1. Sands of war
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  Kseniya Simonova, "Ukraine's got talent" winner with this "Sand animation" which reflects the trauma of her country during World War II, when millions of people died. &

2. Exhausted seas. Pirate-infested seas
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  A different regard to Somalian piracy.           From Xosé Ramil' s facebook.       

3. Africa, that Paradise on Earth
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  If I start this post saying I saw Paradise on Earth it might sound pretentious. But I went to Africa, and that is how it felt.   It is a continent that really alters the senses.   Y

4. Blogs to change the World
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        At BestUniversities.com they made a list of the 100 best blogs for those who want to change the World.   Here you have the ones classified as "general", bu

5. Camisetas: from Eric Berne to Sixth Sense
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  One of the best subjects I took at Complutense University while studying Journalism was Information Theory, by Prof. Felicísimo Valbuena. By playing movie after movie, he taught us how

6. Life is full of ups and downs
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  And a crisis can turn the table.    3XGJq8wrw5I   I saw it in Francisco Polo's blog.    

7. Alternative media, ¿political resistance?
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  John D. H. Downing, one of the academicians who have better explained the influence of new media on international communication flows, has published a new book. Is is called "Alternative m

8. 2.7 billion questions
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Did you know that there are over 2.7 billion searches performed on Google each month? To whom where these questions addressed B.G.? (Before Google).  [Paying attention, a video presentation t

9. Bibliografía sobre "Periodismo e información de la Unión Europea"
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  Esta bibliografía se ofrece para los alumnos de la asignatura "Periodismo e información de la Unión Europea" dentro del Master en Unión Europea de l

10. Open access for the Journal of Global Mass Communication
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  Another of those publications that will deserve to be read -and to be delicioused- in the next months is now available full text/open access (pdf). It is the inaugural issue of the Journal of G

11. Del campus al Capitolio
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      From campus to Capitolio and back: un artículo de Times Higher Education sobre las luces y las sombras de pasar del ámbito académico al político

12. A drama with/without sound
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  This is a harsh video about the endless drama of terrorism. I saw it in Halon Disparado and it is from the band Sindicato del Crimen. Music to tell a murder.    D1RYkfXAQqI   T

13. Faked photos? Ask an expert
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  Fabled PBS tv channel has published some good advises in order to detect if a photography has been faked. You can watch a video, make a try with nine given examples and listen to an expert e

14. Want to buy some illusions?
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  Canciones que acarician y que arañan. Ute Lemper, esa maravilosa mezcla de Edith Piaff y Marlene Dietrich,  próximamente en Barcelona.   MyRTSIAJBHA   Y otro estil

15. About journalism and age
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  New Zealand journalist Linda Clark's words after quitting at the peak of her career:         I've begun to think that journalism is a job you do best when

16. When corporations and politics encounter each other
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...debates) in order to back the campaign, but it is also possible to watch the movie for free in the Web: in English (YouTube) or Spanish (three parts, bellow). I arrived to it via José Alonso. &...

17. International flows in the Internet
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  Recently, I discovered or re-read some academic studies which revisit classic International Communication concerns and apply them to the Net. It is interesting to see how much the new proposals

18. Sidney Pollack, about news sources
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  Director Sidney Pollack died last monday 28 may. One of his most popular films is Out of Africa, with the touching soundtrack and the unforgettable hair-washing scene with Robert Redford and

19. Through the eyes of a photojournalist
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How is it to work as a photojournalist? Have you ever thought how it feels to take close shots of high public figures while they make a speech? Gilles Vidal is a French journalist that has gained

20. ¿V de Vendetta?
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  Adam Tinworth ha recopilado las mejores frases del reciente Journalism Leaders Forum (Reino Unido). Son éstas:       "I get annoyed when people suggest that t

21. Philip Meyer about Journalism and PhDs (in 1996)
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  A former pupil of Philip Meyer, Xabier Meilán, told me about this professor of the University of North Carolina long time ago. He was so enthusiastic about him that I became fond of Mey

22. Cliches
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  One of the most widespread European beliefs regarding United States is the illiteracy of its people. It strikes me, especially when shown in a country (Spain) which has its own period

23. Bill Watterson: no fame
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An article referring to a great book of our favourite drawer. We think, like Enric González (El País), that there is a lot of Calvin & Hobbes cartoons lost in translation.  &n

24. Course of Spanish Lenguage through Film
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I always believed in the power of cinema to teach things. Sometimes, dissections of the most difficult concept or explanations about the most complicated conflict reach the mind of the students much b

25. Your medium is dying
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If The Simpsons say so, it might be true. lNp1F-F3OoI&e  

26. What would have happened if...
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In the nice website Worth1000.com, they decided to change History by inviting people to change its pictures. Placing Photoshop at the center of a contest, they asked for creative frontpages to the use

27. Penny for their thoughts
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  El Foreign Policy Research Institute ha elaborado un estudio (pdf) sobre los think tanks o centros de análisis de políticas públicas mejor valorados del mundo. Aunque quie