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Against the historical background of the systematic sexual violation of Korean women perpetrated by Japan during World War II, as well as the subsequent silence of the Tokyo Tribunal on the crimes and the continued activism of survivors for the recognition of violations and compensation, the article seeks to answer the research problem: having as reference the work Grass, by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, what can be concluded about the role of literature in the process of struggle for human rights? From an understanding of human rights as a process of opening spaces for struggle, according to David Sánchez Rubio; considering the contributions of Walter Benjamin's thought in his theses II, VIII and IX On the concept of History; and based on studies of Law and Literature, it is concluded that literature can be a mechanism for the reaffirmation of human rights by opening spaces for recognition, claiming memory and fighting for reparations, in resistance to attempts at historical erasure at times legitimized or facilitated by the law.

Brazil is experiencing an escalation of discourses that call for authoritarian measures with the supposed purpose of containing social violence. Based on the text Mineirinho, by Clarice Lispector, I discuss the ethical question that arises in the face of the permanent state of exception that was evidenced, once again, in the recent massacre in Jacarezinho. The central thesis consists in pointing out that the exception is, in fact, desired, in order to test some hypotheses for the causes of this paradox. The study is constituted in the articulation between law and literature and in the philosophy of Giorgio Agamben.

The COVID-19 pandemic changed the professional practices in the communication sector. Before a situation of lockdown and extension of the health crisis, organizations and journalists had to adapt to a new situation where online press conferences became a usual tool to get information. This research aims to analyze the way that press offices use this resource and the opinion of journalists in Andalusia. For this purpose, this research follows a descriptive study based on a quantitative methodology with the survey as the main technique, answered by 188 journalists from all Andalusian provinces. Results show that online press conferences are a very useful tool both for organizations and journalists, although it also outlines certain concern for media journalists mostly about the necessity of accessing to the sources and the possibility of questioning the representatives when it is considered that they have avoided the answer.

This article analyzes the treatment of cannabis in the Spanish newspapers El País, El Mundo, ABC and La Razón between January 1 and December 31, 2019. Using a content analysis methodology, the sources, the authorship of the texts and the dominant thematic areas in the aforementioned newspapers are identified. The conclusions show an increase in interpretative genres (report and interview), especially in research topics and the use of specialized sources (Experts, Scientists and Institutions). In terms of subject, the analyzed newspapers give priority to information on the regulation of cannabis in different countries, as well as the jurisdiction systems that affect the use of medicinal or recreational cannabis. This is followed by Research, Health/Medicine or addictions. Likewise, there is an absence of information on addiction and dependence prevention campaigns promoted by institutions aimed at delaying the age at which cannabis consumption begins.

The scientific interest in the institutional communication of universities is increasingly notable. However, there are no bibliometric studies published in journals indexed in Scopus and WOS that allow us to know the development of scientific production in the field. Thus, this work aims to make a first analysis of the scientific production on the institutional communication of universities during the last 30 years. Four aspects were studied through a quantitative and descriptive methodology: articles, journals, authors, and content. Findings show a state of accelerated growth in this area of study, although it is still in a consolidation phase.

This article presents the results of a survey of 719 followers of The Newsroom (HBO) in Spain. The study examines identification with favorite characters and recognition of journalistic roles in audiovisual fiction. The results present six different profiles of fans based on their opinion of the series (realistic, idealistic, critical, or didactic) and their occupation (communicators, students, or general public). Among the followers, who have a strong and positive emotional involvement with the series, the perception prevails that it offers an idealized vision of the profession. The most recognized roles in The Newsroom are participatory journalist, journalist as a watchdog, and citizen mobilizer.

The aim of this research is to delve deeper into the concepts of loyalty and animosity in football at the regional level to establish a novel typification of their indicators. Through surveys carried out in person in two Andalusian cities (Malaga and Granada) with teams in the first division of the Professional Football League of almost one thousand fans in the 2016/17 season, we demonstrate the existence of a loyalty based on exclusivity and a classification of animosity based on dependent variables such as exclusivity, intensity, and directionality. The results show that there is a unique and shared loyalty and different types of animosity categorised in terms of those three variables at different levels among Málaga and Granada fans. Through the categorisation of the concepts, a model of analysis is proposed that can be implemented in different geographical areas.

In the twenty-first century, a new comedy is prominent inside media and academic circles. It is the case of the fiction series produced by Marvel Studios and Walt Disney Company: WandaVision (Shaeffer, 2021). This paper aims to know the audiovisual factors used by the cited television project regarding the meta-television and the representation of sitcom format. A qualitative methodology is applied to review the literature related to and analyse the production, filmmaking, and narrative strategies in the TV series. Findings show an adjustment of each episode to the sitcoms’ parameters along the time, from the 1950s to the present day. In so doing, the narrative uses meta-television tools and Marvel universe storylines. In conclusion, WandaVision changes the classic parameters of the sitcom with an innovative, attractive and interesting production for viewers and scholars.

This quantitative research analyzed the narratives of the news posted on the Facebook accounts of the main Chilean media during the beginnings of pandemic. The purpose was to characterize these discursive strategies in relation with the seminality, that is to say, their ability to encourage the users’ participation, reacting, sharing and commenting. With a discourse and frequency analysis, it was possible to determine that traditional journalistic narratives were the most recurrent ones. However, they tended to increase their seminality when the rhetorical, connotative and digital resources were added. Furthermore, the cataphoric deixis was used to motivate the users to review the content of the attached links and it could also be associated with a higher seminality.  These results suggest the importance of promoting the inherent narratives to the digital interfaces, in order to improve the discursive interaction of the users with the news, besides the data delivery.

This study focuses on how Netflix Spain harnessed Instagram to acquaint young people with its catalogue during the Covid-19 pandemic, with the sudden increase in OTT consumption. This led Netflix Spain to adapt its social media strategies and production release dates to a situation without parallel and in the face of intense competition. We analyze the messages during the state of alarm in Spain (from 15 March to 21 June of 2020), when Netflix was the most consumed OTT service. Netflix promoted recently released productions and used proximity strategies, both to GenZ and to Spanish audience, such as toning down with humor the daily problems of lockdown, using juvenile slang (“crush”, “shipping”), referring to the habits of young people (taking selfies, sending audio messages) and using the social media of the cast of their most popular series, promoting them as “Netflix celebrities” and emphasizing their good-looks and sexual attractive.