Comunicación humanitaria para el desarrollo, comunicación social: entre ética y estética. Propuestas teóricas de definición

Desde hace décadas, el desarrollo es un espacio de intervención y práctica sociopolítica y cultural en cuyo proceso de institucionalización, legitimación y transformación ha incidido la práctica de investigación y la reflexión teórica de ámbitos muy dispares, entre ellos, el de comunicación. En la producción teórica y de investigación – así como en las prácticas de acción social- encontramos conceptos de fronteras difusas como: comunicación para el desarrollo, comunicación del desarrollo, comunicación humanitaria, información humanitaria, etc. A partir del análisis de dos distintos tipos de comunicación (la de las ONGD españolas y de las instituciones públicas para el desarrollo), este artículo propone una reflexión sobre la necesidad de delimitar un espacio teórico desde el que reflexionar sobre prácticas comunicativas que atañen a representaciones sobre el sufrimiento humano –en cuanto un sufrimiento evitable conectado con las condiciones socio-culturales, económicas y políticas-, prácticas que conllevan una dimensión ético-política inexorable y que, por tanto, nos sitúan ante prácticas comunicativas que no puede responder a criterios puramente estéticos aún cuando primen en ellas criterios funcionales de distinto orden.For decades, development has been an area of intervention and sociopolitical practice and culture in which the process of institutionalization, legitimation, and transformation has affected the practice of research and theoretical reflection of very disparate fields, including the media. In the theoretical and research - as well as social action practices, we find concepts of fuzzy boundaries as development communication, development communication, humanitarian information, etc. From the analysis of two different types of communication (the Spanish NGOs and public institutions for development), this article proposes a reflection on the need to define a theoretical space from which to reflect on communication practices regarding representations on the human suffering in avoidable suffering connected with the sociocultural, economic and political-practices involving ethical-political dimension inexorable and therefore put us in communicative practices can not answer purely to esthetic criteria

Search for dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks in √s = 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

A search for weakly interacting massive particle dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks is presented. Final states containing third-generation quarks and miss- ing transverse momentum are considered. The analysis uses 36.1 fb−1 of proton–proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at √s = 13 TeV in 2015 and 2016. No significant excess of events above the estimated backgrounds is observed. The results are in- terpreted in the framework of simplified models of spin-0 dark-matter mediators. For colour- neutral spin-0 mediators produced in association with top quarks and decaying into a pair of dark-matter particles, mediator masses below 50 GeV are excluded assuming a dark-matter candidate mass of 1 GeV and unitary couplings. For scalar and pseudoscalar mediators produced in association with bottom quarks, the search sets limits on the production cross- section of 300 times the predicted rate for mediators with masses between 10 and 50 GeV and assuming a dark-matter mass of 1 GeV and unitary coupling. Constraints on colour- charged scalar simplified models are also presented. Assuming a dark-matter particle mass of 35 GeV, mediator particles with mass below 1.1 TeV are excluded for couplings yielding a dark-matter relic density consistent with measurements