La representación mediática del deportista con discapacidad en el reportaje televisivo. Informe Semanal, un estudio de caso
The coverage of the 2008 Paralympic Games in the Spanish media appears almost exclusively linked to the values associated with the sporting world, according to a previous study. The Paralympic athletes are not disabled. Neither lay nor sensationalism gave a stereotyping. Because of the particularity of the event, also claims and problems disappear. This is where sports information matter the outcome, the successes, the medals. To deepen understanding of television representation of athletes with disabilities, is now being studied television information outside the dynamic daily news coverage of the Games. Analysis of other pieces, reports, has uncovered brands aimed at stereotyping related to the semantic field of journalism, one that is made visible through the use of resources that promote emotion and spectacle. Emergen life stories and intimate details. The players show great self-esteem and a positive self-identity to get away from the usual social representations of disability.
La cobertura mediática de las mujeres deportistas con discapacidad. Análisis de la prensa diaria de cuatro países europeos durante los Juegos Paralímpicos de Sidney 2000
Las investigaciones sobre la mediatizacion de las mujeres deportistas muestran, por una parte, que estas estan menos representadas que los hombres, por otra, que su imagen esta fuertemente sexualizada. Ademas, en contraposicion a los hombres, los articulos de que son objeto las presentan generalmente en su papel de madre, mujer, etc.; es decir las enmarcan en ambientes no deportivos. Por anadidura, sabemos que en ciertos puntos el tratamiento mediatico de deportistas con discapacidad es diferente al de quienes no la tienen. Pero ?que peculiaridades aparecen en el tratamiento mediatico de las mujeres deportistas discapacitadas? El estudio de la cobertura de prensa de los Juegos Paralimpicos (Sidney 2000) presentado aqui (basado en un analisis cualitativo y cuantitativo de 108 articulos editados por periodicos alemanes, ingleses, espanoles y franceses) muestra que, contrariamente a lo que se esperaba, las mujeres deportistas con discapacidad no estan cuantitativamente menos representadas que los hombres. Por tanto, en este caso no hay estigmatizacion por ocultacion especifica. Sin embargo, esta adopta formas mas insidiosas. El analisis de los elementos cualitativos de los reportajes y de las fotos muestra que, efectivamente, las mujeres aparecen fuertemente “infantilizadas” y “trivializadas” (Jones, 1999) en los periodicos que cubren los Juegos Paralimpicos.
Hedy: A Gradual Language for Programming Education
One of the aspects of programming that learners often struggle with is the syntax of programming languages: remembering the right commands to use and combining those into a working program. Prior research demonstrated that students submit source code with syntax errors in 73% of cases and even the best students do so in 50% of cases. An analysis of 37 million compilations by 250.000 students found that the most common error was a syntax error, which occurred in almost 800.000 compilations. It was also found that Java and Perl are not easier to understand than a programming language with randomly generated keywords, stressing the difficulties that novices face in understanding syntax. This paper presents Hedy: a new way of teaching the syntax of a programming language to novices, inspired by educational methods by which punctuation is taught to children. Hedy starts as a simple programming language without any syntactic elements such as brackets, colons or indentation. The rules slowly and gradually change until the novices are programming in Python. Hedy is evaluated on 9714 programs.