GRISS (Grup de Recerca en Imatge, So i Síntesi / Grupo de Investigación en Imagen, Sonido y Síntesis), is a consolidated research group at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, created in 1980, recognised by the Generalitat de Catalunya (Grup 2009SGR1013) and part of the Department of Audiovisual Communication and Advertising.

It focuses on the study of the communication process in all audiovisual media, including new types and forms of media. The various projects carried out are focused on the processes of production, diffusion and reception.

The results of these studies are applicable to the strategies of creation, programming and planning of communication in the audiovisual field and the field of information and communication technologies (ICT).They are also applicable to the interpretation of the social consequences and the orientation of communication policies.

Rosa Franquet, Maria Isabel Villa and Ignacio Bergillos García published at Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
Public Service Broadcasting's Participation in the Reconfiguration of Online News Content This article analyses public service broadcasting in Europe, looking at public broadcasters’ role as promoters of participative processes. Computer-mediated communication and studies rooted in mediated human interactivity are used to explore participative elements provided by digital technology, and how these can be incorporated into the news websites, through an empirical study of 5 case studies in the European market.

Special issue of ORBIS magazine dedicated to emerging communication researchers at UAB.
Maite Soto has been the guest editor and in the issue participate researchers and doctoral candidates associated GRISS. In particular, there are articles by Laura Aymerich, Xiana Gomez, and doctoral candidates Charlene Dalbosco Adriana Ibiti, Deborah Serra, to whom Maite Soto is supervising their thesis,

Stefanie Armbruster, PhD
Stefanie Armbruster defended her thesis "Screening and watching Nostalgia. An analysis of nostalgic television fiction and its reception in Germany and Spain" supervised by Emili Prado, Matilde Delgado and Lothar Mikos.

4th International Spanish-Language & Latino-Oriented Media International Conference. February 21-23, 2013
Organized by: El Centro, The Center for the Study of Latino Media & Markets, Texas State University, San Marcos, School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

GRISS researchers contribute to digital media mapping developed by the OSI (Open Society)
The report is the result of two years of work of GRISS researchers Carlos Llorens, Virginia Luzón and Helena P. Grau which focuses on the changes in the Spanish media system caused by digital technology.