Mercedes Rodríguez Lajo

Convivencia y participación de jóvenes en Sant Boi de Llobregat (Barcelona)

This paper presents the design, implementation and analysis of the results of a survey carried out amongst young people from Sant Boi de Llobregat. The main aim of this study was to diagnose the degree of coexistence and participation of young people aged 14 to16, so as to offer educational proposals for improvement in this area for the development of a more active and engaged citizenship with reality. The data collection tool is a Questionnaire for Coexistence and Participation. The original theoretical framework is based on the idea that in order to develop an active and committed citizenship, coexistence and participation of young people is necessary. The current social and cultural changes give us the opportunity to create new challenges for dialogue between people, but it is also true that diversity makes social relations systems more complex. The results highlight friendship between young people is influenced by their origins, prevailing a climate of coexistence rather than a truly intercultural coexistence. Finally, we see that for youth participation to develop both in the district and at school, prior experience of youth participation is particularly important, the lack of it limiting well-needed community opening at school.

Las imágenes de las mujeres en la publicidad: estereotipos y sesgos

The following lines try to chronicle the more than five-decade process through which Latin American scholars and professionals have gradually sharpened their insights into a new communication for development paradigm, based on grassroots participation and opposed to the dominant one (north american modernization / diffusionism theory). We intend to analyse, synthetically, the contribution of the most significant thinkers and researchers of the region with the aim of evaluating its role in a new approach in development communication, focused in cultural identity, a receiver orientation, participation, dialogue and empowerment.The following article explores some of the analytic units that have become prominent in Marxist epistemology in recent decades (immaterial labour, mass worker, social worker, constituent power, etc.) and connects them in order to explain the consequences of the conflict between the capitalist world economy and the power of antisystemic movements after the ?long 20th century?, focusing on the new class composition that has emerged since the capitalist restructuring of the 1970?s.The main goal of the current work is to present a historical and analitical retrospect of telecommunication in Brazil. Among other aspects, the authors identify elements that will help discuss the role off the regulamentation on the communication sector throught audivisual ?telecommunications? informatics convergence dynamics. The analysis is based in that the convergence problematics must give emphasis on the role that the institutional mechanisms play in the changes that have been happening in the world an especially in Brazil.In the following study we intend to reflect about the development and current state of Communication and Gender studies, and some possible ways to further, update, and orient the future evolution in this field of study in relation to the advances produced within feminist critical theory. Likewise, the interest to incorporate an attentive look at cultural diversity has brought us to approximate to many of the different levels of analysis that constitute this field of study from a concrete perspective, one that departs from the reality of feminine transnational migrations and the increase of cultural diversity in the core of our societies.