"Science journalism is a specialization that has not been thoroughly studied in Peru. A lack of research on this subject reflects this situation. In this context, this master’s thesis “Reporting science journalism in Peru: A qualitative study of challenges and opportunities” can be considered
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a first examination of certain characteristics of this specialization in this country. Its main goal is to point out and explain the limitations that exist in reporting a science news —from finding a story to writing an article— and the factors that can contribute to overcoming them. A qualitative analysis of interviews with journalists and scientists provides insights about these two aspects. The results of this study show that the reporting of science journalism in Peru faces educational, economic and organizational limitations, with the lack of specialization courses being one of the main problems." (Abstract)
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"The innovative research in Video Games and the Global South focuses on a range of topics including art games and serious games from the global south, postcolonialism and cultural representation, player communities, software modification (modding), intercultural communication online, racism and sexi
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sm in game culture, the global growth of eSports, social media use in relation to gaming and the use of games to connect users and communities across the globe. Some fifteen years ago, Uruguayan theorist and game developer Gonzalo Frasca spoke of the possibility of creating “video games of the oppressed,” using the medium as a tool for education, socio-political awareness and consciousness-raising. In short, Frasca advocated for the appropriation of the means of game production by actors in the global south, and the repurposing of these technologies in ways that would benefit the region’s inhabitants. A decade and a half later, we can see that many gamers and game developers from across the global south have taken up this challenge, contributing to game cultures and creating games that respond to the obstacles and affordances of their particular geographical, socioeconomic, political and cultural contexts. Video Games and the Global South brings together perspectives from a range of disciplines, critical methodologies and theoretical approaches. Together, the 20 contributing essays advance the critical methodology for analyzing the relationship between games and culture, as well as historically contextualized insight into the cultural impact of video games and the development of games and game cultures across Africa, the Middle East, Central and South America, the Indian subcontinent, Oceania and Asia." (Publisher description)
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"Globale Transformationsprozesse wie steigende Rohstoff- und Nahrungsmittelpreise, die Finanzkrise und der Klimawandel haben seit Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts zu tiefgreifenden Veränderungen in der Landnutzung und den Landbesitzverhältnissen beigetragen. Konflikte um Land und Rohstoffe stehen seit
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einigen Jahren im Fokus einer lebhaften wissenschaftlichen und zivilgesellschaftlichen Debatte und führen vielerorts - insbesondere im Globalen Süden - zu Protesten. Mit über 40 Essays von »Agrarbewegung« bis »Water Grabbing« präsentiert das kritische Handbuch zentrale Themen der Debatte und macht sie einer breiten Leser_innenschaft zugänglich." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"With the publishing industry changing fast, and the marketing and selling of content now delivered worldwide through technology, this much-needed guide highlights the critical role of the marketeer, and the strategies and techniques at their disposal. The book’s approach is logical and calming; b
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eginning with marketing theory and moving into how this works in practice. Readers benefit from a blend of practical advice on how to organise and deliver marketing plans – and an objectivity which supports their future management of issues not yet on the horizon. Thoroughly updated, this sixth edition maintains the book’s popular, accessible and supportive style, and now offers: a fully international perspective for today’s global industry; new case studies to illustrate changing industry issues and application; completely updated coverage of digital and social marketing and GDPR; topical updates, more case studies and tips on getting work in publishing available in supplementary online resources; detailed coverage of individual market segments, bringing relevance to every area of publishing." (Publisher description)
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"En el pressnte artículo buscamos motivar un camino juntos, adentrando en el espíritu sinodal y en la 'canoa amazónica' para descubrir las riquezas y las amenazas que sufre este territorio, para reflexionar el camino comunicativo que debemos realizar como comunidades religiosas y como Iglesia par
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a llegar a una comunicación intercultural panamazónica" (Página 45)
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"La solidaridad, la búsqueda del bien común y el cuidado de la naturaleza son los elementos que desde las bases regionales sociales y eclesiales responden concretamente a las problemáticas y los desafíos que se presentan en la cuenca amazónica. “Alternativas nacen a partir de la resistencia
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plantea el autor a través de diversas experiencias que manifiestan un equilibrado desarrollo humano que tiene en cuenta la sana relación con la naturaleza. La lógica del progreso sustentado en un extractivismo de los recursos naturales y la invisibilización de las etnias poblacionales del Amazonas choca contra la lógica del cuidado común de la tierra y la propuesta fraterna de un mundo posible." (Resumen)
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"In diesem Beitrag argumentiere ich, dass für eine Verflechtungsgeschichte von Mission seit dem 19. Jahrhundert eine medien- und kommunikationstheoretische Dimension unerlässlich ist: Mission war nicht nur eine historische Agentur, um Akteur*innen in Bewegungen zu setzen, als Reisende und Migriere
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nde, sondern mindestens im gleichen Maß eine Agentur, die Menschen medial miteinander in Verbindung brachte und so ggf. neue Asymmetrien produzierte. Missionen halfen, Räume und Gesellschaften kulturell zu verflechten, indern sie Kommunikationsarbeit verrichteten. Ideengeschichtliche Fragestellungen sind Teil dieser Überlegung: Welche Bilder, Erzählungen und Konzepte wurden über die Missionen transferiert, welche wurden zum Schweigen gebracht? Sie erschöpft sich aber nicht in diesen, sondern will im Sinne einer Praxeologie von Kommunikation auch nach den Akteuren und den Techniken des Transfers fragen und schließlich die resultierenden sozialen Handlungen erklären." (Seite 167)
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"Since the beginnings of African cinema, the realm of beauty on screen has been treated with suspicion by directors and critics alike. James S. Williams explores an exciting new generation of African directors, including Abderrahmane Sissako, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Fanta Regina Nacro, Alain Gomis, Ne
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wton I. Aduaka, Jean-Pierre Bekolo and Mati Diop, who have begun to reassess and embrace the concept of cinematic beauty by not reducing it to ideological critique or the old ideals of pan-Africanism. Locating the aesthetic within a range of critical fields - the rupturing of narrative spectacle and violence by montage, the archives of the everyday in the "afropolis", the plurivocal mysteries of sound and language, male intimacy and desire, the borderzones of migration and transcultural drift - this study reveals the possibility for new, non-conceptual kinds of beauty in African cinema: abstract, material, migrant, erotic, convulsive, queer. Through close readings of key works such as Life on Earth (1998), The Night of Truth (2004), Bamako (2006), Daratt (Dry Season) (2006), A Screaming Man (2010), Tey (Today) (2012), The Pirogue (2012), Mille soleils (2013) and Timbuktu (2014), Williams argues that contemporary African filmmakers are proposing propitious, ethical forms of relationality and intersubjectivity. These stimulate new modes of cultural resistance and transformation that serve to redefine the transnational and the cosmopolitan as well as the very notion of the political in postcolonial art cinema." (Publisher description)
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"Iranian filmmakers have long been recognised for creating a vibrant, aesthetically rich cinema whilst working under strict state censorship regulations. As Michelle Langford reveals, many have found indirect, allegorical ways of expressing forbidden topics and issues in their films. But for many, a
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llegory is much more than a foil against haphazardly applied censorship rules. Drawing on a long history of allegorical expression in Persian poetry and the arts, allegory has become an integral part of the poetics of Iranian cinema. Allegory in Iranian Cinema explores the allegorical aesthetics of Iranian cinema, explaining how it has emerged from deep cultural traditions and how it functions as a strategy for both supporting and resisting dominant ideology. As well as tracing the roots of allegory in Iranian cinema before and after the 1979 revolution, Langford also theorizes this cinematic mode. She draws on a range of cinematic, philosophical and cultural concepts - developed by thinkers such as Walter Benjamin, Gilles Deleuze, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Christian Metz and Vivian Sobchack - to provide a theoretical framework for detailed analyses of films by renowned directors of the pre-and post-revolutionary eras including Masoud Kimiai, Dariush Mehrjui, Ebrahim Golestan, Kamran Shirdel, Majid Majidi, Jafar Panahi, Marziyeh Meshkini, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Rakhshan Bani-Etemad and Asghar Farhadi." (Publisher description)
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"Este libro pretende explicarse a sí mismo, mostrar al lector cómo es y transcurre una parte de su propio proceso de gestación y alumbramiento, y explicarle con detalle cómo se diseña y ejecuta gráficamente hasta ver la luz en la imprenta y llegar a sus manos. Pero no ha sido concebido para cu
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alquier lector, sino pensando en todos aquellos interesados en ahondar en el diseño gráfico, el mundo del libro y la edición, desde quienes se dedican a dar forma al texto como diseñadores profesionales o amateurs, hasta los que escriben y quieren autoeditar sus trabajos. Se dirige, pues, a creadores de libros de lecturas de todo tipo, entendiendo por libro de lectura el libro de lectura pausada o de texto seguido." (Página 13)
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"In international conflict correspondence safety mechanisms are unequally employed to protect local news-staffs in contrast to international staffs. Arguably, this has had the greatest impact on image production from war zones, exposing local photojournalists to increased dangers. But it also raises
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the possibility that local photographers from conflict-torn countries may represent conflicts to international audiences differently than do international photographers. This possibility is explored in this study using the case of Afghanistan. Based on photojournalists’ perceptions and comparisons of international and locally produced images, we explore potential effects of the shifting reliance on local rather than international photojournalists on how distant wars come to be pictured to international audiences. This study advances an argument for giving increased protection to local photojournalists in conflict zones." (Abstract)
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"Enseñar y aprender la Radio en América Latina y el Caribe. Radiografías de este presente, es un libro que logra recoger el pensamiento, la reflexión y el proceso pedagógico de 63 docentes de 12 países que imparten la asignatura de Radio en distintas universidades de estas regiones. Cada coord
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inador por país, además de compilar la información de sus colegas profesores, ofrece un panorama histórico y contemporáneo de la realidad que enfrenta el medio radiofónico en su territorio desde las perspectivas culturales, jurídicas, sociales, tecnológicas y académicas. A través de las respuestas, los docentes externan preocupación, interés, pero sobre todo, una gran pasión por la enseñanza de la Radio. El medio sonoro renace ante la mirada analítica y comprometida de profesionales de la enseñanza de distintas generaciones, que miran con alegría, pero otras con desazón el desapego y apatía, respectivamente, de los alumnos por la asignatura radiofónica. En el texto se logra observar la evolución del medio a través de la enseñanza. Algunos profesores imparten sus cátedras con base en procesos de producción analógicos, en tanto, otros, están en el territorio de la experimentación e innovación sonora; en el podcast, la transmedialidad sonora, la estética acústica y las nuevas narrativas con el uso de formatos y géneros híbridos." (Tapa posterior del libro)
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"This article takes UNESCO’s Academic Research Agenda on Safety of Journalists as its point of departure. We present an overview of contributions to a selection of research conferences and academic publications focusing on safety of journalists and categorize them according to the research agenda.
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The overall aim of the contributions is to discuss research on ideas andpractices that create unsafe conditions, as well as possible strategies and solutions from practical, theoretical, national orinternational perspectives. Through this exercise, we find where the focus areas are and what is lacking in current research on safety of journalists, and the discussion serves as an introduction to the chapters of this special issue." (Abstract)
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