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Construyendo las epistemologías del sur: Para un pensamiento alternativo de alternativas

Boaventura De Sousa Santos
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The Precarious in the Cinemas of the Americas

Constanza Burucúa, Carolina Sitnisky (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xxii, 308 pp.
"Historically, cinema in the Americas has been signed by a state of precariousness. Notwithstanding the growing accessibility to video and digital technologies, access to the material means of film production is still limited, affecting the spheres of production, distribution, and reception. Equally ... more
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When the Subaltern Speaks: Re-Examining Indigenous-Language Media as Alternative Public Sphere During Colonial South Africa

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"This article attempts to examine the efficacy of indigenous-language newspapers published in South Africa during the colonial era. In doing so, the article is particularly interested to see how the success achieved by those publications could be replicated to boost post-apartheid indigenous-languag ... more
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The Palgrave Handbook of Media and Communication Research in Africa
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Bruce Mutsvairo (ed.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xxix, 497 pp.
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Experiences of ICT Use in Shared, Public Access Settings in Philippine Slums

Cheryll Ruth Soriano, Ruepert Jiel Cao, Marianne Sison
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African Cinema on Demand? The Politics of Online Distribution and the Case of the African Film Library

Alexander Fisher
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Historias, terrenos y aulas: La narrativa sonora en español desde dentro

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Methods for Studying Video Games and Religion

Vít Sisler, Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, Xenia Zeiler (eds.)
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African Youth Languages: New Media, Performing Arts and Sociolinguistic Development

Ellen Hurst-Harosh, Fridah Kanana Erastus (eds.)
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Elisabeth Desta (ed.)
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2018), 207 pp.
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Manual de edición: Guía para estos tiempos revueltos
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Arequipa (PE): La Travesía; Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe (CERLALC) (2018), 203 pp.
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Familienbilder: Reflexionen und Konstruktionen zum Thema Familie im aktuellen Spielfilm

Peter Hasenberg, Markus Leniger, Reinhold Zwick (eds.)
Marburg: Schüren (2018), 257 pp.
"Der vorliegende Band nähert sich dem Wandel der Familien im Spiegel von aktuellen Film- und Fernsehproduktionen. Zum einen geht es darum, wie Filme von «realistischen» Familien erzählen – im Alltag, aber auch in Extremsituationen, Krisen und Konflikten, zum anderen werden in den Figuren auch ... more
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Ibero-American Observatory of Television Fiction Obitel 2018: Ibero-American TV Fiction on Video on Demand Platforms
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Maria Immacolata Vassallo de Lopes, Guillermo Orozco Gómez (eds.)
Porto Alegre: Sulina; Globo Comunicação e Participações (2018), 410 pp.
"This Yearbook is divided into three parts. The first is an introduction chapter, containing a comparative synthesis of fiction in the Obitel countries. This comparison is made from a quantitative and qualitative point of view, which makes possible to observe the development of fiction in each count ... more
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Religion, Media, and Marginality in Modern Africa

Felicitas Becker, Joel Cabrita, Marie Rodet (eds.)
Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press (2018), ix, 320 pp.
"Religion, Media, and Marginality in Modern Africa is one of the first volumes to put new media and old media into significant conversation with one another, and also offers a rare comparison between Christianity and Islam in Africa. The contributors find many previously unacknowledged correspondenc ... more
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Making Data Visual: A Practical Guide to Using Visualization for Insight

Danyel Fisher, Miriah Meyer
Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media (2018), xiii, 149 pp.
"If you're a data scientist trying to navigate the murky space between data and insight, this practical book shows you how to make sense of your data through high-level questions, well-defined data analysis tasks, and visualizations to clarify understanding and gain insights along the way. When inco ... more
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Médias pionniers au Congo: "Se Kukianga" (1891) et "Minsamu Miayenge" (1892)

Jean-Chrétien Ekambo Duasenge
Paris: L'Harmattan (2018), 200 pp.
"La méticulosité et la pugnacité de l'auteur l'ont poussé à croiser les références documentaires. Mais ce n'est pas seulement un récit de l'aventure médiatique de deux magazines et de deux missions protestantes européennes dans le Congo de la fi n du XIXe siècle. On ne peut qu'admirer la ... more
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Here and There: (re)situating Latin America in International Communication Theory

Florencia Enghel, Martín Becerra
Communication Theory, volume 28 (2018), pp. 111-130
"Since their origins in the late 1950s, Latin American communication studies have become increasingly institutionalized and thematically diverse. This evolution, however, has circulated to a limited extent beyond borders, as noted by North American scholars in the 1990s. Attentive to this problem, t ... more
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A History of Journalism and Communication in China

Yunze Zhao, Ping Sun
London; New York: Routledge (2018), 176 pp.
"Arranged in chronological order mainly, this book examines the initial development of Chinese journalism in ancient times, which from then manifested strong political attributes. After the Opium War in 1840, missionaries and businessmen from the West started to set up newspapers and periodicals in ... more
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Prisioneros del cine: 50 películas sobre la privación de libertad

Pablo Mérida
Barcelona: Editorial UOC (2018), 212 pp.
"El cine de cárceles ha desarrollado un lenguaje propio, casi como si de un género se tratase. Y lo ha hecho para presentarse ante la audiencia con muy diferentes intenciones: desde denunciar un sistema penal con serias imperfecciones a relatar historias de superación, pasando por descubrir injus ... more
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Development and Communication in Trade Relations: New Synergies in Theory and Practice

Maria Touri
Development in Practice, volume 28, issue 3 (2018), pp. 388-399
"This article examines trade relations in alternative food networks as a space where communication practices can prove empowering for rural communities. Drawing on a theory of diverse economies, the article offers an alternative view of the global market, highlighting the social relations that under ... more