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 I.

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.

Television Fiction Series Targeted at Young Audience: Plots and Conflicts Portrayed in a Teen Series
The GRISS researchers, Núria García-Muñoz y Maddalena Fedele, present a study on juvenile fiction series in the article "The youth television series: plots and conflicts in a «teen series»" published in the Scientific Journal Comunicar, vol. XIX, n. 37.

Audiovisual cultural industries and Internet. Experiences, future settings and potentialities from the periphery
Edited by Enrique Bustamante, this work contains the reports presented at the professional seminar celebrated in Santa Cruz de Tenerife in January of 2010, organised by Ideco and Culturalink, and sponsored by the area of Culture of the Cabildo of Tenerife. Emili Prado and Rosa Franquet sign two chapters devoted to television and radio.

Presentation of the book "Contents and quality formats in the new television"
Next friday at 12.00 the book, which includes two chapters by members of the GRISS, will be presented at the Auditorium of the Consell de l'Audiovisual de Catalunya (CAC).

Universo Extremo awarded at the 1st CPAN Contest of Scientific Dissemination
The documentary has been directed by GRISS researcher Maite Soto

New publications by GRISS researchers
Different journals have published recent works by members of the team.