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This paper examines the web tools used by two Colombian daily papers (El Tiempo, from Bogotá, and El País, from Cali) in order to interact with their readers. For our research we used a matrix to help us classify the abovementioned tools vis-à-vis the different extent of the interactions, the latter understood as the range of possibilities offered by the media to their users in order to modify, produce, and communicate content with both the original transmitters of information and other users. In the case of the papers herein examined, we found that, in spite of the fact that they do offer tools which in fact do bring about interactivity, the latter revolves around three main aspects: adaptability, browsing, and feedback, whereby the user remains at a first level (that of reading the texts) but is not yet allowed to co-produce the content. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Thie main objective of this paper is the conceptual study and characterization of slow journalism from an academic and professional perspective. As a methodological process, a total of 76 files have been analyzed, of which 58 correspond to publications of authors from the academic world and 18 to journalism professionals. Thie publications come from the academic world on information and journalistic quality, on digital journalism and narrative journalism, as emerging journalistic routines with potential and creative dynamics in the media sector. Thie other part of the analysis corresponds to 18 professional journalism experts. Among the most outstanding results is the preeminence of the academic world when it comes to studying the phenomenon, given that among those who practice journalism there is less production of works in this regard compared to those coming from the university environment. Also in academia there is a greater profusion of denominations to refer to the phenomenon in Spanish, although both in academia and in the journalistic profession itself the most commonly used term is the Anglo-Saxon term slow journalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research-creation is a methodological proposal still under construction. It is surprising how the field of communication has been inserted in this discussion, although it was the faculties of arts, architecture and design who, at least in Colombia, initiated the debate that culminated with its institutional recognition. Thiis article makes a state of the art of research-creation in the Colombian audiovisual field, based, first, on a literature review and, second, on a look at the offer of postgraduate training in the country. For the review of scientific publications, the EBSCO and SCOPUS databases were used to retrieve documents in Spanish that included the terms "research + creation". Preference was given to publications containing reflections on the method or the conceptualization of research-creation itself. The final list contemplates a corpus of 65 documents, in which the levels that define the discussion are identified: epistemological, methodological and creative. For the review of the postgraduate offerings, the database of the National System of Higher Education Information -SNIES- was used, where the postgraduate programs that declared some component or emphasis on research-creation were selected. The analysis shows the approaches registered in the identified graduate programs. In sum, this paper aims to contribute to the discussion on the place of communication in the construction of research-creation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Both the call for and the public's answer to the marches of February 4 and March 6, 2008, as far as mobilizations in Colombia go, can be considered the two citizen mobilizations of biggest impact ever. Mass media were decisive actors in both spreading news of the marches and persuading the citizens either to join them or not. The research team of the project Press representations of the social mobilizations of February 4 and March 6, 2008, compiled the news of the marches published in three daily papers distributed nationwide: El Tiempo (the main national paper), El Colombiano (produced in the country's region with the highest social mobilization's rate), and the weekly Voz (which represents left-wing political sectors and is owned by the Communist party). This article presents a classification and categorization of information from a discourse analysis' (DA) perspective and approaches the results obtained by the qualitative categorization of the information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a state of the art on the relationship media-war. It offers a critical review of the studies about this relationship in contexts of armed confrontations, where authorities have tried to exert political influence on journalists, media and public opinion to impose a hegemonic vision for the cause of war. The text emphasizes on the nature of mediatic representations of modern warfare, from a perspective that stresses both the coverage of the war and their regimes of visibility. Finally, it shows the main trends in studies on the coverage of the armed conflict in Colombia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to present the organization and implementation of an immersion course in Spanish as a foreign language (SFL) from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) of Australia, and the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (PUJ), Bogota, Colombia. The course was conducted over two weeks in November 2012, and 10 Australian students participated. We present the experience and its results, among which we highlight the improvement in communicative competences, as well as cultural and intercultural competences of students, especially for having worked aspects intrinsically related such as language and culture. It is concluded that this type of courses allow a greater linguistic development and an invaluable cultural and intercultural learning for students that are in the acquisition process of the so called intercultural communicative competence [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reports on the progress of the research project Youth and honor: media representations of poor young people in Cali, Colombia. A review, systematization and analysis of news records of the four major newspapers in Cali, Colombia, between 1985 and 2009 was performed. These years have been characterized by an escalating violence (social, but also mediatic) among poor young people from different sectors of the city. The article focuses in the ways in which the feminine and masculine bodies appear in the tabloids El Caleño and Q'hubo, and attempts to provide answers to the problem on the relationship (expressive, symbolic, stylistic, etc..) between the body and the identity configuration of Cali. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The idea of considering the relationship established between Youth and Communication springs from the research "Musical Youth Mediations" which explores youth cultural production via the appropriation of alternative media. In this paper, we acknowledge the communicative developments present in web portals and recording studios which have been appropriated by the young and their culture, particularly the hip hop movement in Medellín. We consider this movement is a space that allows for identity ascription and a feeling of belonging, facts which in turn are strengthened by the development of their own languages, and that they help the young in exercising their skills to become active agents in reshaping their lives and their immediate surroundings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Herein we present some features of the epistemological crises in the educational field, behind the notions of development and communication for development; we also outline some emerging outlooks for each of those features. Thus, in this paper, we share some significant experiences in community communication from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Cali campus) as initiatives that attempt to redeploy the value of different knowledge fields, of intercultural education, of new ways of arranging economic and social life beyond development, as well as the value of invigorating and making visible such transformation proposals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper compiles some of the main extant reflections on the teaching of French as a Foreign Language in Colombia and its developments vis-à-vis linguistic policies. Our purpose is to start a research revolution in the teaching of French as a Foreign Language that includes new teaching contexts, such as social practices in and among French and French speaking sectors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents the results of a research work that aimed a comprehensive explanation of the way in which the meanings of the 'Gaitanista' discourse (1928-1948) were and are construed in Colombia from a corpus of texts compiled via three selection criteria: 1. Subjectivizing voice: texts produced by spokepersons that publicly express their intellectual adherence to the 'Gaitanista' movement. 2. Objectivizing voice: historiographic texts characterized by their claim to be scientific truth. 3. Polyphony of voices: texts characterized by their inclusion of diverse voices. The theoretical approach was based on a cross between communication as mediation (Martín-Barbero, 2003) and hegemony theory (Laclau, 2005). The methodological strategy is qualitative and socio-semiotic. As an analytical tool we resorted to a triangulation of qualitative techniques: narrative and discourse analyses. This paper presents a combination of the dialogue between the approaches of Martín-Barbero and Ernesto Laclau, and concludes by gathering the main findings of discourse analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Higher education in Latin America is going through on-going times of change. Such changes seek to enhance the individual's capacity to learn, and this is why education needs to be comprehensive while having an impact on pedagogic models. This paper attempts to conceptually analyze one of the main dimensions of comprehensive education, based on the experience in the Social Communication program offered by the School of Communication and Audiovisual Arts at Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents the results of interpretive documentary research work. Its purpose was to identify topics, research approaches, theoretical referents, and other approaches to the relationship established between communication and development in 29 research papers done in Colombian Social Communication Schools. To begin with, we use as our theoretical framework the evolution of the concept of development (vis-à-vis communication) from the 1950's onwards. Next, we describe the main characteristics and trends of this concept in different universities and in the midst of our complex national context. Finally, we propose methodological, thematic, and possible theoretical paths that could contribute to strengthen the area of communication and development in continuous construction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on cognitive science's postulates, we propose an innovative way to teach journalism. The method stands on three main points: freedom vis-à-vis narrative approaches, playfulness vis-à-vis the appropriation of knowledge, and room for rectification in the process of evaluation. This paper collects the developments of an experience where this teaching method was applied during a class-course of journalism, having previously analyzed the competence and skills with which the students first arrived, and finally proposing a flexible methodology that articulates the contents, the workshops, and work produced with each group's profile. The strategy here set out, was selected as the best educational innovation experience at Universidad del Norte in 2007, and is updated every semester through course feedback. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper attempts to answer the question: What does Colombian society expect from a foreign language teacher today? The question is made in the midst of UNESCO's declaration of 2008 as the International Year of Languages. We deal with the expectations (and demands) which different sectors of society might have of the foreign language teacher and we try to answer from the teacher's perspective based on one main concept: "critical awareness". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article propounds a critical review of the monitoring of the media carried out by MOE (Misión de Observación Electoral) and a group of university professors and student members of AFACOM from 8 different regions during the presidential elections of October, 2007. The paper presents the contextualization of the process, the conceptual components, the methodology used, and the results of both the direct analyses during the campaign and then, later, a more objective analysis of the final results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper seeks to analyze the discourse of the main presidential candidates in Colombia for the 2006-2010 term, as well as that of the journalists who interviewed them on the main radio stations of the country. To cover the problem, we resort to two different analytical perspectives: the theories proposed by Veron and Potter in order to analyze the way speech is constructed, and in particular, the rhetoric it is based on. Furthermore, Bourdieu's sociological theory is employed to better understand how the speakers' profession and modus operandi influence the way they construct their discourses. After examining more than 20 interviews, it is possible to attest that a common structure exists in the electoral and journalistic discourses studied. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper shows how local radio stations that foster citizen participation and public opinion can develop into agents of social mobilization, as long they hold a broad notion of democracy. The article gives an account of the involvement that the ECCO research group (Universidad del Cauca, Colombia) has had in the project "Citizen radio: Room for democracy", where researchers have given support to local radio stations and have sought to understand how these media conceive, assume and work towards ideas of local democracy, public opinion and citizen participation. On addition to this, the text describes the transformations in the process of production of local radio. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on in-depth interviews following categories of class, generation and gender, the paper explores the arrival and diffusion of television in the city of Cali (Colombia) between 1954 and 1970. Memories about this slow and uneven process are interpreted within a framework that includes central features of modernization in the region such as the transformation of domestic areas, the acquisition of home appliances, and the revaluation of female labour, among others. Through a detailed description of the role of television in multiples areas of daily life, the study examines the process of incorporation of communication technologies into domestic spheres, understood as an area of convergence for public and private life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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