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

The democratic Transition is a key period in the citizenship education of our students, as it is the milestone that shapes the current democratic system. This article intends to carry out a study of the way in which the Transition is studied in High School. To do this, we will analyze what continues to be the main pedagogical instrument: the textbook. From a compilation of 12 textbooks, its structure, content, iconography, and activities will be analyzed, as well as the use given by teachers, taking the Autonomous Community of Cantabria as frame of reference. This approach will allow us to know the narratives and pedagogies through which a large part of our students learn the history of the Transition.  

Journalism occupies an important place in the career of the Spanish writer Juan José Millás (Valencia, 1946). This author has combined the publication of his novels with an extensive career in the Spanish media and became a regular columnist for the newspaper El País and an essential reporter for the supplement El País Semanal. These journalistic texts have structural, linguistic, and discursive similarities with his fiction novels. However, among all the similarities, the theme of identity is the most significant. The theme of identity runs through all his works and lays the foundations for substantial elements such as selecting characters or the story’s focus. This article proposes a qualitative textual and semiotic analysis of the non-fiction novel Hay algo que no es como me dicen: el caso Nevenka Fernández contra la realidad to make an extensive study on this topic and demonstrate the connections between his literature and his journalism, in which Millás reflects on identity and the factors involved in its construction.

Prostitution has been a key subject in Latin American literature, but it seems to have a different development in the context of crónicas. This study describes the place of prostitution as a theme within crónicas in the Souther Cone in the twentieth century through a review of the literary and journalistic works of a variety of authors. The article shows that, in many cases, the same novelists who wrote their fiction presenting the brothel and its characters with a keen eye and in precise detail did not cover the same terrain in their copious non-fiction. Furthermore, in that context, it highlights and analyzes the literary non-fiction piece The Road to Buenos Aires, by Londres, as a forerunner in the region in terms of theme and author’s positioning. We suggest that the place of the crónica’s author as character, witness, complainant, and “liable” pushed writers away from addressing a world they knew by heart in their non-fiction works. In the light of the evolution of Latin American crónica in the second half of the twentieth century, the article claims that prostitution is a theme and a lense allowing us to understand the foundamental changes in non-fiction writing in the continent.

Hate  has  become  an  important  element  used  in  populist  politicians’  discourse to support their agenda. This is the case of the Mexican president, Lopez Obrador (AMLO). He has used official channels and social media to verbally harass his critics and the opposition. One distinctive element in AMLO’s media strategy is “La Mañanera,” a daily morning conference where  he  informs  about  his  national  agenda.  However,  this  space  has  served  to  exculpate  his  relatives  and  party  members  from  the  misuse  of  public  money  and  to  openly  criticize  journalists,  social  organizations,  opponents  and,  since  June  2021,  the  Mexican  middle  class.  This  article  uses   the   Discourse-Historical   Approach   (DHA)   framework   to   study   the  discursive  construction  of  “middle  class”  under  the  scope  of  López  Obrador’s  speech  in  Las  Mañaneras.  To  analyze  how  AMLO  uses  social  resentment to attack the members of this social sector, and what are the main rhetorical elements employed towards the middle class under López Obrador  discourse.  As  final  outcomes  will  show,  what  is  remarkable  about AMLO’s speeches towards the middle class is the ability of populist governments  to  use  traditional  stereotypes,  collective  resentment,  and  a  partial interpretation of national history to harass dissents and preserve public approval.

This article reflects on the epistemological contributions of ethnography to literary journalism. The objective is to incorporate the reflective gaze into the debate on literary journalism. It is argued that journalism based on a reflective gaze is a participatory exercise in which subjects, through an exercise of intersubjectivity, try to interpret, narrate and create a world in common. The exercise is dialogical. It is the result of active listening and the assumption that the journalist is neither passive nor external to what she experiences and narrates. The proposal radically changes the logics of hyper-simulation. It allows the community to appropriate the here and now and abandon the continuous present. The article argues that it is the function of literary journalism to be an alternative to the meta-narrative of accelerated capitalism in the digital age and to highlight the illusion constructed on platforms by capitalism. The reflective gaze provides the epistemological framework to do this.

Depopulation   has   become   a   public   problem   in   Spain.   However,   scientific   literature   on  Communication   has   not   yet   paid   sufficient   attention  to  this  phenomenon.  This  paper presents  a  bibliographic  review  using  mapping  technique  and  addresses  works  focused  on  the overlapping   between   depopulation   and communication. We have utilised Geography of Communication to structure this review and to try to detect priority perspectives and thematic gaps. The review focuses on two approaches: the analysis of representations of depopulated territory and  the  structure  of  the  media  in  the  affected  areas.  The  mapping  shows  disparate  production,  focused  on  case  studies,  with  no  unifying  theoretical paradigm,  given  the  recent  attention  paid  to  this  object  of  study.  Although  this  dispersion  makes  it  difficult  to  establish  coherent  conclusions between   the   findings,   an   emerging   and   scientifically   relevant area has been detected meriting exploration of the link between mediatisation  and  depopulation  as  a demographic  and  socio-cultural  phenomenon.   The   discussion   proposes   potential   lines   of   research   that  could  shed  light  on  the  impact  of  media  factors  on  depopulation  processes and on the cultures and experiences of these communities.

The   present   study   addresses   the   use   of   fear-generating   strategies   and  techniques  related  to  the  theory  of  propaganda  in  audio-visual  productions,  focusing  on  the  analysis  of  the  dystopian  series  known  as  The Handmaid’s Tale. Although fear is commonly used in propaganda as  a  tool  for  social  control  and  political  domination,  this  study  asks  whether  it  is  used  in  the  political  systems  represented  in  audio-visual  dystopias,  as  these  are  reflections  of  current  fears  of  a  catastrophic  future.  To  achieve  this  objective,  the  study  herein  uses  content  analysis  applied  to  the  first  three  seasons  of  the  aforementioned  series  through  scenes  in  which  Fred  Waterford,  Serena  Joy  and  Aunt  Lydia  appear  in  the narrative as representatives of Gilead.

The university system has had to unexpectedly face a complicated process since the first state of alarm was decreed in Spain throughout the 2020/2021 academic year. This longitudinal study focuses on analysing the impact of the pandemic on the YouTube channels of Spanish public universities. To this end, data was collected on the presence, influence, and intensity of each YouTube channel, and we identified the themes of the videos shared during the study period. The videos with the most views have also been analysed to determine the content type with the most significant impact. The results indicate that from March 2020 until July 2021, the activity on these channels increased, mainly in terms of subscribers and views. It also confirms that COVID-19 monopolised much of these channels’ content during the first state of alarm, followed by a decreasing trend. Thus, the COVID-19 pandemic transformed public universities’ use of their YouTube channels. In addition, this situation also altered the channels’ consumption trends.

Citizens’  immersion  in  interactive  media,  especially  that  of  young  people,   suggests   the   need   to   review   and   adapt   the   teaching   methodologies used in universities, bringing them closer to informal learning  environments.  This  work  focuses  on  assessing  teaching  pills as a resource in the university setting by means of case analysis. Firstly,   by   means   of   a   questionnaire,   the   utility   and   difficulty   expressed  by  students  faced  with  teaching  by  audiovisual  pills  is  evaluated,  as  is  the  relation  between  these  two  variables.  Audience  reception of the videos is then analysed using the YouTube Analytics tool.   The   results   demonstrate   a   favourable   opinion   of   utility,   a   medium-high level of difficulty and the lack of any relation between the two variables. Furthermore, the results show a common viewing pattern characterised by a drop in audience during the first second, sustained attention maintained for the following minutes, with peaks in viewing figures attributable to the repetition of specific fragments, and a loss of audience in the final moments. We conclude that a time limit on teaching videos  is  not  determinant  for  their  viewing,  interest  in  the  content  having greater relevance.