Volume 11 (2006)

Theme: Economía Política de las comunicación [Political economy of communication]

• Segovia, A. I. (2006). Presentación: Cuncuenta años de Economía Política de la Comunicación. [Introduction: Fifty years of Political Economy of Communication]. CIC, 11, 7-10.
• Murdock, G. (2006). Los agujeros negros del Marximmo occidental. Respuesta a Dallas Smythe. [Blindspots about Western Marxism. A reply to Dallas Smythe]. CIC, 11, 11-22.
• Smythe, D. W. (2006). Réplica a Graham Murdock. [Rejoinder to Graham Murdock]. CIC, 11, 23-30.
• Murdock, G. (2006). Bajo los adoquines, la playa. Mercancías, consumismo, contradicciones. [Under the beach, the paving stones: Commodities, consumerism, contradictions]. CIC, 11, 31-46.
• Bolaño, C. (2006). Tapando el agujero negro. Para una crítica de la Economía Política de la Comunicación. [Filling in the blindspot: Towards a critical review of the Political Economy of Communication. CIC, 11, 47-56.
• Mosco, V. (2006). La Economía Política de la Comunicación: una actualizació diez años después. [The Political Economy of Communication: A ten year update]. CIC, 11, 57-79.
• Schiller, D. (2006). El legado de Robert A. Brady, Origenes antifascistas de la Economía Política de la Comunicación. [The legacy of Robert A. Brady: Antifascist origins of the Political Economy of Communication]. CIC, 11, 81-93.
• Wasco, J. (2006). La Economía Política del cine. [The Political Economy of film]. CIC, 11, 95-110.
• Becerra, M. & Mastrini, G. (2006). Senderos de la economía de la comunicación: un enfoque latinoamericano. [Some ways to the economy of communication: A Latin American perspective]. CIC, 11, 111-128.
• del Rey Morató, J. (2006). El enfoque filosófico de la Economía Política: audiencias, mercancías, producción y consumo. [The philosophical approach to Political Economy: Audiences, commodities, production, and consumption]. CIC, 11, 129-154.
• Miège, B. (2006). La concentración en las industrias culturales mediáticas (ICM) y los cambios en los contenidos. [The concentration in media cultural industries (ICM) and the changes in contents]. CIC, 11, 155-166.
• Schiller, H. I. (2006). Augurios de supremacía electrónica global. [Visions of global electronic mastery]. CIC, 11, 167-178.
• Segovia, A. I. & Quirós, F. (2006). Plutocracia y corporaciones de medios en los Estados Unidos. [Plutocracy and media corporations in the United States]. CIC, 11, 179-205.
• Sánchez Ruiz, E. E. (2006). Industrias Culturales, diversidad y pluralismo en América Latina. [Cultural industries, diversity, and pluralism in Latin America]. CIC, 11, 207-221.
• Tremblay, G. (2006). Economía Política del espacio público y mutaciones mediáticas. [Political economy of public space and media mutations]. CIC, 11, 223-240.
• Agudiez, P. (2006). La construcción de la Unión Eropea y la necesidad de consolidar una política de comunicación europea. [The construction of the European Union and the need to consolidate a European communication politics]. CIC, 11, 241-249.
• Magallón, R. (2006). Entrevista con Alain Touraine: Sociedad y globalidad. [Interview with Alain Touraine: Society and globalization]. CIC, 11, 251-256.

Volume 8 (2003)

• Pérez Herranz, F. M. (2003). Tópica de la negociación [Topics of negotiation].CIC, 8,17-38.
  This article describes all the topics or common places and elements of negotiation showing clearly the links of the concept in past times with change and intercourse ideas, and making visible its relationship with language and common understanding. Professor Perez Herranz rescues the fundamental strength of negotiation as a meditation phenomenon, linked with communication and human understanding, to assert its value in present times in which the achievement of mutual respect, of a dignified life in a globalized society is essential as it is to understand the variety of existence basis which Philosophy always aimed at.
• Corredera, S. S. (2003). Los conflictos entre ética, Moral y Política: criterios para su negociación [The conflicts between ethics, morals, and politics: the criteria for their negotiation].CIC, 8,39-60.
  This article studies the world of human motivation from ethic, moral, or political sources, in all their dependence relationship possibilities, giving examples of situations and actions from these different origins. Analyzing the important distinction between moral and ethics, the author uses also the Theory of Anthropological Space, and his categories distinctions, to have an essential tool to interpret political, social, group, or individual phenomena. With a rich range of cases and this theoretical basis he clears the difficult relationship between moral, rights, politics, and ethics, and shows the function of all types of religious or social facts.
• Valbuena de la Fuente, F. (2003). Pragmática de la negociación [Pragmatic negotiations].CIC, 8,71-116.
  This large work revises all the phrases and processes that appear in negotiation. It shows the information and communication technical power, from previous data search to definition of relationship or proficiency in question making, activities between a broad range fundamental to negotiation. It is essential, the knowledge of human psychology, the human causality models or, the study of ambiences or human transactions and not simply the strategies typical of more active phrases, in which direct part-taking or pressing maneuvers are required. The author uses all his theoretical weapons to complete a vision of negotiation which leaves not an aspect without reflection, giving important information from psychology to philosophy or information theory, and a long list of other areas of study.
• Garcia de Torres, E. (2003). De la corbertura cero a los eventos mediáticos: el valor estratégico de los medios de comunicación en la negociación [Covering media events: the brave strategies of the media in communication in negotiation].CIC, 8,117-131.
  This paper focuses on the important role played by communication and information in negotiation processes, especially in an international frame of reference, in which today's needs and circumstances demand an alternative model of conflict resolution. The author gives us a wide description of the influence of professional perspectives of new production in negotiation processes, whose complexity of structure and strategies are badly treated by news media. Peace is not a newsworthiness criteria and the cover of negotiation processes is not privileged by information and communication organizations.
• Fisher, G. (2003). Negociación internacional. La perspectiva transcultural [International negotiation. The cross-cultural perspective].CIC, 8,133-177.
  The author of this paper analyzes great negotiation processes such as cross-cultural and international ones, using his broad experience and knowledge in the field. His expertise goes from Social psychology which studies perception, processing information and reaction to it, to Cultural and Social Science in which the formation of conventions and norms and the world of semantic nuances are important factors to be considered.

Volume 7 (2002)

This issue addresses theme of the communication of humor in four parts: classical theories of humor, in which many well known essays are reprinted; humor in the cinema; humor in the humanities; and general articles on humor.

• Valbuena, Felicísimo. Presentacíon [General introduction], pp. 9-27. After a general introduction to the issue, Valbuena offers brief looks at each of the essays in the volume.

  Theories of humor

• Anonymous. Tractatus Coislinianus (commentary by Lane Cooper, translated by Eva Aladro), pp. 31-37. This 10th century manuscript provides an early theory of humor, perhaps drawing on the lost books of Aristotle's Poetics.
• Lauand, L. Jean. La tontería y los tontos en el Análisis de Tomás de Aquino, pp. 37-46. This essay considers the various places in his writings in which Thomas Aquinas comments on the "fool" or "the foolish" in Scriptures; it offers a detailed analysis of Thomas's understanding of the concept.
• Valbuena de la Fuente, Felicísimo. El humor en Thomas Hobbes, pp. 47-51. This short essay introduces the reader to Hobbes' well-known theory of humor in which humor rests on a "superiority of feelings" and aggressiveness.
• Richter, Jean Paul. Del humorismo, pp. 53-68. This essay presents, in summary fashion, Richter's much more complex theory of humor, including how humor works through a transposition of ends, the contrast of finite and infinite for the subject, and the subsequent contrast of subjectivity and objectivity.
• Hazlitt, William. Sobre el ingenio y el humor (Conferencias sobre los escritores cómicos ingleses, 1818), pp. 69-94. This translation of Hazlitt includes his "epistemology of humor" and explication of the elements of humor: "the suspension of belief, the play with imagination, the intercourse between nature and accident," etc.
• Pirandello, Luigi. Esencia, caracteres y materia del humorismo, pp. 95-130. This is a translation of Pirandello's classic text on humor in literature and life; he argues for its dependence on emotion and reflection.
• Baroja, Pío. Humorismo y retórica, pp. 131-138. This 20th-century Spanish writer develops a theory of humor and rhetoric as opposed writing systems. "He uses...the conceptual features of humor and satirical prose to define clearly both mechanisms of thought and human communication."
• Jardiel Poncela, Enrique. Ideas sobre el humorismo, pp. 139-157. Jardiel Poncela, an early 20th-century Spanish humorist, reflects on comedy and its accomplishment in theatre.
• Mihura, Miguel. Sobre "Maribel y la extraña familia," pp. 159-167. "Mihura, a highly talented Spanish writer, remembers here the details of his literary creation of the comedy Maribel and the strange family. He shows how he caught comic aspects of reality..."
• Casares, Julio. Concepto del humor, pp. 169-187. "The Spanish scholar Julio Casares introduces humor and reviews its conceptual tradition, remembering some of the most important theories and contributing with Spanish definitions and comments from various sources."
• Koestler, Arthur. El acto de la creación. (Libro primero: el bufón). (Translated by Eva Aladro), pp. 189-220. In this section, Koestler (1905-1983) sets forth his theory of creativity; within it, he notes the roots of humor.
• Redfern, Walter. Juegos de palabras sobre juegos de palabras. (Translated by Eva Aladro), pp. 221-252. Refern's essay on puns, in advertising and in art, argues that the appearance of puns in mass communication is "probably the best symbol of the ambivalent position of the artist in contemporary society."

  Humor in the Cinema

• Mast, Gerald. Preston Sturges, pp. 255-263. Mast's review of the films of Preston Sturges highlights the comedies and their narrative and social conventions.

  Humor in the humanities

• Casares, Julio. Ls descripción literaria y el inventario notarial. La falta de inventiva, pp. 267-274. The Spanish literary critic Julio Casares presents a humorous description of hyperbole in the works of "Azorín."
• Berne, Eric. Más allá de una teoría del impacto de la interacción interpersonal en la cooperación no verbal, pp. 275-292. In this, his last public discourse, Berne offers a humorous critique of the typical errors and problems of the academic world of psychotherapy.
• Fisher, David Hackett. Las falacias del historiador, pp. 293-315. Fisher, a professor of history at Brandeis University, provides a humorous look a the typical errors and fallacies of the historian.

  Articles about humor

• Aladro, Eva. El humor como medio cognitivo, pp. 317-327. Aladro "treats humor as a cognitive device, firstly by its relationship with cognitive schemata...and secondly given its cultural and social functions..."
• Rey Morat&oacture;, Javier del. La risa, una actividad de la inteligencia, pp. 329-350. Rey Morato views humor as "an elementary social and intellectual tool...[used] to express how the human mind can go further than reason."
• Peñamarín, Cristina. El humor gráfico del franquismo y la formación de un territorio translocal de identidad democrática, pp. 351-380. This essay analyzes graphic humor (political cartoons, etc.) published during the Franco era, showing how humor functions in society.
• Valbuena de la Fuente, Felicísimo. Humor verbal y humor de situación, pp. 381-406. The essay presents an analysis of the "comic situation."