Comunicación e historia olvidada: una mirada transversal desde la contemporaneidad

Abstract

The influence of the past on the present and the need to revise and update it are concerns that transcend the professional field of historians. The Restoration, the Civil War, Franco’s regime, the Transition, etc. The revision of such complex periods always entails the risk of forgetting part of the story. The importance of having mature, plural reflections from different perspectives is a requirement when it comes to understanding what happened in one or more specific periods. Communication and forgotten history: a cross-sectional view from contemporaneity is the title of this book in which we find approaches signed by researchers from different areas and with sensitive differences in their interpretation of the period they are studying. Its chapters unearth that «forgotten» history that acquires a special dimension in the media. Journalism, public opinion, politics, identity, ideology, terms such as these come together in a work that aims to offer a pleasant reading, but in accordance with the criteria of rigor and professionalism that the mission of connecting yesterday with contemporary views implies.