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Freedom on the Net 2020: The Pandemic's Digital Shadow
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Washington, DC: Freedom House (2020), 33 pp.

"Three notable trends punctuated an especially dismal year for internet freedom. First, political leaders used the pandemic as a pretext to limit access to information. Authorities often blocked independent news sites and arrested individuals on spurious charges of spreading false news. In many plac ... more

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Why are journalists threatened and killed? A portrait of neo-paramilitary anti-press violence in Colombia's Bajo Cauca

Matthew Charles

Journalism, volume 23, issue 4 (2020), pp. 841-857

"Anti-press violence in Colombia's Bajo Cauca is an inherent part of the structures, which underpin the region's alternative social (dis)order. Through ethnographic interviews with four members of Colombia's neo-paramilitary group, Los Urabenos, who have perpetrated attacks against journalists, this ... more

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Evaluación rápida del ecosistema de información en derechos de la comunidad venezolana migrante y retornada en Bogotá, Cúcuta y Maicao/Riohacha

Mauricio Beltrán, Miguel A. Morffe, Olimpia Palma

Internews (2020), 32 pp.

"Esta Evaluación del Ecosistema de Información (IEA) aborda, desde la demanda, el flujo de información para el acceso a servicios en protección de derechos de la comunidad migrante y retornada en Bogotá, el área metropolitana de Cúcuta y los municipios de Maicao y Riohacha en La Guajira. La i ... more

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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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La UC y Canal 13: De la televisión experimental a la era digital

Patricio Donoso Ibañez, Ignacio Sánchez Díaz

Santiago de Chile: Ediciones UC (2020), 138 pp.

"La UC y Canal 13: de la televisión experimental a la era digital es un recorrido breve a través de la participación de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile en el inicio, institucionalización y evolución del Canal 13 de televisión. Este nace como una actividad experimental en un labora ... more

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Media and the Image of the Nation During Brazil's 2013 Protests

César Jiménez-Martínez

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xv, 219 pp.

"This book explores the struggles over the mediated construction and projection of the image of the nation at times of social unrest. Focusing on the June 2013 protests in Brazil, it examines how different actors -authorities, activists, the national media, foreign correspondents- disseminated compe ... more

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Diálogo de saberes en colectivos de comunicación

Angela Piedad Garcés Montoya (ed.)

Medellín: Sello Editorial Universidad de Medellín (2020), 262 pp.

"Esta publicación sobre diálogo de saberes en colectivos recoge el espíritu del diálogo de saberes para reflexionar sobre temas recientes en los procesos de agrupación juvenil y sus formas de apropiación de medios y territorios, pues resulta pertinente pensar la ciudad y a través de las diná ... 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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The Bible Onscreen in the New Millennium: New Heart and New Spirit

Wickham Clayton (ed.)

Manchester: Manchester University Press (2020), xx, 278 pp.

"The remarkable commercial success of Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ in 2004 came as a surprise to the Hollywood establishment, particularly considering the film’s failure to find production funding through a major studio. Since then the Biblical epic, long thought dead in terms of mains ... more

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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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Discourses of Anxiety Over Childhood and Youth Across Cultures

Liza Tsaliki, Despina Chronaki (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xxi, 426 pp.

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Comunicación política y elecciones en el Perú: Avanzando en certezas

Sandro Macassi Lavander (ed.)

Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP), Fondo Editorial;Grupo de Investigación en Comunicación y Política (GICYP); (2020), 357 pp.

"Los artículos reunidos en esta publicación estudian los procesos electorales a partir de conceptos como enmarcamiento, polarización, cultura política, prominencia o deliberación, que hacen que la reflexión sea menos coyuntural y comprenda procesos de más largo aliento, con una pluralidad met ... more

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Consumo y pago de noticias digitales: Oportunidades y desafíos del modelo de suscripción en América Latina

Luminate Foundation;Provokers (2020), 62 pp.

"Durante la pandemia de COVID-19, el 57% de los lectores de medios digitales en Argentina, Brazil, Colombia y Mexico ha aumentado su consumo de noticias. El 90% de los consumidores está accediendo a las noticias digitales por lo menos dos veces a la semana y el 78% por lo menos una vez al día. Las ... more

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COVID-19 and Children’s Media in Latin and South America: Responses on TV Screens, Platforms and Video Channels

Beth Carmona

Televizion, issue 33 (2020), pp. 35-36

"The author summarizes approaches how TV stations, content platforms and media networks for children in South and Latin America respond to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic." (Abstract)

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Connected: How a Mexican Village Built its Own Cell Phone Network

Roberto Jesús González

Oakland, Calif.: University of California Press (2020), xiii, 259 pp.

"This is the true story of how, against all odds, a remote Mexican pueblo built its own autonomous cell phone network – without help from telecom companies or the government. Anthropologist Roberto J. González paints a vivid and nuanced picture of life in a Oaxaca mountain village and the collect ... more

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The ‘changing’ Face of Media Discourses on Poverty in the Age of Populism and Anti-Globalisation: The Political Appeal of Anti-Modernity and Certainty in Brazil

Jairo Lugo-Ocando

International Communication Gazette, volume 82, issue 1 (2020), pp. 101-116

"This article analyses how the political right in parts of the Global South has appropriate agendas and issues that in the past were often associated to the political left and presented them instead as their own. It does so by articulating narratives around poverty and social exclusion in the contex ... more