This series belongs to the field of Communication Sciences. The scope of the series includes  publications related to Audiovisual Communication, Cinema, Journalism and Advertising, with an open and diverse vision.

The object of the series is to foster reflection, the exchange of academic ideas and the generation of knowledge throughout the Scientific community.

Año 1993

Ainhoa Fernandez de Arroyabe Olaortua

Ainhoa Fernandez de Arroyabe Olaortua Associate Professor at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), where she teaches subjects related to film analysis, audiovisual narrative, and film history. Textual analysis applied to cinema and to media, information, and film literacy is the core of her work and publications. Together with Nekane Erritte Zubiaur and Iñaki Lazkano, she co-authored the monographic anthology Kimuak: The Seeds of Basque Cinema (Center for Basque Studies, University of Nevada, 2018). She has published book chapters in collective works such as Películas para la educación. Aprender a ver cine. Aprender viendo cine (Cátedra, 2016), Películas para la diversidad. Aprender a ver cine. Aprender viendo cine (Cátedra, 2020), and El análisis fílmico y el desafío de la educación mediática (Tirant lo Blanch, 2024), among others. She also researches the audiovisual consumption of adolescents in the digital environment. The results of this research are fundamental for designing media and film education tools that promote audiovisual culture and critical thinking. She has three recognized research periods (sexenios) (the latest covering 2019-2024).

4.1. Members

• Santos Zunzunegui Diaz. Professor of Audiovisual Communication and Advertising. University of the Basque Country
• José Ignacio Armentia. Professor of Journalism. University of the Basque Country
• Carmen Arocena Badillos. Professor of Audiovisual Communication and Publicity. Universidad del País  Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
• Xoxe López García. Professor of Journalism. University of Santiago de Compostela USUC
• Carmen Rodriguez Wanguemert. Professor of Journalism, University of  La Laguna
• Ainara Larrondo Ureta. Professor of Journalism, University of the Basque Country

4.2. Functions

The scientific committee is an advisory and consultancy body for the director of the series. One of its main duties is to ensure the scientific quality of the texts published. Other duties of the Committee also contribute to defining the collection's editorial policy, attracting original texts, proposing assessors and disseminating the collection.

The author/authors must submit an application to the Editorial Service, duly completed, specifying the following information: personal data, full title of the work, scientific interest, target audience and possible commercial reach of the same. Also a brief curriculum of the author(s).

Works may be written by one or various authors.

Texts presented must be completely finished (indices, body of the text, notes, bibliography, illustrations, etc.).

Originals should be sent with 2 copies in electronic format: one as a PDF and the other in editable format (.DOC), to the Editorial Service e-mail at the University of the Basque Country (argitaletxea.erregistroa@ehu.eus / registro.editorial@ehu.eus). The Editorial Service may request a printed copy of the work if it considers it necessary.

The text should be written in Times New Roman, font size 12 for text, and size 10 for notes.

Images, figures and illustrations accompanying the text must be of good quality and in one of the following formats: ".jpg", ".pdf", ".eps", ".tif", ".ai", ".psd", ".hmp", and of high resolution. They should be sent on CD or other labelled media, indicating the title and programmes used.

In all cases, the original must conform to the standards set out in Annex I to the Manual de Publicaciones del Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco. (UPV/EHU Editorial Service Publications' Handbook).

The process for presentation and evaluation of originals will be governed by the principles of rigour, transparency and guarantee of anonymity of the evaluation, and will be carried out by means of the procedure of double-blind peer evaluation.

The evaluation process will proceed as follows:

1. The Editorial Service Managers will carry out the initial analysis regarding the suitability of the work, after consulting with the Editorial Board Commission for the field of study to which the work belongs, and the Series Director.
2. If the response is affirmative, the Editorial Service Managers and the Series Director will select four people as external evaluators from the specialists in the subject matter: two referees and two backup referees. The Editorial Service will request the reviewers to submit their report within a period not exceeding sixty days after the original work has been sent. Upon acceptance of the reviewers, the contacts established between them and the Editorial Service will be made via e-mail.
3. On reviewing the external evaluation reports, the relevant Commission and the Series Director, will decide whether or not to accept the publication:

• The issuance of two favourable reports would recommend the publication of the work, which may be subject to modifications based on the suggestions and recommendations contained in the external evaluation reports.
• The issuance of two unfavourable reports would advise against publication of the work.
• In the event of a conflict between one favourable and one unfavourable evaluation, a third report may be requested.

Once the evaluation process has been completed, the Series Editors will communicate by e-mail to the author, in the light of the aforementioned evaluations, the decision whether or not to accept the manuscript and, if accepted, any proposed corrections.

Should the work require corrections, these would be forwarded by e-mail to the Editorial Service Managers within a period of no more than 30 days from the date of receipt of notification of corrections. The author(s) will resend the revised manuscript, with the corrections clearly made and indicated.

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