Audiovisual Communication Research Articles

Are We Paying More to Consume Substandard Drinking Water? Crowd-Sourced Water Education Study in a South-Asian Megacity

South. Environment and health-related data are inadequate and strongly rely on governmental-mediated observation. The present work is the first of its kind attempt to gather relevant information on potable water quality using mass citizen engagement over a south Asian megacity, Kolkata. The city has a long history associated with water-borne diseases and presently numerous reports on sickness from drinking water contamination have been published in the local newspapers. The current work crowdsourced water sampling throughout the city and analyzed information regarding biological contaminants for five existing water types. 300 citizens were mobilized and trained in water collection through audio-visual communication workshops and together 570 samples of water have been collected from different parts of the city. Water sample collecting points were created over the city and samples were taken to the analysis hub where it was analyzed for standard coliform test and for total dissolved solid (TDS) and pH. The results show that the most expensive water types (20l commercialized packaged drinking water bottles) are the worst in terms of water quality. Governmental-free drinking water was found to be much safer as compared to packaged drinking water. 44% of the packaged drinking water was found to be contaminated with coliform bacteria and we did a comparative analysis with reports from different developing countries and found that such high occurrence was not reported in any cities across the world. We communicated the results to the participants and further, conducted semi-structured interviews to understand the perception of water quality and the driving force behind the choice of a particular water type. It was also found that logistical feasibility is the primary reason behind selecting the 20l bottle. The blind faith in commercially packaged drinking water has been reflected in the interview. The present studies confirm the potential of crowdsourcing of environmental-health data in the global south and successfully accomplish potable water analysis through crowdsource sampling over a south Asian megacity. Such robust methods could be easily scaled up and follow-up discussions can definitely improve water literacy among the participants in Global South.

Just-in-time Training with Remote Guidance for Ultrasound-Guided Percutaneous Intervention

BACKGROUND: Management of surgical emergencies in spaceflight will pose a challenge as the era of exploration class missions dawns, requiring increased crew autonomy at a time when training and supplies will be limited. Ultrasound-guided percutaneous intervention would allow for the management of a variety of pathologies with largely shared equipment and training. This proof-of-concept work attempts to determine the feasibility of "just-in-time" remote teaching and guidance of a sample procedure of this type.METHODS: Subjects naïve to ultrasound-guided intervention were instructed via a short video regarding the technique for placement of a percutaneous drain into a simulated abscess within a gel phantom. Subjects were then guided through the performance of the procedure via two-way audiovisual communication with an experienced remote assistant. Technical success was determined by the successful aspiration or expression of fluid from the simulated abscess following drain placement. This was then performed by and compared with staff experienced with such procedures. Time to completion and number of needle redirections required were also measured.RESULTS: All 29 subjects naïve to interventional work and the 4 experienced control subjects achieved technical success. There was a statistically significant difference in the time to completion between the two groups, with the experienced subjects averaging 2 min to completion and the inexperienced 5.8 min. There was no statistically significant difference in the number of redirections.DISCUSSION: This proof-of-concept work demonstrates high rates of technical success of percutaneous ultrasound-guided intervention in previously inexperienced personnel when provided with brief just-in-time training and live two-way audiovisual guidance.Lerner DJ, Pohlen MS, Apland RC, Parivash SN. Just-in-time training with remote guidance for ultrasound-guided percutaneous intervention. Aerosp Med Hum Perform. 2022; 93(12):882-886.

Tinjauan Yuridis terhadap Pemeriksaaan Saksi dalam Perkara Pidana pada Persidangan secara Teleconference di Masa Pandemi Covid-19

This study aims to examine the validity of remote witness examination (teleconference) at trials during the Covid-19 pandemic and the evidentiary power of remote witness examination (teleconference) at court hearings. This study uses normative legal research methods. The results showed that the use of teleconferences in criminal trials is legal / valid in order to obtain material truth, by applying the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code in principle not violating the provisions of the applicable Law and as long as the witness meets the following conditions: a) Witnesses must first take an oath. b) Witness testimony is stated orally through audio-visual communication devices/ teleconference at the trial. c) The content of the testimony must be about what the witness saw, heard, and experienced, and mention the reason for the knowledge. d) The witness testimony is consistent with each other. The evidentiary power of testimony through video conferencing in criminal trials is strong.DOI: https://doi.org/10.26905/mlj.v3i2.9213

Creative industries’ new entrants as equality, diversity and inclusion change agents?

ABSTRACT This paper considers how new entrants to the Creative Industries view the challenge of achieving equality, diversity and inclusion in the sector. The research adopts a case study approach based on a snowball sample and interviews with 21 new entrants to media work. All were graduates of the same media degree programme and all were based in Ireland and worked in the audio-visual sector, PR, communications, marketing, content creation or advertising, as well as in media-related roles in non-media organisations and companies. The key findings are that new entrants do see the need for EDI initiatives in creative industries. However, they frame EDI interventions in terms of the needs of individuals. Because of their new entrant status they do not see themselves as being in a strong position to advocate for equality, diversity and inclusion in creative industries and so do not view themselves as change agents.

Nonintrusive Perceptual Audio Quality Assessment for User-Generated Content Using Deep Learning

With the boom of social media communication, teleconferencing, and online classes, audiovisual communication over bandwidth strained networks has become an integral part of our lives. Consequently, the growing demand for the quality of experience necessitates developing algorithms to measure and enrich user experience. Prior studies have mainly focused on assessing speech quality and intelligibility with reference to audio quality assessment, while other categories in user-generated multimedia (UGM) are less explored. Moreover, frequency-domain properties of speech and UGM audio are significantly different from each other. Furthermore, there is a lack of a standard dataset for the quality assessment of UGM. Considering these limitations, in this article, we first develop the IIT-JMU-UGM audio dataset consisting of 1150 audio clips, with diverse context, content, and types of degradation commonly observed in real-world scenarios and annotated with the subjective quality scores. Finally, we propose a non-intrusive audio quality assessment metric using a stacked gated-recurrent-unit-based deep learning framework. The proposed model outperforms several baseline methods, including state-of-the-art non-intrusive and intrusive approaches. The resulting Pearson’s correlation coefficient of 0.834 indicates that the proposed method efficiently mirrors human auditory perception.

Evidence of visual crossmodal reorganization positively relates to speech outcomes in cochlear implant users

Deaf individuals who use a cochlear implant (CI) have remarkably different outcomes for auditory speech communication ability. One factor assumed to affect CI outcomes is visual crossmodal plasticity in auditory cortex, where deprived auditory regions begin to support non-auditory functions such as vision. Previous research has viewed crossmodal plasticity as harmful for speech outcomes for CI users if it interferes with sound processing, while others have demonstrated that plasticity related to visual language may be beneficial for speech recovery. To clarify, we used electroencephalography (EEG) to measure brain responses to a partial face speaking a silent single-syllable word (visual language) in 15 CI users and 13 age-matched typical-hearing controls. We used source analysis on EEG activity to measure crossmodal visual responses in auditory cortex and then compared them to CI users’ speech-in-noise listening ability. CI users’ brain response to the onset of the video stimulus (face) was larger than controls in left auditory cortex, consistent with crossmodal activation after deafness. CI users also produced a mixture of alpha (8–12 Hz) synchronization and desynchronization in auditory cortex while watching lip movement while controls instead showed desynchronization. CI users with higher speech scores had stronger crossmodal responses in auditory cortex to the onset of the video, but those with lower speech scores had increases in alpha power during lip movement in auditory areas. Therefore, evidence of crossmodal reorganization in CI users does not necessarily predict poor speech outcomes, and differences in crossmodal activation during lip reading may instead relate to strategies or differences that CI users use in audiovisual speech communication.

Getting started with Podcasts

Abstract There are a world of opportunities waiting for public health professionals to get started with a regular audio-visual communication channel. The barrier of entry to start creating your very own podcast has been reduced to a bare minimum. This presentation intends to cover the basics to get started with your own podcast and intends to share the lessons from the author's involvement as a co-host of “The Digital Health Voice” podcast.

Gender biases in the training methods of affective computing: Redesign and validation of the Self-Assessment Manikin in measuring emotions via audiovisual clips.

Audiovisual communication is greatly contributing to the emerging research field of affective computing. The use of audiovisual stimuli within immersive virtual reality environments is providing very intense emotional reactions, which provoke spontaneous physical and physiological changes that can be assimilated into real responses. In order to ensure high-quality recognition, the artificial intelligence (AI) system must be trained with adequate data sets, including not only those gathered by smart sensors but also the tags related to the elicited emotion. Currently, there are very few techniques available for the labeling of emotions. Among them, the Self-Assessment Manikin (SAM) devised by Lang is one of the most popular. This study shows experimentally that the graphic proposal for the original SAM labelling system, as devised by Lang, is not neutral to gender and contains gender biases in its design and representation. Therefore, a new graphic design has been proposed and tested according to the guidelines of expert judges. The results of the experiment show an overall improvement in the labeling of emotions in the pleasure-arousal-dominance (PAD) affective space, particularly, for women. This research proves the relevance of applying the gender perspective in the validation of tools used throughout the years.

Digital Transformation of Audio Visual Communication Technology in the Education Sector During Pandemic

Pandemi telah mengganggu berbagai aktivitas manusia terutama dalam sistem pendidikan yang membuat siswa terpaksa beralih dari pembelajaran tatap muka ke pembelajaran online. Dukungan dari guru dan orang tua sangat penting bagi siswa untuk beradaptasi dalam situasi ini. Penggunaan platform Audio Visual seperti Google Meetings, Zoom, Microsoft Teams dan Website Internal Sekolah telah menghilangkan batasan waktu dan tempat dengan mengadopsi perangkat Teknologi Informasi dan Komunikasi (TIK) seperti smartphone, laptop, komputer tablet, dll. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis pengaruh wabah Covid-19 terhadap transformasi digital di sektor pendidikan. Pendekatan kualitatif dengan metode literature review digunakan dalam penelitian ini. Pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan memilah artikel jurnal dengan kata kunci pandemi dan pembelajaran online 2020-2021 dari database makalah penelitian yaitu MDPI dan menghasilkan 5 jurnal dari berbagai negara untuk direview. Kajian ini menunjukkan bahwa pandemi mempercepat proses transformasi digital dalam pendidikan meskipun ada tantangan yang harus dihadapi dari segi infrasturktur (jaringan internet, perangkat digital) dan proses (modul pembelajaran online dan evaluasi pelaksanaan)

Can Gamification Help in Increasing Motivation, Engagement, and Satisfaction? A gamified experience in teaching CS to students from other disciplines

The digital revolution is causing the new generations to demand new ways of learning. Motivating students is one crucial element of the learning-teaching process to achieve students’ learning, which is the main objective of education. Using typical gaming elements in non-game environments, gamification transforms the learning process into a more motivating and enjoyable experience. Therefore, gamification offers adequate solutions for the educational needs of the new generation of students. Although most studies have found benefits from gamification, the results have not been encouraging in some cases. Several review studies suggest that more empirical studies are needed to investigate the motivating effects of using gamification in different educational settings and for specific student types. This study wants to answer whether using the proposed gamification design affects motivation, engagement, and satisfaction in teaching computer science to university students from other disciplinary areas such as journalism and audiovisual communication. The experiment consists of a gamified experience in a virtual classroom in Moodle for four weeks on general computer science content. A control group and a test group were used. The difference between the two was the use of gamified elements (points, badges, levels, task unlocking...). From the data obtained in this study, no significant differences were found in motivation and satisfaction between the different groups or the different methodologies. Our results demonstrate a specific positive correlation between engagement, motivation, and satisfaction. It is worth noting the positive values obtained in this type of course among all the students who were part of this experience and methodology.

Audio-visual industry and digital platforms in India: A contribution from political economy of communication

This article examines the role played by digital platforms in the transformation of the audio-visual industry in India. Are video-on-demand platforms contributing to India’s growing dependence on global players or are they asserting the diversification of domestic players and the progress of Indian capitalism in the cultural and digital industries? To answer, we analyse the strategies of competition and collaboration between historical audio-visual players versus communication players, the dynamics of foreign ownership and the content localisation strategies of global players. We conclude that the study of digital platforms offers an important insight into new forms of economic and cultural hegemony in the cultural industries.

La Pedagogía de la Madre Tierra: una propuesta reflexiva a partir de las prácticas y testimonios del sabio indígena Abadio Green Stocel

This article attempts a philosophical and pedagogical reflection based on an interview that the doctor in education Abadio Green Stocel, of the indigenous Gunadule people and of Panamanian-Colombian nationality, gave to the magazine Luciérnaga-Comunicación, of the Faculty of Audiovisual Communication of the Colombian Polytechnic Jaime Isaza Cadavid and the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the Autonomous University of San Luis de Potosí. The interview was published on the magazine’s YouTube page in 2015. To make a hermeneutic commentary on Dr. Green’s thought, I will begin by contextualizing this pedagogical proposal within the context of what the emergence of indigenous artists, writers, academics, and thinkers who think about modernity from ancestral knowledge means for the academic field. Then, I will quote from the mentioned interview to relate his thinking to other pedagogical conceptions of Dr. Green and to reflections by other authors that allow us to outline what we could call an “indigenous research paradigm” and a “Pedagogy of Mother Earth”. These proposals, far from being limited to the ethnic boundaries of indigenous peoples, contain an alternative message to the hegemonic one, that needs to be heard by the whole humanity.

Analisis Wacana Kritis Teun A Van Dijk Dalam Film “ Joko Widodo”

Film as an audio-visual communication medium to convey a message to a group of people gathered in a certain place. As a media, many things can be conveyed to the public. One of them is the film "Joko Widodo". By using the critical discourse analysis of Teu A Van Dijk, the film "Joko Widodo" signifies an interpretation that tends to have the meaning of explaining the background of life and the way of politics of a Joko Widodo. This film tends to construct and create ideas so that the audience sees Jokowi as a leader who was born as a people and becomes a leader for the people. The reality of this film is included in the activities of a political campaign, because the film aims to build an image that you want to doctrine in the subconscious of the community. The reality of the film is built as a process of interaction with the community, so that it is not easily lost from the collective memory of the community. The reality of this film is not only made as a reflection of the character and appreciation in the life of a political figure, but this film is deliberately designed as a media for political campaigns. Keywords: Film, Critical Discourse Analysis, Teu A Van Dijk

Prehospital video triage of potential stroke patients in North Central London and East Kent: rapid mixed-methods service evaluation

Background In response to COVID-19, alongside other service changes, North Central London and East Kent implemented prehospital video triage: this involved stroke and ambulance clinicians communicating over FaceTime (Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA, USA) to assess suspected stroke patients while still on scene. Objective To evaluate the implementation, experience and impact of prehospital video triage in North Central London and East Kent. Design A rapid mixed-methods service evaluation (July 2020 to September 2021) using the following methods. (1) Evidence reviews: scoping review (15 reviews included) and rapid systematic review (47 papers included) on prehospital video triage for stroke, covering usability (audio-visual and signal quality); acceptability (whether or not clinicians want to use it); impact (on outcomes, safety, experience and cost-effectiveness); and factors influencing implementation. (2) Clinician views of prehospital video triage in North Central London and East Kent, covering usability, acceptability, patient safety and implementation: qualitative analysis of interviews with ambulance and stroke clinicians (n = 27), observations (n = 12) and documents (n = 23); a survey of ambulance clinicians (n = 233). (3) Impact on safety and quality: analysis of local ambulance conveyance times (n = 1400; April to September 2020). Analysis of national stroke audit data on ambulance conveyance and stroke unit delivery of clinical interventions in North Central London, East Kent and the rest of England (n = 137,650; July 2018 to December 2020). Results (1) Evidence: limited but growing, and sparse in UK settings. Prehospital video triage can be usable and acceptable, requiring clear network connection and audio-visual signal, clinician training and communication. Key knowledge gaps included impact on patient conveyance, patient outcomes and cost-effectiveness. (2) Clinician views. Usability – relied on stable Wi-Fi and audio-visual signals, and back-up processes for when signals failed. Clinicians described training as important for confidence in using prehospital video triage services, noting potential for ‘refresher’ courses and joint training events. Ambulance clinicians preferred more active training, as used in North Central London. Acceptability – most clinicians felt that prehospital video triage improved on previous processes and wanted it to continue or expand. Ambulance clinicians reported increased confidence in decisions. Stroke clinicians found doing assessments alongside their standard duties a source of pressure. Safety – clinical leaders monitored and managed potential patient safety issues; clinicians felt strongly that services were safe. Implementation – several factors enabled prehospital video triage at a system level (e.g. COVID-19) and more locally (e.g. facilitative governance, receptive clinicians). Clinical leaders reached across and beyond their organisations to engage clinicians, senior managers and the wider system. (3) Impact on safety and quality: we found no evidence of increased times from symptom onset to arrival at services or of stroke clinical interventions reducing in studied areas. We found several significant improvements relative to the rest of England (possibly resulting from other service changes). Limitations We could not interview patients and carers. Ambulance data had no historic or regional comparators. Stroke audit data were not at patient level. Several safety issues were not collected routinely. Our survey used a convenience sample. Conclusions Prehospital video triage was perceived as usable, acceptable and safe in both areas. Future research Qualitative research with patients, carers and other stakeholders and quantitative analysis of patient-level data on care delivery, outcomes and cost-effectiveness, using national controls. Focus on sustainability and roll-out of services. Study registration This study is registered as PROSPERO CRD42021254209. Funding This project was funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Health and Social Care Delivery Research programme and will be published in full in Health and Social Care Delivery Research; Vol. 10, No. 26. See the NIHR Journals Library website for further project information.

Estudio de caso de narrativas infantiles en videollamadas: Aportes al análisis de interacciones mediadas por tecnología

The preventive and compulsory social isolation established in Argentina due to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic led families to look for alternatives to maintain the bond and communicate with their non-cohabitant relatives. One of these alternatives was the use of videochat. Videochat enables new ways of audiovisual communication (Ames et al., 2010; Ballagas et al., 2009; McClure & Barr, 2017) that could affect the interactions in which adults and children collaborate in the construction of different types of discourses. Narratives are one of the first and most relevant forms of discourse, it allows for the reconstruction and communication of one’s experience and is one of the ways in which thought is configured. In this work, a case study was conducted of the narratives produced during videochat conversations of a four-year-old girl with non-cohabiting relatives. The aim was to characterize the interactions that help in the configuration of children’s narratives during technology-mediated situations. The research question were: (a) how do technology-mediated interactions allow the child to narrate about past and future events and to create fictional narratives?; (b) how does the child participate in the construction of those narrative in the context of these technology-mediated situations? Five videos of videochat interaction belonging to a single four year old girl were selected from the corpus “Contextos naturales de interacción en los hogares en los que los/as niños/as usan tempranamente tecnología”. This corpus gathers different technology-mediated interactions collected during daily activities in the home of children aged 0 to 6 years. First, 31 narratives in which the girl participated were identified. Subsequently, used the constant comparative method was used (Strauss & Corbin, 1998) as well as analysis tools developed within the framework of interactive sociolinguistics (Gumperz, 1982, 1984); also, concepts developed in previous research (Arrúe et al., 2014; Labov, 1972; Rosemberg et al., 2010; Stein et al., 2020) were heuristically recovered to answer the research questions. Of the 31 narratives produced in the interactions, 14 were related to personal experience, 13 were of future events, and 4 were fiction narratives. Regarding the posed questions, results showed that children do in fact create personal, future and fictional narratives in technology-mediated interactions with adults. Technology also enables children to decide how much they want to participate in interactions: they can lead the narrative, or they can back off to a yes-or-no answer kind of participation. The child relies on the possibility to share visual information, beyond audio, to provide both events and context information. This interactive and multimodal aspect of videochats was also found to enable the girl to turn to present adults both to scaffold her narrative production and to resolve doubts about unknown words. Even though there are methodological limitations to this study, this first approach to narratives in technology-mediated interactions shows the richness that this type of interaction can have for the development of children’s language. https://doi.org/10.16888/interd.2022.39.3.2

Analisis Resepsi dalam Film Bulan Terbelah di Langit Amerika

The power and ability of film has become an audio-visual communication medium that reaches many social segments and is enjoyed by people of all ages and social backgrounds. It is from this basis that convinces experts that films have the potential to influence their audiences. There are various themes in a film's content, two of which are about race and religion. Bulan Terbelah di Langit Amerika, for example. After this film aired, there were pros and cons to the message in the film. Because Bulan Terbelah di Langit Amerika places more emphasis on contemporary Islamic issues that are currently in the world's spotlight, including Islamophobia. The film Bulan Terbelah di Langit Amerika shows Islamophobia, which is a form of ignorance of Western society towards Islam. This film shows the treatment of American society that demeans Islam such as religious intolerance, suspicion and hatred towards Muslims and anti-pluralism attitudes towards other teachings. This research is about how the reception analysis in the film Bulan Terbelah di Langit Amerika is based on the Indonesian Christian Youth Movement and the Catholic Youth Movement. The purpose of this study is to describe the reception of the Indonesian Christian Youth Movement and the Catholic Youth Generation to the film Bulan Terbelah di Langit Amerika. By using a descriptive qualitative approach, the researcher chose to conduct research in Jember Regency. The result, from the non-Muslim youth studied, namely the Indonesian Christian Youth Movement Youth and the Catholic Youth Movement, and both had the same results. Where both are in the dominant hegemonic or receive messages in the film Bulan Terbelah di Langit Amerika.

Contenidos audiovisuales educativos y métodos de innovación en la enseñanza técnica universitaria

La creación de contenido audiovisual educativo se ha vuelto una necesidad en asignaturas técnicas en los grados de Comunicación Audiovisual en la Universidad. En primer lugar, por la implantación definitiva de las tecnologías audiovisuales en las plataformas educativas y, en segundo lugar, como consecuencia de la pandemia. Este artículo reflexiona sobre el uso de estos contenidos y su aplicación en la enseñanza universitaria en asignaturas de carácter técnico o práctico, para ayudar al alumnado a una mejor comprensión técnica de los aparatos y su aplicación en los procesos creativos audiovisuales. El objetivo de este artículo es proponer metodologías útiles y activas que ayuden a una mejor comprensión de las técnicas y procesos motivando una mayor implicación del alumnado basada en prácticas dirigidas con ABP y en la dinámica de aprender haciendo. Se ha usado como modelo una asignatura de cámara donde el conocimiento técnico y su aplicación creativa proporcionen al alumnado herramientas para expresarse mejor en sus proyectos de comunicación audiovisual y con el lenguaje utilizado.

Policy of notary deed in Indonesia, Netherland, and Belgium during the Covid-19 pandemic

This study aims to compare the making of a notary deed during the Covid-19 period in Indonesia, the Netherlands and Belgium. Normative juridical law research is the method employed in this research. Analytical descriptive was further also utilized, while the data collection technique used is literature study. The results of the study indicated the importance of changes to Law Number 30 of 2004 concerning Notary Positions as amended by Law Number 2 of 2014 concerning Amendments to Law Number 30 of 2004 concerning Notary Positions ("Notary Position Law") in connection with by making an authentic deed which is carried out without physical presence, which facilitates Notaries to carry out their positions in times of emergency such as the current Covid-19 as the Netherlands and Belgium have fulfilled the element of legal expediency by enacting the Covid-19 Temporary Law ("Dutch Covid-19 Temporary Act") in the Netherlands. The Netherlands Covid-19 Temporary Act makes it possible to make a notarial deed without physical presence or to do it virtually. Meanwhile, in Belgium, a digital power of attorney has been implemented by The Royal Federation of Belgian Notaries and the Minister of Justice. The authors conclude that in Indonesia, the law regarding the position of a notary does not yet recognize virtual meetings but requires the making of a notary deed through parties who are directly related to a notary, while the Netherlands had previously implemented a rule that the making of a deed could be done using a two-way audiovisual communication facility for the prevention of COVID-19 and Belgium had implemented a digital power of attorney to make it easier for parties to use the service from a notary.

Metodología transmedia en los grados de comunicación audiovisual en España

Este trabajo aborda el uso de las narrativas transmedia como recurso para el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje en los grados de Comunicación Audiovisual de las universidades públicas españolas. Para ello emplea como herramientas una revisión bibliográfica documental de la literatura sobre el tema y un análisis de contenido de 331 guías docentes, en las que se ha realizado una búsqueda de terminología relacionada. Los resultados indican que, pese a las ventajas de las narrativas transmedia como estrategia aplicada a la docencia, en el caso de los grados de Comunicación Audiovisual se encuentra infrautilizada, pues su aplicación es muy escasa. La transmedialidad no se explota como método para facilitar la adquisición de conocimientos y competencias, por lo que se desaprovecha la oportunidad de trabajar la transversalidad de estos recursos, que pueden promover el aprendizaje significativo e implicar al alumnado al convertirlo en sujeto activo de las creaciones transmedia. El empleo de estas estrategias como parte de las herramientas didácticas puede revertir en un mejor manejo de estas técnicas que ya tienen gran importancia en la práctica profesional.

Political power’s media capture strategies in Spain (2016–2021)

This article analyses political power's media capture strategies in Spain by addressing the central government's and several regional governments' actions between 2016 and 2021. The policies implemented by parties from across the political spectrum are studied, with similar behaviours that continue to pursue or even reinforce strategies from previous eras being observed. This confirms the trait of strong government interventionism that is typical of Polarised Pluralist media systems. This article specifically takes an in-depth look at control over public media's governing bodies, the fragility of independent regulators, and opaqueness and indicators of instrumentalisation in the management of institutional advertising. The conclusions are of a propositional nature. Potential solutions to the forms of capture highlighted throughout the article are proposed. The legal reform of the General Audiovisual Communication Law—in progress at the time of writing—does not contemplate such solutions.