Faculty of Communications and philology

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Research group

Spanish

Communication, Journalism, and Society

Academic Unit: Faculty of Communications and philology

Colombian Ministry of Science

B

Call

894 GrupLAC

OECD

Area

Social sciences

Subarea

Media and communications

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Strategic Focus

The Communication, Journalism and Society research group studies social communication processes, including journalism understood as a form of representation and construction of life in society. It contributes to the theoretical, applied and methodological development of communications and journalism to promote the visibility of the role they play as processes that build society. And finally, it designs and executes research projects in the area of communications and journalism, taking into account their interrelations with other spheres of knowledge.

Research Lines and/or Areas

Communication and culture.
Content analysis, production, and reception of media.
Social change, management, and relationships in organizations.
Digital communication.

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Group Coordinator

Alba Shirley Tamayo Arango, Ph.D.

PhD in Social Psychology.

Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain.

Coordinator's Email

shirley.tamayo@udea.edu.co

Research Group Email

grupocps@udea.edu.co

Scientific Cooperation

Collaborative Relationships

Universidad de Jalisco.
Methodist University of São Paulo.
Universidad Autónoma de Occidente.
Universidad Javeriana.
Territory Study Group from the Institute of Regional Studies (GETGrupo Estudios del Territorio del INER).
Grupo Didáctica y Nuevas tecnologías (Didactics and New Technologies Group).

MOE (Misión de Observación Electoral / Electoral Observation Mission).
Alianza por la Minería Responsable (Alliance for Responsible Mining).
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín.
EAFIT University.
Universidad del Valle (University of Valle).
Universidad Autónoma Latinoamericana (Autonomous Latin American University).

Highlighted Projects

Fundamentos teóricos y epistemológicos de la comprensión como método. (Theoretical and epistemological foundations of comprehension as a method).
Seguimiento a la información publicada en twitter por candidatos en las elecciones regionales y locales 2019. (Tracking of the information published on Twitter by candidates in the 2019 regional and local elections).
Ruta de apropiación de las TIC para cualificar las prácticas docentes en educación superior para la modalidad virtual. (Appropriation path of ICT for qualifying teaching practices in virtually-mediated graduate education).
Prácticas comunicativas en la agricultura urbana de Medellín: tejido social, territorio y saberes. (Communicative practices in Medellin’s urban agriculture: social fabric, territory, and knowledge).
Procesos de comunicación en torno al perdón y la reconciliación liderados por mujeres víctimas del conflicto armado pertenecientes al movimiento social Madres de la Candelaria. (Communication processes around forgiveness and reconciliation, lead by armed conflict victim women pertaining to the Madres de la Candelaria [Mothers of La Candelaria] social movement).

Key Research Findings

La invisibilidad del proceso de paz en el cubrimiento televisivo en Antioquia (Invisibility of Colombia’s Peace Process in the Department of Antioquia’s television coverage) ISBN: 978-958-59221-4-3.
La Universidad Intercultural Crítica: diálogos, disputas y resistencias epistemológicas en Unitierra (The Critical Intercultural University: Epistemological dialogues, disputes, and resistances in Uniterra [The University of Earth]) ISBN: 978-958-784-282-1.
Good Data: Truly Smart Cities, Buen Conocer, Digital Activism and Urban Agroecology in Colombia. ISBN 978-94-92302-27-4.
Political activism before the premiere: Indigenous audiovisual production, knowledge otherwise and gender complementarity in the Wiwa film Ushui. DOI: https://bit.ly/3rFIiTT
Economías de la comunicación y la información en el movimiento social Madres de la Candelaria de Medellín-Colombia (Communication and information economies in the Madres de la Candelaria [Mothers of La Candelaria] social movement from Medellin - Colombia) ISBN: 978-84-1628-54-8.
El Dolor Habla. Memoria histórica de mujeres víctimas del conflicto armado del municipio de San Francisco- Antioquia (The Pain of Speech. Historical memory of women victims of armed conflict from the Municipality of San Francisco - Antioquia) ISBN: 978-958-8943-29-9.

Services and/or Products Portfolio

Proyecto multimedial Agora, Historia de las ideologías políticas / Agora multimedia project, History of political ideologies (http://comunicaciones.udea.edu.co/agora), carried out between 2005 and 2008.
Proyecto Multimedial Todos Somos Historia / Todos Somos Historia [We Are All History] Multimedia Project (http://comunicaciones.udea.edu.co/tsh), carried out between 2009 and 2010.
Proyecto Multimedial Propiedad Pública / Propiedad Pública [Public Property] Multimedia Project, carried out between 2011 and 2012.
Organizational communication assessment and measurement course offered to graduates from the School of Communications and Philology.
Multimedia con aspectos culturales de la historia de Colombia en los últimos 200 años: Bicentenario para Niños (Multimedia with cultural aspects of Colombian history in the last 200 years: Bicentennial for Kids).