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Copyright of Revista de Antropología Social is the property of Universidad Complutense de Madrid and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

The Basque separatist organization ETA announced the cessation of its armed campaign on October 20, 2011. It was the main cover story in all Basque and Spanish newspapers. It was the long awaited definitive end of a 40-year-long violent campaign, but it was not framed as good news in all the media. This article studies how the Basque and Spanish press reported the process leading to the end of ETA's campaign. For that purpose, we have selected seven newspapers, four editedin the Basque Country (El Correo, Deia, Gara and Berria) and three edited in Madrid (El País, El Mundo and Abc), and analyzed how they reported ten significant events that occurred from 2009 to 2011, chosen for their significance in the process. In a qualitative study carried out through discourse analysis and framing theory, we have examined and compared the headlines and news stories of the sample. The study reflects that the editorial line of each media organization regarding the Basque conflict entirely conditioned the perspective from which each one reported the events leading to the end of ETA's campaign. There is a significant difference in the media coverage provided by the Basque and Spanish newspapers. Most Basque newspapers framed the events related to the end of ETA in the context of a desirable peace process. Some influential Spanish media, in contrast, framed these events as if the cessation of violence was an undesirable outcome. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El presente artículo compila las principales conclusiones de una investigación llevada a cabo por el autor en torno a los lipdubs como instrumentos de influencia social. Se han analizado cuatro vídeos de amplio impacto en YouTube. Son los siguientes: "I Gotta Feeling-UQAM", realizado por estudiantes de Comunicación en Quebec (a principios de 2012, fue el lipdub más visitado en Internet); "The Grand Rapids" (este lipdub ostentaba el récord de visitas diarias); "Lipddub independència", realizado por los movimientos sociales a favor de la independencia de Cataluña (obtuvo el récord mundial de número de participantes, 5.771) y, finalmente, "Lipdub Kukutza", que era el más visto en el País Vasco. La investigación sostiene que este tipo de vídeos sirven a los movimientos sociales como herramientas eficaces para incrementar su presencia en la esfera pública y como método útil para superar la invisibilidad con la que, frecuentemente, son condenados por los mass-media simplemente por desafiar la cultura dominante. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article gathers together the results of a quantitative and qualitative piece of research conducted between 2007 and 2010 by the HGH «Hedabideak, Gizartea eta Hezkuntza» (Media, Society and Education) research team at the University of the Basque Country. The main aim of the research was to examine the situation of Media Literacy in the Basque Country's school community. One of the newest aspects of this research was the study of the school community as a whole, at a specific moment and in a specific field; in other words, the students, teachers and parents of the same community. The results of the quantitative study have been taken from a survey done among 598 young people between 14 and 18 years old enrolled in Secondary or Further Education, or in Vocational Training courses. The qualitative study took into account the information extracted from ten focus groups and six in-depth interviews. Young people between the ages of 14 and 18, parents between 40 and 55, and eight experts of different ages took part in the discussions. Through the in-depth interviews the research team observed the opinions of eight educators who teach Education in Media. According to the results, the education system should include media education among its priorities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work is an overview of the general situation of Alternative Media in the Basque Country, concentrating on a specific communication project: the pirate radio Hala Bedi Irratia, a tolerated but not completely legal radio station, which in 2008 celebrated its 25th anniversary. The station has thousands of listeners daily and it broadcasts 24 hours a day. It survives thanks to the voluntary work of dozens of social communicators. They have never included a paid advertisement on their air waves, nor have they asked for a grant from the State. Nevertheless, the project is very much alive. The station is based on a very wide social network which supports it, and on a very intelligent use of new technologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On 20 February 2003, Juan del Olmo, a judge in the High Court in Madrid, decreed the closure of the Euskaldunon Egunkaria newspaper on the grounds that it formed part of the apparatus of ETA. Euskaldunon Egunkaria had been in circulation for twelve years, and was the only newspaper wholly written in Basque in the world. The authors of this work maintain that Euskaldunon Egunkaria was a standard European newspaper and an outstanding witness of and actor in Basque culture. The authors endorse this statement by providing both quantitative arid qualitative data originating from three studies: an analysis of 100 news items appearing on the paper's front pages, a compilation of quality indexes, and an in-depth examination of the 3,789 issues published. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present article includes the main conclusions from research carried out by professors of the Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea-University of the Basque Country (EHU-UPV) from 2003 to 2005. The research group considers that education in the area of communication is a basic tool to equip a person with an acceptable degree of critical independence when it comes to media. In this sense, the research was meant to reach the following objectives: to find out the amount of technological equipment Basque teenagers have, to find out their consumption of different media, to examine their cultural habits and to research their level of media literacy. The group used quantitative and qualitative techniques, including discussion groups, interviews of experts, and a survey of 1,882 teenagers between the ages of 14 and 18 years of age in 35 schools (public and private) throughout the Basque Country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Present subject includes the main conclusions from research, carried out by Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea-University of the Basque Country (ehuupv) professors from 2003 to 2005. This research was meant to reach the following objectives: to find out the amount of technological equipment enjoyed by basque teenagers, their consumption of different media, examine the teenagers cultural habits and know their level of media literacy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]