This article examines the television series Kilos Mortales México as a cultural dispositif where melodrama, biopolitics, and affective regulation of the body converge. Drawing on a qualitative approach based on textual, visual, and discourse analysis of selected episodes, the study explores how the program constructs fatness not only as a medical condition but also as a moral problem subjected to public judgment. Situated within Latin American cultural studies and engaging with theories of melodrama, critical fat studies, and Foucauldian governmentality, the article argues that the series produces a form of televisual moral pedagogy in which bodily transformation functions as visible evidence of merit and discipline. Weight loss thus becomes a mediated ritual that translates biomedical discourses into familiarized ethical obligations, revealing how reality television participates in the cultural regulation of bodies in Latin America.
Representations of language used in academic contexts are interpretable reflections within the framework of linguistic ideology, adhering to institutional norms. This work was developed in the context of graduate programs in agronomy in Mexico and the objective is to explore social representations and linguistic ideologies surrounding the languages used in academic literacy practices. It is a mixed-methods study with qualitative emphasis, which explores representations and beliefs to obtain social positions that shape the context of literacy and observe how these positions affect the identities and sense of agency of those who interpret and produce knowledge. The results reveal a scenario of tensions and balances between the role of English as the hegemonic language of science and the greater participation of local languages.
Militarization as a government policy in Chile has been the focus of political and legislative debate in public opinion over the past three years, initially to protect critical infrastructure for internal security purposes and subsequently for border control. The objective of this study is to describe the main news frames present in 59 news stories published by four digital newspapers in the Antofagasta Region. between 2022 and 2024, related to the use of the Armed Forces in the northern macro-region of the country. Using the case study method and mixed content analysis techniques, the main news frames are identified as actions that favor internal security, as well as the roles and levels of state intervention in this issue. The main conclusion of the study is that the news stories examined reveal a positive perception of border militarization among different political sectors and among the regional citizenship.
Discourse analysis has become a powerful approach for understanding how people build social realities. Metaphors are a discursive niche by which speakers rebuild these realities. This process is very complex and by studying metaphors usages we could detangled some of these features. This study aims to characterise the adolescents’ metaphoric written discourse through a novel ecological test. 81 Spanish speaking students (Mage 14;1, Range 13;2-15;2; 56.7% girls) participated. The test consists of six questions about the COVID-19 pandemic. The results show a significant difference on metaphors usages in favour of Pandemic over COVID-19 (p < .005). Also, female students show a higher frequency than males (p < .005). The novel experience of pandemic seems to promote greater lexical variety than COVID-19. The results contribute to describing adolescents' discursive uses of written metaphors, weighing the impact of an ecological test, and providing some remarks on the theory of metaphor in discourse.
Los avances en tecnología digital están transformando la estética contemporánea , replanteando la creación, la autoría y experiencia artística. Este artículo analiza dos ejes : la fusión entre artista y máquina , que cuestiona la producción simbólica masiva y estudia los alcances y límites de los procesos de automatización y creatividad computacional , y el sublime tecnológico, que explora la fantasmagoría digital, el nihilismo posmoderno y la simbiosis arte-ciencia. Para actualizar estos conceptos , se estudian tres proyectos de la bienal Artware, que destacan por su relevancia estética y desarrollo de herramientas digitales propias. Estas obras establecen un diálogo crítico entre tecnología y tradición, reflejando las dinámicas actuales del arte digital.
