Approaching television violence requires a conceptual and methodological review of the research dedicated to this topic, a review which obliges us to redefine the concept of violence itself and to observe ...

Plato maintains that the sophist practices the art of persuasion,an art which attempts, by use of rhetoric, only to convince the listener, without seeking either justice or virtue in the process. ...

This report presents the main results attained in a study carried out in 2001 by the Violence and Television Research Group at the Blanquerna College of Communication Science dealing with the use of ...

In the hands of certain ‘auteurs’ such as Bresson, Passolini, Allen, Lynch or Von Trier, the cinema addressed to the public at large presents stories from which topics emerge which are raised above ...

Aristotelian pragmatics recommends that, in the exordia, one should expose the facts, while in the epilogue, one should summarize the arguments. Here we can recognize tools that are clearly those of ...

This article attempts to give the lie to one of the funda mental prejudices held about the letters to the editor throughout the decades in the manuals of journalism. This misperception states that the ...

Eugeni Xammar is the most international journalist that Catalonia has ever had. He lived a good part of his life abroad working for all kinds of mass media and political entities. War correspondent ...

The social, cultural and political impact of the process of topicalization and personalization of digitalized information constitutes, in itself, a serious methodological problem, given the enormous ...

Parallel in time though always tending towards esthetic convergence and narrative hybridization, the history of the cinema and the history of advertising continue, against all predictions, to mutually ...