Objective: The excessive growth of the food supplements’ industry highlights the need to focus attention on all aspects involved in their proper consumption; one that takes centre stage is advertising. The aim of this research is to analyse the presence of false and misleading claims in food supplements advertising. To this end, a relationship is established between the different types of health-related claims and the substances on which they are based, whether authorised or not by EFSA. Design: This empirical work conducts a content analysis of all radio mentions broadcast throughout 2017 on news/talk radio stations. Setting: Spain. Participants: All radio mentions broadcast on news/talk commercial radio stations in Spain with the highest audience levels. The corpus is composed of 437 advertisements. Results: Results indicate that 80.3% of function claims included in the analysed advertisements are not authorised by EFSA, while 20.4% of disease claims are not allowed by EU regulation. Likewise, almost half of the substances referred to (43.7%) are illicit: 54.1% in function claims, 57.3% in disease claims, and 73.7% in the case of reduction of disease risk claims. Conclusions: This work reveals consistent failures to comply with European regulation on food supplements advertising. The widespread use of unauthorised health claims and substances is aggravated by the indirect recourse of illness as a persuasive argument, descriptions of alleged benefits as product attributes, and the omission of essential information. This leads to dangerous misinformation and can pose serious health risks. Stronger legal mechanisms are needed for effective consumer protection.
Música y violencia de género en España. Estudio comparado por estilos musicalesMusic and gender violence in Spain. A comparative study by musical styles Jaime Hormigos-Ruiz / jaime.hormigos@urjc.es http://orcid.org/0000-0002- María Gómez-Escarda / maria.gomez@urjc.es http://orcid.org/0000-0002- Salvador Perelló-Oliver / salvador.perello@urjc.es http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2655-440X Universidad Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid, EspañaAbstract: Violence against women remains a first-order social problem in contemporary societies. The objective of this work is to study how this problem is treated in popular music songs in Spain, establishing a relationship between the different musical styles and the description they make of gender violence. This research is developed from a quantitative methodology based on the content analysis of a sample of 210 songs that deal with gender violence in their lyrics over the last 40 years. This research wants to show how popular music songs are an ideal communication tool to raise awareness of the dimensions of the problem of gender violence. Key words: violence against women, songs, sociology of music, musical communication, socialization. Resumen: La violencia contra las mujeres continúa siendo un problema de primer orden en las sociedades contemporáneas. El objetivo de este trabajo es estudiar cómo se trata dicho problema en las canciones de música popular en España, estableciendo una relación entre los diferentes estilos musicales y la descripción que hacen de la violencia de género. Para ello, se ha optado por desarrollar una metodología cuantitativa basada en el análisis de contenido de una muestra integrada por un total de 210 canciones, las cuales poseen esta temática, acumuladas a lo largo de las últimas cuatro décadas. La presente investigación pretende mostrar cómo las canciones de música popular pueden ser una herramienta de comunicación ideal para concienciar a la sociedad sobre las dimensiones del problema de la violencia de género. Palabras clave: violencia contra las mujeres, canciones, sociología de la música, comunicación musical, socialización. Sociales, núm. 76, 2018 Convergencia Revista de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México 76 IntroducciónLa música es un sistema de transmisión de información sumamente eficiente por su extraordinaria capacidad para quedar grabada en la memoria. De acuerdo con los estudios de Ramírez (2006), podemos afirmar que las canciones son instrumentos mnemotécnicos muy efectivos para almacenar el saber de una sociedad y, por tanto, para utilizarlas en el proceso de socialización del individuo. En las canciones, la música nos aporta el sentimiento y la emoción, mientras que el texto aporta el aspecto cognitivo (Giménez, 1997: 93). Aplicadas al estudio de la violencia de género, pueden ser una herramienta útil para conocer cómo percibe la sociedad este problema, ya que permiten acceder a la visión de la realidad de un grupo y al conocimiento de su entorno (Carballo, 2006: 32).Según los planteamientos de Small (2003), las canciones...
This article analyses sound indicators as compulsory elements that separate information content from commercial content in order to preserve the rights of consumers and following the legal regulations and codes of conduct. The study has been carried out using a sample of 372 intersection spaces broadcast by the most popular Spanish commercial generalist radio stations and coded following certain variables such as time slot, commercial content, audio signal input separation and audio signal output separation. The results provide substantial evidence regarding the lack of social responsibility of radio owners towards their audience as well as the passivity with which government and self-regulation bodies protect the rights of listeners to be warned of the commercial nature of these radio broadcasts.
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