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Handbook of Communication for Development and Social Change
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Jan Servaes (ed.)

Singapore: Springer (2020), 2 vols.

"The book contains 85 chapters written by persons who have been on those frontlines of communication and development [...] A variety of case studies appear in the book. For example, Kriss Barker and Fatou Jah – in a chapter titled “Entertainment-Education in Radio: Three Case Studies from Africa ... ” – explore in detail projects in Nigeria, Burundi and Burkina Faso that used a communication intervention approach advanced by the Population Media Center. Other chapters in the Handbook take the reader to Spain, Kenya, South Africa, Kazakhstan, and beyond. Song Shi examines “ICTs and Modernization in China,” revealing that assumptions and theories of the modernization paradigm have significantly influenced the policies and projects on ICT4D in contemporary China. And, Song Shi writes, discussion on the potential of other approaches in ICT4D in China has also emerged among scholars. Hina Ayaz discusses the “Multiplicity Approach in Participatory Communication” in Pakistan – wherein the country adopted the Global Polio Eradication Initiative – only to run into negative perceptions and banning of polio vaccinations. However, a shift to a more successful approach, grounded in UNICEF’s social mobilization and communityinvolvement communication strategy, brought significant success. While many of the Handbook case studies incorporate participation as a significant development factor, they also address a wide range of social and political issues including, for example, civic engagement, sexual harassment, empowerment, and community voices. In addition to an abundance of case studies from around the world, the Handbook delves into various research methods that are being used to understand and design communication for development and social change interventions [...] Handbook editor Jan Servaes' own chapter (with Rico Lie), “Key Concepts, Disciplines, and Fields in Communication for Development and Social Change ” identifies five clusters of concepts and practices that are evident in the field today and which determine the activities and approaches in communication for sustainable development and social change interventions: The clusters are (1) a normative cluster of concepts; (2) a cluster of concepts that sets an important context for communication activities for development; (3) a cluster of strategic and methodological concepts; (4) a cluster of concepts that relate to methods, techniques, and tools; and (5) a cluster of concepts that addresses the practices of advocacy, (participatory) monitoring and evaluation, and impact assessment. The authors extend their discussion into three subdivisions: (1) health communication, (2) agricultural extension and rural communication, and (3) environmental communication (including climate change communication). This leads the reader into issues related to (1) right to communicate; (2) education and learning; (3) innovation, science, and technology; (4) natural resource management; (5) food security; (6) poverty reduction; (7) peace and conflict; (8) children and youth, women, and senior citizens; and (9) tourism. Some of the forerunners of development communication have not been forgotten. In “Daniel Lerner and the Origins of Development Communication”, Hemant Shah links Lerner’s 1958 book Passing of Traditional Society to today’s modernization and faith in technology to solve social problems. Also contributing to the foundation of this field is Paulo Freire who contributed much to idea that participation should be a vital part of the development dialogue. Ana Fernández-Aballí Altamirano’s chapter on "The Importance of Paulo Freire to Communication for Development and Social Change" highlights his main work Pedagogy of the Oppressed as a "before-and-after" in the fields of education, research, and communication, initially in Latin America and later in both North and South. Particularly in the case of development communication and communication for social change, the author stresses, Freire’s work had a definitive impact ..." (Review by Royal Donald Colle, Journal of Development Communication, vol. 30 (2), page 92-94) 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

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Perspectivas editoriales 2020

Córdoba: Radio María (2020), 22 pp.

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Ondas comunitarias que narran la paz en Colombia

Mireya Barón Pulido, Fabiola León Posada, Marcia Ximena Santisteban Casas, Edgar Ricardo Serrano Navarro, Marcela Téllez Pedraza

Bogotá: Universidad Santo Tomás;Institución Universitaria Politécnico Grancolombiano (2020), 238 pp.

"Este libro tiene como finalidad presentar los resultados del proceso de investigación que se llevó a cabo entre enero de 2018 y noviembre de 2019 por parte de un grupo de docentes-investigadores de los programas de Comunicación Social de la Institución Universitaria Politécnico Grancolombiano ... y de la Universidad Santo Tomás (USTA), de Bogotá, cuyo objetivo fue analizar las narrativas de los magazines de siete emisoras comunitarias localizadas en Cundinamarca, Boyacá, Guaviare, Caquetá y Chocó, entre febrero y junio de 2018, y sus aportes en la construcción de una cultura de paz, entendiendo esta como parte de los Acuerdos de paz, con el fin de aportar a estudiantes de comunicación, a trabajadores de la radio, a la comunidad académica, y a la sociedad, en general, elementos para pensar una comunicación incluyente. Este contexto sirvió de marco para las tres partes en las que se distribuye el libro. En general, la primera parte muestra al lector un breve estado del arte de la radio comunitaria en el mundo a través de un estudio bibliométrico que recoge los acercamientos que desde allí se han realizado a la temática y su rol en procesos para preservar la paz —peacekeeping— en diversas regiones del mundo, donde destacan estudios realizados por Alhassan, Bhagwan-Rolls, Brisset-Foucault, Darder, Maldonado, Mezghanni y Patil, entre otros [...] En la segunda parte del libro el lector inicia con el recorrido metodológico trazado desde los conceptos, discusiones y propuestas de Van Dijk, Valles, Haidar, Delgado y Gutiérrez, y en especial el aporte sobre teoría fundamentada de Strauss y Corbin. Desde allí se construyeron los lineamientos que permitieron la triangulación de datos. Tras la lectura e interpretación de la información cualitativa por medio del software Nvivo, observamos cómo se obtuvieron los resultados centrados en aspectos como las narrativas propias de esas siete emisoras comunitarias en torno a temas relacionados con alguno de los puntos del Acuerdo de paz ... Por último, en la tercera parte el lector podrá conocer la estrategia digital Ondas, mensajes para conversar, un sitio web dirigido a quienes están interesados en producir medios de comunicación desde los cuales construir escenarios de convivencia, y donde se recogen algunos aspectos sobre el quehacer y el impacto de la radio comunitaria como escenario dialógico de las voces de las regiones y, sobre todo, como herramienta de construcción de paz." (Introduccion, página 21-24) more

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Internet amurallado: Acceso restringido en Venezuela

Andrea Garrido, Ivahnova González, Eduardo Lovera

Caracas: Espacio Público (2020), 21 pp.

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Navigating the ‘infodemic’: How People in Six Countries Access and Rate News and Information About Coronavirus

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Richard Fletcher, Nic Newman, J. Scott Brennen, Philip N. Howard

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2020), 34 pp.

"In this report, we use survey data collected in late March and early April 2020 to document and understand how people in six countries (Argentina, Germany, South Korea, Spain, the UK, and the US) accessed news and information about COVID-19 in the early stages of the global pandemic, how they rate ... more

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Discurso de odio en América Latina: Tendencias de regulación, rol de los intermediarios y riesgos para la libertad de expresión

Marianne Díaz Hernández

Santiago de Chile: Derechos Digitales (2020), 24 pp.

"En gran parte de América Latina existen normas que buscan regular los actos de discurso, ya sea a través de normativas contra el discurso de odio, o mediante la penalización de los “delitos de honor” (cuyo traslado al ámbito civil y la correspondiente despenalización, dicho sea de paso, es ... more

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Demand for Deceit: How the Way We Think Drives Disinformation

Samuel C. Wolley, Katie Joseff

Washington, DC: National Endowment for Democracy (NED) (2020), 38 pp.

"Just because the effectiveness of disinformation may be tied to innate aspects of human psychology does not mean that democratic societies are powerless to respond. Rather, civil society, journalists, and other stakeholders invested in the freedom and openness of the global information space should ... more

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Communicating Science: A Global Perspective
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Toss Gascoigne, Bernard Schiele, Joan Leach, Michelle Riedlinger, Bruce V. Lewenstein, Luisa Massarani, Peter Broks (eds.)

Canberra: Australian National University (ANU) Press (2020), xi, 982 pp.

"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 ... more

Off and Online Journalism and Corruption: International Comparative Analysis

Basyouni Hamada, Saodah Wok (eds.)

London: Intech Open (2020), various pag.

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Especial medios de comunicación: Encuesta de satisfacción política y opinión pública

Buenos Aires: Universidad de San Andrés, Encuesta de Satisfacción Política y Opinión Pública (ESPOP) (2020), 24 pp.

"En la mayoría de los casos existe una relación lineal entre la confianza y el consumo de cada medio. En ese contexto, entre los consumidores frecuentes de cada medio la confianza neta (Confía Mucho + Confías Algo) es mayor en Telefe (80%), C5N (78%) y Clarín (74%). De todos modos, cabe aclarar ... more

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Redes sociales y plataformas de fact-checking contra la desinformación sobre la COVID-19

Xavier Ramon-Vegas, Marcel Mauri-Ríos, Ruth Rodríguez-Martínez

Hipertext.net, issue 21 (2020), pp. 79-92

"La pandemia de la COVID-19 ha generado una crisis sanitaria y comunicativa sin precedentes. A través de las plataformas digitales, se ha producido una ingente circulación de información falsa, inexacta o descontextualizada so-bre el coronavirus. Entre ella, cabe destacar los rumores, bulos y teo ... more

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Medios escolares, posibilidades y retos para empoderar sujetos políticos y productores de sentido en la escuela

Juan Carlos Ceballos Sepúlveda, Julián Darío Forero Sandoval, Alfredo Álvarez Orozco, Luis Manuel Rojas Ramírez

Medellín: Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (2020), 214 pp.

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Tradiciones de investigación en diálogo: Estudios sobre comunicación en América Latina y Europa

Fernando Oliveira Paulino, Gabriel Kaplún, Miguel Vicente Mariño, Leonardo Custódio (eds.)

Ramada (PO): Media XXI;Formalpress (2020), 358 pp.

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Kuba: Keine Besserung in Sicht. Trotz der Verfassungsreform von 2018 bleiben die Grundrechte stark eingeschränkt

Ilse Reyes, Hans-Hartwig Blomeier, Ann-Kathrin Beck

Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2020), 5 pp.

"Mit einer Reform 2018 wurden die Grundrechte in der kubanischen Verfassung stärker verankert, ein zarter Hoffnungsschimmer für die Bevölkerung. Doch in der Praxis sind die Kubaner noch immer stark eingeschränkt. Besonders die Meinungs- und Versammlungsfreiheit sind erheblich limitiert und werde ... more

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What We Think We Know and What We Want to Know: Perspectives on Trust in News in a Changing World

Benjamin Toff, Sumitra Badrinathan, Camila Mont’Alverne, Amy Ross Arguedas, Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nelsen

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2020), 26 pp.

"Trust in news has eroded worldwide. According to the Reuters Institute’s Digital News Report 2020, fewer than four in ten people (38%) across 40 markets say they typically trust most news. While trust has fallen by double digit margins in recent years in many places, including Brazil and the Unit ... ed Kingdom, in other countries more stable overall trends conceal stark and growing partisan divides. Why is trust eroding, how does it play out across different contexts and different groups, what are the implications, and what might be done about it? These are the organising questions behind the Trust in News Project. This report is the first of many we will publish from the project over the next three years. Because trust is a relationship between trustors and trustees, we anticipate focusing primarily on audiences and the way they think about trust, but we begin the project by taking stock of how those who study journalism and those who practice it think about the subject [...] We focus on media environments in four democracies – Brazil, India, the United Kingdom, and the United States. These countries encompass both the Global South and North, with a range of cultural heterogeneity and political practices that vary in their partisan and populist tendencies. For our purposes, one of the most important differences across these countries is in how audiences have integrated digital and social media practices into how they consume news. Whereas public social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter have rapidly become key conduits of information in democracies worldwide, many of those we interviewed pointed to the popularity of encrypted messaging services like WhatsApp, specifically in Brazil and India, which have combined with deficits in digital literacy to serve as a ‘breeding ground’ for misinformation and disinformation (Chakrabarti et al. 2018). As Irineu Machado, head of content delivery at UOL (Brazil), told us, audiences increasingly ‘distrust organisations who traditionally’ cover news and ‘distrust information in general’, and some rely not just on public social networking sites but also private groups and messaging applications [...] This report is divided into two main sections. First, we outline important lessons from existing research and practitioners’ observations on trust in news. Second, we identify outstanding questions that we expect will guide our project in the years ahead." (Introduction) more

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Comunicación para el cambio de comportamientos y estrategias sanitaria del gobierno peruano frente al COVID-19

Sandro Macassi

Chasqui: Revista Latinoamericana de Comunicación (Quito), issue 145 (2020), pp. 235-258

"Se revisan las explicaciones sobre incremento de contagios y muertes en el caso peruano pese a las medidas tempranas y duras para restringir la propagación del virus. Se profundiza en el análisis de las barreras para el cambio de comportamiento necesarios para detener la transmisión del COVID-19 ... more

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Making Open Development Inclusive: Lessons from IDRC Research

Matthew L. Smith, Ruhiya Kristine Seward (eds.)

Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press;International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2020), xiv, 498 pp.

"Making Open Development Inclusive: Lessons from IDRC Research focuses on the connection between openness and inclusion in global development. It brings together the latest research that cuts across a wide variety of political, economic, and social arenas - from governance to education to entreprene ... more

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Digital Ecosystem Country Assessment (DECA): Colombia

Lauren Bieniek, Kate Dimsdale, Craig Jolley, Fernando Maldonado

USAID, Digital Frontiers Project (2020), 43 pp.

"[...] The DECA is a decision-making tool to help USAID Missions, their partners, and other relevant stakeholders identify the opportunities, maximize the benefits, and manage the risks associated with digital technology. The goal is to help USAID’s partner countries along their journey to self-re ... more

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Comunicação, media e indústrias criativas na era digital

Paulo Faustino, Carla Martins, Iván Puentes, Francisco Belda (orgs.)

Porto: Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Letras (2020), 416 pp.

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