Escribanía: Comunicación, Cultura, Región

Escribanía: Comunicación, Cultura, Región, 9 (julio-diciembre 2002). ISSN 0123-6938. Published twice yearly by Centro de Investigaciones de la Comunicación, Universidad de Manizales; Carrera 9 No. 19-03; Manizales, Colombia. http://www.umanizales.edu.co/publicaciones/escriban/

Articles report on journalism, the cultural industries, and communication theory. They include

Eliana del Rosario Herrera Huérfano & Juana Ramírez Castro, “La mediación de las elecciones presidenciales en los noticieros de la televisión nacional: ¿debate electoral o prtocolo informativo?” [The mediation process on the Colombian presidential election through national television networks: electoral debate or information protocol?] (pp. 5-20). “This paper presents the general characteristics of production of the information messages on newscasts, and the inclusion of facts related to the electoral debate within this information macro-structure.”
Marcos Dantas, “Información, capital y trabajo: Valorización en el ciclo de la comunicación productiva” [Information, capital, and labor: Valorization and appropriation within the cycle of productive communication] (pp. 21-48). This essay examines how, in response to the nature of information, “capital is developing new appropriation strategies of the value generated from this information labor.”
Jesús Galindo Cáceres, “Sistemas de información, sistemas de comunicación y configuración social: Algunos elementos de memética y sociocibernética de la vida social” [Information systems, communication systems, and social configuration: Some elements of memetics and socio-cybernetics on the social life] (pp. 49-56). “The social system is characterized as a communication system, and the author proposes approaching the information agendas as parts of an information system and a communication system, at the same time.”
L. Alejandro Peñuela V. & Luis Guillermo Alvarez García, “Imaginarios, colectivos: implicaciones sociales.Una aproximación psicológica a las agendas de información” [Collective imaginaries: Social implications. A psychological approach on information agendas] (pp. 57-68). The authors examine the role shared imagination plays in the structure of discourse and apply these findings to public opinion and news agendas.
Álvaro Castellanos Obregón, “Betty the Beautiful and Colombia the Ugly: A popular Colombian telenovela in its socioeconomic context as ideological text” (pp. 69-92). “An analysis of the Colombian soap opera Betty the Ugly (Betty la fea) is presented from the perspective of Cultural Studies. With the background of stereotypes that media disseminate about socially and culturally subordinated groups, the author establishes the relationship between the ideological and hegemonic construction that such media production elaborates, and its relationship with the Colombian social, political, and economic reality that serve as context.”