"Las periodistas mujeres son atacadas, al igual que sus colegas varones, por los temas políticos o de coyuntura que publican; pero se utilizan contra ellas muchas más expresiones discriminatorias vinculadas al género y agresiones con connotaciones sexuales. En los ataques contra las periodistas h
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ay aproximadamente 10% más de menciones que ponen en duda su capacidad intelectual; 20% más de expresiones sexistas; 30% más de comentarios vinculados a su apariencia física. La cobertura de manifestaciones vinculadas a la agenda de género y la expresión de posiciones favorables a la misma, particularmente hacia la legalización del aborto, son una razón extra por las que son atacadas las periodistas mujeres. Las mujeres manifestaron más afectación a su subjetividad a partir de los ataques y mayor vulneración de su derecho a la libertad de expresión; a la vez fueron más proactivas en la modificación de prácticas digitales." (Resumen ejecutivo, página 10)
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"This study was undertaken over the course of a month and the questionnaire was completed by sixty-three (63) journalists across the region. Most journalists were based in Trinidad and Tobago, followed by Guyana and Jamaica. Most journalists’ carreers spanned between five and ten years and most wo
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rked in the television media. The majority of journalists were employed by their media outlets and undertook pieces that peaked their personal interest. Most journalists believed that their role in society was to provide information to the public although most believed that the current reports being produced are sensationalized. Consistent with this finding half of the journalists shared that they believed that the public perceived journalistic output as only somewhat trustworthy. About two thirds of journalists shared that they have never had to subsidize their investigative reports with about one quarter sharing that they have never been commissioned for an assignment without the media outlet covering their expenses. More than half of the journalists believed that the level of safety of journalists in the past few years was dependent on the journalist’s location. Although, about two thirds of journalists revealed that they have experienced issues with safety while performing their job with half of the journalists stating that they have experienced verbal abuse. Almost half of the journalists believed that they were somewhat supported by their editorial team although they had to provide some of their own tools and or materials. Most journalists reported that government officials are hesitant to share information with the media although most reported that journalists are able to openly investigate and report on government wrongdoings in their country." (Executive summary)
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"Fue una larga conversación con Gerardo Lombardi, comunicador por vocación y por formación, sobre la historia radiofónica de 'Fe y Alegría'. Lombardi nos habla de los orígenes, del presente y del futuro. Al respecto dice que 'Fe y Alegría' está llamada a hacer puentes. Puentes para unos ente
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ndimientos que todavía están por hacerse. Y desde el punto de vista educativo, en una eventual reconstrucción del país que tendremos que hacer, como dice Gerardo Lombardi, la propuesta en el campo educativo es una propuesta de educación multimodal con esquemas mixtos, donde la educación a distancia y la radiofónica surgen como una gran posibilidad." (Página 217)
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"Taking into account the actual situation in the region, the support that VIKES provides for independent journalism is more urgent than ever. Journalists in the region are facing unprecedented challenges, from declining revenues, a broken business model and a new form of censorship, threats to journ
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alists’ safety and misinformation campaigns. In these conditions, the work that VIKES has been doing in the region has been relevant and successful. It has promoted the right of civil society to information and the right of media to freedom of expression. Activities that were planned in the programme document on the defense of fundamental rights to exercise free speech and democracy were implemented, and positive results were achieved. All the partner organizations have strengthened the exercise of democracy through digital media and investigative journalism, promoting citizen participation in public policies and improving the open-access and right to information. Networking and cooperation between independent media, journalists and CSOs are more reliable than ever in the region, and a new concept of collaborative journalism was introduced with positive results. VIKES supported media and independent journalists in producing high-quality information and investigative stories, supporting them to attract wider audiences. Training in business development, marketing and effective management was organised by the programme, and the financial sustainability of partners was improved. Even so, the independent media in the region is still dependent on external funding and will be, until the political situation in the region will improve. To be more effective and to improve the effectiveness of the Regional Independent Media Support Programme in the future, VIKES should increase the number of the partners and independent media representatives (also those currently exiled) to receive support from the programme. The main problem of independent public media remains the lack of financing and security. In a meeting with independent journalists in Nicaragua, where the government has threatened to continue to imprison journalists and publicly insults media professionals, they underlined the importance of solidarity networks among international organizations and press associations. According to them, VIKES has done bold work, and its efforts have supported the professionals who remain to practice “survival journalism” and need all the backing to continue to inform the population." (Executive summary, page 7-8)
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"Los estudios sobre comunicación en la Argentina se configuraron en el cruce entre las contingencias que atravesaron al país y las que transitaron las y los intelectuales que reflexionaron sobre la irrupción de los medios masivos. Este libro trata sobre Margarita Graziano, Aníbal Ford y Héctor
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Schmucler. Los recorridos y los temas de interés de estas tres figuras - abordados por Guillermo Mastrini, María Graciela Rodríguez y Mariano Zarowsky, respectivamente - no fueron los mismos pero tuvieron coincidencias. Fueron parte de una generación que se desarrolló profesionalmente en tiempos en los que la escisión entre trabajo académico y militancia política era una rareza. El exilio significó, más allá de sus tristezas, un espacio de diálogo con otras realidades; cuando terminó, Graziano, Ford y Schmucler volvieron a trabajar en la Argentina con la intención de que su labor académica incidiera en la sociedad y con la premisa común de producir y difundir categorías de interpretación del mundo desde América Latina." (Editorial)
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"En 2019, se reportaron 2.521 alertas relacionadas con violaciones a la libertad de expresión, libertad de prensa y acceso a la información a lo largo de 8 países. VDS reportó 734 alertas de los mismos países en 2018. Tanto de manera regional como local, la información nos habla sobre un rápi
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do deterioro en la libertad de expresión, libertad de prensa y acceso a la información en el contexto de creciente represión y restricciones. Esta situación habla de la alta vulnerabilidad de estas libertades fundamentales en América Latina y como socaban de manera seria la paz, justicia y democracia en la región, bloqueando la Agenda 2030. En Honduras, Venezuela y Nicaragua el abuso sistemático de las instituciones públicas impone un estado (no) oficial de censura, incluyendo el encarcelamiento de periodistas, la creación de leyes para limitar la libertad de expresión y fuertes restricciones para acceder a recursos claves. En Bolivia, Ecuador, y Guatemala la dramática inestabilidad social y política resultante de las protestas masivas donde los derechos humanos básicos—incluyendo la seguridad y protección a periodistas y el acceso a información pública—fueron gravemente violentados. En Brasil y Argentina la violencia contra periodistas y medios de comunicación no se ha materializado en ataques sistemáticos, pero se manifiesta en una violencia discursiva, acoso, intimidación y amenazas, las cuales, a la larga buscan imponer miedo y auto censura. En Perú y Uruguay, a pesar de tener los niveles más bajos de violencia en contra de periodistas y medios de comunicación en la región, los retos para acceder a la información persisten a través de ataques y agresiones aislados y procesos judiciales ocasionales por calumnias y difamación." (Resumen ejecutivo)
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"La Cátedra Unesco de Comunicación en su XXV edición se diseñó como un espacio para reflexionar sobre comunicación, información y lenguajes de la memoria. Con esa perspectiva, se consideró fundamental analizar el papel de la ciencia de la información en los procesos de recuperación, preser
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vación y divulgación de la memoria colectiva. En segundo lugar, desde los estudios del lenguaje, se buscó construir una agenda de investigación orientada a la generación de saberes pertinentes y el fomento de prácticas de intervención social que apuntaran a la recuperación de narrativas olvidadas o aún no contadas que, en conjunto, permitieran reconstruir la memoria del país. Y, en tercer lugar, analizar los procesos de representación, circulación y apropiación social del conocimiento que sobre la memoria se vienen realizando desde la comunicación social, el periodismo y áreas afines. Este libro compila, en la primera parte, doce textos de los conferencistas y panelistas que participaron en la Cátedra y, en la segunda parte, se incluyen los resúmenes de las ponencias presentadas en nueve grupos temáticos de trabajo, en los que participaron miembros de diversas universidades, estudiantes, profesores, investigadores y activistas sociales de todo el país." (Cubierta del libro)
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"Latin America's proposal for thinking about media practices is focused on popular subjects and communities; on what people do with the media; on the expressive and political use of media resources to gain visibility and public voice; on the intercultural dialogues always present in the negotiation
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between media and people's lives; on the expansion of media communication to music, food, festivals and rituals of identity. We propose seeing media practices as a critical dialogue between knowledges and cultures (Freire); as mediations between popular culture, the cultural industry, and political power (Martín-Barbero); as media-aided cultural migraations (Monsiváis); as heterogeneity of temporalities and practices (García Canclini); as insurrection performed by women, youth, indigenous people, Afro-descendants, and the digital world (Reguillo); as baroque aestheitcs (Echeverría); as a bastard experience of 'coolture' (Rincón); as a field where communication for good living is possible (Contreras)." (Conclusions, page 53)
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"This book traces the trajectory of the community archives movement, expanding the definition of community archives to include sites such as historical societies, social movement organisations and community centres. It also explores new definitions of what community archives might encompass, particu
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larly in relation to disciplines outside the archives. Over ten years have passed since the first volume of 'Community Archives', and inspired by continued research as well as by the formal recognition of community archives in the UK, the community archives movement has become an important area of research, recognition and appreciation by archivists, archival scholars and others worldwide. Increasingly the subject of papers and conferences, community archives are now seen as being in the vanguard of social concerns, markers of community-based activism, a participatory approach exemplifying the on-going evolution of 'professional' archival (and heritage) practice and integral to the ability of people to articulate and assert their identity." (Publisher description)
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"This research brings together scholarship across the Americas and Caribbean to examine digital inclusion initiatives in the following countries: Uruguay, Chile, Peru, Brazil, Mexico, Cuba, Jamaica, the United States, and Canada. Across the cases, several themes emerge that offer important indicator
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s for future digital inclusion initiatives. First, public policy can effectively reduce access gaps when it addresses the trifecta of network, device, and skill provision. Second, this triple-crown of public policy is highly effective for longitudinal effect when implemented early via educational institutions. Third, rural-urban digital inequality is resistant to change such that rural populations benefit less from policy initiatives than their urban counterparts. Fourth, digital inclusion in rural areas and among marginalized populations is most effective when cocreated with communities to ensure community investment, participation, and control. Fifth, stay-at-home orders during the COVID-19 pandemic are rapidly increasing our dependence on digital technologies, making digital inclusion more important than ever for education and rural communities. We therefore close the article with discussion of how the COVID-19 pandemic is amplifying digital disadvantage and exclusion across the Americas, the Caribbean, and the globe. (Abstract)
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"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
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do. Este esfuerzo busca motivar una intervención jurídicamente informada y socialmente sensible a la gestión de conflictos por la tierra de cuyo abordaje depende la protección de la vida, la integridad y la pervivencia física y cultural, presente y futura de los pueblos y comunidades étnicas de Colombia. Además, busca promover herramientas y reflexiones para actuar en contextos territoriales concretos, poniendo énfasis en los retos y aprendizajes surgidos del proceso de restitutción de derechos territoriales." (Cubierta del libro)
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"This report [...] presents a bespoke analysis of how women around the world consume and perceive news, based on data on audience behaviour from 11 countries featured in the 2020 Reuters Institute Digital News Report: Kenya, South Africa, South Korea, Hong Kong, Japan, Mexico, Brazil, Finland, Germa
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ny, United Kingdom, and United States. We have selected these 11 to represent as wide a geographical base as possible, and cover some of the richest and poorest countries in the report [...] As the country profiles show, a growing set of women-led protest movements against femicide, sexual assault, and online harassment around the world have created a new debate around how the news portrays women, and new conversations about who is in the newsroom deciding the agenda and framing the news. While news reporting has sometimes played an important role in these debates, it is also clear that many of them are driven by feminists who use social media as activist tools to speak out and organise against sexism and misogyny, sometimes in the news media too [...] Key Findings: Men are more likely than women to say that they are ‘extremely’ or ‘very’ interested in political news across all markets; Women are more likely than men to express high levels of interest in news about health and education; Women are more likely than men to report that they use TV news programmes or bulletins; Facebook is still an important source of news for both men and women, but YouTube and Twitter are more popular with men; Women will talk about news face to face with friends and family more than men. They are less likely to comment on news on news websites or on social media; Women’s levels of trust in news, and concern over ‘fake news’ online, are broadly similar to men’s." (https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk)
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"We have identified a great diversity of projects organized by local media producers, often in an alliance with other sectors of civil society that are interested in generating information offers from and for the Amazon. In general terms, the most promising initiatives for fostering democratic discu
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ssions in the region are those that take into account the following criteria: they work together with grassroots social processes in their respective localities; they strengthen cultural diversity and value the identity of individuals and collectives; they search for technological solutions adapted to the conditions of each place; they seek to form alliances. The objective of this study was, in the first place, to identify the difficulties for communicating in the Amazon, but also to make proposals for change. In the different forums established in the context of this research, as well as during the fieldwork, it was possible to become acquainted with projects that seek to improve the participation of regional inhabitants in communication, information, and dialogue networks. Some of these projects have existed for years, while others are still in development. These proposals can be systematized according to their contribution to the creation of solutions for socioenvironmental conflicts from a communications perspective. We have thus identified four main areas: cultural diversity and biodiversity; participation and sustainable development; managing communication autonomously; forging alliances to increase the visibility of socioenvironmental conflicts." (Conclusions, page 51)
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"Die Studie basiert auf 21.929 Beiträgen, von denen mithilfe einer geschichteten Stichprobe 4.164 in die Analyse einbezogen, ausgewertet und mit Korrespondenten-Interviews kombiniert wurden. Sie beleuchtet die Auswahlkriterien und Mechanismen der Berichterstattung zu Lateinamerika und füllte eine
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Forschungslücke zu einem Thema, das außenpolitisch extrem relevant ist. Das Buch betrachtet Themen und Merkmale des Mediendiskurses in kombinierter Form, stellt Länderprofile dar und sucht nach theoretischen Erklärungen für die Bildkonstruktionen. Die Studie kommt zum Ergebnis, dass es das Lateinamerikabild in der deutschen Presse nicht gibt, sondern sich eine Perzeption nach Ländern und Landesgruppen ausdifferenziert lässt." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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