Situational analysis of the communication flow in audiovisual media

  • Carlos Aguilar Universidad de Barcelona. Facultat de Formació del Professorat.
  • Lydia Sánchez Universidad de Barcelona. Facultat de Formació del Professorat.
  • Manuel Campos Universidad de Barcelona. Facultat de Filosofia. Departament de Lògica, Història i Filosofia de la Ciencia.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v7i2.98
Keywords: Situation Theory, audiovisual media, semantic information, meaning

Abstract

This paper presents a mathematical framework for the study of the information contained in audiovisual contents based on the development by Keith Devlin of Situation Theory. In order to obtain this framework, we present accounts of the processes carried out by agents from the reception of audiovisual contents to the extraction of information, in accordance with the definition by Israel and Perry. We finally justify why these accounts concerning the extraction of information from audiovisual content can be included as part of a mathematical formulation of Situation Theory

Author Biographies

Carlos Aguilar, Universidad de Barcelona. Facultat de Formació del Professorat.
Carlos Aguilar is current Ph.D Student for the DEVP department of the School of Education at the Universitat de Barcelona. Currently teaches in the ESCAC (Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya).
Lydia Sánchez, Universidad de Barcelona. Facultat de Formació del Professorat.
Lydia Sánchez is Ph.D. in Philosophy by Stanford University. She is currently teaching Communication in the DEVP department of the School of Education at the Universitat de Barcelona. She has taken part in the doctoral programs *Comunicació, Art, Educació* and *Formació del professorat: pràctica educativa i comunicació*. She also teaches in the Humanities, Psychology and Documentation departments of the UOC. Her research focuses in the theory and philosophy of communication. She is author of different articles and contributions to books, and co-edited “Industrias de la comunicación audiovisual” (2008).
Manuel Campos, Universidad de Barcelona. Facultat de Filosofia. Departament de Lògica, Història i Filosofia de la Ciencia.
Manuel Campos is Ph.D. in Philosophy by Stanford University. Currently teaching at the Logic Dept. of Universitat de Barcelona. Interested in Philosophy of Language and Communication, and Philosophy of Science.
Published
2009-11-06
Issue
Vol 7 No 2 (2009)
Section
Special Issue: What is Really Information? An Interdisciplinary Approach.

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