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"Animal Suffering and Public Relations conducts an ethical assessment of public relations, mainly persuasive communication and lobbying, as deployed by some of the main businesses involved in the animal industrial complex - the industries participating in the systematic and institutionalized exploitation of animals. Society has been experiencing a growing ethical concern regarding humans' (ab)use of other animals. This is a trend first promoted by the development of animal ethics - which claims any sentient being, because of sentience, deserves moral consideration - and more recently by other approaches from the social sciences, including critical animal studies. In this volume, we aim to start an entirely unaddressed discussion within the field of public relations: the need to problematize the ethics of persuasion when nonhuman animal suffering is involved, particularly the impact of persuasion and lobbying on compassion towards other animals in the cases of food, experimentation, entertainment and environment management. The books provides an interdisciplinary, theoretical discussion illustrated with international case studies from experts in strategic communication, public relations, lobbying and advocacy, animal ethics, philosophy of law, political philosophy and social psychology. This unique book merges the fields of critical public relations, animal ethics and critical animal studies and will be of direct appeal to a wide range of researchers, academics and doctoral students across related fields"--

El presente trabajo describe la historia, evolución y aportación académica así como los principales rasgos distintivos del Departamento de medios y comunicación de la London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). La LSE es una institución de reconocido prestigio internacional como universidad pionera en el campo de las ciencias sociales situada entre las primeras a nivel mundial y dentro del Reino Unido tanto en docencia como en investigación. El trabajo que se presenta aporta una visión multidisciplinar que bebe de la historia, la etnografía, la economía política y los estudios culturales. ; This paper describes the history, evolution and academic input as well as major hallmarks of the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). The LSE is a renowned pioneer in the field of social sciences ranked amongst the top institutions both in the world and in the United Kingdom as far as teaching and research is concerned. This study uses a multidisciplinary approach that draws on history, ethnography, political economics and cultural studies.

La convergencia digital está teniendo repercusiones de enorme magnitud sobre la profesión periodística. Entre ellas la modificación de los patrones de producción, distribución y consumo de la información y, para algunos, también, lo que podríamos denominar la creación de una nueva versión de periodismo, el periodismo cívico. Todo ello repercute, a su vez, directamente, sobre la crisis de credibilidad del periodismo tradicional. Este artículo reflexiona acerca de si la convergencia digital fortalece o debilita los valores del periodismo y si puede considerarse que las nuevas tecnologías favorecen la creación o consolidación de un nuevo periodismo y de un quinto poder -una plataforma en posición de multiplicar la transparencia informativa al convertirse en vigilante de los vigilantes. Para la autora la actual crisis de valores del periodismo sólo se resolverá protegiendo el ejercicio de esta profesión, por su responsabilidad social, o bien asumiendo la pérdida de su función democrática -con las consecuencias que ello puede tener para nuestros sistemas sociopolíticos. ; Digital Convergence is having a big impact on the journalism profession. It alters the patterns of information production, information distribution and information consumption. For some, it's also generating what could be called a new version of journalism, the civic journalism. All this has a direct impact on the credibility crisis suffered by traditional journalism. This paper tries to answer two questions. First, does digital convergence strengthen or weaken the values of journalism?; Second, do new technologies favour the creation and consolidation of a new journalism and of a Fifth Power or info-communicative platform, able to multiply information transparency by becoming the watcher of the watchers? According to the author, the current crisis of values of journalism will only have a chance to be overcame by protecting the professional practice, due to its social responsibility, or assuming the lost of its democratical function -altogether with the consequences that this may have on our sociopolitical systems.

La independencia y autonomía real de los medios de comunicación, especialmente en su quehacer periodístico, está estrechamente vinculada a diversos factores, entre los que destacan la naturaleza de la propiedad empresarial y la libertad o presión bajo la que toman las decisiones los órganos de gobierno corporativos. Estos factores, tradicionalmente estudiados principalmente en relación a los lazos y dependencias establecidos por las empresas de comunicación con los grandes anunciantes, asumen una nueva dimensión con la financiarización de los grandes grupos de comunicación. Esto es, con la preeminencia de los objetivos financieros –supeditando a los profesionales o vinculados a la responsabilidad democrática– que experimenta la empresa periodística a partir del momento en que ésta empieza a cotizar en bolsa. Esta comunicación presenta datos recabados a principios de 2009 sobre la estructura de propiedad y los consejos de administración de los grupos propietarios de medios de comunicación más importantes de Europa. La finalidad de este ejercicio es identificar quienes son los sectores económicos conectados con la propiedad y los órganos de gobierno de los propietarios de los principales medios de comunicación que ofrecen contenidos periodísticos en Europa. ; Media groups' independence and autonomy levels, in particular their journalistic task, are tightly connected with several factors, of which the type of corporate ownership and the freedom or pressure under which corporate governance makes decisions are most relevant. Scholarly research has traditionally considered those factors in relation to the dependencies and links established between corporate media and larger advertisers. However, financialization adds up a new dimension to the study –since it stresses the subordination of professional logics and democratic responsibilities to the financial logics dominating media groups listed in stock exchanges. This paper discusses some data gathered at the beginning of 2009 regarding ownership structure and composition of the boards of directors of the largest European media groups. The aim of this work is to identify the economic agents linked to both, ownership and boards of directors, of the main European commercial news producers.

In the midst of what is probably the worst economic and financial crisis the capitalist world has ever experienced, professional journalistic structures and news organizations are disintegrating. While mainstream current economic and media gurus –and the whole media executive class around the globe– are claiming for a business model change that allows them to go on making lots of money, many voices have been raised in unison to ask for a true radical change: money cannot be the first goal, but rather public interest. This paper presents the outcome of a research on the non-profit alternatives currently under debate destined to help journalism survive.

La distancia que separa a los economistas políticos de la comunicación europeos –de corte eminentemente marxista– de los norteamericanos –con un activismo político más liberal–, así como la confusión epistemológica y metodológica sobre lo que es y no es la economía política de la comunicación la cultura (EPCC) que la disciplina arrastra desde sus inicios (probablemente en parte a raíz de esta ausencia de consenso y de base común), ha conducido a algunos a hablar de la necesaria refundación de la misma, o incluso de su superación. Por el contrario, este artículo argumenta que se no se trata de redefinir a la EPCC sino de recuperarla en toda su dimensión como enfoque crítico con vocación de exhaustividad e influencia de la filosofía moral. Para ello, este texto pretende volver a las raíces históricas del enfoque, haciendo especial énfasis en los economistas clásicos, a los que se propone redescubrir para la EPCC y para la economía política en general. Y todo ello con el objetivo de poner de manifiesto la enorme riqueza que atesora un enfoque epistemológico infrautilizado y, sin embargo, armado con un enorme potencial democratizador. ; The gap that separates the European political economists of communication –more Marxistrooted– from their American counterparts –who tend to profess more liberal political ideas–, as well as the epistemological and methodological confusion, which has burdened this approach from the beginning, about what is and what is not the political economy of communication and culture (PECC) (probably due to this lack of consensus or of a common basis), have led some scholars to talk about the need for refounding the approach or even to declare it obsolete. On the contrary, this paper argues that the point is not to redefine the PECC but to recover its true dimensions, to reclaim it as a critical approach that aspires to comprehensiveness and is influenced by moral philosophers. With this aim in mind, this paper goes back to the historical roots of the approach, especially emphasizing the role of the classical economists. That is, we propose to rediscover the classical economists for the PECC and for political economy in general. In all of this we have a main purpose: to stress the enormous wealth contained in an epistemological approach that has been underexploited in spite of its vast democratizing potential.

"In this volume, we suggest new perspectives with which critical animal studies (CAS) can contribute to the development of knowledge and praxis in two fields- the interdisciplinary study of dehumanization and critical border studies, both of which are commonly concerned with questions of human migration, refuge, and territorial or other borders. Critical animal studies is an interdisciplinary field that reflects on the ethics of humans' relationships with other animals from an intersectional perspective and a particular political stance. CAS scholars typically understand the commonalities of oppression, contextualize speciesism within a socio- economic framework, are anticapitalist, and reject disinterested analysis to champion liberation for human animals, nonhuman animals, and the Earth"--

This is the first book on climate change denial and lobbying that combines the ideology of denial and the role of anthropocentrism in the study of interest groups and communication strategy. Climate Change Denial and Public Relations: Strategic Communication and Interest Groups in Climate Inaction is a critical approach to climate change denial from a strategic communication perspective. The book aims to provide an in-depth analysis of how strategic communication by interest groups is contributing to climate change inaction. It does this from a multidisciplinary perspective that expands the usual approach of climate change denialism and introduces a critical reflection on the roots of the problem, including the ethics of the denialist ideology and the rhetoric and role of climate change advocacy. Topics addressed include the power of persuasive narratives and discourses constructed to support climate inaction by lobbies and think tanks, the dominant human supremacist view and the patriarchal roots of denialists and advocates of climate change alike, the knowledge coalitions of the climate think tank networks, the denial strategies related to climate change of the nuclear, oil, and agrifood lobbies, the role of public relations firms, the anthropocentric roots of public relations, taboo topics such as human overpopulation and meat-eating, and the technological myth. This unique volume is recommended reading for students and scholars of communication and public relations.