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Assessment of the Observance of TV Programme Ratings in Uganda: A Case of Telenovelas
Makerere University (2015), xxii, 75 pp.
"The study finds that there is a general liking for Partenal Guidance (PG) ratings, based on the need to protect the children from harmful and foreign content, as well as to avoid adoption of foreign cultures. However, this does not translate into action in determining viewership decisions, with man
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The Media: Improving How People with Mental Health Problems Are Represented in the Media. Summary of Impact and Learning.
Time to Change (2015), 5 pp.
"Our media advisory service was set up to provide advice and support on mental health storylines and documentaries. We inputted into 75 soap opera storylines, as well as mental health seasons for BBC 3 and Channel 4. We also developed an online resource for media professionals, and supported media o
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Ibero-American Observatory of Television Fiction Obitel 2015: Gender Relations in Television Fiction
Porto Alegre: Sulina; Globo Comunicação e Participações (2015), 526 pp.
"In 2014, Mexico, Brazil, Portugal, Colombia and Argentina, in that order, were the top five countries in the production of national fiction hours. Once again, Brazil and Mexico, despite the drop suffered by the latter, continued to be the largest producers of fiction in the Ibero-American region. I
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"Set in ancient Egypt and loosely based on the story of Moses, “The Ten Commandments” is billed as Brazil’s first biblical soap opera. Swathed in Egyptian robes and sporting lapis lazuli jewelry and Cleopatra wigs, some of the characters are based on biblical or other historic figures, while o
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Too Close for Comfort: The Political Telenovela 'El Candidato' and the 2000 Mexican Presidential Election
Series: International Journal of TV Serial Narratives, volume 1 (2015), pp. 9-26
"The telenovela El Candidato did not elect Vicente Fox per se but it was a very powerful media vehicle that certainly helped him. Although there were suspicions from the beginning about the telenovela’s positive support of the PRI in the context of the real election, it turns out that in fact upon
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Comunicación para el cambio social: La participación y el empoderamiento como base para el desarrollo mundial
Barcelona: Icaria Editorial (2015), 255 pp.
"El inicio del siglo XXI ha venido marcado por los debates que, en el plano internacional, están sometiendo a revisión la comunicación para el desarrollo con el fin de proponer otras alternativas como comunicación para el cambio social o comunicación para el empoderamiento ciudadano y ecosocial
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Medios de comunicación, contenidos y comportamiento: Algunos énfasis sobre la inclusión financiera
Enbreve, issue 49 (2014), 13 pp.
"Este documento resume la literatura reciente sobre el rol de los medios de comunicación con relación al comportamiento social haciendo particular énfasis en contenidos de inclusión social. Nuestro objetivo es modesto: simplemente tratar de crear consciencia sobre el importante rol que herramien
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Watching TV in Havanna: Revisiting the Local/global Television Past Through the Lens of the Television Present
In: Global Communication: New Agendas in Communication
New York; London: Routledge (2014), pp. 50-65
How Structure Shapes Content, or Why the 'Hindi Turn' of Star Plus Became the 'Hindu Turn'
Media, Culture & Society, volume 36, issue 4 (2014), pp. 473-490
"Why was there in the year 2000 a significant shift in the representation of families on Indian soap operas, from middle-class nuclear families with independent working women to upper-class joint families with only homemakers; and from milieus in which the religion of the characters was incidental,
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Bangladesh's Changing Mediascape: From State Control to Market Forces
Deep Insights
Bristol: intellect (2014), xvi, 404 pp.
"Among the many topics discussed here are the difference among specific media formats, including television, newspapers, radio, film and photography; policy issues; and the challenge that new media poses to governance in a developing nation faced with innumerable economic, social and political probl
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Meanings of Audiences: Comparative Discourses
London; New York: Routledge (2014), xi, 206 pp.
"With essays on audiences in ancient Greece, early modern Germany, Soviet and post-Soviet Russia, Zimbabwe, contemporary Egypt, Bengali India, China, Taiwan, and immigrant diaspora in Belgium, each chapter examines the ways in which audiences are embedded in discourses of power, representation, and
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Bongo Media Worlds: Producing and Consuming Popular Culture in Dar Es Salaam
Köln: Köppe (2014), 286 pp.
"In the wake of the transformation from a socialist to a neoliberal capitalist economy, Tanzania has witnessed an unprecedented proliferation of cultural production which went hand in hand with a steep rise in formal and informal media outlets. Bongo Media Worlds provides insights into the diverse a
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The Commercialization of Da'wah: Understanding Indonesian Sinetron and Their Portrayal of Islam
International Communication Gazette, volume 76, issue 4-5 (2014), pp. 340-359
"The impact of media industrialization on mediated religious expression all over the world has been substantial, and this study tries to understand the Indonesian case by looking at the intersections between commerce and Islamic expression. Focusing on Indonesian Islamic sinetron (soap operas), we s
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Ibero-American Television Fiction Observatory Obitel 2014: Transmedia Production Strategies in Television Fiction
Porto Alegre: Sulina; Globo Comunicação e Participações (2014), 536 pp.
"The structure of this Yearbook is divided in three parts. The first part is an introduction chapter that makes a comparative synthesis of fiction in Obitel countries. This comparison is made from a quantitative and qualitative perspective that allows us to observe fiction development in each countr
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TV's Betty Goes Global: From Telenovela to International Brand
Deep Insights
London; New York: Tauris (2013), xv, 259 pp.
"Premiering in 2006, Ugly Betty, the award-winning US hit show about unglamorous but kind-hearted Betty Suarez (America Ferrera), is the latest incarnation of a worldwide phenomenon that started life as a Colombian telenovela, Yo soy Betty, la fea, back in 1999. The tale of the ugly duckling has sin
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Ibero-American Television Fiction Observatory Obitel 2013: Social Memory and Television Fiction in Ibero-American Countries
Porto Alegre: Sulina; Globo Comunicação e Participações (2013), 523 pp.
"The first part, “Fiction in the Ibero-American Space”, presents a comparative synthesis of fiction in the Obitel countries. This comparison is made from a quantitative and qualitative perspective that allows to observe the development of fiction in each country, highlighting their main producti
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