"The category of youth has been a strategically important focus in the development of mobile communication and media research. This paper reviews the themes and findings of the first phase of youth and mobile phone research, followed by a phase of new work just underway on youth and mobile media and
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mobile internet. It argues for the importance of an enlarged, interdisciplinary, and international perspective if we are to advance the field – and our understanding of youth and mobiles – as the technology is incorporated into the larger field of internet, social, and digital media." (Abstract)
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"This article offers some self-reflexive comments on Communication and media studies in South Africa. The discipline in South Africa, presents a very exciting and intriguing posture for the simple fact that it allows for diversity– observable in the variety of labels, emphases and curricula. Equal
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ly enviable is the currency of some aspects of the programmes offered in the country and the strong theoretical foundation of research publications. Yet some deficiencies observed in a number of the curricula provoke a call for standardization of programmes offered by the various universities. The lack of regulation could be held responsible for some lapses noticeable in the structure of the various programmes." (Abstract)
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"Los 89 textos analizados se pueden agrupar en tres tendencias principales. 'Las miradas al oficio: riesgos, libertades y garantías para informar en medio del conflicto' ofrece un recorrido por los trabajos que le toman el pulso al estado de la libertad de prensa en Colombia y que dan cuenta de las
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iniciativas dirigidas a mejorar la calidad de la información en contextos de confrontación armada. Por su parte, 'las agendas del conflicto: fuentes, lenguajes y públicos de la información' recoge los informes que indagan por las agendas informativas del conflicto, las representaciones mediáticas de los actores allí involucrados y por el impacto que tiene la información periodística en los públicos de los medios. Finalmente, 'los escenarios emergentes: (post)conflicto, víctimas y memoria' reúne los estudios que se preguntan por la responsabilidad de los periodistas y los medios de comunicación en la construcción de futuros escenarios de postconflicto en Colombia, y que abordan los asuntos de agenda periodística a partir de variantes asociadas a la memoria y el relato." (Página 5)
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"Arab Cultural Studies: Mapping the Fieldis the first attempt to explore ways of conceptualizing and theorizing the nascent field of Arab Cultural Studies. It reflects and engages in an interdisciplinary discussion on the different facets of Arab cultural studies, including gender, economy, history,
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epistemology, language, method, politics, literary and cultural criticism, institutionalization, popular culture, creativity and much more. The book presents a meta-narrative about how scholars have thus far thought and re-thought the field. It brings together prominent and emerging experts, writing from both Arab and Western academia, to engage with key complex, epistemic and methodological questions and to articulate in the meantime the new kinds of language and hermeneutics necessary for the appropriation of an historically conscious and coherent field of scientific enquiry into contemporary Arab media, culture and society." (Publisher description)
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"Bringing together the perspectives of more than 40 internationally acclaimed authors, The Handbook of Global Media Research explores competing methodologies in the dynamic field of transnational media and communications, providing valuable insight into research practice in a globalized media landsc
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ape; provides a framework for the critical debate of comparative media research; posits transnational media research as reflective of advanced globalization processes, and explores the role and responsibility this bestows it with; articulates the key themes and competing methodological approaches in a dynamic and developing field; showcases the perspectives and ideas of 30 leading internationally acclaimed scholars; offers a platform for the discussion of crucial issues from a variety of theoretical, methodical and practical viewpoints." (Publisher description)
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"From this short survey of some key thinkers, can we conclude that there is a causal link between media and good governance? Does the existence of a free media increase accountability and reduce corruption? Do media influence society in positive ways and liberate the individual? As one would expect,
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the short answer is “it depends.” There is no consensus or easy, single answer to these questions. Neither is there a set of recommendations in a report such as this one, apart from common-sense recommendations to those donors and policy-makers who may be reading, to thoroughly understand media and politics in a given country before intervening, as well as the caution to do no harm. It is hoped that this report has introduced and shone a light on academic research related to subject of media and democracy. There are obvious differences between the media environments that are studied by the scholars profiled above: established democracies (in the case of Norris), developing countries (Nyamnjoh, Berger, Sen, Reinikka and Svensson, Besley and Burgess), and fragile/post-conflict states (Allen, Putzel, and Stremlau), which show the importance of, above all, context." (Conclusion, page 34)
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"A dual journal project was launched in 2010 to build bridges between French and English media research spheres through the translation and reciprocal publication of a series of essays from each linguistic sphere. In 2012, a special issue of Afrique contemporaine (‘Les Afriques médiatiques’) wa
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s published, with six essays in French by authors working on media from the English-language zone. The present issue of Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies, volume 33 issue 3, makes articles originating from French-speaking sub-Saharan Africa available to English-speaking readers in translated form. This introduction sketches the background to the project." (Abstract)
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"El valor de este trabajo radica en la visión global que nos ofrecen los distintos equipos de trabajo de los países sobre los diferentes y complejos escenarios en los que se dan la relación audiencia-medios, lo que sucede antes y después de esa relación, el aporte de los contenidos que ofrecen
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los medios, la visión que las audiencias tienen de sus propios medios y, en fin, una serie de conceptos que dejan planteadas dudas que incentivan a la discusión en torno a este tema que tiene varias implicaciones." (Descripción de la casa editorial)
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"Este libro ambiciona explicar la naturaleza compleja de la comunicación iberoamericana, reconociendo que sus contornos geopolíticos y sus origenes etnoreligiosos constituyen variables fundamentales para entender el tejido multicultural de su identidad mestiza. Tomamos como referencia el método c
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omparativo, estratégia investigativa apropriadamente elegida por David Hees & Roberto DaMata para diseñar el concepto antropológico de cultura. 'Desde los años 80, el concepto de cultura se encuentra en dramática transición. [...] Para interpretar la cultura de forma abrangente, los antropólogos adoptan una postura comparativa'." (Introducción, página 9)
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