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Avatars and Replicants in Communication and Humanities

January 2025
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Introduction

AVATARS AND REPLICANTS IN COMMUNICATION AND HUMANITIES

Editor: Dra. Daniela Musicco Nombela

The film Blade Runner is one of the most notorious examples in which robots, with human apa- rience and built in laboratories with some genetic material, are posited in fiction as a plausible substitute for people.

Communication on screens since the 1980s has undergone a massive acceleration with the irruption of mobile phones, the popularisation of the internet and, finally, the widespread use of artificial intelligence. The construction of science fiction narratives increasingly resembles contemporary communicative reality.

What are the causes that have given rise to the human interest or need to substitute oneself; what evidence can we find of this in different media and finally what consequences might begin to emerge.

Through different theoretical contributions and practical examples, we conclude a progressive and exponentially growing presence of human alienation through avatars, replicants and substitutes on the screens of the different media.


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Studies

GERCHUNOFF SILBERBERG, Santiago

The avatars of personal identity in the digital age. Mass public conversation and identity gesture

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SUÑE CANO, Juan Emilio and FERNÁNDEZ ALONSO, Pablo

The dark side of artificial intelligence-generated avatars. Deepfake in pornography

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REINA, Augusto and CRUZ, Facundo

Presidential debates: between the democratic ritual and the political simulacrum

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JUBERÍAS GARCÍA, Guillermo

Replicating the masters? Artificial intelligence and current dialogues with the Spanish pictorial tradition

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GASCÓN-VERA, Patricia; MATTUCCI, Natascia and BONAUT-IRIARTE, Joseba

Avatars and stereotypes. Algorithmic biases of the female smile generated by artificial intelligence

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SÁNCHEZ LÓPEZ, Pablo

Avatars of the new comic book narrative: the impostor as (super) hero in Spiderman Superior and The Infamous Iron Man

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RUIZ CAÑERO, Adrián

Thatgamecompany’s emotional avatars: forging digital human connections through the worlds of video games

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JIMÉNEZ SÁNCHEZ, Álvaro; LAVÍN, José María and MARTÍN GARCÍA, Noemí

Proposal for a taxonomy of avatars in movies

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SUÁREZ MARTÍNEZ, José Miguel

Avatars in the knowledge society

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Research

PIAZUELO-RODRÍGUEZ, Ismael and BERMEJO-MALUMBRES, Eloy

Artificial Intelligence in Social Science Didactics: An exploratory approach for the education of the future

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FITÓ-CARRERAS, María; VIDAL-MESTRE, Montserrat and FREIRE-SÁNCHEZ, Alfonso

Analysis of voice-generative artificial intelligence software applied to podcasting

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LEÓN-CARRASCOSA, Víctor; MUÑOZ HUESO, Ana Carme and GUILLÉN TORTAJADA, Esmeralda

Educational and family guidance: importance, satisfaction and functions of the family

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RUBIO TORIL , José Maria and BONETE VIZCAÍNO, Fernando

El Debate de Hoy (2016-2021): an examination of contents, sections, and published genres from the Christian humanism

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RÍOS BAEZA, Felipe Adrián

Reading as mystical-sacred intuition in the work of Jorge Luis Borges

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SANAHUJA, Sonia Irene

Dialogic interactions between experience and concepts: hyper-classification and identity hyper-exclusion

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Reviews

ABELLÁN-GARCÍA BARRIO, Álvaro

If Aristotle would raise his head. Series writing manual

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NAHUEL SANGUINET, Luis

Europe in its image. Cinema and television television series at the crossroads of the 21st century

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