El talk show de Maritere: tramas y mecanismos de su producción

La investigación del presente trabajo pretende destacar algunos aspectos importantes de los mecanismos de producción de los denominados talk shows y su aparecimiento en la televisión ecuatoriana, la pregunta que sirvió como guía de investigación fue: ¿Cuáles son las razones del éxito alcanzado por los talk shows? Este trabajo se dividió en cinco capítulos, el primero contiene un marco referencial del aporte de la televisión en la proliferación de estos programas como consecuencia de las transformaciones de la visibilidad que ha cambiado la concepción de lo público y lo privado dando paso a la creación de nuevos géneros televisivos. En el capítulo dos, abordaré el origen de los talk shows en los Estados Unidos y su inmersión en Latinoamérica, para posteriormente concentrar mi estudio en el Talk Show de Maritere que se constituyó en el primer programa de este género que se hizo en el Ecuador. En el capítulo tres analizaré las causas del éxito del talk show de Maritere, la proliferación del género, la estructura del programa, para en el capítulo cuarto describir las fases de la producción en base a la entrevista mantenida con el productor, quien aportó datos muy interesantes que despejaron varias dudas referentes a estas preguntas: ¿Porqué la gente revela su intimidad y acude a estos programas ? ¿ Cuál es el trabajo que realiza la producción? ¿ Cómo consiguen que la gente vaya al talk show? ¿Porque éstos programas tiene un alto rating de audiencias? ¿Los personajes son pagados? ¿Utilizan actores?. Y entrevistas a varias personas que señalan claramente por qué miran estos programas, así como un análisis de las características principales que presenta el género, con discursos no políticos, los usos de un lenguaje popular , la violencia y el sensacionalismo como ejes fundamentales del éxito de los talk shows. En el capitulo cinco, se determinan las conclusiones de este trabajo.

Familia contemporánea y televisión: recepción del talk show “Caso Cerrado”

El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo realizar un estudio de recepción del talk show Caso Cerrado en tres familias de la ciudad de Quito. Dentro de esta búsqueda se trazaron los parámetros para definir la imagen de la familia que se crea en el espacio mediático en función de la recepción del talk show seleccionado. A partir de esta imagen, así como de la estructura que cada familia estudiada posee y de las características individuales de quienes la conforman, se estableció el grado de identificación o de rechazo que esta imagen mediática genera en la rutina de consumo y re-significación de los discursos emitidos. Por otro lado, se indagó en los usos que se hace de estos contenidos en el ámbito cotidiano-familiar. Para llegar a esta meta se elaboró una guía metodológica y conceptual que aborda la construcción de las mediaciones como la base de la relación entre las audiencias y la televisión. El glosario de conceptos claves, que incluye el melodrama, el talk show, la televerdad y las audiencias, permite consolidar un espacio de discusión en el que gira la investigación y el requerimiento de los datos que después se recopilaron. Además se realizó un análisis de contenido de Caso Cerrado. Fue necesario fragmentar la estructura del talk show para utilizar elementos puntuales el momento de generar la relación entre las familias y el producto mediático. El análisis comparativo fue el cierre de una investigación que recopiló datos que se construyeron en la rutina de consumo y recepción de estas tres familias, cuyos espacios son diferentes y cuyos integrantes configuran mediaciones en relación con su individualidad y las instituciones a las que pertenecen.

Did they talk their way out of Africa?

Corballis suggests that fully vocal communication was invented by modern humans between 170,000 and 50,000 years ago. Because this new form of communication did not require hand gestures, he wondered whether this may have facilitated the development of lithic manufacture. I cast doubt on this interesting notion but offer an enhanced version that may have more potential.

Developing protocols for nursery based scheduling trials

Most existing crop scheduling models are cultivar specific and are developed using academic resources. As such they rarely meet the particular needs of a grower. A series of protocols have been created to generate effective schedules for a changing product range using data generated on site at a commercial nursery. A screening programme has been developed to help determine a cultivar's photoperiod sensitivity and vernalisation requirement. Experimental conditions were obtained using a cold store facility set to 5degreesC and photoperiod cloches. Eight and 16 hour photoperiod treatments were achieved at low cost by growing plants in cloches of opaque plastic with a motorised rolling screen. Natural light conditions were extended where necessary using a high pressure sodium lamp. Batches of plants were grown according to different schedules based on these treatments. The screening programme found Coreopsis grandiflora 'Flying Saucers' to be a long day plant. Data to form the basis of graphical tracks was taken using variations on commercial schedules. The work provides a nursery based approach to the continuous improvement of crop scheduling practises.

Learning to talk to users in participatory design situations

In participatory design situations the competence of the facilitator will influence the opportunities for a user group to become engaged in the process of design. Based on the observation of the conversations from a series of design workshops, the performance of design facilitation expertise by an expert architect is compared with a less experienced architectural graduate. The skills that are the focus of this research are the conversational competences deployed by architects to engage users in the design of an architectural project. The difference between the conversational behaviour of a project architect and a less experienced graduate was observed to illustrate with examples the effect the performance of facilitation had on the opportunity for user engagement in design, and of learning the skill of facilitation that occurred in these situations.

'Does this compromise your design?' Interactionally producing a design concept in talk

How a design concept was interactionally produced in the talk-in-interaction between an architect and client representatives was studied. The empirical analysis was informed by ethnomethodology and conversation analysis to observe structures and patterns of talk that accomplished actions and practices of design. Some differences were observed between the properties of the design concept in comparison with the design ideas that were considered during these conversations. The design concept was observed to be significant for assessing why some moves in a design space were considered better than others. The importance of the design concept to these interactions raised more general questions about what a design concept is and how it can be described as an object type. With reference to studies of science, technology and society these concerns were provisionally engaged with and further study of the object properties of design concepts is suggested.

Description of a multifaceted strategy for recruiting general practitioners and community pharmacists to talk about medication errors

Objective: To describe the use of a multifaceted strategy for recruiting general practitioners (GPs) and community pharmacists to talk about medication errors which have resulted in preventable drug-related admissions to hospital. This is a potentially sensitive subject with medicolegal implications. Setting: Four primary care trusts and one teaching hospital in the UK. Method: Letters were mailed to community pharmacists and general practitioners asking for provisional consent to be interviewed and permission to contact them again should a patient be admitted to hospital as a result of a medication error. In addition, GPs were asked for permission to approach their patients should they be admitted to hospital. A multifaceted approach to recruitment was used including gaining support for the study from professional defence agencies and local champions. Key findings: Eighty-five percent (310/385) of GPs and 62% (93/149) of community pharmacists responded to the letters. Eighty-five percent (266/310) of GPs who responded and 81% (75/93) of community pharmacists who responded gave provisional consent to participate in interviews. All GPs (14 out of 14) and community pharmacists (10 out of 10) who were subsequently asked to participate, when patients were admitted to hospital, agreed to be interviewed. Conclusion: The multifaceted approach to recruitment was associated with an impressive response when asking healthcare professionals to be interviewed about medication errors which have resulted in preventable drug-related morbidity.