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Audiovisual Production in the Streaming Era

The international journal Miguel Hernández Communication Journal launches a call for papers for the special issue Audiovisual Production in the Streaming Era. This edition invites submissions of articles that analyse contemporary audiovisual production, both fiction and non-fiction. The deadline for full article submissions (via the journal’s platform) is October 1, 2025.

Over the past decade, the audiovisual production landscape has undergone a significant transformation, particularly in Latin America. Streaming platforms and a growing interest in locally flavored narratives have helped regional industries overcome early challenges and meet the demands of a "think local, produce global" paradigm (de Almeida et al., 2025). In this context, creative responsibility has become an essential strategy for operators and producers aiming to tell real stories from their communities through fiction formats (Antezana, 2024; Gutiérrez-González & Uribe-Jongbloed, 2025).

However, beyond serialized fiction, a broad range of cultural products and thematic or generalist platforms coexist within national broadcast and on-demand ecosystems. Entertainment shows, feature films, reality programs, talk shows, documentaries, children’s content, music programs, video games, and animation are just some of the formats available on a multitude of streaming platforms and distribution networks.

In under a decade, streaming services have become the leading medium for both fiction and non-fiction content. They have reshaped the role of audiences and expanded narrative formats, especially through the integration of artificial intelligence to personalise user experiences (Fieiras-Ceide et al., 2024). In many Latin American countries, public and private broadcasters continue to adapt by exploring new business models to maintain local production and compete with global media giants. These efforts have led to partnerships between independent producers and international platforms, as well as the creation of public incentives to support national content. In countries such as Mexico, Argentina, and Colombia, there is growing investment in co-production funds and legislation requiring minimum national content quotas on global streaming catalogs (Uribe-Jongbloed & Mora-Moreo, 2024).

The rise of on-demand content has also compelled traditional television networks to rethink their distribution strategies. Many have launched their own OTT platforms or joined larger services (Antezana, 2021). This shift has redefined competition—not just in attracting viewers, but in maintaining long-term engagement through data analytics and algorithm-driven content delivery (Lotz, 2017).

Furthermore, this evolving audiovisual ecosystem demands new skill sets from media professionals. Storytelling alone is no longer sufficient; creators must also master digital tools, analyse consumer data, adapt content for multi-platform delivery, and understand algorithmic content distribution. Professional training must therefore evolve to incorporate these competencies, fostering hybrid profiles capable of thriving in highly collaborative and tech-driven environments (Cobo, 2016). Additionally, research into how creative teams are adapting to these changes is crucial.

Topics and Areas of Interest

This special issue seeks to explore the transformations, challenges, and experiences of audiovisual industries, especially within the Spanish-speaking world. Contributions are encouraged from perspectives focused on production processes, content (fiction and non-fiction), and audiences, based on the following guiding questions:

How have narratives evolved across genres and formats in the current audiovisual ecosystem?
What impact has the emergence of streaming platforms had on cultural industries and stakeholder relations?
How do social audiences, fandoms, and general viewers interact in today’s media landscape?
To what extent is AI a challenge for audiovisual production, creative industries, and especially for screenwriters?
What role do public and private audiovisual media innovation labs play?
What professional profiles are most in demand by streaming platforms?

Suggested topics for the monograph include, but are not limited to:

Studies on audiovisual production, distribution, and exhibition.
Transformations in media consumption and viewing habits.
Emerging narratives and innovative formats.
Reception studies, active audiences, and cultural participation through fan communities.
The impact of AI and emerging technologies on content creation.
Business models and economic sustainability of regional audiovisual production.
Training and education for professionals in today’s media value chains.

Keywords:
Television, audiovisual production, media consumption, streaming platforms, creative processes.

References:

Antezana, L. (2024). Las series chilenas en la era del streaming: Panorama y desafíos para la formación ciudadana. Amérique Latine Histoire et Mémoire. Les Cahiers ALHIM [En línea], 48, 41-53. https://doi.org/10.4000/12vho

Antezana, Lorena (2021). Ecosistema de producción ficcional chilena en la era del streaming. En Javier Sierra Sánchez & José Gomes Pintos (Coord.). Audiovisual e Industrias Creativas. Presente y Futuro. Volumen 2 (pp. 239-252). Madrid: McGraw-Hill.

Cobo, C. (2016). La innovación pendiente: Reflexiones (y propuestas) sobre educación, tecnología y conocimiento. Penguin Random House.

De Almeida Ferreira, M., Rocha, S.M., & Gutiérrez-González, C. (2025). Estrategias narrativas de los dramas contemporáneos basados en hechos reales. Revista Nómadas, 58, 1-15. https://dx.doi.org/10.30578/nomadas.n58a2

Fieiras-Ceide, C., Ufarte-Ruiz, M.J. y Murcia-Verdú, F. J. (2024). Transformando la experiencia de usuario en televisión en streaming: prioridades de innovación y tecnología en plataformas OTT. Estudios sobre el Mensaje Periodístico, 30(4), 713-726. https://dx.doi.org/10.5209/emp.96367

Gutiérrez-González, C. & Uribe-Jongbloed, E. (2025). La responsabilidad creativa y la proximidad cultural en la ficción de la televisión pública regional colombiana. Comunicación y Sociedad, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.32870/cys.v2025.8891

Lotz, A. D. (2017). Portals: A Treatise on Internet-Distributed Television. Michigan Publishing.

Uribe-Jongbloed, E. y Mora-Moreo, C. (2024). El crecimiento del cine y el surgimiento de las Film Commissions en Colombia [The growth of film and the establishment of Film Commissions in Colombia]. En J. Nieto Malpica y M. Martínez Hermida (eds.), Las Film Commissions en Europa y América (pp. 223-242). Razón y Palabra.

If you need to make any inquiries regarding the relevance of your proposal, you may contact Lorena Antezana at lantezana@uchile.cl and Carlos Gutiérrez at carlosgugo@unisabana.edu.co.
Link to the journal’s submission guidelines:
https://revistas.innovacionumh.es/index.php/mhcj/about/submissions

Editors of the Special Issue:

Lorena Antezana Barrios,
Tenured Professor at the University of Chile. Journalist and MA in Social Communication (University of Chile), PhD in Communication and Information (Catholic University of Louvain). Her research focuses on media reception, critical media consumption, and television analysis. She directs the Research Group on Television and Society at the University of Chile.
Carlos Gutiérrez-González,
Associate Professor in the Department of Audiovisual Communication at the Faculty of Communication, University of La Sabana. Recognised as an Associate Researcher by the Colombian Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation. PhD in Communication. His research covers innovation in audiovisual industries, analysis of fiction and non-fiction content in public and streaming television, and edutainment as a strategy for social change.

Communication and health: challenges and opportunities

The international journal Miguel Hernández Communication Journal announces a special issue titled Communication and Health: Challenges and Opportunities. This issue calls for the submission of articles that analyze communicative or media practices related to the field of health. The deadline for the reception of complete articles (via the journal's platform) is April 1, 2026.

The intersection between communication and health represents a crucial field of study in the current social context, where health information plays a fundamental role in individual decision-making processes that affect people's lives. In an increasingly interconnected world, the way health-related topics are communicated can have a profound and far-reaching impact on public well-being. Furthermore, in the current digital era, characterized by the rapid distribution and viralization of information—and misinformation—through multiple platforms, it is essential to examine how communication strategies can influence health-related behaviors.

Research in communication and health is vital not only to understand how health information is transmitted but also to analyze how knowledge about health issues is constructed through the media and how media literacy can play a key role in this process.

In the field of health, media literacy enables individuals to develop competencies to access, understand, analyze, and critically reflect on health-related content in both traditional media and social networks.

Effects of Media on Perception and Behavior

The priming effect, as described by Jo and Berkowitz (1996), suggests that exposure to media content activates mental connections that influence individuals' everyday attitudes. Castromil (2017) defines it as the link between agenda-setting and opinions about public figures or other topics.

In the context of health, exposure to health information can have both positive and negative implications (Cáceres, Ruiz San Román, and Brändle, 2011; Herrera-Tejedor, 2017; Villar, López, and Celdrán, 2013).

Positive effects: It can enhance knowledge and decision-making regarding health.
Negative effects: Inaccurate or sensationalist information can lead to misguided decisions or encourage inappropriate behaviors in the use of healthcare services.

It is crucial to analyze the problems associated with misinformation and sensationalism in the transmission of health-related content. A systematic study of the effects and consumption of health information among the population would enable:

Designing effective and ethical communication strategies.
Promoting truthful and accurate information.
Fostering collaboration between healthcare professionals and media outlets.

This collaboration is essential to ensure that health-related content is produced and disseminated responsibly, thereby contributing to a better understanding and utilization of health information by the public. It is therefore fundamental to study the problems associated with misinformation, sensationalism, and the dramatization of health-related content in the media.

This special issue is part of the research project: Effects and Consumption of Health Information in the Media among the Madrid Population Aged 74 and Over (ECIS+74), funded by the 2024 Research Promotion Projects Call of the Rey Juan Carlos University.

While not limited to these, manuscripts addressing the following thematic lines will be accepted:

Analysis of how users access and consume health-related information.
Research on the effects of media consumption of health-related content.
Studies on media literacy linked to health topics.
Misinformation and health.
Fact-checking strategies in health-related topics.
Evaluation of the influence of social media as a source of health information.
Psychosocial effects of consuming health-related content in digital media.
Ethical and legal responsibilities of digital platforms in disseminating health-related content.

Note: Articles related to COVID-19 or the pandemic will not be accepted.

Research Lines

Media literacy in health.
Effects of media on health-related perceptions and behaviors.
Media consumption of health-related topics.
Health communication strategies.
Misinformation in health-related content.
Uses and gratifications of health information.
Social media and health topics.

Keywords: Communication and health, misinformation, media effects, media consumption.

References:

ARIAS ORDUÑA, A. V. e IGLESIAS-PARRO, S. (2015). La generatividad como una forma de envejecimiento exitoso. Estudio del efecto mediacional de los vínculos sociales. European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education, 5(1), 109-120. doi: 10.1989/ejihpe.v1i1.95

BERELSON, B. (1948). What “missing the newspaper” means. Communications research 1948-1949, 111-129. https://bit.ly/48tTU1h

BLUMLER, J. G. y KATZ, E. (1974). The uses of mass communications: Current perspectives on gratifications research. London: Sage publications

CÁCERES, M. D.; RUIZ SAN ROMÁN, J. A. y BRÄNDLE, G. (2011). El uso de la televisión en un contexto multipantallas. Anàlisi: quaderns de comunicació i cultura, 43, 21-44

CASTROMIL, A. R. (2017): Ciencia política para periodistas. Ideas para una información más rigurosa. Barcelona: UOC.

FLORES-RUIZ, I. y HUMANES-HUMANES, M. L. (2014). Hábitos y consumos televisivos de la generación digital desde la perspectiva de los usos y gratificaciones. Estudio de caso en la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. Revista Mediterránea de Comunicación, 5(1), 137-155. http://dx.doi.org/10.14198/MEDCOM2014.5.1.06

HERRERA-TEJEDOR, J. (2017). Preferencias de las personas muy mayores sobre la atención sanitaria. Revista Española de Geriatría y Gerontología. 52(4): 209–215. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.regg.2016.08.002

INE (2020). Encuesta Europea de Salud en España (EESE-2020). https://bit.ly/3wur2Zq

JO, E. y BERCOWITZ, L. (1996). Análisis del efecto priming sobre la influencia de los media: una puesta al día. En J. Bryant y D. Zillmann (eds): Los efectos de los medios de comunicación. Investigaciones y teorías. Barcelona: Paidós.

MINISTERIO DE SANIDAD (2023). Informe Anual del Sistema Nacional de Salud 2022. https://bit.ly/3TcG0w8

MCQUAIL, D. y WINDAHL, S. (1997). Modelos para el estudio de la comunicación colectiva. Pamplona: EUNSA

VILLAR, F., LÓPEZ, O. y CELDRÁN, M. (2013). La generatividad en la vejez y su relación con el bienestar. Anales de Psicología, 29(3), 897-906

For inquiries regarding the suitability of your proposal, you may contact Casandra López Marcos (casandra.lopez@urjc.es) or Gustavo Montes (gustavo.montes@urjc.es).

Author Guidelines:
https://revistas.innovacionumh.es/index.php/mhcj/about/submissions

Coordinators

Casandra López Marcos
Assistant Professor with a PhD in the Department of Journalism and Corporate Communication (URJC). Accredited as an Assistant Professor and Contracted Professor. She holds a PhD in Communication (with European mention and an extraordinary doctoral award). She is a member of the High-Performance Research Group INECO. Her research lines include social networks, misinformation, and the uses and practices of journalism. She is associated with medical scientific societies such as SEMER (Spanish Society of Geriatric Residence Physicians), where she served as press chief for 8 years. Additionally, she has worked in various media outlets and held positions as Press Chief for a municipality in the Community of Madrid and as Communications Director for the Spanish Government Delegation in Madrid.

Gustavo Montes Rodríguez
Assistant Professor with a PhD in the Department of Communication and Sociology (URJC). Accredited as an Assistant Professor and Contracted Professor. He is a member of the INECO Research Group and has a six-year research accreditation. His research focuses on narrative analysis, journalism, intermediality, and video-scene. He has worked as a journalist in various media outlets and served as a cultural advisor and press coordinator for the Madrid delegation of a regional administration.

Belén Puebla Martínez
Full Professor at Rey Juan Carlos University. She holds a PhD in Communication Sciences from URJC, a Master’s in Communication and Sociocultural Issues, and degrees in Journalism and Audiovisual Communication from the same university. She is the Principal Investigator of the High-Performance Research Group in Innovation, Education, and Communication (INECO) at Rey Juan Carlos University and the Principal Investigator of the consolidated Teaching Innovation Group NODOS. She is the Director of the scientific journal Index.comunicación, indexed in various evaluation systems and scientific databases, including Scopus (Q1 in Visual Arts and Performance Arts and Q2 in Communication), Emerging Sources Citation Index, and the FECYT Quality Seal. Her expertise lies in the study of analytical research methods in social communication, innovative teaching practices, media literacy, combating misinformation, Spanish television fiction, and the history of media, particularly press and television, among other research lines.

Graphic Narrative in the Current Technological Context: From Comic Strips to Comic Journalism.

The Miguel Hernández Communication Journal is pleased to announce a call for papers for its upcoming issue dedicated to the theme "Graphic Narrative in the Current Technological Context: From Comic Strips to Comic Journalism." We invite researchers, academics, and professionals in the fields of communication and journalism, education, and the humanities to submit manuscripts that explore the intersection between comics and journalism from various theoretical and methodological perspectives.

Graphic narrative encompasses both comics and other specific formats such as albums and illustrated books. In the past twenty years, this type of artistic and communicative expression has received considerable academic attention from various specialties. Thus, we consider it pertinent to dedicate an issue to analyzing the concrete relationships with journalism and communication.

Graphic narrative and journalism, two forms of visual and textual storytelling, have converged in innovative and significant ways of communication in recent decades. This special issue seeks to explore how graphic narrative, as an iconolinguistic medium, has been used to inform, educate, and comment on current events and social issues. We aim to examine how this medium has established itself as a legitimate and powerful form of journalistic communication. Additionally, we will analyze the latest digital transformations and their influence on the genre of comic journalism.

While not limited to these, some possible topics of interest include:

Technological innovations and the future of comic journalism in the current context

Comic journalism and other visual communication formats

The connection between comics, photography, and documentary

Comics and journalism in the coverage of conflicts and crises

Comics and journalism and their relationship with current social, cultural, economic, and political issues

News and other journalistic genres in strips, illustrations, and/or illustrated books

Professional and educational profiles of graphic designers and illustrators in comic journalism

Case studies of journalistic comics and contributions to their development

Comic journalism as an educational tool

The history of comic journalism: evolution and development

References:

Gisbert, Jesús (2022). Editorial Cómic y Periodismo para Tebeosfera, tercera época, 19, en Tebeosfera, tercera época, 19 (25-IV-2022). Asociación Cultural Tebeosfera, Sevilla https://www.tebeosfera.com/documentos/editorial_para_tebeosfera_tercera_epoca_19.html

López-Hidalgo, Antonio; López-Redondo, Isaac (2021). Nuevos registros narrativos en el periodismo cómic. Un estudio de caso: La grieta. Profesional de la información, v. 30, n. 1. https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2021.ene.17

Matos-Agudo, Diego (2017). Periodismo cómic. Una historia del género desde los pioneros a Joe Sacco. Comunicación Social Ediciones y Publicaciones.

Melero Xavier (2011). El cómic como medio periodístico EU-topías, revista de interculturalidad, comunicación y estudios europeos, v.1 https://saguntum.uv.es/index.php/eutopias/article/view/18446

Varillas Fernández, R. (2013). El cómic, una cuestión de formatos (1): de los orígenes periodísticos al comic-book. CuCo, Cuadernos De cómic, (1), 7–32. https://doi.org/10.37536/cuco.2013.1.1062

Manuscripts must be original and not under consideration for publication elsewhere. Articles should be between 6,000 and 8,000 words, including references and footnotes. All manuscripts will undergo a double-blind peer review process to ensure academic quality and relevance. Article submissions should be formatted according to the provided template and uploaded to the journal's online platform. Authors must register on the platform. Submission guidelines can be found at: https://revistas.innovacionumh.es/index.php/mhcj/about/submissions

We invite you to submit your research by October 1, 2024, for this special issue of MHJournal, which will be published in January 2025. For inquiries about the suitability of your proposal, please contact Eduard Baile López (ebaile@ua.es) and José Rovira-Collado (jrovira.collado@ua.es).

Coordinators:

Dr. Eduard Baile López (Comic Classroom at the University of Alicante-Unicòmic-University of Alicante)

ebaile@ua.es

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7685-6487

Eduard Baile López holds a degree in Catalan Philology from the University of Alicante, where he is a Permanent Professor. He earned his PhD with the thesis "Diccionari específic dels substantius i dels adjectius del ‘Tirant lo Blanc’." He is part of the research groups 'Recerca de Literatura Contemporània’ and ‘Estudis Transversals’. He has coordinated the Comic Classroom at the University of Alicante since 2017 and has been the Academic Coordinator of Unicómic since 2011. He is a member of the European project COST Investigation on Comics and Graphic Novels in the Iberian Cultural Area (iCOn-MICS), where he co-leads Working Group 3-Iberian Comics as a Form of Intercultural Dialogue. He is currently the director of the Department of Catalan Philology at the University of Alicante. Additionally, he was the director of the Alicante section of the Unitat per a l'Educació Multilingüe, part of the Interuniversity Institute of Valencian Philology, from June 2016 to March 2020.

Dr. José Rovira-Collado (University of Alicante)

jrovira.collado@ua.es

He is a Permanent Professor of Language and Literature Didactics at the University of Alicante. He earned his PhD in Educational Research in 2015 with the thesis: "Literatura infantil y juvenil en Internet. De la Cervantes Virtual a la LIJ 2.0. Herramientas y espacios para su estudio y difusión." He received the Extraordinary Doctorate Award in 2018 and the Santander-UA Chair of Digital Transformation Award in 2018. He has served as a Spanish lecturer at various Italian universities (1999-2007). He is the coordinator of the Didactics of Language and Literature area and Deputy Director of the Department of Innovation and Didactic Training. He specializes in teaching Spanish through technology, children's and youth literature on the Internet, multimodal reading, and graphic narratives. He has coordinated Unicómic, the comic conference at the University of Alicante, since 2008.

Advertising in the digital context and the impact of AI, a permanent challenge.

“Miguel Hernández Communication Journal” announces the monographic issue Advertising in the digital context, a permanent challenge. In this issue, researchers and academics are invited to submit articles that analyse, from the point of view of professional practice and/or purely academic research, from a broad and multidisciplinary perspective, the situation of advertising in the current digital context. The deadline for receipt of full papers (via the journal's platform) is April 1st 2025.

The first decades of the 21st century have shaped a landscape based on new economic, social and cultural dynamics. People's priorities, values, lifestyles, leisure and ways of consuming are changing. Within an absolutely globalised world, where the democratisation of the internet and technological advances build different connectivity alternatives, the concept of liquid modernity defines the social dynamics that are generated around the development of the individual and the concept of immediacy.

This context has entailed an absolute transformation of communication, to the point of generating a new paradigm where disruptive changes draw new tenets of hyperconnectivity in very short spaces of time. The classic mass media such as television, radio and the press are losing their power to generate millionaire audiences as prescribers. New and multiple forms of communication linked to the digital context are appearing, which generates new consumption logics (wide range of channels, new formats, different supports, etc.) attached to the use of all kinds of multi-screen devices. Audiences are spread out and the model is moving towards an ecosystem made up of multiple small niche audiences.

These circumstances condition and modulate the reality of the advertising sector, as well as its performance in the implementation of campaigns that are truly effective. The user is the most powerful agent in the current digital context. They are highly educated, digitally skilled and have the power to consume and/or communicate when they want, how they want and in the way they want, with the possibility of escaping intrusive advertising actions. Faced with this issue, brands are the leading agent, as well as the most valuable asset that organisations have in their permanent search for new persuasive communication formulas that manage to connect in a relevant way with their potential users.

Advertising is living, atavistically, in a permanent crisis. The situation of the sector, within the current digital ecosystem, has accelerated to the point of becoming a challenge that allows it to continually adapt to all the disruptive changes that occur; with the mission of ensuring that its techniques do not lose effectiveness. In addition to structural changes in the organisational structure and specialisation of its professionals, the sector has had to apply changes in the way it analyses, plans and implements campaigns, as well as in the way it measures the results obtained.

This situation indicates the need for research into the current situation of advertising in the digital context. Through this monograph, the journal aims to achieve a broad and transversal review of how the advertising sector finds itself within the current digital context, what are the main academic studies and challenges in this respect, what techniques are used, what elements make it up and what tools form part of the process of analysis, planning, implementation and measurement of all types of advertising actions/campaigns.

Key words:

Advertising, Persuasive communication, Advertising sector, Advertising campaigns, Brands, Users, Digital context.

Priority lines in this monographic:

Advertising sector and activity in the digital context.

Past, present and future of advertising (sector, activity, etc.).

Digital advertising: social networks, digital platforms, connected television, websites, etc.

Impact of AI on the advertising sector.

Trends in advertising in the digital context.

Public relations, marketing, persuasive/commercial communication in the digital environment.

From the power of the user to the protagonism of brands in the digital advertising context: integrated brand communications.

New advertising formats and content in the digital environment.

Strategy, planning and creativity in the advertising sector in the digital context.

Graphic communication and visual advertising identity in the digital context.

Digital ecosystems and social networks: emerging dynamics and new challenges.

Miguel Hernández Communication Journal is calling for papers on Digital Ecosystems and Social Networks: Emerging Dynamics and New Challenges. This issue calls for articles that examine new forms of social interaction, citizen participation, cultural creation and scientific research. The deadline for receipt of full papers (via the journal's platform) is April 1st 2024.

Social media played a key role during the health crisis in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic by facilitating communication between individuals, groups and institutions, by providing access to a wide variety of sources of information and entertainment, and by giving new impetus to the generation of content by the user community itself. However, digital communication also poses important challenges and risks related to the quality, veracity, ethics of information and sustainability of digital media.

One of the most relevant recent challenges is the impact of artificial intelligence. Although it has given a new impetus to the creation of news, advertising and entertainment content, it has also generated new problems, such as the proliferation of false narratives and the devaluation of the creative professions. It has also entangled already complex intellectual property issues.

Another major challenge is the race for the attention of a fragmented and diverse audience in digital ecosystems, which continue to expand in an increasingly competitive environment. Tech giants have come into conflict with governments over regulations that require social networks to pay for the publication of local media news. These tensions show continuities and disruptions with the media archaeology that has been addressed in recent years (Scolari, 2022).

Moreover, platforms rely on technologies governed by algorithms that can harm society and culture. Algorithms can reinforce stereotypes and social gaps, can inhibit the development of critical thinking (Guallar and Martínez-Cañadas, 2023) or can even lead to addictions that alter the personal, social and working lives of those who use this technology. The responsible and conscious use of social networks is therefore a key issue for preserving dignity, freedom and personal and social well-being.

In this context, a critical, integrative and prospective study of the trends, practices and effects of digital communication is necessary.

Keywords: social networks, digital ecosystem, artificial intelligence, disinformation, algorithms.

Priority lines in this monograph:

Social networks: uses by audiences and the media, socialisation processes, identity construction and opinion formation.

Artificial intelligence applied to the creation of digital content, journalism and communication research.

Disinformation, manipulation and propaganda in the digital ecosystem after the covid-19 pandemic.

Political economy, governance and regulation of digital systems and platforms.

Effects of algorithms on society, culture and mental health.

Audiences and new consumption of journalistic content in the digital era.

“Miguel Hernández Communication Journal” announces the monograph Audiences and new consumption of journalistic content in the digital era. For this issue, articles are requested that reflect current research on the new audiences that access the consumption of journalistic content and the new consumption habits of both journalistic media and platforms that generate alternative content to conventional journalism or forward and value content of journalistic brands on social networks that allow the interaction of its users, search engines for internet browsing to track information or opinion on current events, news aggregators that select journalistic content according to the user profile, among others. The deadline for receipt of full articles (via the journal's platform) is 1 October 2024.

In this monographic issue we ask the research community to answer these questions in order to create knowledge about one of the dimensions that is most intensely transforming the journalistic media, the professional practice of journalism and the citizens who consume news and information. This monographic issue is linked to the central theme of the XXX International Congress of the Spanish Society of Journalism (SEP), which will be held on 6 and 7 June 2024 in the building of the San Carlos Hospital on the Aranjuez Campus.

In order to answer these questions in a varied and contrasted way and from different approaches, a call for manuscripts on the thematic lines that organise the XXX International Congress of the Spanish Society of Journalism is made:

Digitalisation, platformisation and the new logic of audiences in the production of journalistic content.

Audiences and news consumption habits in the digital media ecosystem.

Journalism in the face of disinformation.

Journalism market, journalist training and the role of journalism studies.

Journalism studies: the study and critical discussion of journalism as a subject of academic research and as a field of practice.

AI and journalism: what challenges does AI pose for the journalistic profession, media companies?

Roles of journalism in today's society: strategies for building trust and engagement with audiences.

Journalists, branded content and corporate communication

Journalism and crisis communication in a society at risk.

Keywords: journalistic content, new audiences, information consumption habits, digital platforms, journalistic brands in the digital era.

We invite you to submit your research until 1 October 2024 for this monographic issue of MHJournal to be published in January 2025.

For questions about the suitability of the proposal please contact María Luisa Humanes (marialuisa.humanes@urjc.es) and Enric Saperas (enric.saperas@urjc.es).

Guidelines for authors:

https://revistas.innovacionumh.es/index.php/mhcj/about/submissions

One hundred years of Weimar cinema: the legacy of German expressionism, avant-garde and other experimental visions

Miguel Hernández Communication Journal is pleased to announce a call for papers for its upcoming issue, dedicated to the theme "One Hundred Years of Weimar Cinema: The Legacy of German Expressionism, Avant-garde, and Other Experimental Perspectives." We invite researchers, academics, and professionals in communication, humanities, and arts to submit manuscripts addressing the importance and relevance of Weimar cinema, as well as its various cinematic perspectives, including expressionist cinema, abstract animation, and the social realism of the New Objectivity, which represent only a part of its wide range. Deadline April 1st, 2025,

In search of explanations for the rise of Nazism to power, many studies on the Weimar Republic (1918-1933) were conducted. The well-known "From Caligari to Hitler" stands out, in which Siegfried Kracauer argues that interwar cinema foreshadows the psychological tendencies of the German population. For her part, Lotte H. Eisner, in "The Haunted Screen," offers a more aesthetic proposal and suggests that expressionist cinema is a reformulation of the tragic character of German culture, updating dark and mysterious themes present in Romantic fantastic literatura.

The success of Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (Wiene, 1920) increased a trend in fantasy and horror cinema that had been developing for some time. Films such as Nosferatu, Eine Symphonie des Grauens (Murnau, 1921), Der Golem (Wegener, 1920), or Dr. Mabuse (Lang, 1922) are part of the cinema labeled as expressionist, which captured the attention of the period. Important historians such as Thomas Elsaesser, Vicente Sánchez-Biosca, Anton Kaes, and Malte Hagener have shown that this fantastic cinema was neither predominant nor the most popular, highlighting the multifaceted nature of the industry during this period, which also included mountaineering films and abstract experimentation, among other styles.

In 1924, the Dawes Plan strengthened bidirectional ties between Hollywood and the German film industry. From the fantastic, there was a shift to the neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity), led by filmmakers like Pabst and Froelich, with dramas representing the real problems of Weimar society. Working classes are the protagonists in films such as Menschen am Sonntag (Siodmark and G. Ulmer, 1930), Kameradschaft (Pabst, 1931), and Kuhle Wampe (Sudow, 1932). Additionally, the visibility of the gay community was reflected in cinema from the beginning of Weimar, with Anders als die Anderen (Oswald, 1920) being the first explicit case. The increased presence of women in big cities was also portrayed, as seen in Pabst's works or in the first film with a female homosexual theme, Mädchen in Uniform (1931), which achieved great popularity and international success.

Given the current social polarization, many aspects of Weimar society remain present. Therefore, it is relevant to pay attention to the cinema of this moment, studying its similarities with the present. Audiovisual resources present in contemporary series and cinema appeared in Weimar cinema. A period of economic and social uncertainty, which, beyond fantasy and horror productions, has always been highlighted for its tragic character[1].

Keywords:

Expressionism, Weimar, Avant-garde, New Objectivity, experimental cinema

Main Research Lines:

- Legacy and relevance of German expressionist cinema

- Themes of the uncanny such as the double and automatons in Weimar cinema

- Representations of femininity and homosexuality in Weimar cinema

- German abstract experimental cinema (Rutmann, Richter, Fischinger)

- Place and impact of popular cinema in the Weimar era (escapism, mountaineering, costume dramas, conventional dramas...)

- New Objectivity cinema and its opposition to expressionism

- Expressiveness of male, female, and diverse bodies in Weimar cinema

- Influences of expressionism in press, radio, TV, social networks, and other contemporary audiovisual communication media

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Marcos Jiménez González holds a degree and a PhD in Philosophy, specializing in Aesthetics and Theory of Arts, focusing on Film Aesthetics, where he carries out his teaching and research work. In 2018, he published his first book Romanticism, Technique and Power in Albert Speer's Architecture (Ápeiron publishing) and the second in 2022 Fritz Lang and Expressionism (Shangrila). He has been an associate professor at Rey Juan Carlos University (URJC) and a collaborator at the Distance University of Madrid (UDIMA), as well as a Margarita Salas postdoctoral researcher at the University of Salamanca (USAL), with which he conducted research stays at the Institute of Philosophy (IFS) of CSIC and at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). He is currently a professor at the University of Zaragoza (UNIZAR), in the Pre-departmental Unit of Philosophy (area of Aesthetics and Theory of Arts).

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Luis Nahuel Sanguinet García is a doctoral student at Rey Juan Carlos University and is working on his doctoral thesis on the symbolism of the door in German expressionist cinema, under the joint supervision of Prof. Dr. Lorenzo Torres from URJC and Prof. Dr. Malte Hagener from Phillips Universität Marburg. He holds a degree in Audiovisual Communication from URJC, a Master's in Audiovisual Production and Distribution from the HDM El Submarino art school, and a Master's in Philosophical Criticism and Argumentation from the Autonomous University of Madrid. He has worked in supervising audiovisual dossiers for Observatorio del Futuro and as an illustrator for Ápeiron Ediciones. In 2016, he published his book Aesthetic Approaches to the Door with Ápeiron Estudios de Filosofía. He has collaborated with the ATAD research group (Analysis of Audiovisual Text. Theoretical and Methodological Developments) at the Complutense University of Madrid and currently collaborates with the Consolidated Research Group INECO (Innovation, Education and Communication), linked to URJC.