Browsing by Subject "Audience"

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    Critical Insights in European Media Literacy Research and Policy
    (Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Fakultet političkih znanosti i Hrvatsko komunikacijsko društvo, 2012) Livingstone, Sonia; Papaioannou, Tao; Grandío, María del Mar; Wijnen, Christine; Información y Documentación
    This special issue of Media Studies turns to theoretical and empirical research for critical insights regarding future directions, with the emphasis on the European perspective and theoretical origins of the concept as well as making particular reference to European policy. As guest editors of this issue, we begin with some observations about the current state of media literacy research as well as its recurrent challenges. We suggest that, notwithstanding the recent explosion of interest in forms of media and digital or information literacies, building on a longer history of research and practical initiatives in media education, the results are uneven at best.
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    "Meet our group!": addressing mulitple audiences on the websites of Spanish research groups.
    (Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2019) Luzón, María José
    Websites offer research groups a powerful tool for self-promotion and dissemination of their research to a diversified audience. The aim of this study is to explore how research groups affiliated to a research institution in a non-Anglophone country compose their websites to achieve visibility and impact and reach multiple audiences. Content analysis of the websites and semi-structured interviews were used to examine the language(s) in which the websites are written and their content. The study shows that through these websites research groups address simultaneously the international disciplinary community and various local audiences and that these audiences shape the choice of language and content. Findings from this study provide insights into new communication and representation practices engaged in by research groups to meet disciplinary goals, requirements for funding, and society’s demands.
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    El nuevo teatro en su entorno: Elementos para su contextualización
    (2015-12-03) Feuillastre, Anne Laure
    The 'New Spanish Theatre' is a little-known theatrical movement. It appeared at the end of the 60's, under Franco's dictatorial government, and marked a break from the previous generation called 'Realists'. It comprises different pieces of work by engaged authors excluded from the public stage due to various political and economic reasons. These were characterized by an avant-garde esthetics, close to absurd and symbolism theatre. Because they were usually neither played nor published, they often did not reach the public. Still, the youngest writers of the 'New Theatre' try to expand their movement through independent groups, alternative circuits or festivals. The audience attending the few shows was very different from those usually going to national and commercial theatre; they were searching for an alternative theatre, esthetically new and politically engaged. By these means, the 'New Spanish Theatre' hoped not to remain in the absurd state of "text theatre".
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    Social media and television: a bibliographic review based on the Web of Science
    (2015-06-03) Segado, Francisco; Grandío, María del Mar; Fernández Gomez, Erika; Información y Documentación
    One of the most important trends in current television research has to do with the increasing impact of social media on viewing and consumption. This article reviews the literature on social media and television included in the Web of Science database from 2005 to 2013 in order to find the main research questions guiding academic research within media studies. The topics investigated included the theoretical approach and definition of social television, the central role of Twitter as the main social tool for second-screen activities, the prominence of “reality TV” as the most social genre on television, and new mainstream forms of television fandom. The conclusion of this article reflects on possible limitations of these studies and new paths of research.
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    Stratégies, audience et lectorat de la littérature diasporique ouest-africaine
    (2018-11-08) Toure Cisse, Fatoumata
    We d i s t i n g u i s h i n t h e Fr e n c h - s p e a k i n g A f r i c a n l i t e r at u r e t wo c at e g o - ries, there are on one hand, the exclusively published literatures in the off-centered countries, and on the other hand, the literatures in link narrow with the French lite - rature. The de fi ned fi rst ones as he literatures of the exigüité like told by François Pare, con fi ne themselves to their zone of production : their authorities of legitimacy conferring them only a vague visibility at the world level. The second group longs to be born in France, to be crowned by the French-Parisian literary fi eld and to integrate the world literature. To do it, the African writers of the Diaspora set up strategies of valuation for their acceptance in the French-speaking literary system. The article analyzes these strategies and these postures of authors’ valuation and esthetic to reach the Republic of Letters.