"This collection charts the emergence of modern science communication across the world. This is the first volume to map investment around the globe in science centres, university courses and research, publications and conferences as well as tell the national stories of science communication. How did
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it all begin? How has development varied from one country to another? What motivated governments, institutions and people to see science communication as an answer to questions of the social place of science? Communicating Science describes the pathways followed by 39 different countries. All continents and many cultures are represented. For some countries, this is the first time that their science communication story has been told." (Publisher description)
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"El libro de Claudia Magallanes y José Manuel Ramos es fundamental para el debate sobre medios de comunicación indígena. Contiene el aporte colectivo de once capítulos, en los cuales autores de diferentes comunidades académicas ensayan nuevas perspectivas metodológicas de investigación. El te
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ma principal que recorre el texto es la praxis comunicacional de varios grupos indígenas en la disputa por la auto representación y visibilización de las identidades culturales. Esto se revela en el uso de las radios comunitarias y videos indígenas como medios para articular la resistencia y reivindicar su identidad. Estos median la plataforma cultural para defender la lengua autóctona, el cuidado de la naturaleza y del medio ambiente y resistir a las industrias o para representar a sus comunidades con los valores simbólicos propios, como un discurso autónomo de resistencia contra la hegemonía cultural." (Reseña por José Morán, en: Chasqui,, nr. 131, 2026, página 421)
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"The campaign waged by the Inter American Press Association for the freedom of the press in the three Americas (North, South and Central America) and the West Indies — Campaign against any form of dictatorship imposed on the press in any part of the region in question — The aim of the I.A.P.A. h
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as always been to tackle the problems of information and the rights of the press in principle and this gives it its great strength — The rights of the press are not respected at present in certain countries — The I.A.P.A. will continue to defend the rights of the press as long as they are not respected in any part of this hemisphere." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 2444, topic code 161.2, 110.30)
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"The California Newspaper Publishers Association condemns the restrictions imposed on the freedom of the press by the Castro régime in Cuba. in a resolution made after a meeting of 400 of its affiliated members, all newspaper editors: freedom of the press for every man in Cuba able to read." (Jean-
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Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 2443, topic code 110.32)
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