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Darmanto, Masduki, Hari Wiryawan
Journal of Radio & Audio Media, volume 29, issue 1 (2022), pp. 104-119
"This paper discusses how radio during the last decade of Dutch colonial era had served as an agent of nationalism in Indonesia. This paper applies a literature study using a historical approach that focused on Soloche Radio Vereeniging (SRV) and the Eastern Radio network, which were operational fro ... more
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New money. Bitcoin and cryptoassets in Central America: The case of El Salvador

Felipe J. Echandi Lacayo
Potsdam: Friedrich Naumann Stiftung (2022), 16 pp.
"El Salvador’s experiment, though mired with fiscal and political issues from before, has shown that the adoption of public blockchain assets like Bitcoin are not taken in good regard by legacy financial multilateral institutions and are seen with great skepticism and concern. Although the adoptio ... more
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Digitale Bildkulturen: GIFs, Memes, Modebilder, Body-Bilder und Gesichtserkennung

Annekathrin Kohout, Wolfgang Ullrich (eds.)
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2022), 397 pp.
"Annekathrin Kohout und Wolfgang Ullrich versammeln Beiträge, die sich verschiedenen Aspekten der zeitgenössischen visuellen Kultur widmen: Was zeichnet die Kommunikation über Memes aus, und warum sind sie so beliebt? Wie funktionieren GIFs, und wie haben sich das Dateiformat und seine Nutzung ü ... more
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Protection of Editorial Cartoonists: Practical Guide

Cartooning for Peace (2022), 91 pp.
"In 2016, Cartoonists Rights Network International (CRNI) published the extremely helpful “Safety Manual for Political Cartoonists in Trouble”— the only one of its kind to this day. Thanks to the support of the European Union, Cartooning for Peace presents this guide which we hope will expand ... more
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Viewing Photography in Post-Dictatorship Latin America: Visual Interruptions, 1997-2016

David Rojinsky
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2022), xvii, 293 pp.
"This book examines the archival aesthetic of mourning and memory developed by Latin American artists and photographers between 1997-2016. Particular attention is paid to how photographs of the assassinated or disappeared political dissident of the 1970s and 1980s, as found in family albums and in o ... more
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Indagaciones sobre imagen y representación visual

Emilce Hernández, Omar Quijano (eds.)
San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca; Buenos Aires: Teseo (2022), 218 pp.
"En la actualidad el debate sobre la imagen y la cultura visual compromete un amplio abanico de tematizaciones, que van desde la vinculación de la imagen con la magia o el animismo hasta sus cualidades para intervenir en la comunicación textual de las tecnologías digitales. Si bien muchos estudio ... more
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Taking form, making worlds: Cartonera publishers in Latin America

Lucy Bell, Alex Flynn, Patrick O'Hare
Austin: University of Texas Press (2022), xvi, 303 pp.
"A publishing phenomenon and artistic project, cartonera was born in the wake of Argentina’s 2001 economic crisis. Infused with a rebellious spirit, it has exploded in popularity, with hundreds of publishers across Latin America and Europe making colorful, low-cost books out of cardboard salvaged ... more
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The Global State of Democracy: Forging Social Contracts in a Time of Discontent

Stockholm: International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) (2022), viii, 52 pp.
"The fourth edition of the Global State of Democracy Report comes at a time when democracy is under both literal and figurative assault around the world. The steady drumbeat of such warnings—included in the previous edition of this report, which was produced at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic ... more
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Mapping the Public Voice for Development: Natural Language Processing of Social Media Text Data

Manila: Asian Development Bank (ADB) (2022), xi, 114 pp.
"This report aims to introduce techniques and procedures of NLP (Natural Language Processing), the computational preparation and analysis of text data, to map the public voice and aid development. First, the report introduces essential concepts of communication and elaborates on the theoretical foun ... more