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

This research investigates the sport practice through the lens of gender on digital platforms. Since they are involved in the construction of corporeality, sports tend to reproduce socially dominant values about what being a woman, or a man means. Consequently, the idea that there are «feminine sports» and «masculine sports» is widespread. Specifically, sporting practices through the phenomenon of social media challenges are focused. These are highly correlated with concepts such as challenge and performance, in which gender, too, is enacted. The aim is to explore to what extent these sport challenges promote predominant ideas about femininity and masculinity, and in what cases they question them. To achieve these objectives, we used a dataset of about one thousand videos, shared on four social networking platforms during the period between 1 January 2020 and 31 January 2021. From this dataset, 136 social media challenges marked for «sport,» «physical ability,» or «fitness» were selected. Content analysis, chosen as the method of analysis, shows how through these new challenges traditional gender differences are perpetuated and promoted rather than challenged. In this regard, although digital platforms have created new symbolic and expressive spaces in which once unthinkable forms of self-representation and interaction can be implemented and new possibilities of agency are developed, sport social media challenges do not yet appear to be fully involved in that process.

The use of social networks for political communication purposes has become widespread in recent years, in parallel with the growing presence of these networks in our lives. In this study we are going to focus on the use Vox has made of social networks to get closer to voters and get the largest number of followers of all the parties that are involved in the national electoral panorama of the year 2019. The specific network used by Vox for his political marketing has been Instagram. Instagram is a social network with great implantation among certain sectors of the population, especially among young people of voting age, and there are more and more studies being done on its use in political communication. In this work we seek to find some of the keys that explain how the use of this network by Vox, a party until then with very little presence in public life, contributed to this political actor breaking into the Spanish scene with force, being the party with the most followers on Instagram during the two electoral campaigns of 2019. We examine the characteristics of Vox messages on Instagram during the two electoral processes for the Spanish Parliament of 2019, comparing both campaigns. The study of this case, applying content analysis to its messages, allows us to observe that Vox has been able to generate its own agenda without hardly having a presence in the conventional media. The publications show a clear intention of personalizing the party and showing a position of equality before the citizen. The messages seek to give them a feeling of closeness. In the second campaign, progress in the professionalization of the communication department is noted, after increasing its budget by obtaining political representation, making more publications, of higher quality and with more post-production.

This article reflects on the approximations between the assumptions that constitute the perspective of Environmental Journalism and Paulo Freire’s thought, who turned 100 in 2021. For this, it carries out bibliographical research to understand the affinity of Paulo Freire’s ideas with epistemological aspects that guide this journalistic practice in a specific way, such as the responsibility for the change in thinking, the emphasis on contextualizing information and the plurality of voices consulted for journalistic coverage. In this sense, it observes the adherence to the critique of coloniality in the Latin American context, and the emphasis given to dialogicity, to the appreciation of experience, and to emancipation and liberation, fundamental elements in the author’s work. Such points of convergence reinforce Environmental Journalism’s commitment to a paradigm change in thinking, especially with regard to the society-nature relationship, valuing the dialogue of knowledge and sustaining decolonial criticism in the production of qualified information that can emancipate citizens. It concludes that Freire’s dialogic perspective can contribute to the practice of Environmental Journalism, since its theory defends the transition to a world of environmental protection and social justice.

Social networks have become one of the main ways for traditional media to disseminate content. The latest to join them is the Chinese TikTok, which has become a mass phenomenon thanks to the so-called «Generation Z» and the months of pandemic confinement. However, these environments in which young people spend so much time have also become disseminators of hate speech, including that against women, misogyny. The present research explores through focus groups the perception by young people of this type of messages on TikTok, particularly in the profiles of the Spanish press. In turn, it verifies with a quantitative analysis whether in the contents of these profiles users leave sexist or misogynist messages. It also proposes the following classification of these messages: non-sexist/misogynist, sexist/sexism benevolent, hate/misogynist, harassment and threats. It is concluded that the Spanish press profiles on TikTok are environments practically free of hate messages against women, coinciding with the perception expressed by young people.

This article analyses some issues in which the presumptions of patriarchy are still perceived in communication. Specifically, it focuses on the construction of gender identity in the model of patriarchal heteronormativity and the treatment of gender violence. A micromachist (instances of male chauvinism) gaze persists, illustrating the persistence of an inequality that has been filtered through the times of political correctness. Reversing these cultural inertias requires communicative creativity in order to highlight other ways of approaching the problems, with a broader vision than the episodic account of these events that allows us to reach the cultural roots of these problems. The media manage the symbolic wealth of gender identities in the social imaginary. We propose an integrating vision of equality that overcomes the hierarchical vision between the qualities associated with the masculine and the feminine in a common vital horizon of the human. This mutation of machismo in democratic times can be more difficult to detect and combat because it is integrated into social dynamics and is made invisible. This article reviews in four points these patriarchal reflexes in the communication realm that still persist today based on some cases and, in its conclusion, it exposes the failure of the patriarchal model of masculinity.

The teaching linked to the media structure presents a procedural difficulty for communication professors at a university level, both because it is a living matter and because of the complexity of the content for students, whose daily dynamics and interests are far removed from the action of the media market. However, in the studies published on the subject in the Spanish context, this reality has only been reflected from the point of view of the teaching staff. For this reason, this research seeks to fill a theoretical gap and focuses on the students’ viewpoint, with the aim of discovering their perceptions and feelings about the subject. Thus, based on the case study of the subject ‘Global Media Structure’, taught in the communication degrees of the University of Castilla-La Mancha, an exploratory analysis was carried out in which two alternate questionnaires were distributed, before and after the teaching period, among the students enrolled during the year 2022. The results indicate that most students approach the subject with prejudices. However, after the teaching process, they recognize the interest of the subject and highlight its utility as communicators and citizens.

Various studies have highlighted how the media representation of the judiciary in Italy has shifted from the exaltation of judges who worked on cases of relevant public interest (for example, the Tangentopoli case) to a growing conflict between the judicial body and the political elite. This work focuses on the representation of the judge Ilda Boccassini by four Italian national newspapers during 2011, the year in which she conducted the investigations relating to the «Ruby trial», against the defendant Silvio Berlusconi. The analysis intends to investigate, using the methodology of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), the press frames referring to a female judge conveyed in newspapers of different political affiliation. The study builds on other research on the media coverage of judicial investigations in Italy, that have demonstrated the existence of a strong political instrumentalization of judicial events (Mancini 2018; Mazzoni et al., 2017) and politicization and instrumentalization of the media representation of the professional category of magistrates (Priulla, 2014). This study will highlight how the professionalism and competence of Boccassini were poorly represented in the Italian press, while a prevalent use of gender stereotypes and an instrumental attention to the judge’s private life can be detected.  

The motherhood role models most popularized in the media since the late 80s urged women to sacrifice not only their professional careers, but also their identity as individuals for their children while, in contradiction, encouraging them to be ambitious and competitive in a traditionally masculinized work environment. This model has been questioned in audio visual fiction during the last decade, especially through proposals made by women filmmakers thanks to their gradual incorporation into the film industry. This article analyses, under the framework of Film Studies and Feminist Studies, the representation of motherhood and mobility through Marsella (Belén Macias, 2014), in which foster motherhood and motherhood of origin come into conflict to explore diversity and break ideals on a scenario of mobility that forces the limits of the characters. From a feminine point of view, the film examines that motherhood lived in the so-called non-places that seeks the absent fatherhood, highlighting the contrast between two different conceptions under the same essence: the tapestry of the figure of the mother.

This case study aimed to understand how parents act over the behavior of their children on the YouTube platform. This is a quantitative descriptive research. Data collection was carried out through a questionnaire that was applied to parents of students from public and private schools in the city of Poços de Caldas, located in Minas de Gerais, Brazil. As a theoretical reference, the presence of childhood in contemporary digital media was discussed based on the guidelines of Tomé and Borges (2019) given its relevance in unraveling how parents monitor and mediate this process; as well as the parenting styles of Baumrind (1991) in order to identify which type of behavior of those responsible was more present among the responses and results obtained and elucidated by this study. In addition, the need for children to develop media skills based on Potter (2015) was discussed. It was assumed that there would be differences in mediation and parenting styles based on socioeconomic issues. Statistical analysis of data and variables showed that there are small differences in mediation regarding gender: since mothers have greater participation in mediating children and are characterized by managing a symbolic responsibility for their behavior on the platform; while parents have a material responsibility in the sense of providing their daughters with digital technological devices that allow them to access and navigate the web.

In recent years, both the consumption and production of audio broadcasts created for internet consumption has increased, as can be seen in the main audio broadcasting platforms. Podcasting has reached a very high level of popularity and technical production based on an increasingly specialised narrative, due to the maturity reached by the format and the diversity of the content offered, which ranges from domestic productions to professional radio programmes. We also find that these formats have more and more broadcasting spaces to offer their content, either free or paid to a growing number of users. When it seems that the humanities, social sciences, and history are not the most attractive subjects for citizens, we find in the podcast format a technology and narrative structures that make these contents more accessible, regardless of the audience’s level of specialisation. In this paper we approach history podcasts as a tool with very interesting characteristics for the dissemination of highly specialized content that found it difficult to find a place in the content of the media. In this way, we present a study on the ability of history-themed podcasts to transmit specialized content in an informative way, closer to the listener and enjoyable. For this, we carry out a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the most listened to history podcasts in Spain, their characteristics, and themes, in such a way that it has been possible to establish a typical profile of content production in this format.