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Situación de la transparencia y acceso a información en el sector de hidrocarburos: Análisis de portales web

La Paz: Fundación Jubileo (2020), 35 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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Juan Carlos Valencia Rincón (ed.)
Bogotá: Editorial Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (2020), 442 pp.
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Journalism and self-censorship in the insecure democracies of Central America

José Luis Benítez
In: Journalist Safety and Self-Censorship
Ingrid Fadnes, Anna Grøndahl Larsen, Roy Krøvel (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2020), pp. 13-28
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Acceso a la información pública: Guía práctica de peticiones

Amado Vivas, Saúl Blanco
Espacio Público; El Pueblo Pregunta (2020), 27 pp.
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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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Behind Closed Curtains: Disinformation on Messenger Services

Ann Cathrin Riedel
Potsdam: Friedrich Naumann Foundation (2020), 30 pp.
"Several studies analysed in this paper show that messenger services facilitate and exacerbate the spread of disinformation. Any solution must make allowances for the complexity with which information spreads. The case studies show that a lack of trust in government is a key factor in the proliferat ... more
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El futuro de los medios

cadem (2020), 27 slides
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Disinformation in Venezuela: Reflections in Times of Pandemic

Andrés Cañizález
Caracas: Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB); ABediciones (2020), 87 pp.
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Más que palabras: Buscando consensos para caracterizar el discurso de odio

Asociación por los Derechos Civiles (ADC) (2020), 37 pp.
"[...] la presente investigación tiene como objeto cuatro naciones de América Latina: Argentina, Brasil, Costa Rica y Panamá. Se analiza de qué manera cada uno de los países seleccionados caracteriza al discurso de odio y cómo lo enfrenta. Este abordaje se realizó desde una perspectiva legal ... more
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Media and Governance in Latin America: Toward a Plurality of Voices

Ximena Orchard, Sara Garcia Santamaria, Julieta Brambila, Jairo Lugo-Ocando (eds.)
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2020), viii, 273 pp.
"This edited book aims at bringing together a range of contemporary expertise that can shed light on the relationship between media pluralism in Latin America and processes of democratization and social justice. In doing so, the authors of the book provide empirically grounded theoretical insight in ... 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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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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Stronger and Safer Together: Motivations for and Challenges of (Trans)National Collaboration in Investigative Reporting in Latin America

Lourdes M. Cueva Chacón, Magdalena Saldaña
Digital Journalism, volume 9, issue 2 (2020), pp. 196-214
"Despite the growing scholarship on investigative journalism in Latin America, very few studies have addressed collaboration across newsrooms in the region. By analyzing the responses of 251 journalists who work for investigative units in Latin American news outlets, this study explores a) the reaso ... more
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De-Westernizing Visual Communication and Cultures: Perspectives from the Global South

Thomas Herdin, Maria Faust, Guo-Ming Chen (eds.)
Baden-Baden: Nomos (2020), 225 pp.
"This edited volume gives voice to pluralised avenues from visual communication and cultural studies regarding the Global South and beyond, including examples from China, India, Cambodia, Brazil, Mexico and numerous other countries. Defining visual communication and culture as an umbrella term that ... 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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La pobreza y el discurso de los mass media: Un estudio de la prensa local argentina

María del Rosario Sánchez, Silvia London
Ámbitos. Revista Internacional de Comunicación (Sevilla), issue 49 (2020), pp. 136-157
"La pobreza constituye un problema estructural en Argentina, realidad que se evidencia, más allá de las controversias en torno a su delimitación conceptual y su medición, desde diversos enfoques teórico metodológicos que abordan el fenómeno. Este trabajo busca aportar a la explicación de est ... more
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Digital News Report 2020

Nic Newman, Richard Fletcher, Anne Schulz, Simge Andi, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (eds.)
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2020), 111 pp.
"The bulk of this report is based on data collected by a survey of more than 80,000 people in 40 markets and reflects media usage in January/February just before the coronavirus hit many of these countries. But the key trends that we document here, including changes in how people access news, low tr ... 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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Double-edged knife: Practices and perceptions of technology and digital security among Mexican journalists in violent contexts

Rubén Arnoldo González, Frida V. Rodelo
Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society, volume 3, issue 1 (2020), pp. 22-42
"Violence against Mexican journalists has received significant attention from scholars at home and abroad during the last decade. However, though a diversity of issues have been consistently studied, there is one topic that is still largely neglected: the implications of technology for news workers ... more