Risk, Crisis and Conflict Communication

Introduction

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Monographic theme: Risk, Crisis and Conflict Communication

Barcelona in the eyes of foreign journalists during the Spanish Civil War

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Historiography has significantly neglected the presence of foreign women journalists in the Civil War, ignoring information about the conflict with nuances clearly differentiated from the dominant narrative. However, nearly two hundred women testified to their passage through the Iberian Peninsula, more interested in the effects of war than military culture. Most of them were in Barcelona and focused, among other aspects, on life in the city, the aerial bombing of the civilian population, the bloody events of May 1937 and the departure of the Republicans towards France.

Bernardo Díaz Nosty
Communicating climate change: from disaster to risk

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Climate change is a risk and a transdisciplinary, pragmatic and constitutive communication phenomenon. From risk to crisis or emergency to disaster, this article offers a critical overview, given the explosion of this issue among and between communities of social scientists. Focused on the dilemmas in risk and environmental communication or disaster risk reduction, climate change communication is suggested as a point of confluence, a key to turning knowledge into action. Ideas communicated about climate change become the means of anticipating and expressing the future in our present.

Jordi Farré Coma
Is Peace Journalism Possible in Indian Journalism? Perceptions of a Select Few Indian Journalists

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The present study is the first ever attempt to discern if peace journalism, by far the most well-known in media studies for being largely devoted to media portrayals of external conflicts between nations, could be applied to the Indian media in the context of expanding Indian journalism since globalization. The study is also the first ever approach to shed light on India’s past ethos, drawn from its spiritual texts and discourses, and to delineate the long history of Indian journalism (Murthy, 2010; 2017) which constantly violated the practice of peace advocated in the ancient Indian spiritual texts. Adopting a multi-perspectival approach combining both hermeneutics and discourse methods as applicable to interviews, the study elicited answers to an unstructured questionnaire from some prominent Southern journalists. The findings suggest that the Indian journalists’ view of ‘peace journalism’, contrary to how it was understood to sound in the West, is not relevant to Indian journalism by scope, definition, and extent.

C. S. H. N. Murthy
Crisis communication and thematic transfer by the Spanish government during COVID-19

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The results of this study show that the government’s communication strategy has certain shortcomings, such as the high presence of assumptions and contradictions. Likewise, themes like the constant update of deaths and hospitalisations are prioritised, as well as news related to the State Security Forces and Corps. In order to analyse the general features of the government's communication strategy, the press conferences of the Technical Management Committee for the coronavirus and the president of the Spanish Executive during the first few weeks of the state of alarm were watched with the goal of studying to what extent they follow the recommendations of crisis communication and to determine the main themes that appear.

Jaume Doménech-Beltrán
Infodemic management in Catalonia in the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic

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During the spring of 2022, we interviewed different public workers responsible for managing the Covid-19 infodemic, with the aim of documenting and studying how several units of the Generalitat de Catalunya (Government of Catalonia) acted to mitigate the effects of the infodemic. We then met with representatives of the two main fact-checking organisations in Catalonia to identify how they had responded to the infodemic and what we could learn. This local study allows us to understand the behaviour of the Catalan community and to adapt interventions, as most previous studies are based on the English-speaking community.

Sergi Xaudiera
The process of news production in confluence with political and social conflicts. The case of TV3 journalists and the Catalan sovereignty process.

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The sovereignty process in Catalonia was a political and social movement that defended the right to decide and the independence of this territory, which led to a confrontation between the Spanish state and the Catalan government. The Spanish and Catalan media played a crucial role in the media coverage due to their proximity to the conflict and, at the same time, they were at the centre of the public debate. This research takes TV3 and its journalists as a case study to find out how the political and social context conditioned the journalistic narrative and what external and internal factors intervened. Through semi-structured interviews with eleven journalists, including editors and editors of TV3 news programmes, diverse aspects can be identified that allow us to conclude that the journalistic sources, the work routines and the responsibility of TV3 as a public medium were the main factors that intervened in the news production.

Gemma Palà

Articles

Audiences and streamers on Twitch: consumption and production patterns in the Spanish-speaking world

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In the context of the struggle for audience attention, Twitch has gained ground by offering live broadcasts of user-generated content. This article quantifies this platform by focusing on the Spanish-speaking community, specifically by analysing the broadcast patterns of streamers, audience distribution and consumption cycles. The results show massive, consolidated audiences with cyclical patterns, as well as clear differences between amateur and professional creators; the latter capture the majority of the audience and have generated production routines comparable those in the TV industry.

Adrián Padilla Molina i Celina Navarro
EduMediaTest, a tool in the service of media competence. Project report, results and recommendations

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EduMediaTest is a free interactive digital tool to assess and train the media competence of European students aged 14 to 18. The project, within the framework of a European call for proposals, has been led by the Catalan Audiovisual Council, with the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, five European audiovisual regulators and two educational organisations. It consists of a fun-interactive survey and flexible training material on every dimension of media competence. In May 2021, 8,699 students answered the survey, of which 1,192 were from Catalonia. The analysis of the results concludes that there is an urgent need to improve media literacy skills among young Catalans and Europeans, especially those related to the production and dissemination of messages.

Joan Ferrés i Prats, Alba Ambròs i Pallarès, i Mònica Figueras Maz
Young people, feminism and self-representation on Instagram: challenges and recommendations

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This article investigates, from a gender perspective, the creation of content on Instagram by young women to contrast how they understand and live feminism and how they self-represent themselves on this social network. Through a virtual ethnography, a content analysis of Instagram posts, and six in-depth interviews, it highlights how the everyday practice of feminism becomes complex with the impact of social media. We propose different challenges and recommendations to work on the creation of content from digital competencies.

Ariadna Santos, Marta Narberhaus i Ariadna Fernández-Planells
Audio description, subjectivity and film experience

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This article discusses the audio description (AD) of films in Catalonia. After a review of the regulatory framework governing this practice, it highlights the contradiction between the demand for objectivity in the current regulations and the highly connotative nature of film language. Following this, it presents the findings of a reception study that tests three AD styles with visually impaired people: a conventional style and two interpretative styles, narrative AD and cinematic AD. The results show that interpretative AD styles are a valid alternative, which could help to improve the film experience of visually impaired people.

Floriane Bardini

Critical Book Reviews

Moragas Spà, M. de. La Comunicación y sus cambios. De los orígenes al móvil

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Josep Lluís Gómez Mompart
Francès, M., Franquet, R. i Torres, G.(Coords.). Los retos de la televisión pública ante la multififusión digital

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Cristina Froilan Rodríguez
Micó, J. Ll. Titulars i reserves. Cròniques entre la derrota i la remuntada

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Joaquín Marqués-Pasqual

Agenda

Book Review

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Journal Review

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Website Review

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Manuscript submission guidelines

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Books Review guidelines

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