During the first half of 2006 the city of Sao Paulo suffered three series of violent attacks against the security forces, civilians, and the government. The violent campaign also included a massive rebellion in prisons and ...

This essay discusses the relation between knowledge, comprehension and culture, identifies the epistemological and intersubjective roots in the notion of comprehension and stresses some of the bonds between the studies on ...

In search of legitimation, companies develop communication strategies appropriating historical and sociocultural contexts to construct meanings about them, as is the case of advertising. This work, when looking at the ...

In view of the mediatized scenario, organizations are challenged to rethink how they develop their processes, such as communication strategies, in order to overcome merely instrumental models. It parts from the problem ...

Este trabalho esboça panorama sobre a evolução dos estudos relacionados à recepção midiática e sobre como a escola brasileira se apropriou dessas idéias. Problematizam-se, então, características das propostas da área de ...

The social and economic relevance of digital information and communication technologies (DICT) encourages basic education to consider them, under the aegis of social justice, since school is the place for the full development ...

Backwoodsmen and missionaries in 18th century America continued a Castilian tradition of visual culture based on sketches, itinerary drawings, and maps that communicated their sense of space, the territory, and the places ...

Coincidiendo con el cambio de siglo, se está produciendo una transición drástica en el alcance de los medios de comunicación de masas, que son sustituidos por medios de comunicación segmentada. Esta transición está ...