"Netnography is an adaptation of ethnography for the online world, pioneered by Robert Kozinets, and is concerned with the study of online cultures and communities as distinct social phenomena, rather than isolated content. In this landmark third edition, Netnography: The Essential Guide provides th
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e theoretical and methodological groundwork as well as the practical applications, helping students both understand and do netnographic research projects of their own. Packed with enhanced learning features throughout, linking concepts to structured activities in a step by step way, the book is also now accompanied by a striking new visual design and further case studies, offering the essential student resource to conducting online ethnographic research. Real world examples provided demonstrate netnography in practice across the social sciences, in media and cultural studies, anthropology, education, nursing, travel and tourism, and others." (Publisher description)
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"Este libro es una provocación para quienes lean se atrevan también a construir nuevos textos sobre autoras, pensadoras, teóricas, activistas, contadoras de historias que nos hacen faltan para seguir construyendo el mapa del pensamiento de las mujeres de la comunicación." (Cubierta del libro)
"This dictionary covers all aspects of its discipline as it is currently taught at undergraduate level. Offering exhaustive and authoritative coverage, this A-Z is written by experts in the field and covers terms, concepts, debates, and movements in film theory and criticism; national, international
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, and transnational cinemas; film history, movements, and genres; film industry organizations and practices; and key technical terms and concepts. Since its first publication in 2012, the dictionary has been updated to incorporate over 40 new entries, including computer games and film, disability, ecocinema, identity, portmanteau film, Practice as Research, and film in Vietnam. Moreover, numerous revisions have been made to existing entries to account for developments in the discipline, and changes to film institutions more generally." (Publisher description)
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"Los estudios sobre comunicación en la Argentina se configuraron en el cruce entre las contingencias que atravesaron al país y las que transitaron las y los intelectuales que reflexionaron sobre la irrupción de los medios masivos. Este libro trata sobre Margarita Graziano, Aníbal Ford y Héctor
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Schmucler. Los recorridos y los temas de interés de estas tres figuras - abordados por Guillermo Mastrini, María Graciela Rodríguez y Mariano Zarowsky, respectivamente - no fueron los mismos pero tuvieron coincidencias. Fueron parte de una generación que se desarrolló profesionalmente en tiempos en los que la escisión entre trabajo académico y militancia política era una rareza. El exilio significó, más allá de sus tristezas, un espacio de diálogo con otras realidades; cuando terminó, Graziano, Ford y Schmucler volvieron a trabajar en la Argentina con la intención de que su labor académica incidiera en la sociedad y con la premisa común de producir y difundir categorías de interpretación del mundo desde América Latina." (Editorial)
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"This special issue includes seven studies that provide novel insights into the relationship between media and migration, both from a theoretical and empirical point of view. The articles cover both strands of literature discussed above and thus deal with the coverage of migration and migrants, as w
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ell as the effects of such coverage." (Page 696)
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"La comunicación para el desarrollo representa un campo de conocimiento de considerable interés en las dinámicas y procesos del desarrollo, por lo que amerita reconocerla en el contexto peruano. En este sentido, el objetivo de esta investigación, consiste en estructurar una cartografía discipli
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nar en torno a la situación y evolución de su producción científica, los campos, subcampos temáticos que lo componen, así como los espacios y sujetos de intervención. La metodología es descriptiva, se revisaron sistemáticamente 59 informes de tesis recuperados del Repositorio Nacional de Trabajos de Investigación, de las universidades peruanas. Los resultados evidencian una alta concentración de investigación en el último quinquenio (2015-2019), concentrada en algunas universidades, más en públicas que privadas; preferentemente en ciertas regiones territoriales, más en provincias que en la capital. Las investigaciones universitarias analizadas se centran en enfoques de comunicación para el desarrollo que promueven el cambio social y personal; las estrategias de comunicación, relacionadas con las dinámicas de promoción de proyectos locales; los planes de comunicación, que intervienen en el desarrollo asociativo; y los medios comunitarios concernientes a la radiodifusión, y tratamientos informativos sobre los conflictos sociales. Se concluye que la comunicación para el desarrollo en las tesis está orientada desde una disciplina que taxativamente marca al territorio y a lo social." (Resumen)
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"Dieser Aufsatz hinterfragt, warum die frühe Münsteraner Interkulturalitätsforschung um Henk Prakke und seine Schüler, insbesondere Franz-Josef Eilers, keine nachhaltige Institutionalisierungschance hatte. Aus einer wissenschaftssoziologischen und fachhistorischen Perspektive werden sowohl Pfada
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bhängigkeiten innerhalb der deutschen Publizistikwissenschaft als auch die isolierte Lage des neuen Forschungsthemas in der jungen Bundesrepublik Deutschland, deren Wissenschaftslandschaft noch wenig Anschlussmöglichkeiten bot, diskutiert. Ausgehend von Münster entwickelte sich zwar ein interessiertes Forschermilieu über verschiedene akademische Statusgruppen hinweg, das allerdings zu begrenzt war, um sich durchzusetzen und interkulturelle Kommunikationsforschung 20 Jahre nach dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs als Thema etablieren zu können." (Abstract)
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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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"Academic studies of Myanmar media in English are few and far between, although this is starting to change as the country continues to open and a new generation of Myanmar scholars emerges. Many of the studies that do exist fall into common conceptual traps, such as an overemphasis on journalism or
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the conflation of "media" and "journalism"; the tendency to analyse texts combined with a relative lack of attention to audiences' uses of, trust in, and interpretations of media; a media-centric focus that does not take into account the context in which events occur or pay attention to the political economy of the media or those key structural issues such as the interconnections between ownership, economics and political interests that also influence content. Much of the recent media research is focused on digital media, especially Facebook and its role in the violence that began in 2012 in Rakhine State. Major gaps in the English language scholarship on Myanmar media, which mirror critiques of media studies generally, are the relative inattention to the study of Myanmar language media, the study of audiences, and research on the political economy of media. Those studies in English that analyse content tend to focus on English-language media in Myanmar." (Page 388)
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" Es cierto que el crítico de cine es por encima de todo un espectador, pero en palabras de François Truffaut, es «un espectador que tiene la necesidad de analizar el propio placer y describirlo». Un crítico de cine es mucho más que alguien que aconseja o desaconseja una película. Debe ser aq
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uel que ofrezca claves de comprensión del film que permita al espectador aproximarse con mayor inteligencia y con mayor capacidad de disfrute. Comprender y describir por qué una película nos agrada o no, requiere unos conocimientos que permitan fundamentar estas valoraciones. Criterios estéticos y formales propios del cine, pero también criterios culturales más amplios. De esta manera está concebido este Manual de crítica de cine, para afirmar con el mismo Truffaut, que «una película para estar lograda debe expresar simultáneamente una concepción del mundo y una concepción del cine»." (Descripción de la casa editorial)
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"This article outlines the current landscape of research studies on communication and culture in Argentina. Rather than offering an exhaustive and conclusive map of specialists and their theoretical contributions, it is intended to draw relationships between a series of recent sociocultural processe
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s, and the state of communication research and its main lines of approach in the country. Six approaches are used: semiotics, cultural and media history, communication economy and policy, popular cultures, communication, gender and sexualities, and alternative, popular and community communication (APCC). Drawing on Raymond Williams, the article links a movement comprising intellectual traditions, institutions and cultural formations to the activity of scholars who create specialized knowledge on communication and culture." (Abstract)
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"Increasing number of reports, initiatives and efforts are focused on addressing women’s ability to enjoy universal, acceptable, affordable, unconditional, open, meaningful and/or equal access to information, the internet and ICTs. These include, but are not limited to, the recent work of civil so
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ciety organisations, research institutions, various private sector organisations and intergovernmental organisations. There is also a widely acknowledged need for more gender-disaggregated data to accurately measure “gender digital divides”. But there also needs to be more locally relevant data (as opposed to aggregated data at a global level) to better understand underlying local factors and circumstances that hinder women of specifc regions in the global South from accessing and using ICTs, the internet and/or information. But why access is important perhaps also needs to be interrogated from a feminist perspective, which entails not taking for granted that access to ICTs is necessarily a positive and empowering development. What is also relevant is to view the dynamics of race, caste, region (urban-rural), ableism, age and other factors, in relation to gender and access." (Conclusion, page 98)
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"This toolkit is aimed at a wide range of audiences interested in conducting both qualitative and quantitative research on women’s internet access and use. The primary target audience are researchers and research agencies who have skills and practice in conducting quantitative and/or qualitative r
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esearch. They can use this toolkit as a guideline for incorporating gender into their research studies, helping deliver comparable data on this topic that can build a global picture of the internet access and use gender gap." (Page 6)
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"Drawing on previous work on the role of the media in the democratization processes of the Lusophone African countries (Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe), this chapter addresses the challenges and paradoxes of conducting comparative research focused on cont
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exts where there are constraints to democratic development (although at different levels and gradation), and on which reliable information on key indicators is often missing. These are societies with different cultural expectations of democracy and political leadership, which do not fit neatly into most Western world conceptualizations. The research looked into the news media functions in democratization contexts and the role that different types of media, including new media technologies, have in creating and supporting the necessary conditions of democracy and in shaping the type of democracy that is actually being built. Finally, by examining the relation between media and politics and the dynamics of media, political, and social change, the research outlines the most important media uses and effects in these democratization contexts." (Introduction)
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