pp. 81-97. This article is part of the tribute for the 100th anniversary of the birth of the writers O. Paz and J. Revueltas. In the first part of the paper, the authors are read from their relationship with communication, the press and the mass media in 20th century Mexico. Two models of relationship between these intellectuals, the printed and audiovisual media, and the political communication of their time are pointed out. In the second...

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pp. 179-194 We take up the metaphors of contemporary capitalism in Mexico centered on two disseminated icons and symbols through political discourse and Mexican mass media. The «tunnels» of druglorg «Chapo Guzmán» and the «walls» of the current USA president. Donald Trump symbolically relates to describe the framework of power that these characters wield. In this paper, we make connections between media and cultural symbols such as the famous “tunnels” that Mexican drug trafficker were...

pp. 16-28. In this paper we study Latin-American female migration towards North in three short-stories of contemporary female Mexican writers. We explain some general ideas about what migration is and the role of woman in this situation. We propose that an exploration in not well-considered aspects of female migration is made in fictional discourses. We use a newspaper sample to analyze, in an hermeneutic frame, how female migrant is represented as victim and male-dependent. We...

pp. 57-68. This article seeks to discuss the importance of the radio media in Mexico, particularly the community and indigenous model, its social and cultural transcendence since the sixties, and the harassment and aggression it has suffered from local and federal governments in recent years. All this considering the Telecommunications and Broadcasting Reform 2013, and its respective secondary law 2014. By virtue of the complexity that implies going into all the points of the legal...

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pp. 85-98. The mass media, in particular television, have been the determining factor in generating pseudo-environments, maintaining pseudo-realities and introjecting emotions in citizens in order to influence their electoral behavior. These pseudo-environments are built with events to activate emotions that exert affective and behavioral pressure on the inhabitants. In this sense, surveys, as well as the news resource in political campaigns, turn out to be an instrument of persuasion of marketing and political advertising to...