About the Journal
The magazine is called Punto Cero, although the name is inspired by the proposals of the German Hans Magnum Enzensberger, it does not imply the radical notion that this author proposes to us in a context influenced by the so-called postmodernity, by stating that the production of senses starts from a total communication gap and that meanings begin to occur only when the mind of the receiver comes into contact with the messages. Nor is it the other way around..
Editorial line
Punto Cero is an academic and scientific journal of teachers and students of the Social Communication Sciences Career of the Universidad Católica Boliviana San Pablo. It addresses communication and culture issues in particular and the social sciences in general.
Punto Cero seeks to contribute in a pluralistic way to the dissemination of scientific knowledge generated locally, nationally and internationally.
At a time of crisis of models and paradigms for the study of communications, Punto Cero adopts a cautious stance in the face of the uncertainty generated both by the crisis itself, and by certain trends that, clinging to apocalyptic schemes or easy ways that fall into fashions such that of apologizing the activity of the receiver, they stop the development of research in social communication.
In this sense, Punto Cero is an alert to prepare all communication resources both from the perspective of the production of messages, and from that of scientific research; precisely to get out of the uncertainty, to work accepting the challenges of continuing to think that, although the crisis of enlightened reason is confirmed, the nonexistence of poverty and the low standards of living of the majority of the population of our peoples.
Either is it disconfirmed that the media are entities inserted in the rules of the market and that, nevertheless, people continue to appropriate the offers of the mass and contrast their references, with millenary cultural matrices. The Latin American public, despite so much adversity, continues to resist and allow the emergence of rich and ambitious demonstrations that often escape the control of the hegemonic elites and are projected as conquests of symbolic or material objectives.
Disseminate the scientific and academic production of teachers, students and local, national and foreign researchers, in the area of communication and culture in particular and of the social sciences in general.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
- Promote the production of knowledge in the field of communication.
- Present the latest studies and proposals in the area of communication.
- Generate dialogue between the different actors linked to the field of communication.
- Contribute to the training of future communication professionals.
- Strengthen the field of communication as an area of study in the social sciences.
MISSION
Disseminate the scientific and academic production of teachers, students and local, national and foreign researchers, in the area of communication and culture in particular and of the social sciences in general.
PERIODICITY
The publication of this magazine will be every 6 months, and must be put into circulation in the middle of each semester.
The documents published in the Punto Cero Journal are designed to be as widely disseminated as possible, contributing to public debate and academic knowledge. Therefore, its reproduction is authorized as long as the source is cited and it is done without profit. (CC BY NC SA). This work is under a Licencia Creative Commons Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 4.0 Internacional.
Punto Cero maintains the ORIGINALITY requirement of the scientific articles it publishes, which are the responsibility of the authors.
The scientific articles received in the Punto Cero Journal after passing the editorial review (editorial review) and prior to the double blind peer review, are reviewed by the anti-plagiarism software Ouriginal.
Ouriginal (previously URKUND) is an award-winning software solution that combines text matching with writing style analysis, allowing editors to assess the authenticity of any document.
The published works must be unpublished. Otherwise, the name and date of the publication in which it has appeared before, the publisher's address and a letter from the publisher authorizing its reproduction must be included.
Punto Cero journal does NOT charge any article processing charges (APC), which is a fee charged to authors of scientific publications so that their work is available in open access.
Punto Cero Journal participates in the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN) program to digitally preserve magazines in OJS. The LOCKSS program offers decentralized and distributed preservation, perpetual uninterrupted access, and preservation of the authentic original version of content. The PKP PN ensures that journals that are not part of any other digital preservation service (such as CLOCKSS or Portico) can be preserved for long-term access.
