viernes, 26 de octubre de 2012

IV Jornada de Comunicación Corporativa 2.0


   Dentro del marco de la IV Jornada de Comunicación Corporativa 2.0, organizada por la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, tuve la oportunidad de acudir a una ponencia de Gonzalo Martín, director de Territorio Creativo.
(panoramaaudiovisual.com)
La exposición, que trataba sobre “Transmedia y marca” fue un espacio abierto, y muy dinámico. Martín se centró en reiterar que el crossmedia –más conocido como transmedia- existe desde tiempos inmemorables, a pesar de que la mayor parte del público conciba la película “La Guerra de las Galaxias” y todo lo relativo a ésta como el primer ejemplo de transmedia de la historia .   Martín hizo hincapié en el hecho de que en los tiempos que corren, y tras la llegada de las nuevas tecnologías a nuestras vidas, el transmedia ha cambiado totalmente, llegando a ser más homogéneo en todas sus facetas, ya que
“cuando tenemos bits, las diferencias entre audio, vídeo y texto se desvanecen”
  Por otro lado, estas nuevas tecnologías , y en especialmente Internet con herramientas como Twitter, acercan al público el proceso creativo, llegando al punto de ser unos creadores transmedia sin querer serlo. 

Un claro ejemplo de esta participación directa de los receptores en el mensaje, es, a palabras de Martín, la extinguida serie Lost, que la califica como “paradigma de cómo el público condiciona la narrativa”, ya que los guionistas de esta exitosa serie engañaban al público con la trama, haciendo que éstos  llegasen a especular nuevas tramas, que en algunas ocasiones se llegaban a utilizar.

 Como ya mencioné con anterioridad, Martín marcó la creación de “La Guerra de las Galaxias” (1977), como el punto de inflexión en la modernización  del mundo del crossmedia, y consiguientemente en su industria. Antes de 1977, todo se movía por licencias, lo que ralentizaba la posibilidad de crear diversos canales para un mismo mensaje. En la actualidad, vivimos rodeados de transmedia; la saga de Piratas del Caribe es uno de sus mayores exponentes, ya que como aseguró el ponente, en el proceso creativo de los filmes, sus productores y guionistas piensan deliberadamente en el producto que puede salir secundariamente de esa “cinta”. Los creadores se centran en construir una franquicia, tal y como ocurre con el programa “Sálvame” –además del programa diario poseen blogs, clubs de fans, revista…-.

Como se puede suponer, todo este proceso ha roto con la linealidad de la televisión; se ha pasado de un sistema formado por emisor, receptor y  mensaje –entre otros- sin posibilidad de interactuación a uno  totalmente dinámico, en el que el receptor ha ganado protagonismo. Martín define esta situación como “el empujón -por parte de las empresas- al público al centro de la estrategia de monetización”.

A pesar de que las tecnologías nos han brindado la posibilidad de participar activamente, Martín asegura que las organizaciones –tanto de carácter público como privado- se han convertido en nuevos medios, debido al gran volumen de información que manejan. Sin embargo, el creativo se aventura a afirmar que éstas empresas están “metiendo la pata” en el momento que crean, remezclan y comparten el contenido del mensaje que quieren difundir, ya  que éste pierde su pureza; su esencia.

domingo, 6 de mayo de 2012

Europe in change

Undoubtedly, one of the most-valorated international organizations is the European Union. Since its creation, it has evolved so much until today. 
However, we have to take into account that everything wasn't perfect: there have been many complications, especially with the economic,political and even cultural crisis which we are living. Despite all this, I wanted to reflect on this Prezi the efforts that all the former countries have done,from Schuman's famous speech to the Greek and French elections.Enjoy the presentation.


http://prezi.com/w-w79sdihwkg/europe/

lunes, 23 de abril de 2012

Online Activism in Russia

  • Nowadays, online  activism is an important concept, specially when we are talking about elections. Here's the link to a Prezi that explains a Russian iniciative regarding its past elections,called Kartanarusheniy

http://prezi.com/9p0dmnoozbtt/online-activism/

domingo, 22 de abril de 2012

China and its complicated situation

In the last decade, China has experimented important changes regarding education, Sanitary systems or even contamination . However, the increase of population and the critical polical situation, slowed down all these processes. As a consequence of it, Chinese people seem that they live in 15th century more than in 21th.

http://prezi.com/59dcpzh4gemb/china-a-decade-of-development/

Main Sources
http://www.infolatam.com/2011/01/25/china-america-latina-y-estados-unidos-el-nuevo-triangulo/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2012/mar/23/china-decade-change-interactive-timeline?CMP=twt_gu%3C/a%3E%3C/p
http://www.socialwatch.org/es/book/export/html/11621
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rep%C3%BAblica_de_China
http://www.notivida.org/Articulos/Demografia/El%20desequilibrio%20entre%20hombres%20y%20mujeres%20en%20China.html
http://www.vidasostenible.org/observatorio/f2_final.asp?idinforme=1704
http://asiapacifico.bcn.cl/noticias/crisis-agua-asia
http://www.compromisorse.com/rse/2012/02/15/la-contaminacion-cuesta-a-china-112000-millones-de-dolares-en-sanidad/

Ciudad Juárez,a city without Law.

In Ciudad Juárez there is no Law that creates Justice, no Law that punishes”

This sentence, which may sound like dialogue from a movie, is nowadays a sad reality. The worst part of it is that it was said by a drug dealer (Carla Ramírez Fernando) from  Ciudad Juárez (México).

Beyond being the eighth largest city in Mexico, Ciudad Juárez has been a “trend” in media (both national and international) by the number of deaths, most of them rough, related to drug cartels.
  

This city, which  borders with the United States, is a focal point for the passage of narcotics between the USA and Mexico. As a consequence of this, in its neighborhoods have settled the most dangerous bands related to the drug trafficking world, the so-called cartels , which had continuous battles -in the strict sense of the word- leaving behind tens or even hundreds of totally innocent dead people . 
While public institutions are making a superhuman effort to reduce violence, and ultimately the death toll, there is still much work to do
Only in 2012,  1974 people died, data  that may seem scandalous, but   comparing it to the number of deaths in 2010 -3115 - is a relief. 

 As it can be expected, this unpleasant situation adversely affects the daily lives of the citizens of this town in northern district of Chihuahua. Since 2009, as stated by the Mexican newspaper "La Tercera",people from Ciudad Juárez  have had to close a 40% of bars and restaurants in the city (between 300 and 4,000). The causes of this decline which not only affect the hospitality industry, but also education, tourism and especially population rates are easily  recognizable: looting, kidnapping and extortion by the cartels.
Every death, every kidnap  ,
contains a personal story. Stories which even involve minors , as in the case of the teenager Gloria Rivas Martínez

Principal Cartels and their location in México. Source: bbc.co.uk



Teenagers are not spared

When Gloria Rivas Martinez disappeared on October 26, 2002, she only was 16 years old. As it happens in most of the disappearances of women in Ciudad Juarez, her body was found in a field  outside the city, with obvious signs of violence. Parallel to this is the disappearance, it happened the disappearance of María Isabel Mejía Sapien, which occurred just 3 months after the first.
Both worked in the same business, "The Star", although in different branches. This business has been repeatedly investigated for possible involvement with the cartels. On these two cases ,it have run many rumors, one of the most famous, and which ended in the pages of the local newspaper "El Norte" was that Rivas was kidnapped and held for several days in one of the "headquarters" of cartels, more specifically in the west part of Ciudad Juarez.




Cases like these happen every day. The drug problem is very complex, and more in South America, where it is fully expanded. International community should come together with national, to  eradicate this problem, regardless of the costs that may ensue. More than 1000 deaths per year are a drama, and more in recent times.


Main sources
http://aquevedo.wordpress.com/tag/trafico-de-drogas/
http://www.google.es/imgres?hl=es&biw=1366&bih=677&gbv=2&tbm=isch&tbnid=QsWeOMOquv-kqM:&imgrefurl=http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/america_latina/2009/10/091022_aumento_homicidios_ciudad_juarez_mr.shtml&docid=I5wQ07XvpCQjhM&imgurl=http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/assets/images/2009/10/22/091022130033_sp_mexico_map_526x404.jpg&w=526&h=404&ei=482TT6ChAcXV0QXlq4HdAQ&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=306&sig=111604121631607460874&page=1&tbnh=150&tbnw=195&start=0&ndsp=15&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:0,i:68&tx=96&ty=104

domingo, 12 de febrero de 2012

From Newsreels to Real-Time War: how War journalism has changed

Undoubtedly,  media has had to adapt gradually  to the changes that have taken place in society throughout history. One of the most attractive fields in journalism, and related to all these changes, is the so- called War Journalism, which is that type of journalism in which the professional is responsible for covering a specific military event.
Throughout history there have been many wars (since the Grecian societies), so it’s very complex to talk about the role of journalists in all of them, so I will be brief.

For example, Spain is a good reference for the so-called "newsreels." After the Spanish Civil War, in which 2 sides fought (the so-called "National" and "Republican"), it was born in the Península Ibérica  a new regime: the dictatorship, which came from the hand of Francisco Franco. In this totalitarian regime, the freedom of the press was greatly restricted , so Franco created his own media to inform people of their ideas, actions ...: the NODO (1942).
Nowadays, this newsreel, which showed to Spanish population a “different side” of the country, and also of the world, is remembered with some sectors of the population with affect.                              
20 years after the creation of the NODO, and a little  bit far from Spain, and after the World War II, the  Vietnam War began, specifically in 1964. In this case, the paper of the media was very important. They played a crucial paper, cause thanks to them, people could notice the torture and punishment suffered by the prisoners of both sides.
In this case, we can’t talk about the media as mere newsreels; they were the so-called War TV.
 More than one person and two may wonder why the media at that time were War TV and not newsreels.
The reason is simple: this bloody war that left behind thousands of dead people , and even more prisoners, was televised. Obviously, at that time the media infrastructure was not as advanced as today, so this transmission was not in real time. One of the bloodiest conflicts of this War was televised in August 1965 when the CBS
 "...showed the thatched roofs Marines lighting of the village of Cam Ne with Zippo lighters, andincluded critical commentary on the Treatment of the villagers "
Although this war was devastating to the human race, for journalism gave some positive points: medias’ paper was more important. Journalists had more freedom to do their job. In other conflicts such as World War II, or the Civil War, censorship had not allowed the recording of certain images; in this case they televised them. Media knew very good what were the issues that "sold" in the United States (the conflict in its more cruel view)  so the most cruel and shocking images were the most repeated in TVs.

With the change of century (XXI),people thought that the number of conflicts would be reduced considerably, but the general thought was denied in 2003, when troops from various countries, commanded by the Americans and British invaded Iraq. In this case, the media coverage was very controversial. Unlike the TV War in Vietnam, one could speak of a " Live War". Viewer observed, with greater temporal immediacy than in Vietnam, the U.S. offensive on the Iraqi. In this conflict there wasn’t  censorship, so the work of journalists was more extensive. Thanks to the media, in this case, we witnessed acts of war. One could  say that we were almost eye-witnesses of the facts, because the images and testimonies were captured very close to the areas of the conflict, which seemed to be happening in our own living room.
If in this case the role of the press can be defined as indispensable in the case of the so-called Arab Spring was a basis. As the director of Al Jazeera said, without the presence of the media, it could have been a genocide in Tahrir Square, sponsored by the Egyptian government to silence all those people who stood up against Regime.
Although there were so many years between Irak and the Arab Spring (9 in particular), the media coverage itself was different, and even better. In this case one could speak of a Real-Time War, largely due to the great efforts made by the media to give the audience a faithful account of what was beginning to occur in these countries. The “taking” of  Tahrir Square was broadcast by Al Jazeera, and through this channel, the international community became concerned about what was going on, becoming a news source this place.
Not only the media played an important role in this case, the so-called social networks were also a key factor. This sort of revolution started in Facebook, where a young man began to mobilize people to became against the regime. Perhaps this young man would never have expected this “chain reaction” of the Egyptians, and the inhabitants of countries that were and are in similar situations.
With this brief analysis, one can realize about the importance of the press, and specially  the importance of  war press, because thanks to it, we aren’t ignorant about what happens beyond the borders of our country.