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Te objective of this paper is to contribute to the current theoretical and conceptual debates that address the technopolitical phenomenon. Specifically, it addresses the processes of appropriation and use of information and communication technologies that the new indigenous movements carry out in the Latin American continent, whose central purpose is to confront the colonial matrix of power that governs the functioning of the modern-modern-colonial-capitalist world system. It is found that technopolitics emerges as a praxis of antagonistic struggle in contexts of intercultural conflict, which demands the design of research agendas that attend to the specificity of local processes that, "from below", dispute the meaning of interculturality. [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]

The light shed by theories dealing with this issue and the related pedagogical approaches inform this paper, which is intended as a look to the teaching of the communication theories in different communication colleges in Bogotá. It is clear that in any teaching-learning process the student is a fundamental actor; however, the research deals with the tension between two subjects in the process: teachers and programs of communication theories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper was to test the predictive power of the channels of communication used by fitness monitor, the intrinsic motivation and the enjoyment of the activity, in the commitment of fitness. 287 gym fitness were involved in the study to which were analyzed the degree of perceived communication and the communicational barriers with the monitor, the intrinsic motivation, the enjoyment and the level of sport commitment. The result of linear regression analysis showed that the use of channels of communication verbal, no-verbal and the avoidance of communication barriers, as well as high levels of intrinsic motivation and enjoyment during the practice, predicted a future commitment of the participants. In this way, the use of effective communication strategies by the fitness monitor during the interaction with practitioners would increase the motivation of individuals allowing a greater adherence to practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Audience fragmentation has become a recurrent theoretical framework in the early 21st Century, used mainly to depict the new complex and dynamic relationships established between media and consumers. However, some academic studies have been published which expand on the meanings and implications of the so-called fragmentation from the perspective of the audience. This paper is based on empirical research undertaken in Colombia among young people (17-24 year-olds) who live in the ten most important urban areas of this country located at the north-west corner of South America. A mixed methodology was used, combining quantitative and qualitative methods with a statistical sample. Conclusions support a theoretical proposal based on what the authors call the three dimensions of audiences' fragmentation --intramedia, intermedia, and transmedia fragmentation-- as a way to understand the new relationships established between media content producers and active and participative consumers, beyond the media-centrism paradigm and closer to the revival of encoding/decoding communication process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article describes the findings of a research project on youth's practices as expressions of citizenship. Based on or rather starting from the relation communication/politics, our paper is an account of how to identify the processes behind the construction of political agencies by youth collectives. We analyze the organization models, the actions undertaken, and the different forms of communication with which the members of juvenile groups attempt to generate a political agency of sorts vis-àvis the social vindications they demand via collective action. Finally, the paper describes how, through communication processes, the extent and diversity of the participant youngsters citizenship skills. We highlight the problems and difficulties these groups face vis-à-vis their latent presence and permanence in political life as well as the educational potential of such practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the role exerted by the organizational climate as a modulator of communication between leadership and role conflict. To do this, the study involved 315 workers of cooperatives in horticulture. The overall results showed that the weather is an element modulator of communication regarding leadership and role conflict. Specifically, the data indicated that the negative influence of communication in leadership on role conflict increases with increasing perceived supportive climate, weather and climate innovation orientation rules, although with lower modulation effects the first two. We discuss the practical implications of the study, along with the limitations and suggestions for future research arising therefrom. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a new theoretical framework for analyzing linguistic power relations and it examines the linguistic effects of what Anibal Quijano has called coloniality of power. The coloniality of language refers to a process of racialization of colonized people as communicating agents (ie, as potential interlocutors) that begins with the conquest of America and nowadays. The research focuses on the dehumanization of the colonized and enslaved populations, and the concomitant contempt of their languages and social ways of making sense, interpreted as expressions of his inferior 'nature'. The results are an original contribution to the debate on the historical relationship between colonialism, race, ethnicity, and language in America. The argument suggests that there is a connection between the reduction of the colonized and racialized populations to a status of non-humans, as well as a monolingual linguistic ideology that hides colonial oppression dialogically and discursively. [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]

This paper argues that, given the episteme imposed by the West to the native peoples of America, the Mapuche people in Chile has generated a counter-hegemonic strategy of empowerment that sets and reflects a unique intercultural communication system, giving rise to heterogeneous discourses about a new order in the relationships of cultural contact, as evidenced in transversal discursive resources and mechanisms. These elements are part of the resistance strategies oriented to "epistemic detachment" (Mignolo, 2010) of the "colonial matrix of power" (Quijano quoted in Mignolo, 2010), a problem that is studied both in artistic and media discourses that appear in the public sphere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A major challenge we live in today is the definition and establishment of communication object. This paper aims to discuss the issue both as object of the methodology in media processes. We say that the object precedes the method. We can not choose a method if the object is unknown. That takes a little appealed on the issue of method in social sciences and their relationship with the object. The importance of this discussion in the field of communication is related to the problem of today still no clarity about which is the subject of communication. With the emergence of media processes, are called to relate the macro and micro social phenomena. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: Characterizing and evaluating information systems on the health sector in Colombia. Methodology: A conceptual frame that included the legal context of the country and organization of information systems in other countries was developed. Later on, Colombian health information system was characterized starting on interviews with important actors and papers. Finally, the organization of the system, information flows and its strengths and weaknesses were analyzed in order to propose some recommendations. Results and conclusions: information system of the Colombian health sector is divided and evidencing quality issues, as in other countries. The development of a production, diffusion and use of information culture is essential. We must take advantage of the change that is occurring in the health system for improving the information. Capture mechanisms for information require a simplification and standardization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper links information and communications, that is, structure and social processes. Furthermore, it proposes three dimensions vis-à-vis the communication process and its connection to Peirce's abduction and indicial processes. Herein, we also associate communicational dimensions with categories used in social analysis. In short, we attempt an asystemic development of a socio-communicational paradigm as suggested by the propositions of Imre Lakatos. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the last decades an important revision and fragmentation of the history of science canonical narratives -based in the emergence of modern science in the West and its progress towards the establishment of industrial civilization - has taken place. In this paper we intend to analyze some of the most recent historiographical debates from the standing point of our experience as historians of the European "periphery". We will focus on three major questions: the -essentially Anglo-American- claims for the need of a new "big picture" able to connect with wide audiences and to avoid the centrifugal tendencies of specialization; the loss of internationalism in academic output and perspectives, and the current debates on the heyday and decline of the nationstate and its validity as a unit of analysis. As a result of this discussion we suggest a historiographical program based on the use of comparative history together with the analysis of communication processes at different levels - from the local to the transnational. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Far from working-class and peasant struggles against machines and closer to the worries and never-ending debates of the late 80's in the 20th century, herein we focus on the microelectronic and telematic revolutions in the midst of a society that purports to seduce itself and us with the development and growth of digital technologies and intelligent devices; we find it timely to review the pros and cons of what we can call digital dualism, a state of affairs loaded with innovations, statistics, and tendencies that underwrite some sort of technological optimism. This paper raises questions and explores lines of debate which attempt to stray from the techno-phobia and/or the technophilia which has characterized so many debates on the field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reflects about the possible contributions of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology to research on communication. It describes some key ideas developed by the French philosopher about the experience of the body and its perceptive and expressive possibilities. Finally, the paper discusses their methodological implications for research in the field of communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Accepting Javier Garrido's proposal in his book «Proceso humano y gracia de Dios» (1996) the present paper emphasizes certain key points that allow us to understand the matrimonial reality as a process of personalization of the couple and of transsignifying the personal crises and consequently those of the couple, facilitating their transformation into opportunities for consolidating matrimonial and family life. Thus the founding essence of the sacramental character of the marriage bond is attained. The vital process of each person is changing in the way of thinking and acting, both humanly and spiritually, and is essential for acquiring authenticity and human realization. Each human being possesses in itself different perspectives, from which one takes position in face of the world and from which one can overcome different moments of crisis or circumstances that allow to humanize oneself or others according to the way they are assumed. With this proposal of transformation we seek that man and woman enter into a progressive process of assuming the reality of their lives, such as it is, in order to grow in liberty and coherence in the way everyone thinks, feels and wishes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]