GEA

Audiovisual Studies is a consolidated research group of the University of Santiago de Compostela at the Communication Sciences department and established in 2003, being registered in the catalogue of the Research Groups of the USC in 2005 (GI_1786).

Margarita Ledo Andión is the group director and it is currently composed by 15 members, of whom 11 are research members, all of them are full or associated professor doctors of the USC, belonging to the bachelor’s degree programme in Audiovisual Communication and Publicity. Moreover, it includes the participation of 4 researchers in formation.

The foundation of this research group was a logical consequence of the consolidation of the Audiovisual Observatory (ODA), which was created in 1998 in the bosom of the Communication Sciences Department, becoming part of the research program TV and interculturality: Communication in the Atlantic Outskirts. The Audiovisual Observatory (ODA- Observatorio do Audiovisual)) has focused its object of study primarily on the systematic analysis of the trans-regional integration Galicia-North of Portugal, and the entailment and publication of biannual reports on the state-of-the-art of the Galician audiovisual production were its main activities.

As the time went by, the foundational objectives of the ODA are being consolidated, seeing themselves reinforced by the creation of the Audiovisual Studies research group. Audiovisual Communication: contents, formats and technology , established on the grounds of the observatory in 2003. Currently, the group research labour is focusen on the following research lines:

– Culture and Communication Policies.

– Geo-linguistic spaces of communication.

– Contents production: interactivity and interculturality.

– Radio and television information contents.

– Products for television and applied production technologies.

– Radio and television programming and audiences.

– Communication without gaps.

– Film analysis: historical and social context.

– Places of cinema: documentary and authorship.

– Photo: uses and speeches.

– Popular Music Studies.