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The general subject of this analysis is the presence of myths on social media, a heritage of the previous century's mass culture, and in particular, for social movements. Social movements within networked communication are particularly endowed with mythologies, which draw on mass culture and on societies' archetypal and psychological backgrounds. This fact justifies the hypothesis that the most effective and popular social movements resort to deeper mythological forms. The specific objective is to describe concrete myths in the language of digital social movements and to review the aspects of mythology in the scholarly literature on mythology from four fields. After tracing contents and impact, a qualitative analysis, focused on two examples justified by their digital origin, is performed: the "Anonymous" movement and "Je Suis Charlie" social mobilisation. Results show the persistence of two mythological motives: the profound hero's monomyth, playing an essential identifying role, channelled through social networks, with hashtags as slogans, and the related myth of the shadow, the dark, "Anonymous" and hybrid identity. Connections and analogies with other recent examples are discussed such as the "Me Too" and "Black Lives Matter" cases. The conclusion is the clear connection between these two myths and the communicative strength of social movements transmitted through social networks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses the ways in which the myths of "romantic love" and "the better half" are reproduced in media fiction and examines how audiences read them. We focus on the relationship between Isabel (Adriana Torrebejano) and Cristina (Berta Hernández) -- characters of the TV series Tierra de lobos (Telecinco: 2010-14)-- and develop two research lines: the narrative structure of the series and viewers' response in different Internet forums. We conclude, firstly, that media discourse influences and shapes individual and social imaginaries regarding attraction models in lesbian relationships and, secondly, that the traditional attraction model prevails in the face of more egalitarian alternative models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the 1990s, it was widely predicted that hypertext would have a great future within the discursive field of the human and cultural sciences, mainly due to the new conditions and possibilities for the production and reception of stories (theoretical), but hypertext has not been well received among current historians. Is the myth and the dream machine represented by hypertext something we can easily set aside? Or are its potentialities, which underlie experience and motivate us to re-launch experiments in fact visible? Reconsideration of hypertext. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The research «Cinema, Diversity and Networks» tries to isolate the principal stimuli or reticences in the consumption of products generated by small cinematographies, analyzing the particular case of the diffusion through the digital interactive networks of cinematographic contents produced in Galicia. It is a multicentral investigation with the collaboration of the universities of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay -- the countries with a significant migratory Galician presence--, with special focus on the university groups of reception for their special predisposition to the media intercultural consumption. Our work addresses a statistical determination of the social-demographic and axiologic profile as well as the habits of consumption of the participant groups as an introduction to the confrontation with some representative films produced in Galicia between 2003 and 2008 in order to establish the influence of certain thematic, formal and linguistic variables in the acceptance or objection to certain messages. The study can be identified with the models of basic and applied investigation: basic, for its analysis of the cultural determinant indicators of the cinematographic consumption in communities, which although geographically dispersed preserve their identity elements such as the language; and applied, as our investigation provides a transfer of knowledge to their technological partners in addition to the opening of unexplored niches of transnational consumption through the potential that the digital networks offer nowadays. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The advancement of applied technology to industrial processes has enabled the management of large amounts of information through different types of networks. Digital networks allow the quick management of information in different industry fields to monitor, supervise and control parameters and variables. This technological evolution has provided hardware and software tools necessary to centralize the data obtained by different collectors, sensors used in industry such as temperature, pressure, level, movement, pH, light intensity, distance, acceleration, tilt, force, torque, humidity, displacement, and others. This information is sent via a fieldbus to a control room where engineers and operators are responsible for monitoring and making decisions regarding the process. These responses may be automatic, if they are programmed into the system or manually depending on the degree of automation. This greatly simplifies installation, operation of machinery and equipment used in production processes to avoid wasting all kinds of resources and thereby making these more efficient and profitable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to explore the main results of the project "Participation and social relationships in Twitter's online opinion leaders in Colombia, Venezuela and Iran, linked to the authors' research field. Our initial hypothesis said that new social networks in online media are strengthening the application of the flow communication model proposed by Klaus Jensen (Three-Step Flow), as well as they are contributing to the emergency of new opinion leaders. The findings confirm the relevance of Jensen's model and show how, the formation of new leaders of opinion online depend of factors out the ICT's effect. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]