"This essay characterizes a “disintegrated internationalization” as the main trend in the development of communication studies in Latin America. This hypothetical approach is based on critical readings of multiple bibliographical sources generated in the most recent decades and published in Span
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ish, Portuguese, or English, both in the form of essays and empirical studies, somewhat supporting a historical sociology. The systematic and rigorously analyzed and interpreted documentation, following the methodological example of Luis Ramiro Beltrán, allows us to advance in the recognition of some factors that separate national “academic fields” from their integration in broader scales—Latin American or global. The conclusion proposes what the elaboration of a historical narrative needs to recognize to be more useful: the complexity and multiplicity of the historical-social processes that have been interwoven and interdetermined in each of the spatiotemporal stages that it is pertinent to define as Latin America’s own." (Abstract)
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"Em 2023, o professor José Marques de Melo, se estivesse vivo, completaria 80 anos de idade. Com certeza, ainda estaria organizando algum evento científico ou escrevendo um novo livro. Em sua trajetória, marcada por um trabalho pioneiro de pesquisa e de ensino da Comunicação no Brasil, Marques
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de Melo foi jornalista, professor, autor de dezenas de livros, além de um grande líder, fundando a maior e mais longeva entidade de pesquisadoras e pesquisadores em Comunicação da América Latina, a Intercom. Para celebrar seu aniversário, a Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Comunicação - INTERCOM - reúne, nesta coletânea, histórias da vida de José Marques de Melo contadas por ex-orientandos, colegas de trabalho, pesquisadores e jornalistas que, de alguma forma, tiveram seus percursos cruzados com o do mestre JMM." (Resumo)
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"Moving beyond the U.S.-Eurocentric paradigm of communication theory, this handbook broadens the intellectual horizons of the discipline by highlighting underrepresented, especially non-Western, theorists and theories, and identifies key issues and challenges for future scholarship. Showcasing diver
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se perspectives, the handbook facilitates active engagement in different cultural traditions and theoretical orientations that are global in scope but local in effect. It begins by exploring past efforts to diversify the field, continuing on to examine theoretical concepts, models, and principles rooted in local cumulative wisdom. It does not limit itself to the mass-interpersonal communication divide, but rather seeks to frame theory as global and inclusive in scope. The book is intended for communication researchers and advanced students, with relevance to scholars with an interest in theory within information science, library science, social and cross-cultural psychology, multicultural education, social justice and social ethics, international relations, development studies, and political science." (Publisher description)
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"Reúne los relatos sobre el devenir de la investigación en comunicación en América Latina que se presentaron en el coloquio homónimo el cual, dirigido a participantes del XIII Congreso de la Asociación Latinoamericana de Investigadores de la Comunicación, se realizó en la UNAM en octubre de
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2016. En palabras de su coordinadora Delia Crovi Druetta, se trata de un tejido común "armado a partir de fibras particulares, de experiencias diversas, de condiciones histórico-sociales disímiles, en las que a pesar de todo existen rasgos y retos comunes [...] Identificamos similitudes y diferencias, pero emerge la necesidad de seguir invirtiendo esfuerzos conjuntos sobre el pasado, el presente y el futuro de la investigación en comunicación en América Latina, su organización, sus protagonistas y los temas que interesan o preocupan". (Descripción de la casa editorial)
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"Este libro tiene como propósito central exponer lo más sintética y sistemáticamente posible, una visión de conjunto -una versión- sobre los principios y determinaciones subyacentes en la formación universitaria de comunicadores sociales, con pretensiones de aplicabilidad tanto en México com
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o en otros países de América Latina. Se divide en tres partes: el estudio de la comunicación y sus problemas; el diseño curricular en comunicación; y las escuelas de comunicación ante las nuevas tecnologías." (Editorial)
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