The journal entitled Revista Panamericana de Comunicación was founded, as its name indicates, with a clear aim towards Pan-American universality, that is, as an instrument for the mobilization, study and impact of communication research in the geographical areas of North America, Latin America and Europe. Revista Panamericana de Comunicación transcends the Pan-American borders, and acts as a bridge between the Americas and Europe that is supported by two strong supports, specifically Mexico and Spain. To date, the journal has principally addressed topics related to political communication, photography and ethics, television narratives, ethics and aesthetics, research methodologies and the presentation of results in communication, history of communication, the film industry and videogames.
Photography as mnemonic mediation and symbolic resistance in the work of Rosemberg Sandoval. An archival tracing between Cali and Tijuana
This article examines the relationship between photography, collective memory, and symbolic resistance in the context of Colombian artist Rosemberg Sandoval’s work, through an archival search for a missing photographic record of his mural at Universidad del Valle (Cali, 1995). Drawing on a research-creation methodology that combines fieldwork in Cali and Tijuana, in-depth interviews, and document analysis, the article argues that the absence of the photographic image activates a chain of mnemonic mediations that articulate individual and collective memory. It also analyses the ethical tensions surrounding the representation of marginality in Sandoval’s work in relation to the notion of *pornomiseria* (Ospina & Mayolo, 1978), situating his trajectory within the theoretical frameworks of Latin American political performance (Taylor, 2003), structural violence (Galtung, 1969), and resilience as the production of meaning (Cyrulnik, 2001). The article concludes that the search for the lost image operates as an autonomous narrative device capable of generating archive and collective memory beyond the material existence of the visual document.
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The concept of duration in photography. Stacked images and stretched images
This article brings together a collection of analog photographic series produced in Argentina during the 1990s and 2000s that highlight the aesthetic potential of time as duration, a modality that transcends the photographic instant. Far from being viewed as an obstacle or an error, this slow temporality generates new conceptions of space and time, challenging the illusion of objectivity inherent in the photographic apparatus. The series are organized and analyzed under two aesthetic forms that I call stacked images and stretched images. In the stacked images, temporal accumulation occurs on the same medium and corrodes the photographic material; in the stretched images, temporal duration is distributed across the medium’s surface and incorporates the movement of the shot itself. The purpose of this article is to reflect on the different ways in which time lives in photographic images.
Rivers in photographs of the Colombian Armed Conflict. Environment, body, and violence
This article reflects on four documentary photographs produced along two of Colombia’s major rivers in the context of the armed conflict. These images by Manuel Saldarriaga Quintero and Jesús Abad Colorado depict horrific scenes linked to political violence. The dialogue between these photographs evokes, among other things, the strategies of armed groups—guerrillas, paramilitaries, and the National Army—: selective and mass killings, clashes, the disappearance of bodies, control of strategic territories, and the imposition of social orders through terror. In theoretical and methodological terms, this analysis views the photographs as social artifacts that construct memories of the recent past through aesthetic and political operations. The article proposes a reading of their visual constructions and their links to the production of meaning around the memories of the armed conflict in the country’s rivers.
Daguerreotypy in Spain a decade after its presentation in Paris: A hemerographic analysis of 1849
This article examines the degree of implementation and reception of daguerreotypy in Spain in 1849, ten years after the public presentation of Louis Daguerre’s invention in Paris. The study is based on a hemerographic analysis conducted using the Digital Newspaper Archive of the National Library of Spain, through a keyword search for daguerreotype chronologically limited to that year. This process resulted in a stable corpus of 220 advertisements and news items drawn from twenty press titles. The research combines quantitative and qualitative approaches in order to identify the main fields of daguerreotype use, its geographical distribution, the profiles of active practitioners, and the cultural discourses associated with this new technique. The findings reveal a clear concentration of daguerreotypic activity in Madrid, followed by Barcelona, Valencia, and Palma de Mallorca, as well as the predominance of commercial advertisements related to photographic portraiture. This evidence confirms the consolidation of daguerreotypy as a professional practice within Spain’s urban context. A total of seventeen daguerreotypists active in 1849 are identified, allowing for an expanded and more nuanced understanding of the first generation of photographers in Spain. In addition to this productive dimension, the analysis of press content highlights the incorporation of the daguerreotype into the cultural imagination as a metaphor for truthfulness, accuracy, and faithful reproduction of reality, while also documenting relevant technical debates concerning photography on paper and image reproducibility. Overall, the study demonstrates that by 1849 daguerreotypy was fully integrated into Spanish society, not only as a technical procedure but also as a cultural phenomenon and a subject of communication within the periodical press
Before modern language. Domestic photography and visual experimentation in Mariano Fortuny Madrazo
This article examines the photographic practice of Mariano Fortuny Madrazo through research conducted between 2023 and 2026 in the documentary and photographic collections preserved at the Fortuny Museum in Venice. The analysis of his negatives, glass plates, albums, and travel photographs makes it possible to reconstruct the role that images played within his artistic activity and to understand how domestic photography functioned as a space for documentation and visual experimentation during the first decades of the twentieth century. Through the case of Fortuny, the study argues that several strategies later associated with photographic modernity—such as fragmented framing, attention to detail, serial image construction, the exploration of light, and the narrative organization of photographic albums—were already present in private photographic practices far removed from the theoretical formulations of the historical avant-gardes. The article proposes interpreting these photographs as manifestations of an emerging visual sensibility that, prior to the consolidation of photographic modernity, contributed to the formation of contemporary visual culture.
The Hausmann photography collection. A faithful portrait of Madrid and Galician bourgeois society in the 19th century
The Hausmann Collection is a compendium of over seven hundred photographs, postcards, and various objects belonging to Mercedes Hausmann Casal, dating from the 1850s to the 1920s in Spain. Ninety percent of the pieces come from her family lineage, while the remainder are later acquisitions by the collector. It is, therefore, a historical collection that primarily documents the genealogy of a Spanish bourgeois family from Madrid and Galicia—the Martínez-Corera and Casal families—although it also includes other particularly significant pieces, such as the 19th-century album of the González Maroto family and various photographs in different formats by European artists associated with Pictorialism. The archive is completed with historical documents and objects related to the family. This collection represents a unique testament to private photographic and documentary heritage in Spain, and its dissemination contributes to a broader understanding of the visual culture and social practices of the 19th and 20th centuries.
From photography to the convoked image: AI, digital archaeology, and documentary
Two hundred years after the first photograph attributed to Nicéphore Niépce, visual culture faces a conceptual transformation: images generated by artificial intelligence challenge the categories through which photography has historically been understood. This essay argues that so-called “AI-generated photography” should not be conceived as an extension of photography, but as a convoked image: a visual form produced through the interaction of language, visual archives, statistical models, interfaces, and human imagination. Drawing on Jaron Lanier, Lev Manovich, Vilém Flusser, Jussi Parikka, Sarah Pink, Ian Goodfellow, Alec Radford, Luke Metz, Soumith Chintala, Jonathan Ho, Ajay Jain, and Pieter Abbeel, the article argues that these images are not taken, but requested, calculated, and made to appear. It proposes an anthropology of computational images and an archaeology of the convoked image to understand how AI constructs, reconstructs, and recodes possible worlds, as well as its implications for documentary practice, memory, social imagination, and contemporary artistic creation.
From Index to Algorithm. Photography, Generative Imagery, and Emerging Visual Regime (2018–2025)
This article presents the findings of a scoping review examining how academic literature from 2018 to 2025 has addressed the relationship between photography and artificial intelligence. Using the Arksey and O’Malley (2005) framework, the review mapped the categories, practices, and concepts mobilized by visual studies, sociosemiotics, and media philosophy to account for the transformations that generative AI introduces into the photographic visual regime. Results are organized across five thematic axes—memory, verisimilitude and veracity, visual regime, technological hybridization, and emerging concepts—tracing both continuities and ruptures between the photographic tradition and new algorithmic visual production. The review identifies twenty recently coined concepts including algorithmic postmemory, mean images, nonhuman photography, perception machine, algorithmic index, larval memories, virtual photography, and promptography. The analysis reveals that AI amplifies certain tensions already inherent to photography—such as the negotiation between the indexical and the symbolic-cultural, or between document and fiction—while also introducing discontinuities not previously seen: the displacement of the trace toward statistical probability, the absence of individual authorship, the disappearance of the optical referent, and the use of generative imagery as a means for memory restoration.
Journalism is not Communication, it is much less: why Communication is a virtue and builds democracies
This article offers a critical response to Carlos Elías’s argument, which opposes Journalism and Communication by attributing epistemological and democratic superiority to the former over the latter. It argues that this dichotomy rests on an idealized, selective, and moralizing conception of journalism that overlooks its practical heterogeneity and its structural links with other forms of symbolic mediation. Against this view, the text contends that journalism is not a sovereign domain but a subfield integrated within the broader field of Communication, from which it inherits resources, limits, and conditions of possibility. It further maintains that narration, fiction, and rhetoric are not external or corrupting elements, but inherent components of journalistic production. From this perspective, the contemporary crisis of journalism should not be understood as the result of a supposed communicative perversion, but rather as a consequence of the loss of its historical monopoly over public mediation. The article concludes that the pluralization of actors, narratives, and technologies does not erode democracy, but instead broadens its deliberative possibilities and strengthens the public contestation of meaning.
Documentary narratives in three Latin American photobooks from the last decade: Juanita Escobar, Yael Martinez and Marco Garro
This article comparatively analyzes three photobooks by Latin American authors published by the Peruvian publishing house KWY between 2017 and 2024: Llano, by Juanita Escobar (Colombia); The House That Bleeds, by Yael Martínez (Mexico); and Quiulacocha, by Marco Garro (Peru). Based on a qualitative approach grounded in Marta Martín Núñez’s analytical model —which considers the contextual, narrative, and formal dimensions of the photobook— as well as semi-structured interviews with the authors, the study examines how these works articulate memory, territory, subjectivity, and editorial materiality within contemporary forms of authorial documentary practice. Furthermore, the research reflects on the transformations of Latin American documentary photography and the role of the photobook as a device of visual thought, where aesthetic, ethical, and discursive strategies converge in relation to the social and territorial issues of the region.
Estudios afrolatinoamericanos en perspectiva bibliométrica
Afro-Latin American studies address a series of highly complex issues on Latin American populations that include the Americas and the Caribbean from multidisciplinary perspectives. In recent years, this field of study has consolidated itself as an epistemologically solid and key aspect in the processes of mobilization and vindication of populations that share racialized life experiences. This study approaches Afro-Latin American studies from a scientometric perspective that establishes a bibliometric design based on two prominent scientific databases, Scopus and Web of Science. Among the results are presented the most productive institutions and countries, outstanding authors over time, Lotka and Bradford’s law applied to publication sources and authors, the main articles with the highest number of citations, publication sources with the highest production, themes and significant keywords in the corpus analyzed. The conclusions emphasize the need to delimit the approaches to Afro-Latin American studies and consider the new forms of collective work, to recognize the diverse perspectives and changes in the current scientific culture in order to advance towards the inclusion of Afro-Latin American visions and voices, as a locus of enunciation that finds solid social support in social movements.
Digital communication in Cuban organizations from the TOC perspective
This article analyzes the physical and policy constraints that affecting digital communication in Cuban organizations, with an emphasis on the Holguín´s province. A longitudinal design with a descriptive-explanatory scope was applied. A structured questionnaire consisting of ten questions with a Likert scale was designed for this purpose. It was administered to a purposive sample of 15 organizations, selected based on sectoral representativeness and the possibility of generalizing the results to the province. The instrument evaluated technological resources, staff capacities, regulatory procedures, and digital content management. The results indicate that the constraints—insufficient technological infrastructure, limited financial resources, a lack of trained personnel, and the absence of policies, protocols, and indicators—function as an interconnected system that interacts with the Cuban socio-technological context. Financial and infrastructural precarity hinders sustained investment and the implementation of training systems; the lack of internal policies and evaluation criteria fragments efforts and makes replication difficult. Therefore, regulated sectors such as banking and security exhibit greater limitations, while tourism performs better. The design of the Current Reality Tree identified the absence of sustainable internal policies and scarce financial resources as root causes. Comprehensive solutions are required, including internal regulatory frameworks, sustained funding, process-oriented training, and actionable and sustainable metrics.
Unraveling the Ai2 Asta Scholarly Research Assistant Citation System
Despite the growing integration of Deep Research tools into academic workflows, empirical evidence on the operation, stability, and potential biases of their citation systems remains scarce. This study addresses this gap by evaluating the intensity, consistency, and bibliographic characteristics of references cited in the literature reports generated by Ai2 Asta, with the aim of understanding how its citation system operates and assessing its implications for scholarly communication. To this end, ten domain-specific queries were submitted to Asta’s Summarise Literature feature, and two independent rounds of data collection were conducted. From each report, in-text citations, cited references, as well as other metrics related to the response process were extracted and examined. The results reveal high citation intensity, with reports integrating numerous in-text citations grounded in retrieved evidence and a diverse yet concentrated set of venues. However, notable instability is observed in the composition of cited references across identical queries, alongside a lack of concordance between retrieved documents and those ultimately cited, suggesting additional opaque selection mechanisms during report generation. These findings indicate that, while Ai2 Asta produces well-structured and quality reports, its instability and opacity in the citation process pose challenges in quantitative science studies due to their lack of reproducibility and transparency. Despite the restricted number of queries and disciplinary scope, the results offer valuable insights for researchers, bibliometricians, developers, and research evaluators seeking to understand, use or regulate AI-based scholarly assistants responsibly.
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Racism and coloniality on the pitch: an essay about the public discursive staging of the Vinicius Júnior’s case
This essay analyses the public discourse surrounding the case involving footballer Vinícius Jr. The objective is supported by the fact that the Brazilian player was a trending topic on Twitter following a football match where he was the victim of racism in 2023, resulting in a debate with verbal altercations that is still alive. The text examines the trajectory of verbal and visual exchanges related to racism that have occurred during debates, controversies, and polemics, based on Chareaudeau’s theoretical perspective. The argumentation presented is that verbal hate reinforces coloniality. The results indicate the necessity for coordinated efforts between governments and civil society to develop counter-pedagogies that combine the struggle against hate speech with narratives that promote shared values rooted in non-violence.
Perceptions of the normalization of violent communication in the hotel industry in Mexico: a qualitative exploration from the perspective of middle and managerial staff
Mobbing, defined as recurrent psychological workplace harassment (over six months) perpetrated by a group of employees against a colleague, represents a critical challenge in the Mexican hospitality industry, impacting organizational well-being and workplace climate. Given the scarcity of empirical studies in the sector, this qualitative research adopted a phenomenological-hermeneutic design. Its objective was to explore how mobbing is perceived, justified, and normalized within hierarchical hotel structures, through in-depth interviews with employees, supervisors, and directors in both chain and independent hotels. Results reveal that mobbing is a systemic violence (direct, structural, and cultural), normalized by a national culture of silence where aggression remains unnamed, and legitimized by an organizational culture that prioritizes productivity and task assignment ambiguity, thus facilitating abuse and impunity. A generational divide was identified, with new cohorts (Millennials and Centennials) showing resistance compared to the internalization by preceding generations, resulting in greater vulnerability for low-ranking employees and single mothers. It is concluded that effective interventions must be comprehensive and multidimensional (individual, group, and organizational), aimed at building direct, structural, and cultural trust, with organizational communication serving as the transformative axis for existing patterns and structures.
Politainment and polarization in Spanish political discourse: Differences in the commitment of parties and their leaders
In the era of prosumers and fragmented communication, political marketing experts are opting to create a more direct and personal communication strategy adapted to the language of social media. The growing interest and involvement of citizens in political communication makes them an active audience and, therefore, a stakeholder to be taken into account in the narrative proposed by political parties. Consequently, this research aims to determine whether the humanization of political figures through politainment techniques generates greater audience interaction. The results of a conclusive and descriptive mixed-method study are presented, analyzing engagement on X (formerly Twitter) with posts by Spain’s five major political forces and their top representatives in relation to the Amnesty Law (November 2023). This highly controversial issue strongly mobilized citizens and continued to shape the political debate for several years. The results show greater engagement on the personal profiles of politicians than on the official profiles of their parties..
Caracterización de los ataques y vulneraciones a la libertad de prensa en Chile durante 2023
Monitoring attacks on the press is a useful tool for reporting and making visible the problems faced by the practice of journalism, also providing a diagnosis that contributes to the prevention of violations of press freedom. In recent years, efforts by different actors have intensified to develop registration tools and have better knowledge about the situation of press freedom. A trend that has also reached Chile. In Chile, the development of monitoring and recording systems is recent, so until now there was little information. In order to contribute to a better understanding of the risks and attacks in the country, this article systematizes the violations of press freedom in Chile during 2023 based on the records made by the Observatory of the Right to Communication based on the methodology developed collaboratively by the Red Voces del Sur. The results of the study reveal a wide variety of types of attacks against those who practice journalism and point to the need to implement concrete measures to protect press freedom in Chile in the face of the risks of the situation deteriorating.
Poetics of the desert: Sensory experimentalism, cristero memory and the politics of faith in Desierto adentro
This article examines how Desierto adentro (Plá, 2008) reframes the memory of the Cristero War through a sensory poetics that brings together landscape, body, sound, ex-voto painting and architectural incompletion. Combining phenomenological film analysis, comparative formal reading and a delimited examination of critical and institutional reception, the article argues that Plá’s film displaces the Cristero conflict from an epic and martyrological register toward an experience of guilt, enclosure and family discipline. The analysis focuses on specific sequences: Elías’s primal scene of guilt, the family’s displacement into the desert, Aureliano’s confinement, the production of ex-votos, the construction of the church and the film’s sonic regime of isolation. In contrast with Cristiada (Wright, 2012), Desierto adentro does not monumentalize the Cristero War as heroic narrative, but reinscribes it as domestic trauma and persistent affective structure. The article concludes that Plá’s formal experimentalism is not an aesthetic supplement, but the critical device through which the film thinks the endurance of patriarchal, religious and authoritarian forms in contemporary Mexico.
Radio and soft diplomacy. German presence in Argentine radio. 1934-1943
This article examines the German presence in Argentine radio broadcasting between 1934 and 1943 as a form of cultural diplomacy and symbolic propaganda of the Third Reich. Based on the analysis of press, diplomatic, and legislative sources, it reconstructs the communication strategies of the German government and their articulation with local radio stations, particularly Radio Prieto, which served as a site for Germany’s technical and cultural projection in the country. The study shows how this form of “soft diplomacy” operated within a field of tensions in which its effectiveness depended on local intermediaries, the commercial interests of radio broadcasting, and the degree of tolerance of an Argentine state committed to neutrality.
Cinematic representation of the madres buscadoras in Mexico: a visual narratives of liminality
This article examines the cinematic representation of the madres buscadoras in contemporary Mexican cinema through the lens of liminality. Using a corpus that includes both documentary and fiction films, it explores how visual narrative translates the individual experience of enforced disappearance into a collective experience capable of generating empathy in the viewer. The argument posits that liminality—understood as a state of ambiguity and symbolic transition—makes it possible to render visible the affective dimension of the search and the social transformation of the mothers as political and collective subjects. The analysis reveals that by focusing on pain, the persistence of memory, and search rituals, these films not only document a national crisis but also propose an ethical strategy of communication that challenges audiences and opens the possibility of a social response.
Femicide involving firearms in the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina (2015–2024)
This article analyzes a corpus of 250 firearm femicides in the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, between 2015 and 2024. The studied femicides represent (26.8%) of the 932 cases recorded during the time period. A distinctive feature is the high lethality rate associated with access to firearms by current or former members of the security forces, who account for 53 cases (21.2%). The study corroborates the weak articulation between gun control policies and gender-based policies, aspects that reinforce victim vulnerability. From an intersectional perspective, the analysis is operationalized through cross-tabulations of institutional affiliation, firearm legality, and the victims’ socio-familial conditions. This demonstrates how structural inequalities converge and produce risks. The findings show that both regulated service-related and civilian firearm possession function as mechanisms of lethal power-imposition in domestic contexts. This study provides systematized information that enhances academic research and comprehensive public policies aimed at prevention, firearm control and the protection of individuals in vulnerable situations.
TikTok como herramienta de comunicación política: análisis estratégico del discurso viral de los partidos en España
La consolidación de las redes sociales ha reconfigurado las estrategias de comunicación política, forzando a los partidos a adoptar nuevos lenguajes y formatos para conectar con audiencias, especialmente las más jóvenes. Esta investigación analiza cómo los principales partidos políticos de ámbito estatal con presencia parlamentaria (PP, PSOE, Sumar y Vox) utilizan la red social TikTok, centrándose específicamente en la apropiación de tendencias y vídeos virales. Mediante una metodología mixta que combina un análisis de contenido cuantitativo de 1.299 vídeos publicados entre el 1 de enero de 2024 y el 1 de enero de 2025 y entrevistas cualitativas con los responsables de redes de los partidos, el estudio identifica patrones de uso, estrategias temáticas y picos de actividad. Los resultados revelan que Sumar y Vox son los partidos que más integran el formato viral en su comunicación, aunque con enfoques distintos. Así, se observa una correlación entre la intensificación de publicaciones y eventos de alto impacto político, como la tramitación de la Ley de Amnistía, cuestión de especial trascendencia informativa en España durante 2024. Mientras que el PP centra su estrategia en un discurso negativo dirigido a la figura del presidente del Gobierno, Pedro Sánchez, el PSOE y Sumar optan por un tono predominantemente positivo. El estudio concluye que el uso de TikTok en la política española, aunque creciente, aún es un campo de experimentación donde las formaciones de los extremos del espectro ideológico demuestran una mayor adaptabilidad al lenguaje nativo de la plataforma.
From experiment to strategy: use of TikTok by the local Spanish press between 2021 and 2024
The rise of TikTok has prompted journalists and media outlets to experiment with its short-form video format. The main goal of this paper is to analyze the presence, activity, and narrative strategies of Spanish local media on TikTok between 2021 and 2024, noting that at the start of this period, only 2.83% of 705 Spanish local newspapers had active profiles on TikTok. Content production was limited and inconsistent, with many profiles remaining inactive for long stretches. Non-journalistic content, such as advertising and humor, was mixed with journalistic posts, events, and social news. Most publishers have struggled to adapt to TikTok’s format, often relying on static images or repurposing existing content. However, some have employed innovative strategies like satire and collaborations with local creators. Limited resources and an aging audience were identified as potential obstacles. A comparative analysis updated in December 2024 showed mixed results: some media outlets have maintained or grown their presence on TikTok, while others have stagnated or exited the platform. The study concludes that TikTok presents both opportunities and challenges for local journalism, as it requires resources, creativity, and adaptability to attract younger audiences. This involves engaging a global audience with content of local interest and informing emerging viewers who now depend on this platform as their main source of information.
Communication and Violence(s): Intersubjectivity, media, and emotions in addressing the relationship between communication, violence, and everyday life
This essay reflects on violence in everyday life, focusing on both media and interpersonal communication. It presents communication simultaneously as a process weakened by violence and as a potential means of addressing the problems it generates. Although research on media and violence has a long-standing presence in academia, studies on everyday interpersonal communication and its role in reproducing or eradicating violence are less common. The text is guided by the following questions: To what extent does structural violence in our environment hinder communication? How does media violence affect our daily communication? How do these forms of violence alter behaviours and hinder our ability to communicate healthily and effectively? This work aims to contribute to the debate on the relationship between communication and violence in everyday life by incorporating perspectives from socio-phenomenology, the sociology of emotions and the affective turn in the social sciences. While not offering definitive conclusions, the text notes that communication simultaneously acts as a channel, a medium and a product in the daily manifestations of violence. It functions as a vehicle for the reproduction of violence and as a mechanism for normalising negative emotions, such as fear or hatred, resulting from experienced violence. This dual condition makes communication a key element in understanding how violence becomes embedded and perpetuated in daily life, and how it can be challenged.
Journalistic Genres in Podcasts Produced by Spanish Local Press
The primary objective of this research is to ascertain the predominant journalistic genres in podcasts produced by the main Spanish media groups operating in the daily regional press segment. A quantitative-qualitative analysis file was used to examine the 16 corporations with more than one local headline. The file took into account seven aspects: name and URL of the podcast; name and URL of the cybermedia where it is published; journalistic group that owns the cybermedia; subject matter; predominant journalistic genre; language style; and narrative rhythm. A total of 83 podcasts were produced by 12 of the 16 journalistic corporations that were considered in the study. Ten journalistic genres were identified: column, commentary, criticism, chronicle, interview, news, story, report, in-depth report, and talk show. The results indicated that 59 of 83 podcast that were considered exhibited a single predominant journalistic genre. The remaining 24 podcasts demonstrated a combination of genres, with two, three, and even four different modalities present within the same podcast. In general terms, talk shows, reports, news, and chronicles are the predominant journalistic genres, with a preponderance of formal language style over colloquial, an almost absolute balance between informative and opinionated content, and a tendency to follow a medium narrative rhythm.
Ibero-American research specialized on Scientometrics
This study aims to analyze the evolution and characteristics of Ibero-American scientific production published in leading international Scientometrics-focused journals. Descriptive bibliometrics was used as a method, and the interpretive approach was framed within historical and epistemological perspectives. The knowledge domain was delineated and analyzed using bibliographic records from five journals and one specialized conference proceedings in Scientometrics, all indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection. The characteristics of 1734 documents with at least one Ibero-American author, published between 1983 and 2024, were examined. The study revealed the consolidation of a regional domain with its own identity, which has become a scientific school due to its cognitive and social contributions. Sustained growth in scientific production was observed, along with thematic diversification that reflects the interdisciplinary nature of research, and collaboration structured through important regional and global networks.
A critique of ‘quick and dirty’ bibliometrics: issues for assessing complexity in bibliometric analysis
This paper denounces the indiscriminate rise of low-quality bibliometric studies. These studies have proliferated across scientific journals in a wide range of disciplines, taking advantage of the accessibility of databases such as Web of Science and Scopus and the use of automated tools. This trend, driven by a lack of specialised knowledge among journal reviewers and a desire to rapidly increase academic output, has led to the publication of studies with methodological shortcomings, characterised by limited conceptual development and low analytical value. In response to this situation, the authors advocate for bibliometrics as a highly specialised field that requires theoretical understanding, methodological expertise, and critical interpretation of data. Thus, the paper proposes a methodological framework for assessing the complexity of bibliometric studies. This framework is based on six dimensions: size of the population, origin and source of data, data collection mode, degree of data normalisation, types of analysis employed, and analytical and visualisation tools used. This methodological perspective aims to provide editors and researchers with a framework for identifying substantive research and distinguishing it from studies produced with least effort, limited judgment, and weak theoretical grounding
Library education in Cuba: twenty-five years of scientific production
Research in library education in Cuba is an area with limited representation within the library and information science knowledge published in mainstream scientific journals. Therefore, the study’s objective was to characterize scientific production on library education in Cuba during the period 1998–2024 using the Scopus database. The study is classified as descriptive with epistemological input. The theoretical methods of analysis-synthesis and historical-logical analysis were used to obtain results. At the empirical level, classic document analysis and the bibliometric method were employed. The techniques used were document review and social network analysis. A thematic concentration on information literacy and postgraduate training processes was identified, with an emphasis on university contexts. The positioning of institutions such as the University of Havana and the Universidad Central “Marta Abreu” Las Villas is notable. The most recurrent collaboration is developed between Cuba and Spain (North-South), which is expected due to the impact of the Doctoral Program in Scientific Documentation and Information University of Granada – University of Havana (DIG-UGR-UH) in the training of the main teaching and research capital of Cuba.
Approaches to the transmedia dimensions of organizational communication on sustainability
In the 21st century, organizations are increasingly incorporating sustainability into their communication strategies, recognizing the importance of addressing environmental and social issues alongside economic outcomes. Stakeholders now demand greater transparency and accountability from companies in their sustainability efforts. This presents a communication challenge that can be addressed through the use of transmedia storytelling and media convergence, which have become powerful tools for organizations to capture the attention of diverse audiences and effectively communicate their sustainability initiatives. However, adopting these innovative communication approaches brings challenges, such as maintaining message consistency, adapting content across various platforms, and measuring the effectiveness of the campaign.
Mapping international research in Cinema, Audiovisual, and Animation: A metric study in Scopus
This article maps out the international scientific output in Cinema, Audiovisual, and Animation in the Scopus database. It uses bibliometrics as its methodological approach. Our research identified a diversity of publication languages, with English being the most commonly used language. The article was the dominant documentary typology, followed by the review, which may indicate a publication trend in the area. Among the publication vehicles, journals from the United Kingdom and Spain stand out. The countries with the highest number of publications in Cinema, Audiovisual, and Animation differ from the general ranking, and Brazil and Spain stand out when it comes to publications on the topic. It is concluded that production in the area, which began in 1980, has been growing slowly but steadily, especially since the 2000s, predominantly in the areas of Arts and Humanities, and Human Sciences. This research presents a broad and international view of the topic and suggests new studies in other databases as well as in specific countries.