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2011 would be remembered as a year packed with protests and world outrage. Images of squares filled with protesters were seen around the world. Since then, this pattern of social demonstration has been happening without interruption. This academic paper analyzes how the Colombian print media covered the Arab Spring. Specifically, this research examines how two Colombian newspapers, El Tiempo and El Espectador, framed the Arab Spring, as starting points of protests. To do this, this research applied a qualitative-quantitative content analysis matrix to the sample. This exploration was complemented by a semiotic analysis of the photographs in order to identify the framing process of these newspapers when covering the Arab protests. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the communication used by an organization (Coffee Growers Committee) with enough symbolic power to influence in the construction of reality. It looks at the strategies developed by Quindío Coffee Growers Committee and how they are in part responsible for what is called coffee culture. It starts doing a theory revision on construction of social or cultural reality and then links it to the communication strategies used in the construction of social reality. The object of research is a column called "Cafetero con garra" (Brave coffee grower) published in an institutional newspaper called "Actualidad Cafetera" (Coffe News) in a period of twenty years. A mix of research techniques were applied in order to do a discourse and content analyses. The results were contrasted to interviews and iconographic analyses. The study found that there were a series of identity features in the Quindío department. It also made evident those organizations with symbolic power which play an important role among society. It allows them to reinforce, by using communicational strategies, cultural features that are also important for organizations, in order to reach their strategic and corporative objectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]