Subirats @subirats.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Magritte highlights the difference between reality and representation. A picture of a pipe can’t be stuffed with tobacco or smoked. It challenges how we confuse words, images, and reality. The text contradicts what we see, forcing us to question perception. 110
Subirats @subirats.bsky.social · 08/05/2025"Ceci n'est pas une pipe" is the famous text written on René Magritte’s 1929 painting "The Treachery of Images". It’s not an actual pipe, it’s a painting of a pipe. The image is a symbol, not the object itself. 110
Subirats @subirats.bsky.social · 10/04/2025The framing effect is a cognitive bias whereby a person's preferences in a decision problem depend on how their frame is presented. Framing effects on an individual's preferences can be compared to the effects of perspective on sensory perception of a phenomenon. 030
Subirats @subirats.bsky.social · 10/04/2025The Framing theory establishes that frames are responsible for defining the context shown in the media regarding news. Basically, they apply an interpretation process that determines our understanding of the world we live in. 010
Subirats @subirats.bsky.social · 07/04/2025And that's how you end up knowing that Montoya exists, but not necessarily why. Hero? Villain? Influencer? MP? Guilty of something? It doesn't matter. The point is that he's in the conversation.media.tenor.coma group of men are sitting on a wooden bench with a shrimp behind them and a cartoon shrimp .ALT: a group of men are sitting on a wooden bench with a shrimp behind them and a cartoon shrimp . 110
Subirats @subirats.bsky.social · 07/04/2025When a name as “Montoya” is in the news every day, we start to believe it is important. It doesn't matter if what is said is true or relevant. What matters is the relevance that the mass media gives to the issue. 110
Subirats @subirats.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Agenda setting is a theory of communication that argues that the media have a strong influence when it comes to determining the issues that are considered important by the citizens. 110
Subirats @subirats.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Why is everyone talking about Montoya if no one knows who he is? Welcome to the magic of agenda setting. 120
Reposted by Subiratscarlarossi1.bsky.social @carlarossi1.bsky.social · 01/04/2025After doing a little experiment, we were able to realize that traditional media is setting the agenda in a big way for international news. Whereas, for national and regional news, we were not able to detect strong patterns. ✅📝🧐❌ 011
Subirats @subirats.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Thus, stating that social networks have changed our agenda would not be a complete fair assertion. Nevertheless, from my point of view, only reading what can be fit in 120 characters or an Instagram post does narrow our abilities to analyse, criticise and deepen our agenda. 110
Subirats @subirats.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Furthermore, it is interesting to analyse this phenomenon through Manuel Castells' point of view, as he adds social networks to the equation, which as we saw in class, is a common media by which young people get their information from, even though the outlets behind are still traditional newspapers. 110
Subirats @subirats.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Because of this we have to ask ourselves: from what channels do we inform ourselves? What newspapers do we read? Who are the people behind those articles? Where does the money come from? 110
Subirats @subirats.bsky.social · 02/04/2025The Agenda-Setting Theory might have originated at the end of the 60's decade. However, the idea that it proposes seems like it was written yesterday: the agenda by which we view our world is set by communications media. 110
Subirats @subirats.bsky.social · 27/03/2025The audience has evolved toward a relentless search for entertainment, completely forgetting any political aspects that affect their daily lives. This has generated great perversions such as violent pornography. The series Adolescens is an examole of this fenomena. 110
Subirats @subirats.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Today, public opinion is hijacked by an overdose of fake news, with no fixed anchor. The spiral of silence drowns out dissenting voices, while noise and misinformation dictate the truth. #FakeNews #Reflection 110
Subirats @subirats.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Thus, extremists believes are always in our society. However, due to the Spiral of Silence, they do not arise until they know they are strong enough to do so. And then, it is late for those who opose to them, as a majority has already started to form. 010
Subirats @subirats.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Isn't quite scary to think that some opinions are not shared because those who think them know that they are part of a minority? 110
Subirats @subirats.bsky.social · 13/03/2025It's common to think that the power of individuals is minimal compared to the powerful who govern us. Thinking this way can be dangerous for democracy and its continuity; we need to be aware of this. 010
Subirats @subirats.bsky.social · 13/03/2025It is curious how ideas relates to social progess, such as universal suffrage and women's suffrage in politics arise at different times in countries around the world that are not so far from each others and are more similar than they appear 100
Subirats @subirats.bsky.social · 11/03/2025In October the 30th of 1938, Orson Welles performed on the Air a radio adaption of the novel "The War of the Worlds". Many listeners tuned in late, missing the introduction that stated it was a fictional play. A lot of people panicked, believing that the U.S. was under attack by aliens. 010
Subirats @subirats.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Fake news refers to misleading information presented as legitimate news. It is often spread to manipulate public opinion, generate profits or create confusion. 110
Subirats @subirats.bsky.social · 11/03/2025The social mass is the collective body of individuals within a society that share common behaviors, beliefs or social structures. 110
Subirats @subirats.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Jane Addams was one of these unknown authors who played an important role in the founding of the Chicago school. Journalist, sociologist, activist and feminist among other professions, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her important activism. 110
Subirats @subirats.bsky.social · 04/03/2025There are many authors that come to mind when we think of the founders of the Chicago school, but there are few women authors that we really know and were as important as them. 110
Subirats @subirats.bsky.social · 04/03/2025As R. Park stated, Chicago was a "social laboratory" since its cultural diversity let sociologists analyse how different cultures could associate with one another harmoniously. It is quite difficult to believe, but there were American intellectuals who valued the diversity that immigration offered. 000
Subirats @subirats.bsky.social · 04/03/2025The Hypodermic Needle Theory views human beings as passive individuals who accept and assimilate all the information that comes from the media, whithout any rationale.media.tenor.coma cartoon sheep wearing a red make america great again hatALT: a cartoon sheep wearing a red make america great again hat 110
Subirats @subirats.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Fun fact!!!! Did you know that Lake Michigan is even bigger than Switzerland ?? 110
Subirats @subirats.bsky.social · 27/02/2025The first non-Indigenous settler in the area that would become Chicago was Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, a Haitian-born trader of African and French descent. He arrived in the 1780s. He established a permanent settlement in the area around 1790. 110
Subirats @subirats.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Chicago is located in the northeastern part of Illinois, USA, along the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan. It is part of the Great Lakes region and the Midwest. 110
Reposted by SubiratsMIRIL communication group @miriltheories.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Sean Illing's article says that the Frankfurt School's critical theory explains Trump's rise. Thinkers like Adorno warned about mass media manipulation, authoritarianism, and how capitalism fosters irrationality. Their insights reveal how fear, propaganda, and cultural decay shape modern politics. 011
Subirats @subirats.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Today we got a little trip into the forest. We discuss about diferents theories and authors while the sun was givin us joy and peace ☀️☀️☀️ 011
Subirats @subirats.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Yuval Noah Harari said about communication: "Sapiens can cooperate in extremely flexible ways with countless numbers of strangers. That’s why Sapiens rule the world, whereas ants eat our leftovers and chimps are locked up in zoos and research laboratories". 030
Subirats @subirats.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Did you know that our brain started talking 100,000 years ago? Imagine the Neanderthals gossiping among themselves in their homes. 210
Subirats @subirats.bsky.social · 18/02/2025According to Harold Lasswell's Model (1948), the effect that a message has in the receivers must be what we put our eye on, since it is key to understand why some messages are deliberately created. Both then, and now, in 2025. 110
Subirats @subirats.bsky.social · 13/02/2025(2) "Liberty, in contrast, is usually born amid storms; it is established painfully in the midst of civil discord, and only when it is already old can its benefits be known.” -Democracy in America (1835), Alexis de Tocqueville 110
Subirats @subirats.bsky.social · 13/02/2025"Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the misfortunes suffered; it is the support of legitimate rights, the upholder of the oppressed, and the founder of order. Peoples fall asleep amid the temporary prosperity that it brings forth; and when they awaken, they are miserable." (1) 120
Subirats @subirats.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Feedback is a quite interesting concept to understand how real conversations work, which brought a new point of view to in regards to communication, since conversations are built on better understanding each other. 010
Subirats @subirats.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Words can have different meanings depending on the tone used for them. Irony is a good example of this. 120
Subirats @subirats.bsky.social · 06/02/2025The messages transmitted through language are ambiguous, which make context and meaning key factors in any communication net. Therefore, insults can have different meanings in different contexts, and can even be symbols of affection. 110
Subirats @subirats.bsky.social · 06/02/2025As Émile Durkheim states, society and the morality that defines it are created around symbols that represent its members and their relationships in an allegorical way.Thus, the totem that defines an unworldly society is just the representation of the real world and its individuals. 120
