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History of Science
La física en la dictadura. Físicos, cultura y poder en España 1939-1975
Author: Néstor Herran and Xavier Roqué are the editors of this collective volume on the history of physics in Franco's Spain. Herran, PhD in History of Science (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), lectures at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) in Paris, where his research deals with the history of twentieth century physics and the national and transnational articulation of contemporary science. Xavier Roqué is a lecturer with the UAB's Department of Philosophy and a member of its Centre for the History of Science (CEHIC). His research deals with the history of modern physics, currently focusing on Spain, the cultural value of science and gender relations in science. He has also published his own Catalan and Spanish translations of classic works on physics by Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, and Marie Curie.
Summary: This volume brings together the work of twenty historians, which was presented at the symposium "History of Physics in Twentieth-century Spain: conclusions and predictions", held in Barcelona in December, 2011. This book deals with the problem of determining how physics fitted historically into Franco's dictatorship. Instead of reviewing the chronologies of progress or delay, the authors focus on the relationship between the laboratory, the classroom, the corridors of power and the nuclear plant, spaces for generating knowledge, exercising authority, communicating and teaching, or in other words, they look at physics in relation to culture and power to see how a scientific discipline and a totalitarian political system interact. Among the issues addressed are the relationship between physics and industry, physics teaching, the physics community organization and the discipline international relations. The book proposes a novel approach to the connections between physics, culture, economics and politics in contemporary Spain.
Publisher: Servei de publicacions de la UAB. Year of issue: 2012
Environment and Preservation
Un viaje a la Antártida. Un científico en el continente olvidado
Author: Sergio Rossi, PhD in biological sciences from the University of Barcelona, is since 2007 researcher at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (UAB) and has worked for over thirteen years at the Institute of Marine Sciences-CSIC in Barcelona. Specializing in marine biology and conservation, has participated in several scientific expeditions that have taken him to travel the world. He is the author of a scientific essay devoted to the current state of our oceans: El Planeta azul: Un Universo en extinción (2011). He has worked also as an editor and photographer in various scientific media such as Público, El País, Muy Interesante, Quercus, Investigación y Ciencia.
Summary: This book, result of the exciting experiences in a research cruise aboard the German ship Polarstern, discusses key issues related to the white continent, such as survival in an extreme climate, the formation of the hole in the ozone layer, the ecological degradation that permanent bases there installed generate or the possibility (and dangers) of exploiting the immense riches of the Antarctica. Also reconstructs some of the episodes that marked the exploration of these lands, as the dramatic race between Amundsen and Scott for the South Pole conquest, or Captain Shackleton odyssey to save his crew from certain death.
Publisher: Tusquets Editores. Year of issue: 2013
Communication Studies
CONVERGENCIA Y TRANSMEDIALIDAD: La ficción después de la TDT en Europa e Iberoamérica
Author: This book, coordinated by Lorenzo Vilches, Professor of Journalism at the Faculty of Communication Sciences at UAB and director of the International Master of Writing for Film, Television and Transmedia since 1991, brings together the work of the members of the research group "Convergetvd" who for four years has been studying and writing about television and its future.
Summary: The main purpose of this book is to provide an international assessment of the current joint model change television and Internet convergence. This book notes that television is healthier than diagnosed by different gravediggers and alarmists. While viewers have continued to increase in all countries, the technological wave has not stifled but television has taken advantage of the current momentum to adapt quickly to new audiences, platforms and screens.
Publisher: Gedisa Editorial Year of issue: 2013
Communication Studies
La innovación tecnológica. Creación, difusión y adopción de las TIC
Author: David Fern�ndez-Quijada is Lecturer at the Departament de Comunicaci� Audiovisual i Publicitat of the Universitat Aut�noma de Barcelona (UAB) where also got his Ph. D. about the Spanish TV industry. He has been a visiting scholar at the Institute of Communications Studies of the University of Leeds (UK) and at the DTT-Lab/CSP in Torino (Italy). His fields of scientific interest include cultural industries and policies, communication technologies and scientific communication. Fern�ndez-Quijada is a member of the Societat Catalana de Comunicaci� (SCC) and the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA).
Summary: This work explores the entire process from the generation of an ICT in the laboratory until they are communicated to the public and adopted and used. Ideas and concepts such as the technologies life cycles, obsolescence or mediation are central to this paper. This book deals with access to these technologies public policy and provides three instances of innovation businesses in communication: Apple, BBC and the Catalan Broadcasting Corporation. The author's perspective escapes from technological determinism and highlights the elements that explain the rejection or adoption of an specific technology. Different social, economical and political factors, and its interactions, are crucial aspects of this process.
Publisher: Edicions UOC Year of issue: 2013
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B.11870-2012 ISSN: 2014-6388