In addition s/he also sees the elements [...]

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Some theoretical contributions to the Media Literacy set up the dialogue, the exchange and the renegotiation of meanings as a starting point for interaction and knowledge. [...]

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Nowadays television plays an important role in the socialization of children and adolescents, by making available a wide range of models of behaviour. However, watching television [...]

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TV serials analyzed in this paper show a representation of stereotyped gender. These cultural products, despite its apparent modernity, reproduce inequalities in the representation [...]

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The aim of this study was to analyze whether television viewing habits themselves contribute to defining the gender significance in a sample of 577 adolescents (270 boys and [...]

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This paper presents the preliminary exposition and results of a feasibility project for an Observatory of Consumption of Infantile Television that contributes with indexes [...]

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The main goal of this work is to analyze the education of young people about TV in non-Mediterranean European countries, especially devoted to the French community of Belgium. [...]

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The television is still the media with the biggest approach in Spanish homes. Despite this fact, it is no longer the main leisure and fun media for young people in the last [...]

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Nowadays in Brazil, some social organizations, governments and mass media are discussing the need to establish an oversight committee to guarantee the quality of television [...]

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Children television in Spain is closely bound to the widespread commercial TV model. The analysis of children programmes broadcast in a regional channel of Spanish public [...]

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What is usually known about television for children are the programmes broadcast. In contrast, the underlying criteria as well as their conditioning factors are largely unknown. [...]

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Few means provide us with more controversial and interesting materials in a moral sense than television contents do nowadays. By showing many cases which involve a conflict [...]

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This article is based on the research project titled «Pedagogical uses of a quality television for child and youth audiences», by an inter-institutional agreement between [...]

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The process of reception cannot be equated to visualisation. Many factors are involved in the act of looking; the subject’s background, their level of communicative competence, [...]

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The main point in this article is to discuss the development of the critical reception. The method establishes an analysis of the codes and cultural sources of a specific [...]

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Conventional television is getting transformed and diversified to adapt to the new requirements and conditions of the new digital contexts. This means deep transformations [...]

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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 [...]

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The author proposes a controversial theory, although the benefits of using the media and the new technologies in education have been taken for granted, in fact they are not [...]

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This paper describes the contributions developed by a Spanish-Portuguese Research Project called “Drog@” which tries to promote drugs prevention at University. The project [...]

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This article portrays an overview of the five degrees of comunication in education: oralgestural, writing, audio, audiovisual and digital. It highlights the changes introduced [...]

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The present paper analyzes the results of a qualitative investigation developed by the Spanish public television on the values and characteristics of the national television [...]

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Digital literacy (DA) is a second literacy which makes us reorganize competences already acquired. It is necessary because of the increasing presence of technology at every [...]

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Language is historically subject to changes. At the present time the principle of alteration postulated one hundred years ago by Ferdinand de Saussure, father of modern linguistics, [...]

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Everybody agrees. Although we lived in the so-called Information Society, traditional systems do not enable people to make a critical consumption of mass media. For that reason, [...]

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The article analyzes the effectiveness of the audio-visual regulation and assesses the different arguments for and against the existence of the broadcasting authorities at [...]

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National TV channels in Spain signed a self-regulation code to protect rights of children on December 2004. This code developed a special protected schedule for children from [...]

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The objective of the article is to show the possibility that the monitoring of the presence of the social groups in the mass media of public ownership has, because of the [...]

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We can´t only be consumers, we must be citizens. This essay argues how audiences should become producers of messages that represent a culture of resistance, from its narrative [...]

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Social organizations, local governments and the media in Brazil are confronting themselves over the need for an oversight board to guarantee quality television programming, [...]

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This article explores intertextuality as a technique that can be used to bridge old and new media literacies for teachers and students who hope to move beyond the textbook [...]

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This article presents the limits of an education for reception, from a notion of training that allows an analysis of the formative character of screens. Television interpellations [...]

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Empirical research on patterns of consumption and appropriation of foreign television and film on Mexican audiences in particular, and Latin American audiences in general, [...]

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This article develops some aspects about my experience on the reception research focusing on some theoretical, empirical and methodological elements and having cultural identity [...]

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The article revisits the old debate about media influence, focusing on whether children learn from television or not. It argues that TV per se does not guarantee that a child [...]

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This paper presents some changes occurring in Latin America related to the relationship between children and television channels and programs. There are new ways of television [...]

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How does technology interact with the way in which we relate with information, communication and knowledge? The integration of these three dimensions conforms the nucleus [...]

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This paper describes a current research integrated in an international and interdisciplinary project and developed in a global environment between two different tendencies: [...]

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How do new screens –like iPhone or mobile phone’s– interact with their technological ancestors, such as television, cinema or video? Recent research activities in many [...]

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Based on Lull’s recent book «Culture-on-Demand: Communication in a Crisis World» (2007) and on the author’s view of audiences as active participants in all forms of [...]

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Multicultural society today is much more than just ethnic diversity. It is important to recognize that heterogeneity is composed by a wide array of factors such as literacy, [...]

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Reviews Caplletra 44 (Spring, 2008) David Paloma, ressenya de Margarida Bassols, El llenguatge dels polítics. Anàlisi del cas català, Vic, Eumo Editorial, 2007, 224 pp.Pelegrí [...]

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Reviews Caplletra 45 (Autumn, 2008) Lluís Gimeno Betí, ressenya de Joan Coba Femenia, Els adjectius possessius; teoria i alguns problemes d'ús, Barcelona, Publicacions [...]

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In this article the results of a quantitative and qualitative research into person deixis are shown and, generally, the ones related to the participative inscription, within [...]

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The aim of this article is to determine, from the analysis of a real corpus, whether the traits associated with colloquial orality are present in chats. Chats, from the channel’s [...]

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This article analyzes some typical elements of spontaneous colloquial oral discourse in a corpus formed by two episodes of own production –one of «Plats Bruts» and one [...]

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This article deals with some grammar aspects of oral language, which includes an extense sense of the concept of grammar itself. The linguistic characteristics of orality [...]

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In the chapters CCXXXI-CCXXXIIII of Tirant lo Blanc, there are two comical scenes where Carmesina and Tirant attempt to keep their love a secret. Carmesina justifies a night [...]

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This article emphasizes the decisive role played by Antoni de Bofarull and Víctor Balaguer in constructing the ideas and imagery which would feed Catalanist thought as well [...]

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This article presents some of the results from a broader research study of management styles within the Catalan university world. Two management styles are defined (the collegial [...]

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Although evidence has shown that psychosocial factors have a decisive influence in second language learning, it has not been highlighted the importance they have regarding [...]

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In Catalonia, in a short period of time, statistics have raised from the 1% recorded ten years ago to the current 13% of students of foreign’s origin. This change has increased [...]

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In the last years a very important amount of immigrant students unaware of Catalan, a language typical of the educational system of Catalonia, have arrived to Catalonia. To [...]

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In an educational system like ours, with four curricular languages in compulsory education, language integrated treatment and its contents (TILC) has to become, undoubtedly, [...]

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The lost literature of an author provides data that, in spite of being partial, are important to better understand his preserved work and the complexity of his literary work. [...]

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It has long been noticed that more perceptible elements tend to associate to positions that are structurally stronger to the end that several prominent features converge in [...]

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In this brief study we will carefully analyze the uses of arribar and aplegar in mediaeval language from Curial e Güelfa. Our goal is to discover when and up to which extent [...]

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This article relates the activity in the press of the writer Aurora Bertrana with her literature, and it makes evident the interdependence of journalism and literary creation [...]

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This article is an approach to the study of the syntactic positions that parentetic connectors take in oral discourse in Catalan –in sentential segments particularly– [...]

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Mid vowels in stressed position are either closed ore open in Central Catalan, depending on a number of factors. In this paper we examine and discuss several of the proposals [...]

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In order to guarantee better results in the acquisition of foreign languages, there is a generalized trend all over the world which states that the learning of a foreign language [...]