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Los pódcast de infinito

Edmundo Armando Grijalva Brito (coord.)

Quito: Abya-Yala;Universidad Politécnica Salesiana (2025), 245 pp.

"Los pódcast se han convertido en una modalidad de reposición, distribución y difusión de contenidos derivada de la práctica productiva de la radio. El trabajo de laboratorio realizado en Infinito Radio adoptó como propuesta formativa la elaboración de series de narrativas sonoras que perfecc ... more

Kulturtätige aus Belarus, Russland und der Ukraine zwischen Diaspora und Exil: Herausforderungen und Potenziale in den 2020er Jahren

Klara Koszarek

Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2025), 66 pp.

"Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die Entwicklungen der Diasporagemeinschaften aus Osteuropa, die in Deutschland und seinen östlichen EU-Nachbarländern seit 2020 an Größe und Bedeutung gewinnen – bedingt durch politische Krisen und Repressionen im autokratisch regierten Belarus und Russland u ... more

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Sorriso amaro: El humorismo en las letras hispanoamericanas entre los siglos XX y XXI

Andrea Pezzè, Federico Cantoni (eds.)

Buenos Aires: Teseo (2025), 271 pp.

"Con quince contribuciones de investigadores procedentes de universidades italianas e internacionales, este volumen construye una perspectiva de los estudios sobre el humor, las posibles variaciones tropológicas y las metodologías que se necesitan a la hora de acotar sus diferentes expresiones. Es ... more

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Political Entertainment in a Post-Authoritarian Democracy: Humor and the Mexican Media

Martin Echeverria, Frida V. Rodelo

London; New York: Routledge (2024), 202 pp.

"Centered around Mexico as a case study, the book explores the production of political entertainment in post-authoritarian legacy media and how political and economic conditions constrain the range and edge of discourse; how political entertainment in social media is shaped by the structure of platf ... more

Digital China: Creativity and Community in the Sinocybersphere

Jessica Imbach (ed.)

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2024), 312 pp.

"Over the past decade, digital technologies have profoundly reshaped the Chinese cultural landscape. With a focus on the creative agency of new media and online communities, this volume examines this development through the notion of the Sinocybersphere - the networked spaces across the globe that n ... more

How Pharaohs Became Media Stars: Ancient Egypt and Popular Culture

Abraham Ignacio Fernández Pichel (ed.)

Oxford: Archaeopress Publishing (2024), vi, 250 pp.

"The appearance of new media and its enormous diffusion in the last decades of the 20th century and up to the present has greatly increased and diversified the reception of Egyptian themes and motifs and Egyptian influence in various cultural spheres. So-called popular or pop culture (cinema, genre ... more

Fair Culture Charter

Bonn: German Commission for UNESCO (2024), 34 pp.

K-Pop Fandom and Political Activism in Thailand’s 2020 Student Uprising

Penchan Phoborisut, Jiwoo Park

International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 5296-5320

"Korean popular culture has taken the world by storm with the recent rise of Korean entertainment globally, such as Squid Game on Netflix and the Oscar Award-winning Parasite. Fans of Korean popular culture have formed coalitions in Asia, North and SouthAmerica, and other parts of the world. These c ... more

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The True Size of Africa

Ralf Beil, Markus Messling, Christiane Solte-Gresser (eds.)

München; Völklingen: Hirmer;Völklinger Hütte World Heritage Site (2024), 320 pp.

"Our richly illustrated volume takes a multifaceted approach to the giant continent of Africa, transcending prejudices and stereotypes through cultural history and contemporary art, constant shifts in perspective, and artistic diversity: human history encounters the colonial past and the omnipresenc ... more

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Videogames in the Indian Subcontinent: Development, Culture(s) and Representations

Souvik Mukherjee

London: Bloomsbury (2023), ix, 247 pp.

"The book Videogames in the Indian Subcontinent. Development, Culture(s) and Representations is the first ever comprehensive presentation and discussion of material spanning over all nations of South Asia, including Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Discussed b ... more

Digital Cities and Villages: African Writers and a Sense of Place in Short Online Fiction

Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 15, issue 2 (2023), pp. 217-229

"This article analyses how young African writers challenge stereotypes about the continent through their imagination of places in online short stories. These stories appear on the literary websites Brittle Paper, Jalada, Saraba, Flash Fiction Ghana, Adda and African Writer Magazine with a focus on c ... more

Fictional Practices of Spirituality I: Interactive Media

Leonardo Marcato, Felix Schniz (eds.)

Bielefeld: transcript (2023), 476 pp.

"Fictional Practices of Spirituality" provides critical insight into the implementation of belief, mysticism, religion, and spirituality into worlds of fiction, be it interactive or non-interactive. This first volume focuses on interactive, virtual worlds - may that be the digital realms of video ga ... more

Übereinkommen über den Schutz und die Förderung der Vielfalt kultureller Ausdrucksformen

Bonn: Deutsche UNESCO-Kommission (2023), 91 pp.

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Media activism, artivism and the fight against marginalisation in the Global South: South-to-South communication

Andrea Medrado, Isabella Rega

New York: Routledge (2023), 186 pp.

"This book analyses a South-to-South connection between media activists and artivists – artists who are activists – in the Global South. The authors, Andrea Medrado and Isabella Rega, emphasise the urgent need to engage in South-to-South dialogues in order to create more sustainable connections ... more

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Global South Discourse in East Asian Media Studies

Dal Yong Jin

London; New York: Routledge (2023), 187 pp.

"This book examines the nexus of East Asian media, culture, and digital technologies in the early 21st century from a Global South perspective. Providing an empirically rich analysis of the emergence of Asian culture, histories, texts, and state policies as they relate to both Asian media and global ... more

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Transnational Convergence of East Asian Pop Culture

Seok-Kyeong Hong, Dal Yong Jin (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2023), 238 pp.

"This book observes and analyses transnational interactions of East Asian pop culture and current cultural practices, comparing them to the production and consumption of Western popular culture and providing a theoretical discussion regarding the specific paradigm of East Asian pop culture. Drawing ... more

Re | Shaping Policies for Creativity: Addressing Culture as a Global Public Good

Paris: UNESCO (2022), 328 pp.

Counter the Digital Monoculture: Building an Inclusive Environment

Hivos (2022), 45 pp.

"Hivos sees vital opportunities to support creatives and build alternative digital spaces and activist communities that will stand up to the digital monoculture. They are essential if we want to imagine and work towards a more humane and sustainable digital future. In 'Counter the Digital Monocultur ... more

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