Guadalajara

En las últimas cuatro décadas ha habido una renovación en el medio televisivo como consecuencia de su convivencia con otros medios —principalmente con el cine—, así como del avance tecnológico inminente gracias al cual es posible, por ejemplo, visionar un producto a través de múltiples dispositivos o experimentar formas de consumo libres, sin limitaciones. Como resultado de estos cambios surge lo que se ha denominado tercera edad de oro de la televisión, cuyo rasgo principal es el auge de las series de ficción.

Colombia

Mass media plays a crucial role during the election campaigns, because, by promoting a particular framing to present issues and candidates involved in the campaigns citizens are granted access to the political debate. To analyze the political framing carried out by the media during the 2015 gubernatorial election campaign of Nuevo León, Mexico, a content analysis of the news stories published by television and the press was developed. Findings made it possible to detect a different use of news frames by both media. While the frame of strategic game dominated in television, the press emphasized a treatment of conflict. In addition, a moderation effect of the campaign stages was observed in the use of different news frames, increasing the use of strategic game and debate and political agreement frames by television, while the press maintained a constant presence of news frames.

España

Introduction. Stereotypes are socially-structured beliefs about a particular social group, which can be derived from direct or indirect contact with members of that group. In this regard, it has been pointed out that media representations can generate and reinforce stereotypes that lead to the development of more or less prejudiced attitudes. Objectives. This study seeks to examine whether this process occurs with respect to the Mexican indigenous population, in the context of the metropolitan area of Monterrey. Methods. The study combined two methods: the first one consisted of the content analysis of fiction TV programmes in order to identify possible stereotypes about Mexico’s indigenous population; the second instrument was a survey applied to high school students of the metropolitan area of Monterrey in order to investigate the relationship between their beliefs and prejudiced attitudes towards indigenous people. Conclusions. Results confirmed the impact of the consumption of media stereotypes on the level of prejudice towards indigenous people, but not on the stereotyping of this sector of the population.

Venezuela

En este artículo se exploran las modificaciones que ha sufrido la televisión a raíz de su vinculación con la red de internet. Pasando primero por una convergencia (coexistencia) y posteriormente a una mutación (cambios en sus estructuras de operación). Después de que algunos analistas de medios (tecnófilos) pronosticaran la extinción de la televisión con el arribo de la red y la presentaran como la antítesis de internet, aún en nuestros días persiste la visión de contrastar entre “nuevas y viejas” tecnologías y establecer una oposición directa entre televisión e internet. No obstante, todo indica que la televisión como industria ha logrado sacar provecho de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación como internet y fortalecerse.

Brasil

Black Mirror es una serie de televisión británica que refleja un imaginario fatalista sobre el avance de las tecnologías en la sociedad. El presente estudio de recepción buscó abordar desde una perspectiva culturalista los alcances que ha tenido en sus audiencias mexicanas, con el fin de identificar qué percibieron los participantes en cuanto a cambios de actitudes, sentimientos y comportamientos entre sus espectadores. Los resultados apuntan a que si bien no hay acciones motivadas importantes, sí generó sentimientos y actitudes que los llevó a reflexionar sobre los efectos de las tecnologías en la sociedad.

Brasil

Se utiliza como marco de referencia la teoría de la cultura participativa de Henry Jenkins para entender las prácticas de un grupo de fans alrededor de “Game of Thrones”. El caso de estudio son las reseñas que realizó el youtuber Spiderman Choco de los episodios de la séptima temporada de la serie, transmitidos en 2017. En estas reseñas se utilizan referentes locales de una región mexicana como punto de partida para realizar una apropiación de esta narrativa. Se concluye que estos fans actúan como traductores culturales para espectadores en su territorio, ofreciendo además indicios sobre la recepción local de series de fantasía globales.

USA

The issue of how to preserve and promote cultural diversity in Mexico has not been central in policy debates and regulations. However, scholars, politicians, and public officials increasingly are debating how to promote and maintain cultural diversity here. This article reviews the current Mexican debate on policies related to the promotion of cultural diversity through television, using the concepts of source, content, and exposure diversity. The article argues that current commercial strategies in Mexico do not stimulate cultural diversity in media content. Instead, it advocates a mixed system of media with different mandates and modes of financing.

USA

This article reports the findings of a review and methodological critique of 96 Latin American empirical studies on television reception published between 1992 and 2007 in the most important journals of the region. The analysis compares the studies according to their theoretical approach, the research technique used, their sample size, the type of audience members studied, the type of television content researched and the scholars mentioned the most in their references. Findings show that Cultural Studies is by far the most popular theoretical approach in Latin American audience research, and that two of the topics covered the most were television and daily life and the importance of social and cultural mediations. The article also concludes that many studies lack a solid methodological base. Morley, Orozco, Martín-Barbero, García-Canclini and Lull were the scholars mentioned the most in the reference sections. The article ends with a diagnosis of the strengths and weaknesses of current Latin American empirical research on television audiences and points out the need for more methodological rigor and more emphasis on the analysis of ideological readings and impact.

USA

This article explores the consumption patterns of local and foreign film and television content of Mexican audiences living in the Northeast region of the country, a region bordering with the United States. Based on telephone surveys in four of the largest cities in the area (Reynosa, Monterrey, Saltillo and Torreon), the study presents data about television consumption that suggest that cultural proximity factors are stronger in Mexican northerners than their geographical, commercial and historical proximity to the US. The concept of cultural discount seems to apply in this part of Mexico, due to the differences in language, practices and traditions despite the proximity and familiarity with US culture (except in the case of Hollywood films, as in many other countries in the world).

USA

This article analyses and discusses Mexican public policies regarding the transition from analogue to digital terrestrial television (DTT). We aim to show how digitization, in the Mexican context, can be thought of as an opportunity to change the duopolistic structure in television in order to obtain higher quality and greater content diversity. The methodology used here consists of a structural historical analysis of communication policies with an emphasis on digital switchover, paying special attention to the social power relations that have led to the current structural conditions of the concentrated Mexican communications system. Overall, preliminary results obtained on this research show a lack of clarity in DTT policies of the last two administrations (Vicente Fox 2000-2006 and Felipe Calderón 2006-2012) and a reinforced hegemony of the economically dominant broadcast and telecommunications actors: Televisa, TV Azteca and Telmex, in detriment to public service, competition, local TV stations, independent production, content quality and audiences in a broader sense.