Research Group on Transformations in Audiovisual Media and Their Implications in Political, Cultural and Social Development (GRUP-TRAMA) (2021 SGR 01624)

The objective of the group is to research audiovisual media, their structure, regulation, contents, discourses and reception, as agents of political, cultural and social development. To this end, two basic lines are developed.

Analysis of the communication of cultural and natural heritage

Analysis of the promotion of heritage in audiovisual media (internet, television, radio, cinema, video games), with regard to their discourses, contents and the impact on the audience of their messages. From here, it is proposed as a laboratory for the creation of new communication strategies in the field of the promotion and dissemination of cultural and natural heritage.

Analysis of the impact of transformations in the media system on the political and social environment, with special attention to the challenges it poses in relation to freedom of expression and the right to information.

This line of research has a miscellaneous nature, and aims to analyze the role of the media as agents of political, social and cultural development. It focuses especially on the relationship between audiovisual media and freedom of expression and the right to information, taking into account two periods of political change such as the late Franco regime and the transition to democracy, and the current cycle of changes that has entailed the crisis of the great consensuses of European democracies. This line of research is subdivided into two

• Analysis of the limitations to freedom of expression and information and their implications for the media in the transition to democracy.
• Analysis of new challenges in relation to freedom of expression and the right to information and the social, political and cultural impact of a transforming communication system.

Other equally important lines of research in which the group's researchers work are the following:

• Media and gender studies.
• Transmedia narrative.
• Non-fiction cinema.
• Cultures, identities and media.
• Social and cultural history of mass media.
• Theory and analysis of audiovisuals.
• The relationships between literature and audiovisuals, with a special focus on Catalan literature.