NEW PUBLICATION

LATIN-AMERICAN MAGAZINE FOR COMMUNICATION SCIENCES’ NEW VOLUME FEATURES PAPERS BY MIRIAN TAVARES AND GABRIELA BORGES

Revista Latinoamericana de Ciencias de la Comunicación dossier “Communication and fiction on platforms streaming” features papers by CIAC coordinator Mirian Tavares and CIAC researcher Gabriela Borges. This volume reflects on television narratives and aesthetics of Latin America, which is the second-fastest growing streaming market in the world.

“Aruanas: the UN 2030 Agenda on the program of a streaming fictional series”, by Mirian Tavares co-authored by Adriana Pierre Coca (Fernando Pessoa University), analyzes the first season of the Brazilian series Aruanas (TV Globo/2019) and problematizes how it builds awareness about environmental issues. The series focuses on the work of activists in the Amazon Forest and on one of the main UN’s Sustainable Development Goals for the 2030 Agenda: climate action.

Gabriela Borges, co-authored by Eutália Ramos and Daiana Sigiliano (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil), published “Media literacy and the ironic pleasure of fans of secret truths II: analysis of comments on Twitter.” The authors analyze Verdades Secretas II (the first Brazilian soap opera created especially for streaming) and discuss how the experience of ironic pleasure can be observed in the content shared by fans and how it relates to media literacy.

A Revista Latinoamericana de Ciencias de la Comunicación is a quarterly publication edited by the Asociación Latinoamericana de Investigadores de la Comunicación (ALAIC). The international scientific journal has the main goal of promoting the dissemination, democratization, and strengthening of the School of Latin American Thought of Communication.