Introduction:What is the use of Culture and Communication research? Does it help the less fortunate? Does it release the more able?

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Benigno Fernández Salgado & María José Corvo Sánchez (University of Vigo) Introduction: What is the use of Culture and Communication research? Does it help the less fortunate? Does it release the more able? This book contains explorations of what we humans are doing at the outset of the third millennium - of the culture of the present moment - and of how we communicate in order to achieve what we set out to do. The research articles it presents do this in a slightly more specific and localized way: they attempt to show how Galician people understand communication, they deal with the communication techniques and technologies that are available to us, and in several cases they evaluate how we are implementing them in our work. Our publication follows the line of two previous instalments with similar aims, focus and approaches: Comunicar(se) en el siglo XXI (García González & García González, 2014), and Redes y retos (Diaz Fouces & García Soidán (2015). In the following pages, serving as academic editors and scholars interested in the fields of Culture and Communication Studies, we will try to establish a framework for the contributions of the fifteen researchers that participate in the volume. With the exception of two of them, all of the contributors are researchers who have been linked in one way or another to the university of the south of Galicia. Following Weinberger’s….