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This paper analyses the representation of functional diversity and sex-affective relationships among adolescents in the fictional series Sex Education during seasons 2 and 3 (2020-2021), coinciding with the appearance of the character Isaac, an adolescent with functional diversity. Based on the discourse analysis of the characters and the narratives on functional diversity, we explore the construction of Isaac as a desiring and desired subject and his sex-affective relationship with Maeve. The research concludes that Sex Education makes visible, vindicates, and normalises the affective and sexual needs of young people with functional diversity, avoiding a discourse where infantilisation, pathologisation, and asexuality prevail. It gives the characters with functional diversity a horizon of possibility of loving and engaging in sexual intercourse. Likewise, the series presents a scenario where equality and integration are unprecedented successes in society, viewing the difficulties and violence faced by Isaac as an exception rather than as a structural social problem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The media have played a leading role on Covid-19 news coverage in Spain. After the first cases were detected, they were forced to urgently develop graphic representations of the SARS-CoV-2 virion in order to talk about an invisible and unknown enemy. This study starts from the analysis of these early media representations to determine how they have contributed to the visual imagery of the virus in the Spanish population during the first wave. For this, a valid sample of 369 SARS-CoV-2 virion drawings made by adults during June and July 2020 was analysed and compared with the graphic representations offered by television news and print media between January and April 2020 in Spain and also with the main SARS-CoV-2 images released by the scientific community. The study concludes that the predominant imagery is closer to the representative patterns offered by television news, despite being a less scientific representation of the virus than the offered by the newspapers. Likewise, the representational patterns present two specificities to be highlighted: peplomers with a sharp ending giving aggressiveness to the virion and expressive facial features which are characteristic of humanisation or animalisation in the representation of the virion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the series Sex Education's role in the transnational dissemination of discourses on non-normative sexualities, equality and lgbtiq+ diversity. From a lgbtiq+ Studies perspective, a mixed design with non-experimental ex-post-facto methodology has been applied through transmedia measurement instruments and the ilga World and Global Attitudes reports. Netflix -through Sex Education- is confirmed to transnationally spread values of diversity and lgbtiq+ equality in countries without full social and legal protection for such diversity, promoting the construction of alternative subjectivities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses the production, themes and relations between authorship and direction of Ph.D. theses on photography in Spain (2010-2020) from a gender perspective. Bibliometric techniques have been applied using Dialnet as the main source and two thesis samples in Social Sciences and Humanities. The 354 theses in photography (54.52% female authors, and 62.16% male professors in management roles), show a weak academic model to ensure a constant scientific production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is the result of a research carried out under the umbrella of the "UNESCO UniTWIN Network on Media, Gender, and ICTs" Project, and it tries to determine the presence of subjects with a specific focus on gender in the current Communication Degrees offered at Spanish universities. The inclusion of subjects about gender equality in relation to media follows the suggestions of the IV World Conference on Women in Beijing (1995). The main objective of this research will be to investigate the presence of these subjects in Communication Degrees, identifying the elements that define them at a thematic, methodological and relevant levels within the curriculum. A mixed methodological design is proposed based on ex-post-facto research, with a descriptive orientation and the search for improvement, a qualitative analysis of study plans using ATLAS.ti and a panel of experts. The results reveal a scarce presence of this type of subjects, with a higher percentage in public universities than in private ones, and also a minimal relevance as compulsory subjects. This research study reveals the current formal training in gender studies of future generations of media professionals and serves as an endorsement for forthcoming changes of curricula in the European Higher Education Area context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to determine how the reconceptualisation of hegemonic masculinity carried out by the fashion designer Alejandro Gómez Palomo (Palomo Spain) is articulated, made visible and legitimised through the TV talent show Maestros de la Costura (TVE, 2018-2022) For this purpose, the total of 150 looks worn by Palomo Spain over the five seasons was taken as the object of study. Methodologically, an analysis of the content of the media discourse with which these looks are presented has been carried out, as well as an analysis of their formal (pattern and materials) and performative (Judith Butler) aspects. All this from the perspective of Queer Studies, studies on new masculinities and understanding fashion as a space of somatic production (Paul Preciado). The results obtained confirm that Maestros de la Costura through as public media apparatus, promotes an audiovisual narrative that makes visible and legitimises processes of revision of hegemonic masculinity, focusing on how clothing actively participates in the articulation and performativity of masculinities that dissent from the norm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]