"Neste volume trabalhamos com Reflexividade, hermenêutica e Fake News adentrando em questões específicas do contexto social, político e cultural vivenciadas na contemporaneidade. Com um olhar atento para as teorias da comunicação, este volume adentra as peculiaridades das distintas regiões br
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asileiras e de países da América Latina problematizando a repercussão dos fatores nos meios de comunicação. Calcadas em aprofundamentos teóricos que instigam a reflexividade os capítulos apresentados caminham por discursos e lugares complexos mas carentes de investigação. Diante de trabalhos densos e de temáticas atuais, o vol. 4 sinaliza problemáticas evidenciadas em um cenário complexo de relações políticas, culturais e sociais extremamente vulnerável. Permite evidenciar situações que até pouco tempo mantiveram-se algemadas e incrustadas em uma sociedade conservadora e repressiva que vem dando sinais de inquietação. Instigamos aos leitores exercitarem uma leitura crítica e questionadora das teorias e dos fatos apresentados. Só assim conseguiremos adentrar em temáticas tão complexas empossados de compromisso." (Resumo)
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"Articulando pesquisas de campo e investigações mais teóricas, os oito capítulos presentes no vol. 5 dedicam-se a aprofundar conceitos que problematizam situações evidenciadas na contemporaneidade e que passam a fazer parte da agenda permanente das Teorias da Comunicação e do Jornalismo. Ent
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endemos que os capítulos do livro são olhares múltiplos para as teorias do jornalismo adentrando em propostas diferenciadas, mas essenciais para o despertar do conhecimento na área comunicacional." (Resumo)
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"Social Theory after the Internet focuses on everyday uses and effects of the internet, including information seeking and big data, and explains how the internet has gone beyond traditional media in, for example, enabling Donald Trump and Narendra Modi to come to power. Schroeder puts forward a soph
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isticated theory of the role internet plays, and how both technological and social forces shape its significance. He provides a sweeping and penetrating study, theoretically ambitious and at the same time always empirically grounded." (Back cover)
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"The study is divided into five chapters. Chapter one begins with the biography of the principal author of our study, Marshall McLuhan. It discusses those who influenced him and presents his methodology of writing. Chapter two consist of two parts. The first part explains his key concepts while the
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second part deals with the three communication ages. Chapter three focuses on McLuhan’s nineteen predictions about the media in the digital age. Chapter four presents how three communication scholars interpret McLuhan today and make a thematic synthesis of their opinions. Chapter five dwells on the critical appraisal of McLuhan and presents the clarifications by two scholars – Logan and Grosswiler." (Introduction, page 12)
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"In sintesi, ogni azione comunicativa è preceduta da una relazione sociale, che la rende esplicita, che può influire su di essa e, a sua volta, può modificare quella relazione e farne emergere un’altra, si sia coscienti o meno. Da ciò si comprende che in una società come quella contemporanea,
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chiamata a rispondere alla sfida di imparare a vivere insieme in contesti multiculturali, diventa prioritario, per le scienze della comunicazione, mettere in evidenza il rapporto che esiste tra comunicazione e relazione sociale ed agire di conseguenza. Nel passaggio successivo si è approfondito il pensiero donatiano sulla comunicazione, sottolineando alcuni tra i punti in cui l’autore presenta uno sguardo originale: intendere la comunicazione come un’azione reciproca (rel/azione), tra coscienze (soggetti agenti), che accade all’interno di una relazione pre-esistente, dando vita ad una nuova relazione emergente (terzo), potendo produrre beni relazionale e processi di morfogenesi (cambiamento) sociale." (Conclusioni, pagina 225-226)
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"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
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his article reviews how Latin America has featured in Communication Theory’s archive since 1992 and introduces a Special Issue that incorporates recent contributions from the region into the journal’s corpus. The analysis shows the extremely limited presence of Latin America in Communication Theory both in terms of substantial contributions to theory-building arising from the region, and of Latin American authorship. We argue that this state of affairs evidences the need for explicit editorial policies aimed at addressing the gap, and for increased cross-border interaction among scholars. The Special Issue hereby introduced contributes to resituating Latin America in international communication theory by foregrounding situated approaches generated in the region." (Abstract)
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"Theories on mediatization have been developed in Latin America in parallel to those flourishing in the Global North. This article analyzes the former while keeping an eye on the more available theoretical production in English-speaking publications. The main part of the article covers Eliseo Verón
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’s initial reflections on the semantization of violence to his later development of an evolutionary approach to mediatization. The article then introduces the contributions made by Latin American researchers who have followed in Verón’s wake during the last decade. The article concludes with an overview of the parallelisms between the two theoretical strands, and considers their complementarities as well as the possible exchanges between them." (Abstract)
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"[The author] underscores how important an analytical category the rural is: rather than a dismissed backwater of a normative urban, the rural emerges here as a vibrant space, a pregnant category, a pressing concern. The elements of a critical theory of the rural presented here underscore how comple
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x such a space is, shaped by market forces, policy initiatives, technological development, demographic shifts, and community identities. Media regulation and media content are central to a rich understanding of the rural. Nonetheless, as Chris importantly points out, a critical theory of rural communication must avoid romanticizing the rural—as many have done with the local—and eschew media centrism." (Introduction by Marwan M. Kraidy, page 2)
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"This chapter presents an overview of non-Western communication theories for cross-cultural and intercultural research. The chapter specifically focuses on selected Afrocentric and Asiacentric theories of communication because they represent communication theories whose ideas and insights spring fro
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m indigenous cumulative wisdom of non-Western cultural traditions. The chapter first explicates the significance and scope of non-Western communication theories and then reviews a total of seventeen theories within Afrocentric and Asiacentric communication scholarship. The indigenous theories under review are classified into three philosophical categories: 1. six theories predicated on Asian ontological worldviews; 2. four theories derived from African and Asian epistemological foundations; and 3. seven theories guided by African and Asian axiological parameters. The present chapter concludes by discussing future challenges of non-Western communication theorizing." (Abstract)
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"La Comunicación pensada desde América Latina (1960-2009) aborda las contribuciones a la constitución moderna del campo conceptual de la comunicación durante el periodo 1960-2009, así como los límites del pensamiento teórico comunicacional latinoamericano expresado en libros, artículos y tex
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tos de naturaleza académica. Para ello, el profesor Erick Torrico, ha desarrollado una metodología propia denominada Análisis Crítico del Pensamiento Teórico. Así, el autor ha llevado a cabo en este libro: desarrollo de una teorización específica sobre las relaciones entre campo conceptual, comunidad académica y pensamiento teórico; contextualización del proceso de constitución y desenvolvimiento de la comunidad académica latinoamericana; identificación y sistematización de la producción conceptual sobre Comunicación en el periodo estudiado; clasificación de la producción conceptual en función de las matrices y los abordajes teóricos utilizados por los autores analizados; establece los conceptos, proposiciones teóricas y los modelos teóricos generados en la región y los articula en sus diferentes enfoques conceptuales; valoración crítica de los enfoques empleados en América Latina respecto a la Comunicación, así como de los elementos de reproducción, sedimentación, renovación o innovación presentes en ellos." (Resumen)
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"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
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security on and offline. In this article, the authors examine the conceptual frameworks that can be used to understand journalism practice, and the lack of freedom of expression in Latin America. The authors use Mexico, one of the most dangerous places for journalists to work in the region, as a case study. Specifically, the authors examine and discuss the strengths and limitations of six conceptual frameworks: Hierarchy of Influences; Propaganda and Information Scarcity; Collective Action; Scale-shifting; Professional Reflexivity; and Collective Professional Autonomy." (Abstract)
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"Kathrin Nieder-Steinheuer hat ein Modell entwickelt, mit dem sich die kommunikative Verfasstheit der Kategorie des Christlichen im Unterhaltungsformat analysieren lässt. Grundlegend dafür ist der in den untersuchten Formaten festgestellte Zusammenhang zwischen kirchlichen Räumen und geographisch
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en Konzepten einerseits und religiöser Normativität und statistisch-normalistischen Konzepten andererseits. Die bisherige theologisch dominierte Religiotainment-Forschung wird somit durch ein nicht normatives Analyseinstrument für die kulturelle Gegenwart des Christlichen im Unterhaltungsformat ergänzt." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"This concise volume presents key concepts and entries from the twelve-volume ICA International Encyclopedia of Communication (2008), condensing leading scholarship into a practical and valuable single volume. Jointly published with the International Communication Association (ICA), the leading acad
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emic association of the discipline in the world. Contributions come from hundreds of authors who represent excellence in their respective fields." (Publisher description)
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"The Dictionary of Media and Communication Studies has provided students and the general public alike with a gateway into the study of intercultural communication, public relations and marketing communications since 1984. In this 9th edition, James Watson and Anne Hill provide a detailed compendium
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of the different facets of personal, group, mass-media and internet communication that continues to be a vital source of information for all those interested in how communication affects our lives. They cover new applications and developments, such as the incorporation of Neuroscience techniques in advertising and marketing. Other updates include Cyber-bullying, Twitter scandals, conduct in media organizations, on-line lobbying, global protesting/petitioning, and gender issues relating to social media in general. While new entries explore the profound shifts that have taken place in the world of communication in recent years, the purpose of this new edition is not necessarily to keep abreast of every new media event but to reflect the trends that influence and prompt such events, such as the Leveson Inquiry and Report and phone hacking via mobile phones." (Publisher description)
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"Este trabalho delineia trilhas da pesquisa em Mídia e Religião, focalizando a aproximação desses estudos com a área de Comunicação. A pesquisa focaliza os livros sobre o tema publicados entre 1980 e 2013. São delineados três momentos, não isentos de mesclas e sobreposições: (a) investig
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ações a partir das Ciências Sociais, em particular da Sociologia da Religião; (b) primeiras articulações nos estudos sobre comunicação eclesial; e (c) a consolidação do tema na área de Comunicação. Observa-se como mídia e religião se articulam na produção de conhecimento no campo das pesquisas em Comunicação." (Resumo)
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"As 75 percent of the world’s mobile subscriptions are in developing countries, studies of use patterns are essential to broader understanding. However, scholars should engage with existing theory and literature in order to operate within a framework and expand readership. Rigorous and ethical res
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earch from a variety of methodological perspectives is encouraged." (Abstract)
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"Von Geld über Brief und Comic bis Radio, Video und mobile Medien welchen Platz nehmen diese Themen in den Medienwissenschaften ein? Das Handbuch stellt Begriffe und Theorien vor, darunter systemtheoretische Theorien, die Medienarchäologie und die Akteur-Medien-Theorie. Es verknüpft die einzelnen
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Medien mit der Theorie und macht die vielfältigen Bezüge deutlich. Es zeigt auch die Schnittstellen zu anderen Disziplinen, wie z. B. zur Theater- und Musikwissenschaft oder zu Medienrecht, -psychologie und -pädagogik." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"Coping in an era of information flows, of virtual relationships and breakneck change poses challenges to one and all. In Theories of the Information Society Frank Webster makes sense of the information explosion, taking a sceptical look at what thinkers mean when they refer to the 'Information Soci
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ety' and critically examines the major post-war theories and approaches to informational development. This third edition brings the book right up to date with both new theoretical work and, social and technological changes (such as the rapid growth of the Internet and accelerated globalization), reassessing the work of key theorists in light of these changes. This book is essential reading for students of contemporary social theory and anybody interested in social and technological change in the post-war era. It addresses issues of central concern to students of sociology, politics, communications, information science, cultural studies, computing and librarianship." (Publisher description)
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"In this chaper, Hamid Mowlana elucidates four cardinal concepts of the Islamic worldview that may serve as the fundamental principles of ethical communication in Muslim societies: (1) tawhid (unity, coherence, and harmony of all in the universe), (2) amr bi al-ma'ruf wa nahy'an al munkar (commandin
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g to the right and prohibiting from the wrong), (3) ummah (community), and (4) taqwa (piety). It is his thesis that, in contrast to the ethical foundation of the modern West with its emphasis on the secular, ethics in the Islamic world are predicated on the inseparability of the religious and the social. Throughout Islamic history, he asseverates, information has been not a commodity but a moral imperative." (Page 237)
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