El relato por otros medios: ¿un giro transmediático?

La reflexión en torno a las narraciones transmediáticas ha sido muy intensa en los últimos diez años. En este artículo intentamos desbrozar el concepto, dar cuenta de su especificidad y mostrar algunos ejemplos clásicos y otros más recientes. También apuntaremos algunas dificultades y retos que plantea a los estudios no sólo narratológicos, sino también en los márgenes entre estos y otros dominios tanto semióticos como de los Media Studies: las dimensiones y los límites de una “historia” de la narración transmedia, las explicaciones económicas de su pujanza actual, el afán de construcción de universos narrativos complejos y la inmersión en ellos de los fans, el papel crucial de la serialidad, la dimensión promocional y más en general paratextual de las narraciones trasmediáticas y finalmente la extensión del fenómeno más allá del dominio de la ficción. El “giro narrativo” descrito en las ciencias sociales y en muchos discursos públicos hace ya unas décadas debería complementarse ahora con un “giro transmediático”, funcional al primero y a la manera de su brazo secular (tecnológico y económico).

Vaccinology: The name, the concept, the adjectives

The visibility of the term vaccinology has become more pronounced in the 21st century in defining a scientific field that has absorbed aspects from different scientific domains until finally acquiring an identity of its own. As a result, vaccinology brings together a long tradition of researchers who have operated within a linear paradigm and incorporates new generations of scientists who have forged an exciting and diverse network of knowledge within this field. The term vaccinology, which initially appeared in isolation at the time of Jenner and once again with the emergence of the Pasteurian model, acquired further prominence thanks to the efforts of the vaccinologists who chronicled the production of vaccines in the last third of the 20th century. The term has since become truly consolidated, with the appearance of new adjectives during this century. This study provides a historical perspective for the frequency of use and evolution of this increasingly widespread term.

Validation of a Spanish version of the Distance Education Learning Environments Survey (DELES) in Spain

The aim of this study was to examine the validity of the Spanish version of the Distance Education Learning Environments Survey (Sp-DELES). This instrument assesses students’ perceptions of virtual learning environments using six scales: Instructor Support, Student Interaction and Collaboration, Personal Relevance, Authentic Learning, Active Learning, and Autonomy. Further, the Sp-DELES includes an additional scale that assesses students’ Satisfaction with their classes. The original DELES has been used in at least 27 independent studies with strong reliability and validity. For this study, we sampled 265 students from the University of Alicante enrolled in various hybrid and distance education courses taught by the Department of Health Psychology. We analysed the Sp-DELES for validity using principal component factor analysis with varimax rotation, and for reliability using Cronbach’s alpha. The Sp-DELES exhibited good reliability (Cronbach’s alpha for the scales ranging from 0.86 to 0.97) and the original six-factor structure was replicated and accounted for 72.9 % of the total variance. Overall the results are consistent with those of the original English-language version of the instrument. The Sp-DELES has proven to be a reliable and valid instrument for assessing psychosocial learning environments in tertiary-level hybrid and distance-education settings.