Last Thursday, January 19, the last lecture that put an end to the Communication, Power and Counterpower Conferences took place. We met at the CSA Playa Gata where, in the hands of Alejandro Barranquero, we approached an analysis of the possibilities we have to subvert the current media system. In…
Between November 17 and December 8, the Communication, Power and Counterpower Conferences took place, with the central objective of analyzing how, via communication, networks of hegemonic power are constructed and, in turn, how to reverse these situations through various alternatives. To begin this exercise of reflection and analysis, we were…
Last Friday, December 8, we took the last step of these Communication, Power and Counterpower Conferences. This led us to Mcgill University in Montreal where, together with Dmitri Vitaliev, project manager eQualit.ie, we set out to discover how information can be manipulated through the net. This lecture, entitled “Manipulating the…
Last Friday, December 8, the sixth step of this road, that we have been covering during the Communication, Power and Counterpower Conferences, took place. On this occasion we met at the Espace Martin-Luther-King, in the city of Montpellier, where, through his experience, Philippe Corcuff made an analysis of the media…
Philippe Corcuff is a member of the Center for Research in Social Sciences (CERLIS), located in Paris. This center focuses on three major problems: social bond and categorization, social bond and culture and social bond and individualization. The commitment of CERLIS is characterized, with a demanding sociological approach, by not…
Dmitri Vitaliev is founder and director of eQualit.ie with more than a decade of experience working in digital security and technological privacy in the field of human rights and independent media. eQualit.ie is formed by a group of international activists of a wide diversity, who work together to defend common…
Last Saturday, November 25, we continued to follow this path that is helping us to analyze communication in today’s world, with a fifth step of the Communication, Power and Counterpower Conferences. We gave this step with Magda Bandera, director of La Marea magazine, who gave us her vision on what…
On November 24 we met once again in A Coruña to follow this path that is serving to unravel communication and its relationship with political power and transnationals. We took a fourth step together with Antonio Caro within the framework of the Communication, Power and Counterpower Conferences, which helped us…
On November 23rd, at Casa Museo Casares Quiroga in A Coruña, Marcos Pérez’s lecture, “Every journalist has his/her own truth. War of stories in a fragmented world”. It was the third step towards discovering the implications of communication for citizens and how networks convert the consumption of information into a…
Antonio Caro is founder and co-director (2007 and 2011) of the magazine “Thinking Advertising. International Journal of Advertising Research “, biannual publication, edited by the Complutense University of Madrid, which aims to promote the understanding of the advertising phenomenon and related matters, providing, especially to researchers from the Spanish State…
Last November 18, we met at the café De Catro a Catro to attend Pepe Ribas’ lecture, founder of Ajoblanco, one of the countercultural publications most linked to the years of the Transition. This lecture, which is part of the Communication, Power and Counterpower Conferences, served to delve into the…
On the 17th in Compostela, the Communication, Power and Contrapoder Conferences were launched. The first step of this road for the analysis of problems and alternatives within the current communication, which we will continue until December 8, we accompanied José Candón, who portrayed his vision of digital activism and the…
Marcos Pérez Pena is a journalist in “Praza Pública”, Galician digital media in which Marcos writes about: social movements, science and technology, culture and economy. Praza Pública was born in 2012, at a time when several newspapers in Galician were disappearing from the kiosks. Praza Pública is a digital media…
José Candón Mena is a member of the Interdisciplinary Group of Studies in Communication, Politics and Social Change, (COMPOLITICAS) of the University of Seville. COMPOLITICAS is an academic group of analysis and training specialized in the theoretical, political and historical-critical study of the processes of development and social change around…
Last Thursday November 2 the conference entitled: “Victims, Sinners and Feminazis” took place in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Communication in the city of Pontevedra. Lorena Arévalo gave us an analysis of how women are represented through the media and the different problems that arise from it. In this…
José Ribas, known as Pepe Ribas, is one of the founders of the countercultural magazine ‘Ajoblanco’. This magazine threatened to rupture with the existing taboos during the Transition. Its pages spoke of controversial subjects for the time, such as ecology, the LGBTI movement, collectivism, antipsychiatry and others. Ribas was part…
Magdalena Bandera Conejo better known as Magda Bandera, is one of the founders of the magazine La Marea, this medium that has a monthly circulation on paper and works daily in the digital space, emerged under the umbrella of a cooperative of publishers and readers that was formed to trying…
This Saturday, October 28 the conferences “Communication, Power and Counterpower” gave the final step towards their construction thanks to more than 70 people who, through their contributions to the crowdfunding campaign, made it possible to obtain the necessary budget to make them a reality. The conferences “Communication, Power and Counterpower”…
The conferences organized by ECOAR))) in different locations around the world will analyze, through specialists and professionals in the field of communication, how power and counter-power are built in today’s world around that field. This September 4 ECOAR))) launches through the Association Pepa Loba a crowdfunding campaign that aims…
