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

This article will investigate the possibilities of the novel as a method of knowledge as presented by Julián Marías (1950). This method of the Spanish philosopher will be described in the introduction. The second section of the article will be dedicated to the analysis of a character from the novel Sotileza, by José María de Pereda (1954). The philosophical theoretical framework that will guide the interpretation of the novel will be the Neoclassical Natural Law Theory, presented in the second section. In the third section the narrative structure of reason will be compared to the narrative structure of human life in order to verify whether (and how) the basic human goods described by the Neoclassical Natural Law Theory are perceived and sought in time – dramatically. The conclusion of the article will take care of the reverberations of this research in the ethical understanding of human rights.

This text aims to contribute to overcoming a double deficit present in the bibliographic productions that combine Law & Art, related both to the absence of theoretical-methodological frameworks appropriate to such articulations, as well as the absence of a social theory that serves as a backdrop for them. background. Based on this problem, the reader is presented with the positions of some of the main names in Marxism and the first generation of critical theory regarding theory and aesthetic criticism, which can be appropriated by research in Law & Literature, Cinema, Music, and beyond.

Citizen correspondence sections (letters from readers) constitute a singular element in the communication arsenal of the press media. This research quantitatively analyzes the content of these exchange spaces with recipients in five Cuban newspapers —Granma, Juventud Rebelde, Trabajadores, Guerrillero, and Mayabeque— during the second semester of 2018. For this, said content was divided into two categories: complaints from citizenship and responses from institutions, of which a set of eleven indicators / variables were examined. The results show interesting aspects of the link between the population and public institutions on the Island, a context in which officially recognized communication is controlled in its entirety by the Communist Party of Cuba [PCC], the only legal one since 1965.

Disinformation represents one of the main challenges for journalism. However, there is little research that investigates journalists’ perspectives on this phenomenon. To address this gap, a survey with a non-probabilistic sampling was applied to journalists in Mexico (N = 127) between April and May 2021. Results indicate that journalists consider that the proliferation of disinformation is serious and that the political use of the term fake news can decrease the impact of their work and credibility in the media. Participants blame new phenomena in communication for the problem, particularly social media, which are the outlets where they most find disinformation. Furthermore, they recognize that journalism’s failures contribute to the problem and also detect false news in traditional media. However, the solutions they favor are directed at the individual, preferring training measures for journalists and the public.

This paper analyzes the communicative management on Twitter of the terrorist attacks that occurred in La Rambla in Barcelona and in Cambrils on 17 and 18 August 2017. The use made of the platform by the competent public institutions in charge of emergency management is investigated. The analysis focuses on the period between 17 and 24 August. The study uses mixed methodology, using quantitative analysis of Twitter metrics and content analysis as main research techniques. It is concluded that Civil Protection and Mossos de Esquadra were the leading managers of the crisis. Nonetheless, the profiles of the National Police, Civil Guard and the Ministry of the Interior were the most viral. Finally, it should be noted that the information transmitted by political-institutional profiles such as the Ministry of the Interior and the ministries was of little public interest, falling into "overexposure of politics."

In recent decades, different national and international organizations have reflected, through documents and recommendations, the importance of media-related training in the comprehensive development of students, referring to it with various conceptualizations. However, despite the importance of media competence in education, and having been supported by theory, its learning by students should continue to progress hand in hand with media such as school broadcasting radios that have shown their great possibilities in the acquisition of knowledge and development of skills of the students. Therefore, the objective of this research is to assess the effects of school radio on the development of media competence in students, through 18 indicators related to the four key competences included in the current educational legal framework: linguistic competence, digital competence, social and civic competence and competence of the sense of initiative and entrepreneurial spirit. Because of this, a qualitative research has been developed based on the answers to an open response questionnaire by teachers responsible for school radio projects in primary and secondary schools. The results of this research show the positive effects that working with radio stations in these educational centers has on the different competences, since the effects are positive in all indicators, except in the use of the school library and ICT, in which effect produced is neutral. These results confirm the importance of school radio to develop the four competencies related to media competence, which must serve for the advancement of school radio in the future and increase its presence in student learning.

The objective of this research is based on the hypothesis that there are enough technological reasons to suggest that the digital ecosystem has influenced journalism in general and sports journalism in particular. In this sense, it is important to clarify how the elements that constitute the personality of this new digital ecosystem influence the audience. To do this, we have made an interactive map that has allowed us to measure the penetration of digitization in the world of sports journalism and the possible influence of the pandemic. The main conclusion is that there is a general increase in users of technology use in January 2020 compared to January 2019. Of the observed media, only a few decrease the number of users in the period studied and most of them maintain or increase the users, so we conclude that the digital ecosystem plays a decisive role in the consumption of sports media.

The main objective of this research is to identify the news consumption preferences of Spanish citizens, taking into account the choice of channels and journalistic brands, as well as the reasons that justify them. The conditions that motivate media subscription are also analyzed and the use of digital channels and mobile devices to access news is evaluated. This quantitative research is based on a survey addressed to the universe of Spanish citizens of legal age (n=700). The results reveal that Spanish citizens prefer traditional media and brands and their digital editions for information, although digital native media occupy a relevant place. Internet and mobile devices are normalized as ways of accessing news and its consumption through social networks is the predominant among the younger population. Trust and proximity are the main reasons for the choice of news media and channels.

This research studies and analyzes the proposals related to citizen participation and innovation actions in 13 regional Public Service Media corporations that belong to the Spanish audiovisual map. After an examination of the scientific literature on citizen participation and public media, the comparative study and content analysis of the activity of public corporations in Spain, and within semi-structured interviews to innovation and participation managers in public media, we analyze their involvement with this task of renewing formats and narratives. Beyond the well-intentioned initial statements, there is a lack of proposals and coordination between them, and a manifest lack of relationship between the budgets and the generation of alternative content. This research ends with the proposal of a series of actions to implement citizen participation and the development of innovation initiatives, among which the need to incorporate media literacy as a central objective of the PSM stands out.

The objective of this study is to analyze how Covid-19 has impacted Spanish audiovisual production. A quantitative and textual analysis is carried out of the news appeared in national media and in the Spanish language that expressly refer to audiovisual productions during the pandemic. The analyzed period begins on March 11, 2020 and ends one year later. The search for content on audiovisual productions and Covid-19 is carried out for all Spanish media through the Factiva® database. 525 records are obtained which have been examined using the T-LAB software. The results reveal that the largest number of news items refer to the suspension of film and television productions that were taking place at that time. The press focuses on the shooting phase, leaving aside factors such as the exhibition of productions.