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The new trend of politically polarized media in Spain has led the authors of this paper to rethink the relationship between media and citizens within selective exposure, perception and retention theory and its influence on electoral behavior. The selection of political information contents by citizens during electoral campaigns forms a diet that influences their votes. Therefore, this research article attempts to clarify the relationship between the consumption of political information from mass media and the voters' electoral behavior amid the new media reality of the country. For this, and per the post-electoral surveys of the Center for Sociological Research (CIS, for its acronym in Spanish), it studies the effects of citizens' media exposure during the 2015 and 2016 general elections on voting. In these years, there was a crisis in the party system in Spain after several decades of bipartisanship and institutional stability. The results allow concluding that the political discussion in the country builds on two lines of confrontation: ideological (left-right) and territorial, which politically polarizes those citizens from territories with their own identity (mainly Catalonia). Media positively influence the political narrative since voters consume political information from related media as a symbol of electoral reaffirmation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Multimedia convergence and the arrival of the Internet in the audiovisual market have affected the patterns of consumption and reception of content in the family environment and in the media literacy processes of minors. Despite the fact that the figures for linear television consumption by the youngest children remain unchanged, the progressive penetration of audiovisual platforms in Spanish households is undeniable, and the role played by parents/guardians is fundamental. The aim of this research is to identify the practices of use in these platforms by children of infant and primary school in Spain, and to analyse the parental mediation systems in the new scenario of media convergence, based on a descriptive study carried out with 431 parents or tutors. To carry it out, the Qualtrics methodological tool has been used, by means of the application of a questionnaire through a snowball sampling. After the analysis of the results, important changes were observed in parental mediation, in accordance with the progressive increase in the age of the children, although the most frequent regulation in both age groups is linked to the time that the parents or guardians allow the children to pass through the different devices, rather than in the restrictions around the contents. Moreover, there are no significant differences in the type of audiovisual products they consume on linear television and OTT platforms, with children's series and films predominating at the earliest ages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Multi-screening is an emergent but fast-growing and fast-changing practice, evolving along with the technologies that mediate it. This article presents a study on multi-screening, i.e., simultaneously or sequentially engaging with more than one screened-media. Based on the uses and gratifications theory, our study focused on the most common multi-screening scenario--engaging with the smartphone while watching TV--in order to explore triggers, motivations, gratifications, and attention distribution. The methodology is qualitative in nature, including ethnographic journals and follow-up interviews to a sample of 30 young adults, and the data was collected in Portugal and Spain. The activities performed on each device are usually disconnected and motivated by the need to enhance the entertainment afforded by the TV or to obtain a sense of efficiency. The attention is distributed in alternated periods, and the smartphone has a greater ability of demanding attention and retaining the engagement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Traditionally media (newspapers, television stations, radio networks, and news agencies) have exerted a great influence on society, but their role is changing in the face of the emergence of the digital environment. Although we know a lot about how to measure digital influence, we still have little evidence on how it is exercised in social media. In order to reverse this deficit, big data techniques are used on a sample of 127.3 million tweets with the goal of learning which were the most influential in the political debate on Twitter in Spain. Through a methodology based on machine learning and social network analysis, the most influential media are identified based on their nature, type, perceived ideological position, and territorial coverage. For this, three indicators of digital influence are used: activity, popularity, and authority. The results indicate that the exercise of influence on Twitter inside the media system is being reconfigured in depth. Likewise, the data reveal the incidence of the perceived ideological position of the media -when it comes to having more or less centrality in the network and being able to influence the interactions on Twitter. Finally, although media register high values in activity and popularity, in general they obtain intermediate or low values in authority. This lack of authority calls into question the power of the media to effectively influence the political debate on Twitter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Copyright of Innovar: Revista de Ciencias Administrativas y Sociales is the property of Universidad Nacional de Colombia and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Copyright of Cuadernos.info is the property of Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Facultad de Comunicaciones and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

The present research analyses film programming on television broadcast during the initiation and early development of nationwide television competition (1990-1994). For this purpose, it takes into account programming on public television as well as private broadcasters and pay-TV operators. It thus focuses on the feature films broadcast in that period: genre, nationality, insertion into the TV grid; programmed cycles; and the most representative film programmes in order to observe its evolution, contents, characteristics and its relation to the competition. To address such variables a database has been developed, which contains 7,990 records, to classify and assess the programming offer. The results allow us to observe that cinema was the cornerstone of programming at the outset of television competition. The evidence shows that television programming chased ratings without bringing the public closer to quality broadcasting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The changes televised fiction has experienced in the context of media convergence are addressed in this paper, and a proposal is outlined for analyzing the mechanisms and strategies Spanish television chains use to disseminate and promote fictional products through the Internet. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article studies the audiovisual representation of the Partido Comunista de España (PCE: Spanish Communist Party), presenting it as a historiographical practice that has proposed various signification logics in the past. First, the article reviews aspects related to the relation between television, history, and memory. Second, it presents an interpretational review of how the history of the PCE has been recreated in Spanish television between the 1960s and now. The results provide a panoramic view of historical framing and enunciation based on television and, to a lesser extent, cinema, such as memorial reports, educational or research documentaries, dramatic fiction, underground movies, or militant feature-length films. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]