El poder de los medios en los escándalos políticos : la fuerza simbólica de la noticia icono

En la cobertura de los sucesos políticos, los medios de comunicación proyectan unos enfoques que median la realidad, pues transfieren determinados marcos interpretativos. Esto sucede de manera particular en la cobertura de los escándalos políticos, debido al capital simbólico que para los políticos significa su buena reputación. El presente artículo analiza la cobertura de los casos de corrupción política de España y Gran Bretaña en la década de 1990. Atendiendo de manera específica a la noticia icono como una forma de enfoque (frame) sugerida por Bennett, y mediante el análisis de contenido cualitativo y cuantitativo, esta investigación estudia la presencia y la acción de noticias icono en España y en el Reino Unido. La investigación muestra que la cobertura utilizó noticias icono en forma de palabras vívidas, que se reprodujeron de manera extensa en los medios, de manera que llegaron a funcionar como elementos simbólicos, encapsulando, de forma condensada, toda una historia, hasta llegar a convertirse en algo emblemático de una etapa política. El análisis permite concluir que el poder que los medios tienen en la cobertura de los escándalos políticos no viene determinado tanto por la acción del periodismo de investigación, como también y fundamentalmente por el marco interpretativo que los medios transfieren en su cobertura.In covering politics the media project certain perspectives through the mediation of reality in the context of specific interpretative frameworks. This particularly occurs in the coverage of political scandal because of the symbolic capital represented by politicians' good reputation. This article analyses cases of political corruption in Spain and Britain in the 1990s. Employing the notion of news icon suggested by Bennett as a form of frame, and throughout qualitative and quantitative content analysis, this research examines the presence and action of news icons in Britain and Spain. The study shows that press coverage used news icons in the form of vivid word phrases, which were reproduced and maintained beyond the time of the news events being reported. They functioned as symbolic devices encapsulating in a condensed way a whole story, becoming emblematic and evocative of a whole political period. The research concludes that the power of the press lies not so much in the action of investigative journalism but also more fundamentally in the interpretative framework which the media employ to report events

Design and development of a cross-European employability training for older jobseekers

The importance of social networking for effective job-search has been clearly established in various studies. Social networks (social capital) represent a constituent component of employability: the potential of an individual to gain employment and to stay employed. However, not everyone feels comfortable using informal search methods or networking. Besides, with the rise of social media, social networking increasingly takes place in online environments. To those less familiar with social media this constitutes an extra hurdle regarding effective deployment of informal job-search methods. As a consequence, especially older (45+) jobseekers are considered at risk of missing out on job opportunities. The web2jobs project aims at providing a solution by developing a cross-European training on the use of social media for job search, targeting older jobseekers. This paper presents the requirements for such a training, as they evolved from a needs-assessment carried out in eight European countries. While starting with a focus on social media for job-search, the needs assessment made clear that the training should address other dimensions of employability, next to the social capital/social networking dimension, as well. The paper analyses the requirements derived from the needs assessment in terms of all four dimensions of employability (i.e. adaptability, human capital, social capital, and career identity) and argues that both adaptability and human capital on the one hand and social capital and career identity on the other hand, act in concert. Finally, the paper outlines the web2jobs employability training resulting from an iterative design and development process, involving two pilots running in eight countries.The web2jobs project has been funded with support from the European Commission (Key Activity 3 / Multilateral Projects. Project No: 543145-LLP-1-2013-1-UK-KA3-KA3MP)

Effects of Dry-Land Training Programs on Swimming Turn Performance: A Systematic Review.

Swimming coaches have prescribed dry-land training programs over the years to improve the overall swimming performance (starts, clean swimming, turns and finish). The main aim of the present systematic review was to examine the effects of dry-land strength and conditioning programs on swimming turns. Four online databases were scrutinised, data were extracted using the Preferred PRISMA guidelines and the PEDro scale was applied. A total of 1259 articles were retrieved from database searches. From the 19 studies which were full-text evaluated, six studies were included in the review process. The review indicated that plyometric, strength, ballistic and core training programs were implemented for improving swimming turn performance. Strength, ballistic and plyometric training focusing on neural enhancement seem to be effective for improving swimming turn performance. The data related to training of the core were not conclusive. Coaches should consider incorporating exercises focusing on improving the neuromuscular factor of the leg-extensor muscles into their daily dry-land training programs. More researches are needed to provide a better understanding of the training methods effects and training organisations for improving swimming turn performance.post-print626 K

A New Hypothesis on the Origin of the Eastern Andalusian Vowel System

Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Historical Issues in Sociolinguistics/Social Issues in Historical Linguistics (1995

Cálculo y determinación experimental del coeficiente de conductividad térmica en bloques de concreto nacionales de dimensiones 6”x8”x16” utilizados en la construcción civil.

El presente estudio plantea los pasos a seguir para calcular la conductividad térmica en bloques de concreto. El estudio se basó en diseñar y construir una cámara adiabática y mediante un bombillo incandescente se logró someter al bloque a una diferencia de temperatura entre ambas caras del bloque. Conociendo la diferencia de temperatura se utilizó la ley de Fourier para la conducción de calor para la obtención del coeficiente de conductividad térmica

Traditional and Health-Related Philanthropy: The Role of Resources and Personality

I study the relationships of resources and personality characteristics to charitable giving, postmortem organ donation, and blood donation in a nationwide sample of persons in households in the Netherlands. I find that specific personality characteristics are related to specific types of giving: agreeableness to blood donation, empathic concern to charitable giving, and prosocial value orientation to postmortem organ donation. I find that giving has a consistently stronger relation to human and social capital than to personality. Human capital increases giving; social capital increases giving only when it is approved by others. Effects of prosocial personality characteristics decline at higher levels of these characteristics. Effects of empathic concern, helpfulness, and social value orientations on generosity are mediated by verbal proficiency and church attendance.