La enseñanza en Comunicación y su proceso de adaptación al EEES como objeto de estudio: una visión panorámica

En los últimos años, España ha vivido la incorporación de la enseñanza universitaria en Comunicación al Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior (EEES). Este proceso ha generado un creciente interés por parte de la comunidad científica, y derivado en variadas investigaciones y trabajos académicos. Este artículo busca aproximarse a la mirada que nuestro campo académico ha construido sobre este proceso, a través de una revisión de los artículos publicados, hasta la fecha, en revistas españolas especializadas en Comunicación, que abordan alguna arista de la adaptación de los grados y postgrados de Periodismo, Comunicación Audiovisual, y Publicidad y Relaciones Públicas, al EEES.In recent years in Spain, university teaching of Communication has been adapted to European Higher Education Area. This process has been studied and analyzed by scientific community of Communication. Thanks this interest, today there are several academic research and papers about this issue. In this context, our aim is to built a global view of the academic papers which have been published in Spanish scientific Communication magazines about adjustment to EHEA of degrees and postgraduate programs of Journalism, Audiovisual Communication, and Advertising and Public Relations

La enseñanza en Comunicación y su proceso de adaptación al EEES como objeto de estudio: una visión panorámica

En los últimos años, España ha vivido la incorporación de la enseñanza universitaria en Comunicación al Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior (EEES). Este proceso ha generado un creciente interés por parte de la comunidad científica, y derivado en variadas investigaciones y trabajos académicos. Este artículo busca aproximarse a la mirada que nuestro campo académico ha construido sobre este proceso, a través de una revisión de los artículos publicados, hasta la fecha, en revistas españolas especializadas en Comunicación, que abordan alguna arista de la adaptación de los grados y postgrados de Periodismo, Comunicación Audiovisual, y Publicidad y Relaciones Públicas, al EEES.In recent years in Spain, university teaching of Communication has been adapted to European Higher Education Area. This process has been studied and analyzed by scientific community of Communication. Thanks this interest, today there are several academic research and papers about this issue. In this context, our aim is to built a global view of the academic papers which have been published in Spanish scientific Communication magazines about adjustment to EHEA of degrees and postgraduate programs of Journalism, Audiovisual Communication, and Advertising and Public Relations

De la identidad cultural a las identidades culturales

El objetivo de este artículo es alertar sobre la peligrosidad de algunos conceptos que la ciencia propone para comprender el mundo. Para ello empezaremos hablando del concepto de raza y, a continuación, introduciremos el concepto de identidad cultural porque creemos que en la actualidad se está convirtiendo, en sustitución de la raza, en el rasgo diferenciador entre grupos culturales. Finalmente, plantearemos una propuesta del concepto de identidad cultural

DE LA IDENTIDAD CULTURAL A LAS IDENTIDADES CULTURALES

El objetivo de este artículo es alertar sobre la peligrosidad de algunos conceptos que la ciencia propone para comprender el mundo. Para ello empezaremos hablando del concepto de raza y, a continuación, introduciremos el concepto de identidad cultural porque creemos que en la actualidad se está convirtiendo, en sustitución de la raza, en el rasgo diferenciador entre grupos culturales. Finalmente, plantearemos una propuesta del concepto de identidad cultural

Rare predicted loss-of-function variants of type I IFN immunity genes are associated with life-threatening COVID-19

BackgroundWe previously reported that impaired type I IFN activity, due to inborn errors of TLR3- and TLR7-dependent type I interferon (IFN) immunity or to autoantibodies against type I IFN, account for 15-20% of cases of life-threatening COVID-19 in unvaccinated patients. Therefore, the determinants of life-threatening COVID-19 remain to be identified in similar to 80% of cases.MethodsWe report here a genome-wide rare variant burden association analysis in 3269 unvaccinated patients with life-threatening COVID-19, and 1373 unvaccinated SARS-CoV-2-infected individuals without pneumonia. Among the 928 patients tested for autoantibodies against type I IFN, a quarter (234) were positive and were excluded.ResultsNo gene reached genome-wide significance. Under a recessive model, the most significant gene with at-risk variants was TLR7, with an OR of 27.68 (95%CI 1.5-528.7, P=1.1x10(-4)) for biochemically loss-of-function (bLOF) variants. We replicated the enrichment in rare predicted LOF (pLOF) variants at 13 influenza susceptibility loci involved in TLR3-dependent type I IFN immunity (OR=3.70[95%CI 1.3-8.2], P=2.1x10(-4)). This enrichment was further strengthened by (1) adding the recently reported TYK2 and TLR7 COVID-19 loci, particularly under a recessive model (OR=19.65[95%CI 2.1-2635.4], P=3.4x10(-3)), and (2) considering as pLOF branchpoint variants with potentially strong impacts on splicing among the 15 loci (OR=4.40[9%CI 2.3-8.4], P=7.7x10(-8)). Finally, the patients with pLOF/bLOF variants at these 15 loci were significantly younger (mean age [SD]=43.3 [20.3] years) than the other patients (56.0 [17.3] years; P=1.68x10(-5)).ConclusionsRare variants of TLR3- and TLR7-dependent type I IFN immunity genes can underlie life-threatening COVID-19, particularly with recessive inheritance, in patients under 60 years old

The risk of COVID-19 death is much greater and age dependent with type I IFN autoantibodies

International audienceSignificance There is growing evidence that preexisting autoantibodies neutralizing type I interferons (IFNs) are strong determinants of life-threatening COVID-19 pneumonia. It is important to estimate their quantitative impact on COVID-19 mortality upon SARS-CoV-2 infection, by age and sex, as both the prevalence of these autoantibodies and the risk of COVID-19 death increase with age and are higher in men. Using an unvaccinated sample of 1,261 deceased patients and 34,159 individuals from the general population, we found that autoantibodies against type I IFNs strongly increased the SARS-CoV-2 infection fatality rate at all ages, in both men and women. Autoantibodies against type I IFNs are strong and common predictors of life-threatening COVID-19. Testing for these autoantibodies should be considered in the general population

The risk of COVID-19 death is much greater and age dependent with type I IFN autoantibodies

International audienceSignificance There is growing evidence that preexisting autoantibodies neutralizing type I interferons (IFNs) are strong determinants of life-threatening COVID-19 pneumonia. It is important to estimate their quantitative impact on COVID-19 mortality upon SARS-CoV-2 infection, by age and sex, as both the prevalence of these autoantibodies and the risk of COVID-19 death increase with age and are higher in men. Using an unvaccinated sample of 1,261 deceased patients and 34,159 individuals from the general population, we found that autoantibodies against type I IFNs strongly increased the SARS-CoV-2 infection fatality rate at all ages, in both men and women. Autoantibodies against type I IFNs are strong and common predictors of life-threatening COVID-19. Testing for these autoantibodies should be considered in the general population