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Pablo Escobar and Colombian Narcoculture

Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky

Gainesville: University of Florida Press (2020), x, 293 pp.

"In the years since his death in 1993, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar has become a globally recognized symbol of crime, wealth, power, and masculinity. In this long-overdue exploration of Escobars impact on popular culture, Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky shows how his legacy inspired the development of ... more

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Professional Autonomy and Structural Influences: Exploring How Homicides, Perceived Insecurity, Aggressions Against Journalists, and Inequalities Affect Perceived Journalistic Autonomy in Colombia

Miguel Garces Prettel, Jesús Arroyave Cabrera, Adolfo Baltar Moreno

International Journal of Communication, volume 14 (2020), pp. 3054-3075

"Journalistic autonomy has been studied more frequently in countries with secure democracies in terms of journalists’ perceptions of freedom and independence to work in the midst of the controls, pressures, and influences perceived in the newsrooms. Based on objective variables and on a national s ... more

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Journalists' Safety and Multifaceted Censorship in Colombia

Yennué Zárate Valderrama

In: Handbook of Research on Combating Threats to Media Freedom and Journalist Safety

Sadia Jamil (ed.)

Hershey, PA: IGI Global (2020), pp. 298-318

"Safety of journalists has been studied as part of freedom of expression. This chapter seeks to address issues surrounding journalists' safety and censorship in Colombia by shedding light on a triple menace: the decrease in journalistic quality, citizens' right to information, and the influence on j ... more

Fakecracia

Matías Ponce, Omar Rincón (eds.)

Buenos Aires: Biblos (2020), 288 pp.

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Contando colombianos: Medición comercial, métricas de audiencias y biopolítica

Juan Carlos Valencia Rincón (ed.)

Bogotá: Editorial Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (2020), 442 pp.

"La tiranía del rating se ha convertido en los últimos años en una expresión muy utilizada por diferentes actores de la industria de los medios de comunicación, que desconfían de la forma en la que las métricas miden el comportamiento de las audiencias. Los compradores, los periodistas, los a ... 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 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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Evangelical Indigenous Radio Stations in Colombia: Between the Promotion of Social Change and Religious Indoctrination

Diego Mauricio Cortés

Global Media and Communication, volume 16, issue 3 (2020), pp. 313-328

"This article refutes dominant views that define evangelical indigenous media as intrinsic tools for religious indoctrination. The case of the Colombian Misak community shows that evangelical radio stations can contribute to community building. However, the degree of the positive or negative contrib ... more

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"Communication for Change": Radio Sutatenza/Acción Cultural Popular, the Catholic Church, and Rural Development in Colombia during the Cold War

Mary Roldán

In: Itineraries of Expertise: Science, Technology, and the Environment in Latin America's long Cold War

Andra B. Chastain; Timothy W. Lorek (eds.)

Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press (2020), pp. 114-136

"In 1947 Father José Joaquín Salcedo laid the cornerstone of what would become, until its demise nearly a half century later, Latin America’s largest, Catholic, mass media-based education and community development network, the Radiophonic Schools of Radio Sutatenza and Acción Cultural Popular ( ... more

La situación del derecho a la comunicación con énfasis en las y los comunicadores indígenas y afrodescendientes de América Latina
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San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas: Proyecto Videoastas Indígenas de la Frontera Sur (PVIFS);Coordinadora Latinoamericana de Cine y Comunicación de los Pueblos Indígenas (CLACPI);alterNativa;Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas (UNICACH), Centro de Estudios Superiores de México y Centroamérica (CESMECA);Cooperativa Editorial Retos;Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO) (2020), 260 pp.

"El libro busca visibilizar la preocupante situación que atraviesan las y los comunicadores indígenas y afrodescendientes particularmente en Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, México, Nicaragua y Venezuela. En el marco de la defensa por sus der ... more

Main Generic Frames in the Media Coverage of Environmental Popular Consultations in Colombia

Emy Osorio

Palobra, volume 20, issue 1 (2020), pp. 41-63

"Guided by the Framing Theory, this paper presents the final results of a content analysis performed on a group of news from three cases of environmental popular consultations in Colombia, aiming to find the main generic frames on them to understand how the debate was shaped within the Andean countr ... more

Making Civic Space Resilient

Cordaid;Hivos (2020), 31 pp.

"The 10 countries included in this paper all show specific characteristics and contexts but also show similar barriers. Identifying shared characteristics will facilitate the development of shared approaches to deal with shrinking space. Don’t work in silos! It’s (also) about upholding the law: ... more

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Film ab! Kunst, Geschäft und Widerstand: Kino im globalen Süden

welt-sichten, issue 6 (2020), pp. 12-33

"Viele Filme aus Ländern in Afrika, Asien und Lateinamerika befassen sich phantasievoll mit gesellschaftlichen Fragen. Unter welchen Bedingungen arbeiten Regisseurinnen in Algerien, Marokko und Tunesien? Warum sind afrikanische Religionen und Riten ein Thema im jungen nigerianischen Kino? Und wie g ... more

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Medios indígenas: Teorías y experiencias de la comunicación indígena en América Latina
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Gemma Orobitg (ed.)

Madrid; Frankfurt am Main: Iberoamericana;Vervuert (2020), 419 pp.

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Shooting Cameras for Peace: Youth, Photography, and the Colombian Armed Conflict = Disparando cámaras para la paz: Juventud, fotografía y el conflicto armado colombiano

Alexander L. Fattal

Cambridge, Mass.: Peabody Museum Press (2020), 251 pp.

"As a young Fulbright scholar in Bogotá, determined to democratize the photographic gaze and bring new visions and voices to public debate about Colombia's armed conflict, Alexander L. Fattal founded Disparando Cámaras para la Paz (Shooting Cameras for Peace). The project taught photography to you ... more

Los pueblos étnicos de Colombia: Derechos territoriales y reparaciones. Módulo de formación para procuradores y servidores del Ministerio Público

María Paula Tostón Sarmiento

Bogotá: Dejusticia (2020), 271 pp.

"El presente documento responde al desarrollo de la iniciativa de formular un módulo sobre los pueblos étnicos en Colombia desde la perspectiva de los derechos territoriales, teniendo en cuenta los instrumentos jurídicos más relevantes y elementos del contexto histórico en el que se han produci ... more