"Can political leaders’ anti-media rhetoric encourage violence against journalists and undermine media freedom in democracies? While there is evidence that anti-media public discourse can amplify negative attitudes and behaviors towards the media, there is still uncertainty as to whether and how p
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oliticians’ verbal attacks against the “lying press” and “fake news” may incentivize non-state actors to physically attack journalists. Building on dangerous speech, populist communication, and hostile media perceptions scholarship, I show that although anti-media public discourse may not feature explicit calls for violence, it increases the incidence of physical attacks against journalists. Using qualitative content analysis and survival models, I analyze original data on the content and timing of 696 anti-media messages featuring government officials and the timing and location of physical attacks by non-state actors against journalists during Hugo Chávez’s presidency. Estimates of Cox and instrumental variable models show that the frequency of anti-media messages is positively associated with the hazard of violence against journalists and that the relationship between discourse and violence is likely causal. I also find that the effect of discourse on violence is moderated by local patterns of electoral competition: anti-media discourse’s effect on violence against journalists is largest in locations where elections are highly contested." (Abstract)
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"Over one-million immigrants of Mayan descent live in the United States, but unlike other ethnic groups, Mayan diasporas struggle to create visibility, political and social capital, and acceptance through media. This case study used a qualitative methodology to analyze how Radio B’alam, the first
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Mam-language radio program in the U.S., emerged during a global pandemic to fill a community’s need for critical information. The study is grounded in the theoretical framework of geo-ethnic media and explores the roles of citizen journalists in decreasing information gaps and overcoming language barriers, while reaffirming the importance of radio in times of crisis." (Abstract)
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"En el umbral del nuevo siglo, las naciones indígenas en Colombia pasaron de ser presentadas en el cine y el video a ser agentes de su representación: para esto, pueblos e individuos han delineado estrategias de apropiación y comunicación. Gente alzada en cámaras analiza cómo dos directores de
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origen indígena, Mileidy Orozco (embera eyábida) y Luis Tróchez (misak), “canibalizan” o se apropian de las cámaras de video en espacios institucionales occidentales —universidades, en este caso— para adquirir una forma de operar con ellas. El resultado de esta transacción entre lo propio y lo ajeno son películas documentales en primera persona del singular, obras que responden a las necesidades políticas y afectivas de los autores, quienes a través del acento autobiográfico reflexionan sobre el exilio, la migración, la desterritorialidad y el racismo en un espacio-tiempo globalizado. Así, este libro es una apuesta por comprender la experiencia individual indígena contemporánea en el mundo histórico a través del dispositivo audiovisual como medio para construir memoria, dialogar interculturalmente o movilizar a las comunidades en procesos de resistencia, entre otros." (Resumen)
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"We investigate how dominant media networks can manipulate voters in young democracies. During the first presidential election after the democratic transition in Brazil, TV Globo, the largest and most-watched network in the country, unexpectedly manipulated the news coverage of the last debate 2 day
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s before the decisive second round. In a video segment, Globo unfavorably depicted the left-wing candidate, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Using the geographical distribution of broadcaster-specific TV signals and the timing of election events, we identify the effect of the manipulation net of the effect of the debate itself, showing that Globo’s misleading reporting caused Lula to lose millions of votes. Our results showcase how the media can reshape an election in a single stroke, especially where the media is concentrated and politically inexperienced voters have few other sources of information." (Abstract)
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"This edited collection investigates the use of sound and audio production in community engaged participatory arts practice and research. The popularity of podcast and audio drama, combined with the accessibility and portability of affordable field recording and home studio equipment, makes audio a
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compelling mode of participatory creative practice. This book maps existing projects occurring globally through a series of case study chapters that exemplify community engaged creative audio practice. The studies focus on audio and sound-based arts practices that are undertaken by artists and arts-led researchers in collaboration with (and from within) communities and groups. These practices include - Applied audio drama, community-engaged podcasting, sound and verbatim theatre, participatory sound art, community-led acoustic ecology, sound and media walks, digital storytelling, oral history and reminiscence, and radio drama in health and community development. The contributors interrogate the practical, political, and aesthetic potentialities of using sound and audio in community engaged arts practice, as well as its tensions and possibilities as an arts-led participatory research methodology." (Publisher description)
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"El libro “Pluralismo TV. Medición y análisis del pluralismo en la televisión chilena” busca contribuir al debate sobre el pluralismo mediático, revisando el marco jurídico nacional, proponiendo una operacionalización de la medición del pluralismo informativo en la televisión y discutien
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do los resultados de su aplicación. Se incluyen, también, recomendaciones para la implementación de las obligaciones legales sobre pluralismo y su traducción en políticas públicas que permitan una mayor democratización de la pantalla y de la industria televisiva. Esta obra es resultado de un trabajo interdisciplinario que surge de la intersección entre comunicaciones, las ciencias sociales y el derecho, abordando distintas facetas del problema: teórica, política, regulatoria, metodológica y empírica." (Descripción de la casa editorial)
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"Consideramos que es importante publicar esta minuciosa investigación básicamente porque no existe mucha literatura que nos permita entender las circunstancias que dieron origen al servicio público de la radio, en particular del IMER, accesible al grueso de sus audiencias, que les permita contar
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con elementos para involucrarse más con los medios públicos. Saber y entender cómo fueron sus diferentes estadios habilita los derechos de participación de la ciudadanía en los medios públicos, los cuales en última instancia pertenecen a la sociedad mexicana en su conjunto." (Introducción, página 7)
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"What are the challenges that Mexican women journalists face in a hostile environment for the press? Mexico is one of the deadliest countries in which to practice journalism. More than 160 reporters have been assassinated since 2000. Within this context, female journalists face a four-layered challe
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nge: firstly, to work in a country with a high level of anti-press violence; secondly, the state and situation of their gender in a country riddled with femicide; thirdly, their sources, colleagues, and bosses immersed in a patriarchal structure of naturalized misogyny; and fourthly, the state. This chapter examines and reveals, through in-depth, semi-structured interviews of women journalists from several parts of Mexico who cover the beat of hard news, the challenges they face when doing their work with various actors. This research aims to shed light into the world of local female journalists in Mexico that could mirror the situation of female journalists in the Global South." (Abstract)
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"This study assesses the impact of China’s mediated communication strategies implemented in Latin America from 2013 to 2021. We content-analyzed the press coverage about China in nine countries and unveiled tones, topics, and frames which were then examined further across different sources. Public
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sentiments toward China were gauged to infer a potential link to China’s communication efforts. Overall, China’s program to influence Latin American media outlets and public opinion has not resulted in substantial gains; the region’s sentiment toward China actually deteriorated. There is a communication gap between Chinese and Latin American publics, which is inimical to public diplomacy." (Abstract)
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"With 30 million readers, and paying digital subscribers surging past 700,000, Clarín has the distinction of having the largest number of paid digital users for any news publisher in Latin America." (Introduction)
"Holding the greatest area of rainforest in the world, Brazil has seen the adoption of a far-right anti-environmental agenda under the administration of Jair Bolsonaro. This agenda was backed by a transnational infrastructure of right-wing media outlets on online platforms, including the conservativ
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e YouTube channel Brasil Paralelo. Our research attempted to understand how environmental conspiracies in Brasil Paralelo’s documentary Cortina de Fumaça (in English, smokescreen) took advantage of both digital platform affordances and political alignment with the far-right government to gain social adherence and relevance. By carrying out topic modeling on more than 13,000 comments and network analysis of 982 recommended videos on YouTube, we aimed to analyze the following: (1) which narratives fostered in the documentary have reverberated among the audience that published comments on its YouTube page and (2) what type of video does YouTube recommend for users who watched Cortina de Fumaça. Our results show that far-right anti-environmental discourse is instrumentalized as yet another component of modern culture wars, where environmental conspiracies are placed side by side with other conspiratorial claims regarding politics, gender, religion, and other ideological subjects." (Abstract)
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"Indigenous Language for Social Change Communication in the Global South brings together voices from the margins to engage in dialogue about common social change issues in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. This book argues that resistance and social movements, expressed in music and songs and exchang
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ed via radio, remain fundamental to ensure that the linguistic and cultural diversity of the world progresses despite colonizing pressures. Contributors present cases that explore how indigenous communities use mediums such as the radio to help support their language, identity, and expand their own social change. Highlighting the centrality of music in the development of political discussions and language as a central part of collective identity, contributors analyze how these mediums function as both a vessel and a link for information and cultural cohesion of those engaging in social change." (Publisher description)
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"This book examines the emergence of small cinemas of the Andes, covering digital peripheries in Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru and Colombia. The volume critically assesses heterogeneous audiovisual practices and subaltern agents, elucidating existing tensions, contradictions and resistances with respect to
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established cinematic norms. The reason these small cinematic sectors are of interest is twofold: first, the film markets of the aforementioned countries are often eclipsed by the filmmaking giants of Mexico, Brazil and Argentina; second, within the Andean countries these small cinemas are overshadowed by film board-backed cinemas whose products are largely designed for international film festivals." (Publisher description)
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"Os pesquisadores, ao investigar e publicar, buscam contribuir para a construção de uma sociedade mais justa e franca nas suas relações. Seja por meio das telenovelas, das redes sociais digitais, do jornalismo independente ou do tradicional, reverberamos vozes, ao passo que amplificamos ancestra
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lidades, compreendendo seu papel em nossa formação. O cenário é complexo e sua compreensão demanda ouvir diferentes opiniões para ponderar sobre uma sociedade em constante mutação e apropriação dos canais de informação. Estas novas estruturas são marcadas pela convergência de linguagens e distribuídas das mais diversas formas, concatenadas com diversos canais e em tempo real. O cidadão é um elo em uma cadeia formada por diversos blocos de informação, retransmitidos e remixados. Estes artigos convidam o leitor para uma leitura que demanda a pausa necessária para a compreensão das informações, mas que será realizada junto de anotações tradicionais ou em sistemas de referência para uso em publicações futuras. Além disso, a obra representa a resistência do conhecimento em um momento importante do país. É preciso cada vez mais propagar o conhecimento, utilizando a reflexão para reconectar pessoas em um momento de polarização pelas mais diversas pautas. A alteridade do tempo atual carrega em si conflitos, que serão resolvidos através da empatia e de novas formas de construir um pensamento em sintonia com o porvir." (Descripção casa editorial)
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"The Honduras Digital Ecosystem Country Assessment (DECA) report presents the findings and recommendations of the Honduras DECA. It outlines the key aspects of Honduras' digital ecosystem and provides 9 recommendations for creating a more inclusive, safe, and enabling environment. Guided by USAID/Ho
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nduras priorities, which include i) facilitating a systems change approach - social, economic, justice and security, environmental, education; ii) partnering and co-creating with the private sector to capitalize on shared values, forster innovation, and facilitating joint investment where interests align; and iii) generating opportunities for citizens - especially youth - to actively engage and invest in their future in Honduras, the DECA process included desk research, consultations with USAID/Honduras technical offices, and 76 key informant interviews with stakeholders from civil society, academia, and the private and public sectors. Key findings include: digital transformation is a priority of President Xiomara Castro’s new administration; an outdated telecommunications legal and regulatory environment is hindering connectivity expansion, affordability, and accessibility; efforts to digitize education are succeeding, but digital literacy lags and requires a concerted strategy; there are not effective data protection and cybersecurity regulations; the Government of Honduras lacks the capacity to prosecute digital crimes; there is a focus on countering mis- and disinformation by civil society, but a joint strategy is required for greater impact; the level of financial inclusion continues to be low due to systematic weaknesses, such as poor connectivity infrastructure, and supply-side factors, such as the lack of relevant traditional and digital financial services; e-commerce is slow to take off in Honduras, except in the two largest cities, Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula; the digital talent pool does not currently meet the labor market demand." (https://www.usaid.gov/digital-development)
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"Wie einst im ursprünglichen Gothic die verlassenen Schlösser des Feudalismus als Orte des Spuks in die bürgerliche Ära hineinragten, so sind es heute die globalen Ruinen des geplatzten Traums von Freiheit, Gleichheit und Brüderlichkeit, in denen das Grauen haust: Von den vom Immobiliencrash ge
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zeichneten Vororten Detroits (Barbarian, 2022) bis zu den bleivergifteten Ufern des Riachuelo in Buenos Aires. Das sind düstere Aussichten: Eine Vergangenheit, die, wie Marx schrieb, »wie ein Alp auf dem Gehirne der Lebenden« lastet und eine Zukunft, in der wir, wie David Cronenberg zeigt, Plastik fressen müssen (Crimes of the Future, 2022). Der »Train to Busan« (2016) rast mit Hochgeschwindigkeit, doch auch am Zielbahnhof lauern die Zombies – und weil jede*r um das eigene Überleben kämpft, liegt der Griff nach der Notbremse fern. Da wird es unheimlich, oder im Sinne der Wortbedeutung: un-heimelig. Den das Un-heimliche verweist gerade auch auf den Schrecken, der hinter dem Vertrauten lauert. Und weil auf den Schrecken der Normalität zu verweisen immer schon Anliegen der iz3w ist, proklamieren wir: Gespenster aller Länder, vereinigt euch! Die Frage, was Horror und Gesellschafskritik verbindet, vertieft im Einleitungsartikel Georg Seeßlen (Seite 23). Danach bleiben wir dem globalen Spuk anhand ausgewählter Beispiele auf der Spur: Wie die argentinische Literatur Horrormotive nutzt, um die Schrecken von Diktatur und Postdiktatur auszudrücken, zeigt Nikolas Grimm (Seite 26). Dass sich realer und fiktiver Schrecken oft in nichts nachstehen, betont Rosaly Magg am Beispiel vom Horror der Flucht und Migration (Seite 36). Dazu gibt es zwei schaurige Interviews: mit dem Autor Mark H. Harris über Horror und Rassismus in den USA (Seite 32); und was Dracula in Istanbul treibt, erklärt uns der Regisseur Cem Kaya (Seite 40)." (Editorial, Seite 22)
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"El análisis de la imagen corporativa de los militares y policías sobre el Obispado Castrense, revela áreas de oportunidad significativas en cuanto a la imagen comercial, la imagen pública y el contenido de valor en las redes sociales y la página web. Estos hallazgos indican que hay margen para
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mejoras sustanciales en la percepción que estos sectores tienen de la institución. Sin embargo, es alentador destacar que el camino hacia una imagen más sólida y positiva está claramente trazado. Las recomendaciones formuladas en este estudio ofrecen una guía valiosa para abordar los desafíos identificados. La implementación de estas recomendaciones, respaldada por un compromiso firme y una comunicación efectiva, puede marcar una diferencia significativa en la imagen corporativa del Obispado Castrense. El seguimiento riguroso de las acciones de mejora es esencial para asegurar que se logren resultados positivos a lo largo del tiempo. Esto implica una evaluación continua, adaptación de estrategias y una atención constante a la retroalimentación de los militares y policías, así como de la comunidad en general." (Conclusión final, página 107)
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"Los tres aspectos que estructuran el análisis son las condiciones de la infraestructura y su sostenibilidad, los usos de internet, y los imaginarios desde/hacia otros mundos posibles, siguiendo la identificación de tres grupos de indicadores de unesco acerca de alfabetización digital y mediátic
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a. Se eligieron dos espacios de la Amazonía boliviana para conducir diálogos latin america in a glimpse: amazonía derechos digitales grupales y entrevistas individuales, cada uno situado en diferentes administraciones políticas regionales, con diferentes Áreas Protegidas y diferentes naciones indígenas, originarias, campesinas. En primer lugar, la localidad de Tumupasa en el municipio de San Buenaventura, en el norte del departamento de La Paz y, en segundo lugar, la ciudad de Cobija y dos de sus poblaciones aledañas: El Sena y Monte Sinaí, en el departamento de Pando [...] Los principales hallazgos se pueden resumir en tres ideas: 1. El acceso a internet en las regiones estudiadas es deficiente en infraestructura y calidad de servicio. El Estado tiene varias políticas, las que debe impulsar con mayor decisión para conducir un proceso de digitalización satisfactorio. Dotación y sostenibilidad del servicio eléctrico y de telecomunicaciones de calidad son acciones pendientes y urgentes. 2. La sociedad civil amazónica es activa en la gestión y presión sobre las autoridades para conseguir el servicio eléctrico, las radio bases y la sostenibilidad del servicio. A pesar de que esto es oneroso en tiempo y dinero, existen dirigencias que están destinados a estas gestiones. Esta fuerza organizativa, en coordinación con agentes estatales, puede ser un buen camino para la mejora del servicio de internet y sus usos educativos y productivos. 3. Los pueblos indígenas tienen amplias expectativas e imaginarios de internet como espacio para asegurar derechos de salud, educación, culturales, de autodeterminación y libertad de expresión. De esta manera, el acceso a internet con nociones de interculturalidad abre un nuevo reto para las políticas públicas ligadas a la tecnología." (Pages 4-5)
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