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  • Special Issue: Hybridizations and Transmediality between Fictional and Documentary Genres: Images and Critique of Post-Truth
    Vol. 16 No. 7 (2024)

    Monograph coordinators:

    Domingo Sánchez-Mesa (UGR),  ORCID 0000-0003-2242-4421

    María José Sánchez Montes (UGR)  ORCID 0000-0002-0482-8230

    The advent of information and communication technologies was hailed at the turn of the century as a historic opportunity for widespread access to information and knowledge in our modern societies: the utopia of an informed and rational citizenry. Almost at the edge of the second quarter of the 21st century, many of these promises seem chimerical with the increase in misinformation through social networks or the current crisis of trust in the veracity of information or in the relationship of representations based on image, sound, or audiovisual media. Although the phenomenon of the blurry relationship between reality and fiction is not entirely new and refers to discussions that in the West date back to the sophists or Platonic criticism of writing, it is legitimate to ask whether we are facing a real paradigm shift in this regard.

    The critical-cultural perspective we propose from the FicTrans project focuses the analysis on the theoretical foundations and discourses that support both the recent "success" of the concept of post-truth and the set of rhetorical and discursive strategies that operate at the boundaries between fictional and factual genres, trying to explain or subvert dominant perceptions about these boundaries in the current context. This issue, therefore, proposes the critical study of the risks and opportunities emerging from the erasure and increasing loss of boundaries between fiction and non-fiction, with a special focus on contemporary visual culture in its interrelation with the concept of post-truth and the concepts of intermediality or media hybridization.

    On the other hand, as critical theories of mass media communication, new media, and digital cultures have taught us, fiction has always moved and played with border spaces between reality and the fictional construction of that reality. However, in the current visual and media culture, we find a proliferation of works where the hybridization between fiction and non-fiction becomes especially problematic and interesting from a theoretical and critical point of view. The emergence of AI-associated technologies has only exacerbated a trend already observable in the digital horizon of post-photography.

    At the same time, a somewhat opposite phenomenon seems to occur: the increasing difficulty of reading fiction as such, leading not only to confusion of fictional characters and situations as if they were real or historical but also to the controversial and disconcerting phenomenon of new modes of fiction censorship. We understand that a theoretical and critical research effort is necessary on the role played by the hybridization of media and genres from the cultural and technological dynamics that affect inter- and transmedia practices in this context of oscillation between facts and fictions, with their associated discourses and genres.

  • Vol. 16 No. 6 (2024)

  • Special Issue: "Artificial Intelligence and Technological Innovations in social media and Audiovisual Platforms: New Challenges in the Face of a Fake World"
    Vol. 16 No. 5 (2024)

    Monograph coordinators:

    Dr. Víctor Cerdán Martínez, Complutense University of Madrid (Spain).

    Dr. Sergio Arturo Bárcena Juárez, Tecnológico de Monterrey.

  • Vol. 16 No. 4 (2024)

  • Special issue: "Audiovisual content in the new era of screens and mobile devices"
    Vol. 16 No. 3 (2024)

    Dr. Jorge Gallardo-Camacho, Universidad Camilo José Cela

    ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3790-5105

    Dra. Carmen Marta Lazo, Universidad de Zaragoza

    ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0004-1094

    Audiovisual content in the new era of screens and mobile devices.

    The present and the future of Audiovisual Communication and the entertainment industry depend on the consumption of audiovisual content through the different screens and mobile devices to which the Information and Communication Society has access. On the one hand, large media groups are betting on a hybrid strategy of coexistence of linear broadcasting with their strategy of content generation for video platforms (their own or others). On the other hand, new Over The Top (OTT) platforms are emerging and existing ones are continuously adapting to continue growing (Netflix, for example, now includes advertising at a cheaper rate). Finally, in addition to Youtube or Twitch, where video is the basis of their birth, audiovisual content has more and more weight in social networks such as TikTok, Instagram or Twitter and they propose new formulas of entertainment with short contents. It is indisputable that audiovisual content and video have established themselves as the future of the Internet and Audiovisual Communication. Is there an audiovisual production bubble in all areas of the industry? What audiovisual content works best?

    What kind of entertainment do viewers look for when they enter any screen? In this Call For Paper we accept articles that analyze this phenomenon from the point of view of content, screens, consumption and audiences in the field of Audiovisual Communication in general both in the field of traditional television (free-to-air or cable, thematic or generalist, pay or free), OTT or social networks linked to video.

    Thematic lines of articles that can be sent to this Call For Papers:

     

    Traditional linear television and its strategy in the face of the arrival of video platforms 2.
    2.OTT platforms and audiovisual content
    3. Audiovisual content with more audience in the new global context.
    4. Analysis of audiovisual consumption on mobile screens and devices.
    5. Social networks and video use
    6. Audiovisual and entertainment offer in the audiovisual sector
    7. Consumption and audience analysis and studies of the audiovisual market.
    8. Living room television versus the rest of mobile screens.
    9. Global or localized Audiovisual Communication studies in any of these areas of analysis.

    Keywords: Audiovisual content, fiction, entertainment, screens, audiences, mobile devices.

  • Vol. 16 No. 2 (2024)

  • Vol. 16 No. 1 (2024)

  • Monograph: "Gender multiple manifestations"
    Vol. 15 No. 4 (2023)

    Coordinated by:

    Andrea Donofrio and Gretell Lobelle Fernández

  • Monograph: "Cinematographic Codes"
    Vol. 15 No. 3 (2023)

    Coordinated by:

    David Caldevilla Domínguez and José Vicente Villalobos Antúnez

  • Monograph: "The projected image. Elements of persuasion"
    Vol. 15 No. 2 (2023)

    Coordinated by:

    María Isabel Huerta Viesca and Joaquín Sotelo González

  • Monograph: "Challenges of current journalism"
    Vol. 15 No. 1 (2023)

    Coordinated by:

    Francisco Cabezuelo Lorenzo and Ana Cristina del Paso Gallego

  • Monograph: "Technohealth and metahealth. Points of interest in current health"
    Vol. 14 No. 3 (2023)

    Coordinated by:

    Almudena Barrientos-Báez and Luis Felipe Solano Santos

  • Monograph: "New applications of the digital world as communicational vehicle"
    Vol. 14 No. 2 (2023)

    Coordinated by:

    Jelena Bobkina and Soledad María Martínez María-Dolores

  • Monograph: "Discourse control. Trends, topics, causes and effects"
    Vol. 14 No. 1 (2023)

    Coordinated by:

    Javier Abuín Penas and Yudayly Stable Rodríguez

  • Monograph: "Innovative teaching formulas. Teaching is updated"
    Vol. 13 No. 3 (2023)

    Coordinated by:

    Francisco Javier Godoy Martín and Teresa Piñeiro Otero

  • Monograph: "Socio-political behaviors, legislation and Administration-Administration relationship: New discourses"
    Vol. 13 No. 2 (2023)

    Coordinated by:

    Silvia Martínez Martínez and Concepción Parra Meroño

  • Vol. 13 No. 1 (2023)

  • Monograph: "Emotional and Educational Vehicles for an Optimal Personal and Professional Development"
    Vol. 12 No. 5 (2022)

    Coordinated by:

    Carmen Paradinas Márquez and Juan Manuel Corbacho Valencia

  • Monograph: "Legal and Ethical Rules that Regulate Us"
    Vol. 12 No. 4 (2022)

    Coordinated by:

    Magdalena Mut Camacho and  Manuel García Torre

  • Monograph: "New Communication Trends for the 21st Century"
    Vol. 12 No. 3 (2022)

    Coordinated by:

    Graciela Padilla Castillo and Juan José Blázquez Resino

  • Monograph: "Challenges of Written Communication in the Digital Era"
    Vol. 12 No. 2 (2022)

    Coordinated by:

    Isabel Rodrigo Martín and Silvia García Mirón

  • Monograph: "Feminism and Sexism. Gender Awareness"
    Vol. 12 No. 1 (2022)

    Coordinated by:

    Clara Janneth Santos Martínez and Marta Talavera Ortega

  • Monograph: "Cinematographic and Television Languages: their Forms and Contents"
    Vol. 11 No. 4 (2022)

    Coordinated by:

    Enrique Vaquerizo Domínguez and Diana Sánchez Serrano

  • Monograph: "The Presence of Humanistic Contents in Everyday Life"
    Vol. 11 No. 3 (2022)

    Coordinated by:

    Elena Alcalde Peñalver and María Nereida Cea Esteruelas

  • Monograph: "Messages to control the narrative and persuasive communication. Their formulas and speeches"
    Vol. 11 No. 2 (2022)

    Coordinated by:

    Juan Manuel Barceló Sánchez and Carmen Cristófol Rodríguez

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