Isabel Villegas-Simón
Isabel Villegas-Simón
PhD Communication
Postdoctoral Researcher, Communication Department, UPF
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The growing presence of trans people in popular culture, including television series, is a well-established fact. However, its broader social impact and particularly consideration of what constitutes a positive representation of the trans community has received little attention from academic literature. This research addresses this gap by focusing...
The representation of the LGBTIQ+ community in TV series has received major attention from academia, mostly from textual and reception perspectives. However, the creative and industrial processes behind the production of media content, including the writers’ views and experiences, remain under-explored, especially outside of the United States and N...
Drawing on media production studies, this research observes the understudied figure of the scriptwriters of fictional series to identify their feelings about different audiences and the way they respond to LGBTQ+ characters and narratives. Specifically, it seeks to understand how they use these mental images of their audiences when they create LGBT...
This qualitative research uses a case study to observe non-binary representation in TV fiction. The Dan character from the Spanish series HIT (RTVE, 2020-present), who is the first openly non-binary character in Spanish TV fiction, is analyzed through the lens of Queer Media Studies. The research applies a combination of content and discourse analy...
This article focuses on a particular type of social media content creator: those specialized in culture, art, or political content ("digital cultural communicators"). Our main aim is to better understand digital cultural communicators' views on being or becoming a celebrity and their relationships and interactions with their audiences. To fulfill t...
This article analyses discussion of a narrative concerning sexual
consent in a 2019 Spanish television series broadcast on Netflix
called Les de l’Hoquei (The Hockey Girls). A thematic analysis was
conducted on 105 comments made in response to three posts on
the show’s official Instagram account (all dated 27 May 2019), which summarise the series’...
There are currently more trans characters than ever in television series, while at the same time scrutiny of trans people is intensifying in social and public debate, and the correspondence between this increased presence in the media and improvements in the trans community's rights is in dispute. This research aims to find out how trans audiences...
Introducción: Los influencers se han convertido en nuevos prescriptores y trabajadores digitales que construyen comunidades digitales sólidas para los anunciantes. Los microinfluencers (5.000 - 40.000 seguidores) son utilizados por las marcas para impactar en comunidades digitales pequeñas con un alto grado de compromiso. Esta investigación explora...
With the rise of digital feminism, this article explores the role of Spanish digital influencers considered feminist referents and the topics addressed by them on their social networks from a gender perspective. An online survey was used to create a ranking of the 12 most popular influencers by social media users. First, an analysis of their profes...
Los creadores de contenido digital han revolucionado la producción y el consumo mediático y de entretenimiento; además, se han erigido como nuevas modalidades de trabajadores creativos asociados a la expansión del poder cultural, tecnológico, económico y social de las plataformas digitales. En este texto se propone una revisión bibliográfica de los...
The lack of science on the Spanish TV is explained through the people responsible for content production, scheduling and offer. Two focus groups made up of five decision-makers identified the professionals’ opinions: science on TV is needed, the function of televisual science is educating audiences, public channels are responsible for showing such...
Science does not occupy a prominent place on Spanish television, possibly due to those in charge of the creation, production, organization, and programming of content. Previous research has shown that television executives have mental images of their audiences that they actively use in their professional practice. This study adopts a mixed, qualita...
Television content has traditionally been associated with the cultural identity of a given territory, although in an increasingly global world, this relationship is under debate. From a comparative qualitative analysis of the Spanish scripted television format (STF) series Los Misterios de Laura and its adaptations for the United States and Italy,...
This study aims to shed light on adolescents' characterizations of their preferred film entertainment. It seeks to describe the psychological responses of youngsters from two European countries (Italy and Spain) to dramas from the European region about current social/human issues. The study also seeks to determine if the adolescents' responses diff...
The current rise in the circulation of audiovisual products has led to the transnational convergence of industry practices, quality standards and language conventions, which may affect the diversity of television discourses and representations worldwide. The present research identifies the similarities in Scripted Television Formats (STF) produced...
This research analyses feminism-related tweets produced over a period of two months by both a male representative and a female representative of each of the four principal political parties in Spain (PP, PSOE, Ciudadanos and Podemos). Although their behaviour on Twitter is similar, the differences found are more marked by ideology than by gender. A...
This cross-cultural descriptive empirical research observes the relationship of 937 high-school students from eight countries of the European Union with cinema. A survey was applied in 37 schools and 28 cities for individuals participating in a course on film literacy that was offered free of charge and as an extracurricular opportunity in their ed...
We present the results of an exploratory study framed within a large film literacy project carried out simultaneously in five European Union countries (Croatia, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom). The study looks at students’ responses to an educational project on cinema designed to be implemented regionally for five months in hi...
Se presenta un estudio que tiene por objetivo observar las actitudes de los profesionales de la
televisión española con responsabilidades directivas en la creación, producción y emisión de
contenidos acerca de la relación de las audiencias con los contenidos científicos y la divulgación
científica. El estudio siguió un procedimiento de métodos mixt...
La presencia de personajes lésbicos ha aumentado en las narrativas audiovisuales populares, como las series de televisión o las películas. Por ello es necesario explorar su percepción en audiencias heterogéneas. El objetivo de la investigación es explorar la relación entre la homofobia y la identificación con los personajes, el disfrute y el gusto...
El artículo analiza el uso que los parlamentos hacen de las redes sociales a partir del estudio de las cámaras representativas de Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Estados Unidos, España, Francia, Italia, Reino Unido y Suecia. Metodología: A través de un análisis de contenido efectuado en 2010, 2015 y 2017, el texto presenta la evolución y la tr...
This study develops a longitudinal research (2010-2015) on 10 countries – 5 European countries (France, United Kingdom, Sweden, Italy and Spain) and 5 American countries (Argentina, Ecuador, Chile, Colombia and the USA). The aim is to compare how the parliaments use its official websites in order to promote the political participation process in th...
Las redes sociales son consideradas uno de los medios de interacción más importantes de internet, al tiempo que son vistas como espacios de movilización ciudadana, constituyendo canales de información, discusión y participación. Se analiza el uso de las redes sociales por los parlamentos nacionales de diez países como medios para incentivar la part...
El estudio de las reacciones psicológicas frente a estímulos audiovisuales en muchas ocasiones es evaluado mediante escalas. Es bien sabido que para utilizar una escala en un contexto cultural concreto es necesaria la obtención de evidencias de validez que avalen esa decisión. Este proceso de validación o adaptación consiste solamente en la obtenci...
Cada vez hay más protagonistas homosexuales en las ficciones audiovisuales populares, series de televisión y películas. La normalización de la presencia de personajes gais y lesbianas está en aumento en las películas y series de televisión dirigidas al gran público. Paralelamente aumenta el interés académico sobre estos fenómenos que buscan conocer...
This article presents the analysis and classification of different studies carried out to measure the media literacy skills of citizens. The text is presented in three parts. The first part presents the main theoretical categories of the analysis that define the concept of media literacy and the major frameworks designed for the study of media comp...
El estudio presentado desarrolla una investigación longitudinal (2010-2015) sobre 10 países —5 europeos (Francia, Reino Unido, Suecia, Italia y España) y 5 americanos (Argentina, Ecuador, Chile, Colombia y EE.UU.)— con el objetivo de comparar el uso de las páginas web por parte de las instituciones parlamentarias de los países analizados como un in...