Belleza y verdad. La práctica estética de las noticias y el prosumidor de medios

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Shashidhar Nanjundaiah

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La racionalidad de la estética moderna no se limita al arte, sino que se extiende a las noticias. Sin embargo, un enfoque ideológico de la estética informativa sigue siendo, en el mejor de los casos, algo inconcluso. Al aplicar una perspectiva del Sur global, este artículo ofrece una comprensión alternativa de cómo las plataformas televisivas emplean el valor estético. En primer lugar, presenta una descripción ideológica de la estética de las noticias, es decir, la conversión de un incidente en un evento mediático mediante la creación de un atractivo popular y su mitificación en la sociedad. Al situar al prosumidor de medios dentro de este ecosistema, expone el vínculo entre la belleza que se presenta y la verdad que se omite, argumentando que esta relación conflictiva marca la esencia de la estética informativa. Este artículo teórico explora la relación entre la estética y la producción de noticias. A partir de esta premisa, se proponen cuatro características de la estética informativa. Mediante un estudio de caso, se ilustra cómo estas características operan en conjunto para suturar una “verdad” del prosumidor de medios que puede ser bastante diferente de la realidad.

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Nanjundaiah, S. (2025). Belleza y verdad. La práctica estética de las noticias y el prosumidor de medios. methaodos.Revista De Ciencias Sociales, 13(1), m251301a04. https://doi.org/10.17502/mrcs.v13i1.842
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Shashidhar Nanjundaiah, Mahindra University

PhD in Mass Communication and Media Arts from Southern Illinois University, USA, an MS in Corporate and Professional Communication from Radford University, USA, an MA in English and a BS in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Mysore, India. Currently, he is Professor and Dean at the School of Digital Media and Communication, which he started in 2023 for Mahindra University, India. He has also worked for more than 10 years as an editorial head of business and news publications, and as an organizational communicator. His scholarly interests lie in the production and consumption across media, particularly in the critical study of news aesthetics and invisibilization, emerging policy ethics, and digital communication strategy. He is the author of the 2024 book News Aesthetics and Myth: The Making of Media Illiteracy in India, published by Routledge.

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