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Comunicación para el desarrollo en tesis universitarias de Perú: Hacia una cartografía disciplinar
Revista de Ciencias Sociales (Universidad del Zulia, Venezuela), volume 25, issue 2 (2019), pp. 141-162
"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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Media and Anti-Corruption
Deep Insights
"The media can play a paramount role in exposing corruption and initiating legal, political and penal action against it. Different media genres unfold their respective strengths and show their limits as anti-corruption tools depending on the different levels on which they take effect, on the audienc
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Digital Diasporas: An Overview of the Research Areas of Migration and New Media Through a Narrative Literature Review
Human Technology, volume 15, issue 2 (2019), pp. 142-180
"Academic research on migration and the use of new media constitutes a growing field. The first studies dealing explicitly with the field appeared in the end of the 1990s. Now, it has become an established research area. The impact and importance of the new technologies for migrants is well establis
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Disinformation: Annotated Bibliography
Toronto: University of Toronto, Citizen Lab (2019), 71 pp.
"This document serves as a reading list and primer on digital disinformation. While the proliferation of literature on the subject is a positive reaction to an otherwise vague yet troubling threat, it can be difficult to grasp how much has been accomplished and what questions remain unanswered. This
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13 Reasons Why Not: A Methodological and Meta-Analytic Review of Evidence Regarding Suicide Contagion by Fictional Media
Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, volume 49, issue 4 (2019), pp. 1178-1186
"For decades, policymakers and suicide prevention advocates have questioned whether exposure to media with suicide themes, whether television, movies, or music, could increase suicide risk among youth. To date, no clear picture has emerged, with data inconsistent. Two broad forms of data consider th
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Evaluating the impact of information campaigns in the field of migration: A systematic review of the evidence, and practical guidance
Geneva: International Organization for Migration (IOM); Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC) (2018), 50 pp.
"Information campaigns designed to raise awareness of the potential risks of (irregular) migration have attracted much attention and investment across the world in recent years. Studies have repeatedly shown that many migrants start their journeys with limited or biased information and end up in vul
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Strengthening the Financial Independence of Independent Media Organisations
Burmingham: University of Birmingham (2018), 17 pp.
"Sustainability is a serious threat to independent media in the developing world. Consumers of independent media in developing countries are generally reluctant to pay for access. The main findings with regard to business models for independent media models are: The sales model of revenue generation
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Unbeatable? Debates and Divides in Gender and Video Game Research
Communication Research Trends, volume 37, issue 3 (2018), pp. 4-29
"In this review essay, I will chart the history of video game technology, the emergence of game studies as a field, provide an overview of the key aspects of gender and video game research, and highlight key debates in gender and video games research." (Page 5)
Mapping the World's Digital Media Ecosystem: The Quest for Sustainability
In: What is Sustainable Journalism? Integrating the Environmental, Social, and Economic Challenges of Journalism
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2018), pp. 257-276
"Over the past years, a range of different databases have been constructed, and research efforts have been made to find the key to making digital news ventures successful. Many of them have searched for best practices, or a secret recipe for a business model that would make the news business economi
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Public Trust in Journalism: An Annotated Bibliography
Sydney: University of Technology, Centre for Media Transition (2018), 77 pp.
"Part 1: Public Opinion Polls and Surveys, contains references to recent public opinion polls and surveys that measure public trust in journalism across dozens of countries and geopolitical regions including Australia, Africa, Asia, China, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and North America. Pa
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The European media discourse on immigration and its effects: A literature review
Annals of the International Communication Association, volume 42, issue 3 (2018), pp. 207-223
"To understand public opinion about immigration in Europe, one has to understand the media’s role in it. We present a literature review on research on media discourse on immigration and their effects. Despite differences in the way immigration and migrant groups are represented in European media,
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Publishing & the Book in Africa: A Literature Review for 2017
Zell Publishing Consultants (2018), 77 pp.
"The third in a series of annual reviews of select new literature in English that has appeared on the topic of publishing and the book sector in sub-Saharan Africa. Extensively annotated and/or with abstracts, the present list brings together new literature published during the course of 2017, a tot
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Journalist Social Media Practice in China: A Review and Synthesis
Journalism, volume 19, issue 9-10 (2018), pp. 1452-1470
"The growing influence of social media on journalistic work has attracted scholarly attention worldwide in recent years. However, due to cultural and language barriers, we lack comprehensive understanding of the journalist social media practice in non-Western countries. To help fill this gap, this s
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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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Publishing in African Languages: A Review of the Literature
Zell Publishing Consultants (2018), 74 pp.
"This literature survey is an attempt to bring together some of the literature on an important and challenging, and one could well say neglected aspect of the African book sector, that of publishing in African languages, an area that greatly impacts literary production in many ways. It aims to make
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Defining “Fake News”: A Typology of Scholarly Definitions
Digital Journalism, issue 6 (2018), pp. 137-153
"This paper is based on a review of how previous studies have defined and operationalized the term “fake news.” An examination of 34 academic articles that used the term “fake news” between 2003 and 2017 resulted in a typology of types of fake news: news satire, news parody, fabrication, man
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Todesbilder im Film: Eine Arbeitsbibliographie
Medienwissenschaft Berichte und Papiere, issue 177 (2018), 20 pp.
"Es bedarf der Kontextanalyse, wenn man an die Kulturalität des Todes sich annähern will. Das Gros der vorliegenden Untersuchungen entäuscht gerade in dieser Qualität – weil quantitative Inhaltsanalysen gerade diesen, of sehr komplexen, Zusammenhang kaum erfassen können, weil Einzelanalysen z
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EdTech for Learning in Emergencies and Displaced Settings: A Rigorous Review and Narrative Synthesis
London: Save the Children; DANIDA (2018), 75 pp.
"The purpose of this report is to build an understanding of ‘what works’ in Educational Technology (EdTech) to ensure that children can learn in crisis or displaced settings. The field of EdTech is vast and has influenced almost every facet of modern educational delivery. This report will focus
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Social Media, Political Polarization, and Political Disinformation: A Review of the Scientific Literature
Hewlett Foundation (2018), 95 pp.
"The following report is intended to provide an overview of the current state of the literature on the relationship between social media; political polarization; and political “disinformation,” a term used to encompass a wide range of types of information about politics found online, including
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