The GamerGate controversy and journalistic paradigm maintenance

Social networks as journalistic paradigm . Spanish media on Facebook

Spain is one of the countries with higher use of social networks in the world. Among them, Facebook is emerging as one of the most significant internationally. If these phenomena are combined with the current transformation of journalism, it is not surprising that some Spanish cybermedia have approached this platform to develop new products for the Web. From this starting point, this article fo...

Maintenance Therapy for NSCLC: Consensus and Controversy.

Nowadays, advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is still an incurable disease. However, recent researches on maintenance therapy have led to considerable progress. Recently, pemetrexed and erlotinib have been approved for maintenance chemotherapy by both the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and European Medicines Agency. However, there are not adequate data to support the maintenance the...

Social and Journalistic Changes

The ethical concept of the fetus as a patient and the beginning of human life

»When does human life begin?« is not one question, but three. The first question is, »When does human biological life begin?,« and is a scientific question. A brief review of embryology is provided to answer this question. The second question is, »When do obligations to protect human life begin?,« and is a question of general theological and philosophical ethics. A brief review of major world r...

'Sketchy Wives' and 'Funny Heroines' - Doing and Undoing Gender in Art Games

Gender analysis of video games has increased its public visibility through the Gamergate controversy. We examine several casual art games in order to explore the diversity of both conventional and counter-stereotypical gender representations. We find significant reliance on stereotypical presentations, especially in ‘sketchy wife’ characters. Such tropes may offer rhetorical resources to commun...