Department:

JOURNALISM

Board of Examiners:

GARITAONANDIA GARNACHO CARMELO (Chairperson)
CABRERA CABRERA PEDRO JOSÉ (Member)
IBARRA GÜEL PEDRO (Member)
PIZARROSO QUINTERO ALEJANDRO (Member)
ABRIL VARGAS NATIVIDAD (Secretary)

Location:

JOURNALISM DEPARTMENT (FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE AND COMMUNICATION)

Summary:

The main aim of this research is to find out about the origins and development of the social press in Spain - a type of hitherto unexplored press both in Spain and in the rest of Europe in terms of its personality and its structure and contents. Its original method of distribution, in addition to recovering the previously extinct figure of newspaper seller on the street, opens a fissure in the monopoly on the sale of publications enjoyed by owners of news stands. The social press is a growing phenomenon both in Spain and in other countries that may serve as a work tool for tens of thousands of destitute people both on the content and on the Iberian Peninsula.
Men and women excluded from society and from the world of work, heading for marginalization and a life of begging, who are the leading players on the street of their system of distribution and sale. But what is the social press? This is the first question and the first problem taken into consideration in the research, given that there are no bibliographical or academic reference points about this type of press, which was unheard of in Spain until 1994.
The first part of this work presents the theoretical universe within which to define the object of study, whereby what is understood by social press is previously established. The meaning of the term is conditioned by the double meaning that promoters of social publications give to the adjective "social" - a generic name to characterize its content (social work with the socially-excluded) and another restrictive one used to define its raison d´être. The latter gives us an approximation of the aspect of social reality promoted by the emergence of the social press: the universe of social action, of social work and of social welfare. I use the term social press to refer to publications that favour social integration and integration in the job market of the socially-excluded via the application of methods and techniques used in social work...