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Seeing New Opportunities: How Global Actors Can Better Support Anticorruption Reformers

Florencia Guerzovich, María Soledad Gattoni, Dave Algoso

Open Society Foundations (2020), 137 pp.

"Certain political moments create new possibilities for progress on anticorruption: we call these moments “windows of opportunity.” The actions needed to pass reforms and combat corruption during a window will be highly contingent on the political context and history of how the window opened. In ... more

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Comparing Gender and Media Equality Across the Globe: A Cross-National Study of the Qualities, Causes, and Consequences of Gender Equality in and Through the News Media
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Monika Djerf-Pierre, Maria Edström (eds.)

Göteborg: Nordicom (2020), 338 pp.

"Comparing Gender and Media Equality across the Globe addresses longstanding questions in the study of gender equality in media content and media organisations across countries and over time. Drawing on data from the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP), European Institute for Gender Equality (EIG ... more

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Derechos a la comunicación: Ética y competencias del comunicador

Roberto Sánchez Montoya, María del Carmen Ramírez Soasti (coords.)

Quito: Abya-Yala;Universidad Politécnica Salesiana (2020), 210 pp.

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Cómo comunicar mejor en tiempos de COVID-19: Una guía práctica

Deborah Martínez Villarreal, Ana María Rojas Méndez, Carlos Scartascini

Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID) (2020), 25 pp.

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How to Improve Communication During COVID-19: A Practical Guide

Deborah Martínez Villarreal, Ana María Rojas Méndez, Carlos Scartascini

Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) (2020), 24 pp.

"This document offers a practical guide on how to design behaviorally-informed communications and interventions that help contain the spread of Covid-19. How and with what resources should you communicate to overcome the deep behavioral biases that we all have and that are heightened in situations o ... more

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A Socio-Ecological Model of Communication for Social and Behavioral Change: A Brief Summary

D. Lawrence Kincaid, Maria Elena Figueroa, Doug Storey, Carol Underwood

Breakthrough Action;USAID (2020), 4 pp.

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Pensadoras de la comunicación argentina: Margarita Graziano, Aníbal Ford y Héctor Schmucler

Guillermo Mastrini, Mariano Zarowsky, María Graciela Rodríguez

Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento (2020), 108 pp.

"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 ... more

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Media Education in Latin America

Julio-César Mateus, Pablo Andrada Sola, María Teresa Quiroz (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2020), xix, 282 pp.

"This book offers a systematic study of media education in Latin America. As spending on technological infrastructure in the region increases exponentially for educational purposes, and with national curriculums beginning to implement media related skills, this book makes a timely contribution to ne ... more

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"When the Battle's Lost and Won:" Narratives of Peace in the Afghan Film 'A War'

Axel Heck

Peace & Change, volume 45, issue 1 (2020), pp. 101-125

"This article examines the ways in which cinematic film underscores the latency of structural violence in its visualization of peace, specifically through the juxtaposition of the life world of the two main protagonists in the Danish film A War (2016): Captain Claus Pedersen who serves as a Danish s ... more

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Visualizing Peace: The State of the Art

Stephan Engelkamp, Kristina Roestorff, Alexander Spencer

Peace & Change, volume 45, issue 1 (2020), pp. 5-27

"While the importance of visualization of war, conflict, and violence has gathered great momentum in disciplines such as International Relations (IR), far less has been said about the visualization of peace in IR, history, and even in Peace and Conflict Studies. As ... more

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Trust in Institutions

Church, Communication and Culture, volume 5, issue 3 (2020), pp. 293-510

"Speaking of trust in the Catholic Church necessarily leads to talking about the management of the crisis of clerical sexual abuse by its leaders. The focus is on managing responsibility and information, with case studies by Paulina Guzik and Patrick O'Brien. The first deals with the case of Poland, ... emphasizing the need for accountability and suggesting five actions to regain trust. O'Brien offers a map of the management of abuses in the 197 dioceses of the United States, and points to transparency in communication and government as a key to regaining trust. As you will read in these pages, neither the communicator nor the communication serves to mask a negative reality. The institution must justify its existence only if it is a good for society, even if it makes mistakes. This question is approached from a theological point of view: Is it still possible to trust the Church? To answer this question, Marco Vanzini highlights the tensions that characterize and define the identity of the Church: such as her divine origin and her human composition, or the inner coexistence of holiness and sin, among others. On the other hand, Gabriel Magalhães, taking a cue from passages of sacred and universal literature, invites reflection on the contrast between human and divine justice, highlighting the excessive and almost ‘scandalous’ nature of divine mercy. Faced with the reality of a certain human solidarity in evil, he explores the need for collective guilt and forgiveness as a common horizon that allows trust to be recovered at the social level. It is precisely ‘the Church communicator’ on whom the article by Professors Gil and Gili puts the focus. His role as spokesman for an institution and bearer of a message gives him great responsibility. The credibility that he demands and needs, the authors maintain, depends to a great extent on his human and professional virtues. Creative fidelity, reliable transmission of an ideal and embodiment of the values he communicates are expected from him. Internal communication in organizations, with the transformation of the channels through which trust travels – more horizontal and collaborative than vertical and hierarchical (Botsman Citation2017) – represents a challenge for those who govern the organization. Receiving trust from the leadership in turn generates confidence in the workers. To put these ‘spirals of trust’ into action, Gara and La Porte analyze one of the most important moments in the relationship between an employee and an organization: recruitment. Trust, they say, must be considered one of the great strategic tools of the Human Resources department. In the legal field, Moreno and Díaz show with a case study the ‘legal defense of corporate reputation’, where law and communication work in a complementary way. In recent years, especially with the digital revolution, new fields of interaction have opened up with their own followers, as well as new spaces for vulnerability (e.g. privacy, personal data, copyright…). In this context of the Internet, the authors present the crisis of reputation of an NGO linked to the Church and show how law and communication are two strategic tools of the organizations destined to collaborate. Looking at trust management in the public sector is a necessary source of inspiration for an institution like the Church. María José Canel conducts the academic interview with Steven Van de Walle on trust in public administration. He deals with a wide range of topics: from the ways of measuring trust and its typologies, to the influence of emotions on the inspiration of trust. The interview offers some comparative considerations between some other institutions, such as NGOs, and the Church. It also includes a final reflection on the new scenario created by COVID-19, which is testing citizens’ trust in the state and the health system. In the public sphere, the management of vulnerability takes on a particular nuance in the case of high reliability organizations, entities that by their nature must avoid errors at all costs (Lekka Citation2011). Sanders takes the criteria of the HROs as her model to measure the trust that the British government has earned (or lost) with its public communication during the pandemic generated by the COVID-19, a situation that has tested the strength of social relations – especially trust toward public services – and that will merit another special issue of this journal." (Editorial: Contents of the special issue, pages 295-296) more

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Clemencia Rodríguez, Claudia Magallanes Blanco, Amparo Marroquín Parducci, Omar Rincón (eds.)

Bogotá: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), Centro de Competencia en Comunicación para América Latina (2020), 259 pp.

"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)

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Media Innovation and Social Change

Journal of Media Innovations, volume 6, issue 1 (2020), pp. 1-108

"Our purpose with this Special Issue is to present and contribute to a body of research that critically explores the relationship between media innovation and social change. In doing so, we also outline the contours of a research agenda to further develop this emerging field. Our motivation arises f ... more

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Mapeando la comunicación comunitaria: Cartografías de la información, de experiencias de comunicación y de liderazgos comunitarios en Cali-Colombia

Fanny Patricia Franco Chávez (ed.)

Cali: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (2020), 131 pp.

"Uno de los aspectos a destacar de este libro, es la coautoría entre académicos, investigadores, profesionales de la comunicación, líderes comunitarios y estudiantes universitarios. Lo cual, concreta un movimiento epistemológico descolonizador en términos de participación, apostándole a la c ... more

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Media and Governance in Latin America: Toward a Plurality of Voices

Ximena Orchard, Sara Garcia Santamaria, Julieta Brambila, Jairo Lugo-Ocando (eds.)

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2020), viii, 273 pp.

"This edited book aims at bringing together a range of contemporary expertise that can shed light on the relationship between media pluralism in Latin America and processes of democratization and social justice. In doing so, the authors of the book provide empirically grounded theoretical insight in ... more

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Disability, Media, and Representations: Other Bodies

Jacob Johanssen, Diana Garrisi (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2020), 197 pp.

"Drawing on a wide range of case studies addressing how people can be ‘othered’ in contemporary media, the chapters focus on analyses of hateful discourses about disability on Reddit, news coverage of disability and education, media access of individuals with disabilities, the logic of memes and ... more

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The Public Sphere in Russia Between Authoritarianism and Liberation

Tatiana Weiser, Greg Yudin (eds.)

Javnost: The Public, volume 27, issue 1 (2020), pp. 2-96

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Book Industry: Special Issue [on Children's Literature]

Moscow: Book Industry (LLC) (2020), 71 pp.

"The Russian book industry is actively preparing for the Bologna Book Fair and the 37th IBBY International Children’s Book Congress, which Moscow will host for the first time this year. How is children’s book publishing developing in Russia? What support does it need from the government?" (Page ... more

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Cultura, comunicación y crimen organizado en México

Günther Maihold (ed.)

Berlin: Edition Tranvía, Verlag Walter Frey (2020), 399 pp.

"Desde el inicio de la “Guerra del Narco” en diciembre del año 2006 hasta nuestros días México está sufriendo el embate de la violencia y de la inseguridad con altos niveles de homicidios, muertes de periodistas y civiles en una lucha de diferentes actores violentos entre sí y el Estado. Lo ... more

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Consejo de Redacción: Travesías de una experiencia

Abelardo Gómez et al.

Bogotá: Consejo de Redacción;Opciones Gráficas Editores (2020), 120 pp.

"Hace doce años, un equipo de periodistas compartió el sueño de mejorar la investigación en Colombia y para cumplirlo definieron un plan de trabajo y se juntaron durante meses. Querían crear una red de periodistas de investigación y un espacio para intercambiar experiencias y conocimientos con ... more

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