Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

This research analyzes the naturalization and strengthening of the culture of violence in Colombia within the framework of virtual environments, specifically on Facebook. The work corpus consists of publications (videos and photos) whose content denounces alleged thieves through pages or groups dedicated to the "lynching" of alleged criminals in Colombia. The results that are presented correspond to the analysis of user comments on Facebook during the second half of 2015 on the Facebook pages "Report Los Ladrones De Bogotá" and "Ladrones Agarrados Colombia". The methodology used in this study is the “virtual ethnography” model that is developed based on the proposal of Christine Hine and that is combined with the analysis of content based on the organization and ranking of the corpus of comments through the AntConc software. The participation of the ethnographer in digital conversations with “trigger interventions” is also implemented. The monitoring that is done to the community and the comments is ethnographic.

 The present study demonstrates the effects of the use of graphic line on Facebook in the levels of visual identity recall of 111 Ecuadorian restaurants and bars affiliated to Pichincha Chamber of Tourism, province of the Andean region of Ecuaodor. The purpose was to verify the relevance of the task of professional graphic designers within interactive digital spaces. These establishments were classified into two groups, 65 that use graphic lines in this social network and 46 that do not. 385 surveys were done to customers in each group of establishments, 770 in total, that allowed to make comparative tables and conclusions. It was demonstrated that the use of graphic line in the 65 establishments of the first group influences in the levels of remembrance of their visual identity with respect to the 46 establishments of the second group. Therefore, it is concluded that it is necessary to create channels to involve expert graphic designers in the construction of the brand management of the digital marketing processes by tourism companies in the province of Pichincha.

In Ecuador, digital journalism research platforms have emerged due to the support of international cooperation and its lines of interest, mainly because during the 2007-2017 decade, information in traditional media had direct control from the State , which is why the journalistic investigation units saw their work diminished and even died out. Despite having a trained human resource, the journalistic companies did not bet more for the investigation, for which the journalists transferred their work to thematic specialized digital spaces, and which are financed by international cooperation and its main lines of work: fight against corruption, organized crime and trafficking in persons; which has made that the journalistic investigation has left the traditional media and develops in these spaces of specialized cyberjournalism, where the agenda does not arise from a near need but from a global vision or from an external requirement, but that affects in the social reality of the country. The agenda setting of Plan V (www.planv.com.ec), Código Vidrio (www.codigovidrio.com) and Mil hojas (www.milhojas.is) will be analyzed to establish its relationship with the agenda of international donors.

The present article reflects on the moment that the communication lives, at present, by the presence of the prosumers. This analysis aims to explain, from the theoretical base, how in practice the processes of interaction and inter-relationship are produced. It is a study of communicational type, used techniques of collection of quali-quantitative information; and defined as instruments: the survey, the interview and the observation. The researchers set themselves the objective: To determine how future communicators assume the category of prosumers in the context of globalization. Among the relevant results, it was shown that it is essentially young people who generate new communication processes as a pillar of the virtual community.

In the present article, an analysis is made about the power relations, authority and government of the five biggest TI and communications companies of the world in 2017: Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Amazon; from the philosopher-political approach of Plato, Aristotle, Weber, Foucault, Arendt, Luhman and Herrero, in order to establish possible similarities between the politic power and the economical-business power, from the critical postures of Byung-Chul Han, McLuhan, Castells and Negroponte.

The article discusses the relationship between innovation and science fiction narratives. The idea is to show that, although the history of humanity has to do with the invention of technologies, its dynamics, from the economy point of view, is the incessant innovation. This word takes on a new meaning, in today's society, in the Information and Knowledge Society, where innovation is an engine of development and, at the same time, a space of different imaginations. It is in this context that we discuss how literature, particularly science fiction, has such importance in showing technologies, their inventions and innovations, within arguments that enable better meanings. Thus, science fiction literature is a space that produces social imaginaries that, linked to the developments of science and technology, leads to project or anticipate futures.

Humanity lives an accelerated moment. It is not only about speed but continuous acceleration as Moore's Law says: everything doubles every two years and has a lower price than before. Everywhere there is talk of abundance, technology, changes but, above all, innovation. Innovation is the execution of creative ideas; and the orange economy conceives it as a transformation of these ideas to achieve a cultural good or service. But for this, the economy must "return to basics", to understand that it must incorporate the deepest essence of human beings as a fundamental principle to generate a more just society. The values and virtues, so relativized at present, constitute the basis for achieving more innovative organizations and countries and people more aware of solving the particular problem of the less favored areas of the planet.

The economic crisis that began in 2008 and the lack of adequate regulation are causing more and more students and scholarship recipients to see their learning become into work comparable to the professional jobs with salary and rights conditions far removed from those of a dignified employment contract. This dysfunction contributes in a very significant way to the process of job insecurity experienced by the journalistic activity for decades, as well as the consequent impoverishment of the informative quality offered by the media. This article deals with a bibliographical and legislative review on the current imbalances of the journalistic labor market and makes a detailed analysis of its recent evolution based on based on technical documentation such as that offered by the annual reports of the journalistic profession of the last years elaborated by the Press Association of Madrid.

During the last decade, the concept of “precariat”, coined by Guy Standing, has popularized to describe a set of vulnerabilities in post-fordist labor markets that would define a relatively homogeneous emerging social class. One of the main weaknesses of this category is its inability to take charge of the deep differences that exist among the precarious workers themselves and that have to do with structural inequalities related to their family origin, their economic, cultural or symbolic capital and their role in the productive process. This article tries to bring these differences to light by analyzing the selfperception of the precarization process by young spanish people of different social origins.

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