Abstract This article, grounded in an empirical study carried out in the Tarragona petrochemical ... more Abstract This article, grounded in an empirical study carried out in the Tarragona petrochemical complex (Spain), explores how key actors operating in this specific social and organizational context perceive petrochemical communication activities. Data compiled ...
Roles and channels define professional identity in the web 2.0 environment and practices associat... more Roles and channels define professional identity in the web 2.0 environment and practices associated with topics and sources are constitutive of the roles and identities of traditional journalists. In our research, based on indepth interviews with 12 professional journalists, expert bloggers and hobby bloggers, we describe the difficulties faced by the interviewees when communicating food risks and benefits and discuss their relationships with topics and sources. Differences among and between these actors create distrust, yet what they share offers them new opportunities to cooperate.
This article examines the structure of simulation of two recently published analogic war games on... more This article examines the structure of simulation of two recently published analogic war games on the Spanish Civil War in order to analyse the ways in which they represent the history of the Spanish conflict. The study places the board games as an object of analysis within the field of Game Studies and then undertakes a search of which elements used in the study of video games can be used to approach the analysis of historical board games. The analysis of the ludic structure of these games shows a Civil War initially focused on the chaos on the Republican side, followed by the progression towards the professionalization and militarization of the conflict as the only path to victory. The study shows that the elements of the ludic macrostructure become the means used by the game to delimit the simulation of history, before going on to reflect on the theoretical and cultural implications of this condition.
Los estudios sobre percepción social del riesgo se han solido centrar en el estudio de conflictos... more Los estudios sobre percepción social del riesgo se han solido centrar en el estudio de conflictos sociales motivados por tecnologías y eventos potencialmente peligrosos. En este artículo, en cambio, se intenta comprender por qué en determinados casos la población expuesta a un riesgo evidente no protesta ni se moviliza activamente en su contra. A partir de un estudio de caso en el área petroquímica de Tarragona, con datos de una serie de grupos de discusión (8) y de una encuesta por cuestionario (N=400), se analizan las percepciones y prácticas de la población en relación al riesgo. Los resultados han permitido descartar motivos de ignorancia de los riesgos y ponderar la importancia de los beneficios relacionados con la exposición al riesgo, así como comprender el papel fundamental de la confianza y de la dependencia en un contexto social e institucional caracterizado por una fuerte asimetría en las relaciones de poder.
Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies, 2010
Abstract This article, grounded in an empirical study carried out in the Tarragona petrochemical ... more Abstract This article, grounded in an empirical study carried out in the Tarragona petrochemical complex (Spain), explores how key actors operating in this specific social and organizational context perceive petrochemical communication activities. Data compiled ...
Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies, 2013
ABSTRACT This is a theoretical approach about food conceived as a process of communication. Media... more ABSTRACT This is a theoretical approach about food conceived as a process of communication. Mediatization theory is used to explore long-term changes associated with the media environment. Before, outside, but also inside, the EU institutionalization of the food chain, sense-making regarding food is facing dilemmas of the self in the face of the pressures of late modernity. Additionally, as has occurred in the past, the new media environment is opening up avenues in sense-making logics. Perhaps more than ever in digital late modernity, food chain negotiation, confrontation and choice rely on institutional, corporate and social decision-making processes. Not least, the sense-making of food is driven by innovative consumer-inspired foodways and emerging professional communicator profiles. Disruptions and continuities regarding food are, time and again, nurturing essential dilemmatic thinking. Shaped as they are by contradictory streams, food chain researchers should bear in mind old communicative lessons (continuities) while investing in the new media logics (disruptions). Both constitute fruitful foodways for better understanding how meanings are circulating and changing in our networked times.
Abstract This article, grounded in an empirical study carried out in the Tarragona petrochemical ... more Abstract This article, grounded in an empirical study carried out in the Tarragona petrochemical complex (Spain), explores how key actors operating in this specific social and organizational context perceive petrochemical communication activities. Data compiled ...
Roles and channels define professional identity in the web 2.0 environment and practices associat... more Roles and channels define professional identity in the web 2.0 environment and practices associated with topics and sources are constitutive of the roles and identities of traditional journalists. In our research, based on indepth interviews with 12 professional journalists, expert bloggers and hobby bloggers, we describe the difficulties faced by the interviewees when communicating food risks and benefits and discuss their relationships with topics and sources. Differences among and between these actors create distrust, yet what they share offers them new opportunities to cooperate.
This article examines the structure of simulation of two recently published analogic war games on... more This article examines the structure of simulation of two recently published analogic war games on the Spanish Civil War in order to analyse the ways in which they represent the history of the Spanish conflict. The study places the board games as an object of analysis within the field of Game Studies and then undertakes a search of which elements used in the study of video games can be used to approach the analysis of historical board games. The analysis of the ludic structure of these games shows a Civil War initially focused on the chaos on the Republican side, followed by the progression towards the professionalization and militarization of the conflict as the only path to victory. The study shows that the elements of the ludic macrostructure become the means used by the game to delimit the simulation of history, before going on to reflect on the theoretical and cultural implications of this condition.
Los estudios sobre percepción social del riesgo se han solido centrar en el estudio de conflictos... more Los estudios sobre percepción social del riesgo se han solido centrar en el estudio de conflictos sociales motivados por tecnologías y eventos potencialmente peligrosos. En este artículo, en cambio, se intenta comprender por qué en determinados casos la población expuesta a un riesgo evidente no protesta ni se moviliza activamente en su contra. A partir de un estudio de caso en el área petroquímica de Tarragona, con datos de una serie de grupos de discusión (8) y de una encuesta por cuestionario (N=400), se analizan las percepciones y prácticas de la población en relación al riesgo. Los resultados han permitido descartar motivos de ignorancia de los riesgos y ponderar la importancia de los beneficios relacionados con la exposición al riesgo, así como comprender el papel fundamental de la confianza y de la dependencia en un contexto social e institucional caracterizado por una fuerte asimetría en las relaciones de poder.
Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies, 2010
Abstract This article, grounded in an empirical study carried out in the Tarragona petrochemical ... more Abstract This article, grounded in an empirical study carried out in the Tarragona petrochemical complex (Spain), explores how key actors operating in this specific social and organizational context perceive petrochemical communication activities. Data compiled ...
Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies, 2013
ABSTRACT This is a theoretical approach about food conceived as a process of communication. Media... more ABSTRACT This is a theoretical approach about food conceived as a process of communication. Mediatization theory is used to explore long-term changes associated with the media environment. Before, outside, but also inside, the EU institutionalization of the food chain, sense-making regarding food is facing dilemmas of the self in the face of the pressures of late modernity. Additionally, as has occurred in the past, the new media environment is opening up avenues in sense-making logics. Perhaps more than ever in digital late modernity, food chain negotiation, confrontation and choice rely on institutional, corporate and social decision-making processes. Not least, the sense-making of food is driven by innovative consumer-inspired foodways and emerging professional communicator profiles. Disruptions and continuities regarding food are, time and again, nurturing essential dilemmatic thinking. Shaped as they are by contradictory streams, food chain researchers should bear in mind old communicative lessons (continuities) while investing in the new media logics (disruptions). Both constitute fruitful foodways for better understanding how meanings are circulating and changing in our networked times.
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