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El desarrollo de las bibliotecas en Bolivia

Luis Oporto Ordóñez

Ciencia y Cultura (La Paz), volume 20, issue 36 (2016), pp. 47-80

"Breve estudio sobre el desarrollo de las bibliotecas públicas en Bolivia. Primero se revisan la serie de leyes que el Estado ha ido promulgando para fomentar su desarrollo, y consecuentemente, la política cultural del país, incluyendo a los libros como parte del patrimonio cultural. Luego se ana ... more

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A New Companion to Digital Humanities

Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth (eds.)

Chichester, West Sussex; Malden, Mass.: Wiley Blackwell (2016), xviii, 567 pp.

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Estudios sobre consumos culturales en la Argentina contemporánea

Mabel Grillo, Vanina Papalini, Sebastián Benítez Larghi (eds.)

PISAC;CLACSO;Consejo de Decanos (2016), 247 pp.

"Este libro muestra los resultados de una investigación cuyo objetivo fue explorar la producción académica sobre Consumos Culturales en la Argentina en el período 2000-2012. Con el fin de poder delimitar el alcance del estudio, en un primer momento se definieron las dimensiones que esta indagaci ... more

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Research Methods in Intercultural Communication: A Practical Guide

Hua Zhu (ed.)

Chichester; Malden, Mass.: Wiley Blackwell (2016), xvi, 347 pp.

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Media and Communication Research Methods: An Introduction to Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches

Arthur Asa Berger

Thousand Oaks; London; New Delhi: Sage, 4th ed. (2016), xvii, 417 pp.

"Media and Communication Research Methods, Fourth Edition is a concise and practical text designed to give students a step-by-step introduction to conducting media and communication research. Offering real-world insights along with the author’s signature animated style, this text makes the discuss ... more

Radionovena: Florece la vida en territorios de paz

Milton Álvarez

In: Siembras del buen vivir: Entre utopías y dilemas posibles

Quito: Asociación Latinoamericana de Educación Radiofónica (ALER) (2016), pp. 163-170

"Surge el propósito, desde La Esquina Radio [Medellín, Colombia] en aprovechar el interés de las comunidades por la celebración cultural de la novena navideña, y a partir de ese acto, potenciar el encuentro ciudadano y la reflexión ciudadana, sin ningún tinte religioso, realizando una transmi ... more

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Historical Entanglements, Conflicting Agendas and Visions: Radio Botswana and the Making of a National Radio Station

Sethunya Tshepho Mosime, Brilliant Mhlanga

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 8, issue 1 (2016), pp. 55-73

"Botswana’s government as one of the celebrated postcolonial democracies in Southern Africa continues to have the state owning and controlling the media – in particular, broadcast media. The history of government-owned and controlled media in Botswana can be understood through colonial lenses � ... more

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The practice and study of journalism in zones of violence in Latin America: Mexico as a case study

Jeannine E Relly, Celeste González de Bustamante

Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies, volume 5, issue 1 (2016), pp. 51-69

"In Latin America in the twenty-first century, journalists face daily professional and societal constraints and pressures when attempting to fulfill their role to inform the public. Concerns include a lack of press freedom, robust and growing social movements critical of the news media, and personal ... more

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Media Audience Research: A Guide for Professionals
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Graham Mytton, Peter Diem, Piet Hein van Dam

New Delhi et al.: Sage, 3rd ed. (2016), xvi, 281 pp.

"This book outlines all the methods for conducting research—both active and passive as well as quantitative and qualitative—in all forms of media, including new media such as the Internet, mobile phones and social media. It explains the ways in which media audiences are measured, understood and ... more

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La vida en la pantalla: Del cine a la sociedad digital

Luis García Orso

México, DF: Buena Prensa (2016), 126 pp.

"Con mirada contemplativa, el espectador de cine e internet es capaz de encontrar 'al otro' en la pantalla. Hoy es necesario conmoverse, detenerse ante el prójimo y poner los ojos en la periferias visuales. No importa de qué lado de la pantalla estemos. Cinéfilo y jesuita, el autor de este libro ... more

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Revisiting the Measurement of Political Participation for the Digital Age

Benjamin Bowyer, Joseph Kahne

In: Civic Media: Technology, Design, Practice

Eric Gordon; Paul Mihailidis (eds.)

Cambridge, Mass; London: MIT Press (2016), pp. 539-562

What Do We Lose When We Lose a Library? Proceedings of the Conference Held at the KU Leuven 9-11 September 2015

Leuven: University Library Leuven (2016), 222 pp.

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Cómics: Manual de instrucciones

Roberto Bergado, Pepe Gálvez, Antoni Guiral, Jesús Redondo

Bilbao: Astiberri (2016), 318 pp.

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Executive Summary: Advertising Expenditure Forecasts March 2016

London: ZenithOptimedia (2016), 10 pp.

"ZenithOptimedia predicts global ad expenditure will grow 4.6% in 2016, reaching US$579 billion by the end of the year. This will be a 0.7 percentage point improvement on 2015: 2016 is a ‘quadrennial’ year, when ad expenditure is boosted by the Summer Olympics, the US presidential election and t ... more

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Atlas des Arabischen Frühlings: Eine Weltreligion im Umbruch
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Daniel Gerlach, Moritz Behrendt, Robert Chatterjee, Laura Ginzel, Florian Guckelsberger, Vinzenz Hokema, Julia Joerin, Christian Meier (eds.)

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2016), 333 pp.

"Der Atlas stellt anhand von Texten, Grafiken und Illustrationen die wichtigsten Ereignisse und Protagonisten der sozialen und politischen Umbrüche in der arabischen Welt vor. Er beleuchtet speziell auch die regionalen wie globalen Auswirkungen. Dabei kommen ganz wesentlich Journalisten und Wissens ... more

Democracia y medios en México: El papel del periodismo

Manuel Alejandro Guerrero

México, DF: Instituto Nacional Electoral (INE) (2016), 119 pp.

"Habría muchas razones para suponer una relación natural entre el periodismo y la democracia, desde la difusión de información y la socialización de debates relevantes para el interés público, hasta la vigilancia contra el abuso de poder. En México, sin embargo, el periodismo no ha sido plen ... more

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Arab Book Publishing

Christof Galli

In: Library and Information Science in the Middle East and North Africa

De Gruyter Saur (2016), pp. 1-27

"The persistence of print publishing means that librarians must continue to collect and pay attention to publishing developments in this type of material. The fractured environment and lack of unified distribution mechanisms, a situation that is only exacerbated by ongoing turmoil in the region will ... more

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Perils of Perception 2016: A 40-Country Study

Ipsos (2016), 30 slides

"These are the latest findings from the Ipsos Perils of Perception survey. The results highlight how wrong people across 40 countries are about some key issues and features of the population in their country. Perceptions are not reality… Nearly all countries overestimate their Muslim population, a ... more

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The Caribbean Oral Tradition: Literature, Performance, and Practice

Hanétha Vété-Congolo (ed.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xxvii, 201 pp.

"The book uses an innovative prism of interorality that powerfully reevaluates Caribbean orality and innovatively casts light on its overlooked and fundamental epistemological contribution into the formation of Caribbean philosophy. It defines the innovative prism of interorality as the systematic t ... more

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