Vol 15, No 29 (2016): Julio-Diciembre

During 1980 decade, there was a rupture in Latin-American communication research, which result was the birth of a new paradigm, which uses an anthropologic conception of culture, from which communicative processes start to be tackled. Contributions of this paradigm to communication for the development, a field that already had a long tradition in Latin America Latina, have been particularly meaningful. This work is devoted to examine and discuss their main backgrounds and to identify and clarify relations among them.

The last two decades have become a very good field for foreign direct investment in Colombia (IED), mainly in natural resources from which the mining extractions have been outstanding. However, due to the characteristic of the country in cultural, hydric, and biodiversity richness, there has appeared a resistance of communities belonging to ethnic groups, peasants, and urban people, stating “no to mining, for the defense of live, territories and common goods.” This article refers to the incidence of the use of communicative collaboration platforms, related to social web, which articulate in the framework of alternative mediations, whose purpose is to active communicative networks helping the fights understood as resistances, focused on stopping the ig mining, installed on the base of policies and norms which introduce themselves in territories impacting the life of diverse population on which this extraction projects fall.

In this article, the concept of gender is tackled as a socio cultural
construction, which determines a hierarchy that includes and put people
on the margin from its representation of male and female acts, ideal
for a social group. Gender discourse differentiation is the product of
several social technologies such as communication media, institutional
discourses, several epistemologies, and daily life actions. The concept of hegemonic masculinity and its representation in audio-visual products
is examined through a semiotic analysis of male characters in the
series Parks and Recreation (Daniels and Schur, 2009). The analysis
offers examples of masculine hierarchy and features of hegemonic,
subordinated, alternative, and marginal masculinities.

The object of this study is to describe social representation about education in mass communication media such as Bio-Bio Radio. With this purpose, a corpus from newspaper articles published in the year 2013, was constructed, which was analyzed with lexicometric procedures and thematic elemental contexts. Through these procedures, it was possible to identify the main agents involved, their impulse topics and to recognize three new clusters, which marked the representation of education during the year 2013: “Mobilization,” “University system,” “Reply of the political system,” with the purpose of tackling the crisis of the education system.

In the current context, audiovisual production and consumption in different screens have been increasing, thanks to the easy access to the audio-visual production technologies and to the low costs in audiovisual productions, which have made possible narrative interests of both professionals and amateurs, who have participated in the production of new formats; one of them, web series.

Nevertheless, at the moment scripts for such formats are being constructed, it has been noticed a notable abscense de literature which provides hints for the creation of serial narrative structure and above all with optimum technical temporalities for the web and mobile devices.

From this statement, this text intends - from a careful revision of some web series at the light of literature in both narrative and audio-visual production, to propose keys for the construction of narrative structures for such an emerging form.

This article poses challenges that the analysis of the current status of environmental culture brings; even when the university is considered the institution for disclosing knowledge and educate citizens who promote ideas, decisions and behaviors contributing to the sustainable environmental development. Environmental realities which originate the current arena were characterized, so from the contribution of interest groups, the construction process of a possible and desirable arena may be started. The documental analysis, revision of courses of study and the survey were the methodological strategies, which contributed to the theoretical documentation, the interpretation of evidences, and the interaction of researchers with actors and their realities.

Results evidenced that in Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Montería campus, man-society-nature relation has been affected by the use and savings of raw materials, energy, and water; solid and liquid residues handling; use common zones; environmental analysis in courses of study; appropriation of the citizen; use of communication for generating social transformation processes, and development of research and social projection projects in environmental issues