Dedicated to the dissemination of scholarly and professional information, Purdue University Press... more Dedicated to the dissemination of scholarly and professional information, Purdue University Press selects, develops, and distributes quality resources in several key subject areas for which its parent university is famous, including business, technology, health, veterinary medicine, and other selected disciplines in the humanities and sciences. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, the peer-reviewed, full-text, and open-access learned journal in the humanities and social sciences, publishes new scholarship following tenets of the discipline of comparative literature and the field of cultural studies designated as "comparative cultural studies." Publications in the journal are indexed in the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (Chadwyck-Healey), the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (Thomson Reuters ISI), the Humanities Index (Wilson), Humanities International Complete (EBSCO), the International Bibliography of the Modern Language Association of America, and Scopus (Elsevier). The journal is affiliated with the Purdue University Press monograph series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies. Contact:
Climate change and water security are among the grand challenges of the 21st century, but literac... more Climate change and water security are among the grand challenges of the 21st century, but literacy on these matters among high-school students is often unsystematic and/or far from the real world. To contribute advancing education in a warming climate and prepare next generations to play their role in future societies, we designed "Water and Us", a three-module initiative focusing on the natural and anthropogenic water cycle, climate change, and conflicts. The method of Water and Us resolves around storytelling to aid understanding and generate new knowledge, learning by doing, a flipped classroom environment, and a constant link to the real world-such as the archetypal events of the California snow drought or the seeds of conflicts around transnational river basins. Water and Us was established in 2021, and since then has involved 200+ students in a proof of concept to test the didactic approach in small-scale experiments. Results from 40+ hours of events confirm that students are generally aware of climate change (90%), but have sparse knowledge of the concrete actions that are in place to mitigate or adapt (up to 20%). Understanding of the water cycle by students is often anchored to a naturalistic, but fictitious view where human interference is minimal. Our approach conveys key elements of the contemporary, natural/anthropogenic water cycle, how this cycle is challenged by warmer temperatures and declining snowpacks, and how education can contribute to avoiding maladaptation and conflicts. While this initiative is being channelled in awareness projects at various levels, the Water and Us team remains interested in networking with colleagues and potential recipients to scale up and further develop this work. Prologue: a tale of water and snow Winter 2021-22 hit the ground running in Italy, with the first snowflakes falling across the Alps in early November. Snow returned between November and early December, when a second large storm hit most Italian mountain ranges. Early snowfalls peaked on December 8, when snow reached sea level and covered many of our cities (thoughtfully doing so during a national holiday rather than on a busy workday!). After two winters of lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Italians were finally enjoying snow at its best. Unfortunately, the season did not proceed as we hoped, and this wet start gave way to a prolonged, and similarly unusual, dry and warm period. Due to a persistent barrier of warm air on the western Mediterranean Sea (meteorologists call it a high-1
El texto analiza el papel de las redes sociales digitales y en general de las nuevas tecnologías ... more El texto analiza el papel de las redes sociales digitales y en general de las nuevas tecnologías en la comunicación para el desarrollo y el cambio social. El espacio público mediatizado está modificando profundamente los procesos comunicativos actuales, y los movimientos de protesta y reivindicación a los que estamos asistiendo a nivel global parecen estar estrechamente relacionados con las transformaciones tecnológicas. En este contexto, las ONGD se encuentran en una encrucijada, enfrentándose al reto de utilizar las tecnologías contemporáneas de la comunicación para seguir manteniendo su papel mediador en los procesos de cambio social. Analizando los estudios sobre los nuevos modelos comunicativos de las ONGD, resulta una cierta dificultad de adaptación a este nuevo contexto, especialmente en el uso de las redes sociales, que sin embargo parecen haber sido la clave de éxito de los movimientos como las primaveras árabes o el 15M en España. Siguiendo los estudiosos de las relaciones...
El presente texto es una traducción adaptada y actualizada del Background Information Report (BIR... more El presente texto es una traducción adaptada y actualizada del Background Information Report (BIR, en sus siglas en inglés), el primer documento público realizado en el ámbito del proyecto de investigación europeo MEDIADEM (Revisión de las políticas europeas sobre medios de comunicación: Evaluación y exigencia de medios libres e independientes en las democracias europeas: FP7-SSH-2009-A, núm. 244365, http://www.mediadem.eliamep.gr). Publicado en su versión original en inglés en el sitio de Internet del proyecto en Octubre de 2010 - junto a sus homólogos del resto de países participantes -, representa un primer acercamiento a la situación de los medios de comunicación en España, descrita con sus peculiaridades políticas, económicas, culturales y sociales. Se ha dado amplio espacio al recorrido histórico de los medios de comunicación, debido a la importancia que las vicisitudes pasadas mantienen en la situación actual. Ello es así, en especial, durante el periodo de la dictadura franq...
<div> <div> <div> <p... more <div> <div> <div> <p><strong>Context. </strong>Water is the most proximal concept for all human beings, and yet many of us struggle to realize the importance of proper water resources management, as well as the breadth and depth of growing water conflicts in a warming climate. This is particularly true for young students, since they will see impacts of climate change first-hand.</p> <p><strong>Goal and recipients. </strong>Within “Water and Us”, we educate next generations on the correct (and incorrect) ways in which water is currently managed. This is done to instill the need for a sustainable use of water resources, in the hope that this will help neutralize incorrect policies, economic conflicts and tensions around water. Current recipients are high school students, but we are also experimenting with elementary students and adult audiences.</p> <p><strong>Method.</strong> Rather than providing ready-to-use recipes or a traditional, lecture-style approach, the signature of Water and Us is to put students at the center of a participatory, laboratory- based process geared towards the evaluation of new solutions for water management. Through a process of learning by doing, we reflect on recurring questions like <em>“what does it mean to manage water resources? How do human activities affect the water cycle? What are the expected impacts of climate change and the associated solutions for sustainable development in a warmer world?”.</em></p> <p>Structure. The first module is dedicated to understanding the water cycle – a cycle that will be “rewritten” with the students themselves based on their own experience and knowledge. The goal is to show how the same term “water resource” has many different meanings, sometimes even in conflict with each other. The second module will be dedicated to to sharpen students’ understanding of the most common and recurring terms and expressions surrounding the issue of water resources and climate change: an opportunity to confer a more precise meaning to expressions like the Paris Agreement, droughts, water conflicts, Next Generation EU, which are used almost daily in the media but that are not always easy to place in the overall picture. The <em>third </em>module, finally, is a synthesis of the previous ones and focuses on the still little-known theme of socio-political, juridical, and technical water conflicts and how they are increasingly fuelled by the effects of climate change.</p> <p>Innovativeness. Each meeting starts with a real-life story, lasting about 20 minutes, and then moves on with a workshop lasting about 30 minutes, so that listeners can immediately put themselves at the centre of the problem. This method promotes awareness on the issue of water management and stimulates the design of consensus-based, innovative solutions for community’s benefit.</p> <p>In this presentation, we will share lessons learned by the first pilots of “Water and Us” in Liguria, Italy, as well as plans to upscale and export this experience to other audiences.</p> </div> </div> </div>
Our research takes place in the context of a discipline kwown as Communication for Development, s... more Our research takes place in the context of a discipline kwown as Communication for Development, sited inside the field of Communication for Social Change, characterized by the use of interpersonal ad mass communication theories and tools, applyied to international development cooperation. Our study aims at pointing out a change of paradigm in this field: our object is Public Administration’s communication, therefore, what we suggest is a shift from Communication for Development, to Development Communication. The object of our study, hence, becomes the discourse itself, in its double action of representation and construction of reality. In particular, we are interested in the discourse’s tribute to the creation of a collective immagination, wich is the perspective towards which we have oriented the analysis, through a structuralist semoitics-based methodology integrated with a socio-semiotic approach. Taking into consideartion the fact that in our contemporary society (that is to say...
RESUMEN En este artículo tratamos los resultados de un trabajo semiótico de investigación sobre l... more RESUMEN En este artículo tratamos los resultados de un trabajo semiótico de investigación sobre los discursos informativos relativos a las protestas sobre la reforma educativa en España. La elección de estos con tenidos responde al objetivo de dar cuenta de las distintas perspectivas propuestas por los actores invo lucrados, y consecuentemente de sus narraciones. Al mismo tiempo, se pretende dibujar un mapa del conflicto sobre este asunto "controvertido", donde los marcos de sentido, los puntos de vista son fruto de la lucha para la construcción del mismo llevada a cabo por los actores involucrados.
Antecedentes: El cambio de los discursos sobre las emergencias humanitarias en las ultimas decada... more Antecedentes: El cambio de los discursos sobre las emergencias humanitarias en las ultimas decadas ha estado motivado, entre otros factores, por el incremento de los desastres ambientales, en tipo y ubicacion geografica, asi como por una sensibilizacion paulatina con respecto al cambio climatico, las situaciones de emergencia y las crisis humanitarias subsiguientes. Actualmente, el trabajo de las ONGD se enfrenta a un nuevo contexto, ya que las catastrofes ambientales a gran escala afectan no solo a los paises pobres, sino tambien a otros con altos niveles de desarrollo y riqueza. Ante esta situacion, junto con la consolidacion de un espacio globalizado e interactivo a traves de las redes sociales, las ONGD estan readaptando sus estrategias discursivas, incorporando un marco de escala global que, por un lado, toma en consideracion las diferencias estructurales entre las diversas poblaciones del planeta y por otro se acomoda a los instrumentos mediaticos que facilitan las redes socia...
Resumen. Mediante el estudio de una controversia sobre educación en dos diarios españoles, analiz... more Resumen. Mediante el estudio de una controversia sobre educación en dos diarios españoles, analizamos el proceso mediante el que el relato informativo de un asunto polémico contribuye a la construcción de una controversia, al mismo tiempo que esta condiciona la construcción del relato informativo. Se observa como el relato informativo se distingue del de ficción, en especial, por su dependencia de la cotidianidad. El principio y el final del relato, los hechos narrados, la reacción de los sujetos del discurso y de los lectores y coherencia de los hechos, constituyen factores que escapan al control del narrador. Mientras, mantiene el control de aspectos como enmarcado, perspectiva, punto de vista del relato o elección de las voces y estrategias para dar coherencia al relato. Se construyen dos relatos: uno narrado de forma aparentemente objetiva, definible desde el discurso, y otro «inencontrable» en el discurso en el que el medio aparece como actor de la controversia. Palabras clave: Esfera pública; controversia; narración; mediatización; relato informativo. [en] News story and construction of a controversy on education Abstract. Through the study of a controversy about education in two Spanish newspapers, we analyze the process by which the news story of a polemic issue contributes to the construction of a controversy, at the same time that this controversy determines the construction of the news story. The results show that the news story presents peculiarities that distinguish it from the narrative of fiction, showing in particular the dependence of the events of the daily life that determine the processes of narrative construction. In this sense, the beginning and end of the story, the narrated facts, the reaction either of the subjects of the discourse and the readers, as well as the coherence of the facts, are among other factors beyond the media control. Nevertheless, the media maintains the control of other aspects as fundamental as framing, perspective and point of view of the story, the choice of the voices and the use of different strategies to give coherence to the story or to resolve its contradictions. What we have finally found are in fact two different stories: one narrated in a seemingly objective way, definable from the discourse, and another "not found" in the story in which the media appears as the agent of the controversy. _____________ 1 Este trabajo forma parte del proyecto de investigación I+D titulado «La construcción de los asuntos públicos en la esfera pública mediatizada», subvencionado por el Gobierno español (CSO2013-45726-R).
Dedicated to the dissemination of scholarly and professional information, Purdue University Press... more Dedicated to the dissemination of scholarly and professional information, Purdue University Press selects, develops, and distributes quality resources in several key subject areas for which its parent university is famous, including business, technology, health, veterinary medicine, and other selected disciplines in the humanities and sciences. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, the peer-reviewed, full-text, and open-access learned journal in the humanities and social sciences, publishes new scholarship following tenets of the discipline of comparative literature and the field of cultural studies designated as "comparative cultural studies." Publications in the journal are indexed in the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (Chadwyck-Healey), the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (Thomson Reuters ISI), the Humanities Index (Wilson), Humanities International Complete (EBSCO), the International Bibliography of the Modern Language Association of America, and Scopus (Elsevier). The journal is affiliated with the Purdue University Press monograph series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies. Contact:
Climate change and water security are among the grand challenges of the 21st century, but literac... more Climate change and water security are among the grand challenges of the 21st century, but literacy on these matters among high-school students is often unsystematic and/or far from the real world. To contribute advancing education in a warming climate and prepare next generations to play their role in future societies, we designed "Water and Us", a three-module initiative focusing on the natural and anthropogenic water cycle, climate change, and conflicts. The method of Water and Us resolves around storytelling to aid understanding and generate new knowledge, learning by doing, a flipped classroom environment, and a constant link to the real world-such as the archetypal events of the California snow drought or the seeds of conflicts around transnational river basins. Water and Us was established in 2021, and since then has involved 200+ students in a proof of concept to test the didactic approach in small-scale experiments. Results from 40+ hours of events confirm that students are generally aware of climate change (90%), but have sparse knowledge of the concrete actions that are in place to mitigate or adapt (up to 20%). Understanding of the water cycle by students is often anchored to a naturalistic, but fictitious view where human interference is minimal. Our approach conveys key elements of the contemporary, natural/anthropogenic water cycle, how this cycle is challenged by warmer temperatures and declining snowpacks, and how education can contribute to avoiding maladaptation and conflicts. While this initiative is being channelled in awareness projects at various levels, the Water and Us team remains interested in networking with colleagues and potential recipients to scale up and further develop this work. Prologue: a tale of water and snow Winter 2021-22 hit the ground running in Italy, with the first snowflakes falling across the Alps in early November. Snow returned between November and early December, when a second large storm hit most Italian mountain ranges. Early snowfalls peaked on December 8, when snow reached sea level and covered many of our cities (thoughtfully doing so during a national holiday rather than on a busy workday!). After two winters of lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Italians were finally enjoying snow at its best. Unfortunately, the season did not proceed as we hoped, and this wet start gave way to a prolonged, and similarly unusual, dry and warm period. Due to a persistent barrier of warm air on the western Mediterranean Sea (meteorologists call it a high-1
El texto analiza el papel de las redes sociales digitales y en general de las nuevas tecnologías ... more El texto analiza el papel de las redes sociales digitales y en general de las nuevas tecnologías en la comunicación para el desarrollo y el cambio social. El espacio público mediatizado está modificando profundamente los procesos comunicativos actuales, y los movimientos de protesta y reivindicación a los que estamos asistiendo a nivel global parecen estar estrechamente relacionados con las transformaciones tecnológicas. En este contexto, las ONGD se encuentran en una encrucijada, enfrentándose al reto de utilizar las tecnologías contemporáneas de la comunicación para seguir manteniendo su papel mediador en los procesos de cambio social. Analizando los estudios sobre los nuevos modelos comunicativos de las ONGD, resulta una cierta dificultad de adaptación a este nuevo contexto, especialmente en el uso de las redes sociales, que sin embargo parecen haber sido la clave de éxito de los movimientos como las primaveras árabes o el 15M en España. Siguiendo los estudiosos de las relaciones...
El presente texto es una traducción adaptada y actualizada del Background Information Report (BIR... more El presente texto es una traducción adaptada y actualizada del Background Information Report (BIR, en sus siglas en inglés), el primer documento público realizado en el ámbito del proyecto de investigación europeo MEDIADEM (Revisión de las políticas europeas sobre medios de comunicación: Evaluación y exigencia de medios libres e independientes en las democracias europeas: FP7-SSH-2009-A, núm. 244365, http://www.mediadem.eliamep.gr). Publicado en su versión original en inglés en el sitio de Internet del proyecto en Octubre de 2010 - junto a sus homólogos del resto de países participantes -, representa un primer acercamiento a la situación de los medios de comunicación en España, descrita con sus peculiaridades políticas, económicas, culturales y sociales. Se ha dado amplio espacio al recorrido histórico de los medios de comunicación, debido a la importancia que las vicisitudes pasadas mantienen en la situación actual. Ello es así, en especial, durante el periodo de la dictadura franq...
<div> <div> <div> <p... more <div> <div> <div> <p><strong>Context. </strong>Water is the most proximal concept for all human beings, and yet many of us struggle to realize the importance of proper water resources management, as well as the breadth and depth of growing water conflicts in a warming climate. This is particularly true for young students, since they will see impacts of climate change first-hand.</p> <p><strong>Goal and recipients. </strong>Within “Water and Us”, we educate next generations on the correct (and incorrect) ways in which water is currently managed. This is done to instill the need for a sustainable use of water resources, in the hope that this will help neutralize incorrect policies, economic conflicts and tensions around water. Current recipients are high school students, but we are also experimenting with elementary students and adult audiences.</p> <p><strong>Method.</strong> Rather than providing ready-to-use recipes or a traditional, lecture-style approach, the signature of Water and Us is to put students at the center of a participatory, laboratory- based process geared towards the evaluation of new solutions for water management. Through a process of learning by doing, we reflect on recurring questions like <em>“what does it mean to manage water resources? How do human activities affect the water cycle? What are the expected impacts of climate change and the associated solutions for sustainable development in a warmer world?”.</em></p> <p>Structure. The first module is dedicated to understanding the water cycle – a cycle that will be “rewritten” with the students themselves based on their own experience and knowledge. The goal is to show how the same term “water resource” has many different meanings, sometimes even in conflict with each other. The second module will be dedicated to to sharpen students’ understanding of the most common and recurring terms and expressions surrounding the issue of water resources and climate change: an opportunity to confer a more precise meaning to expressions like the Paris Agreement, droughts, water conflicts, Next Generation EU, which are used almost daily in the media but that are not always easy to place in the overall picture. The <em>third </em>module, finally, is a synthesis of the previous ones and focuses on the still little-known theme of socio-political, juridical, and technical water conflicts and how they are increasingly fuelled by the effects of climate change.</p> <p>Innovativeness. Each meeting starts with a real-life story, lasting about 20 minutes, and then moves on with a workshop lasting about 30 minutes, so that listeners can immediately put themselves at the centre of the problem. This method promotes awareness on the issue of water management and stimulates the design of consensus-based, innovative solutions for community’s benefit.</p> <p>In this presentation, we will share lessons learned by the first pilots of “Water and Us” in Liguria, Italy, as well as plans to upscale and export this experience to other audiences.</p> </div> </div> </div>
Our research takes place in the context of a discipline kwown as Communication for Development, s... more Our research takes place in the context of a discipline kwown as Communication for Development, sited inside the field of Communication for Social Change, characterized by the use of interpersonal ad mass communication theories and tools, applyied to international development cooperation. Our study aims at pointing out a change of paradigm in this field: our object is Public Administration’s communication, therefore, what we suggest is a shift from Communication for Development, to Development Communication. The object of our study, hence, becomes the discourse itself, in its double action of representation and construction of reality. In particular, we are interested in the discourse’s tribute to the creation of a collective immagination, wich is the perspective towards which we have oriented the analysis, through a structuralist semoitics-based methodology integrated with a socio-semiotic approach. Taking into consideartion the fact that in our contemporary society (that is to say...
RESUMEN En este artículo tratamos los resultados de un trabajo semiótico de investigación sobre l... more RESUMEN En este artículo tratamos los resultados de un trabajo semiótico de investigación sobre los discursos informativos relativos a las protestas sobre la reforma educativa en España. La elección de estos con tenidos responde al objetivo de dar cuenta de las distintas perspectivas propuestas por los actores invo lucrados, y consecuentemente de sus narraciones. Al mismo tiempo, se pretende dibujar un mapa del conflicto sobre este asunto "controvertido", donde los marcos de sentido, los puntos de vista son fruto de la lucha para la construcción del mismo llevada a cabo por los actores involucrados.
Antecedentes: El cambio de los discursos sobre las emergencias humanitarias en las ultimas decada... more Antecedentes: El cambio de los discursos sobre las emergencias humanitarias en las ultimas decadas ha estado motivado, entre otros factores, por el incremento de los desastres ambientales, en tipo y ubicacion geografica, asi como por una sensibilizacion paulatina con respecto al cambio climatico, las situaciones de emergencia y las crisis humanitarias subsiguientes. Actualmente, el trabajo de las ONGD se enfrenta a un nuevo contexto, ya que las catastrofes ambientales a gran escala afectan no solo a los paises pobres, sino tambien a otros con altos niveles de desarrollo y riqueza. Ante esta situacion, junto con la consolidacion de un espacio globalizado e interactivo a traves de las redes sociales, las ONGD estan readaptando sus estrategias discursivas, incorporando un marco de escala global que, por un lado, toma en consideracion las diferencias estructurales entre las diversas poblaciones del planeta y por otro se acomoda a los instrumentos mediaticos que facilitan las redes socia...
Resumen. Mediante el estudio de una controversia sobre educación en dos diarios españoles, analiz... more Resumen. Mediante el estudio de una controversia sobre educación en dos diarios españoles, analizamos el proceso mediante el que el relato informativo de un asunto polémico contribuye a la construcción de una controversia, al mismo tiempo que esta condiciona la construcción del relato informativo. Se observa como el relato informativo se distingue del de ficción, en especial, por su dependencia de la cotidianidad. El principio y el final del relato, los hechos narrados, la reacción de los sujetos del discurso y de los lectores y coherencia de los hechos, constituyen factores que escapan al control del narrador. Mientras, mantiene el control de aspectos como enmarcado, perspectiva, punto de vista del relato o elección de las voces y estrategias para dar coherencia al relato. Se construyen dos relatos: uno narrado de forma aparentemente objetiva, definible desde el discurso, y otro «inencontrable» en el discurso en el que el medio aparece como actor de la controversia. Palabras clave: Esfera pública; controversia; narración; mediatización; relato informativo. [en] News story and construction of a controversy on education Abstract. Through the study of a controversy about education in two Spanish newspapers, we analyze the process by which the news story of a polemic issue contributes to the construction of a controversy, at the same time that this controversy determines the construction of the news story. The results show that the news story presents peculiarities that distinguish it from the narrative of fiction, showing in particular the dependence of the events of the daily life that determine the processes of narrative construction. In this sense, the beginning and end of the story, the narrated facts, the reaction either of the subjects of the discourse and the readers, as well as the coherence of the facts, are among other factors beyond the media control. Nevertheless, the media maintains the control of other aspects as fundamental as framing, perspective and point of view of the story, the choice of the voices and the use of different strategies to give coherence to the story or to resolve its contradictions. What we have finally found are in fact two different stories: one narrated in a seemingly objective way, definable from the discourse, and another "not found" in the story in which the media appears as the agent of the controversy. _____________ 1 Este trabajo forma parte del proyecto de investigación I+D titulado «La construcción de los asuntos públicos en la esfera pública mediatizada», subvencionado por el Gobierno español (CSO2013-45726-R).
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