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Comunidad de aprendizaje online como medio de capacitación de agentes sociales y pastorales

Ary Waldir Ramos Díaz
Bogotá: Consejo Episcopal Latinoamericano (CELAM) (2018), 279 pp.
"La investigación partió de la experiencia concreta de formación E-learning de Bolivia y Guatemala y obligó a profundizar en los antecedentes históricos y técnicos del desarrollo de las tecnologías y en los datos de la realidad global sociopolítica y económica. También el autor, sin ignora ... more
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More Than Just Bitcoin: The Potential of Blockchain Technology, Using the Example of Latin America

Christian Hübner
KAS International Reports, issue 1 (2018), pp. 64-77
"Blockchain tehcnology (BT) can make a significant contribution to the future development of Latin America. It provides a robust alternative to weak state authorities in the fight for democratically legitimised laws and standards that have only been applied to a limited extent, or not at all. BT cou ... more
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Innovadores en el periodismo latinoamericano
Deep Insights

Teresa Mioli, Ismael Nafría
Austin: Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas; Open Society Foundations (2018), 107 pp.
"El libro recopila los reportajes de la serie “Innovadores en el Periodismo Latinoamericano”, publicada en el blog del Centro Knight entre los meses de diciembre de 2017 y abril de 2018. Además, ofrece consejos prácticos sobre innovación periodística digital sobre distintos temas." (Página ... more
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Transnationalisierte Öffentlichkeit und Klimapolitik: Akteursensembles in der Medienberichterstattung von 15 Ländern

Mike S. Schäfer, Senja Post, Rafel Schwab, Katharina Kleinen-von Königslöw
Publizistik, volume 63, issue 2 (2018), pp. 207-244
"Die kommunikationswissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsforschung hat sich in den vergangenen Jahren verstärkt mit transnationalisierten Formen von Öffentlichkeit beschäftigt. Allerdings gehen nur wenige empirische Arbeiten über die (mögliche) Entstehung einer europäischen Öffentlichkeit hinaus. ... more
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Community media networks in Latin America

María Soledad Segura
Media Development, volume 65, issue 1 (2018), pp. 41-44
"Community, alternative and popular radio stations have a long tradition in Latin America that began in the middle of the 20th century. They accompanied the struggles of social organizations and popular sectors against dictatorial or authoritarian states despite the fact that those states persecuted ... more
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Amazonía: Nuevos caminos para la iglesia y para una ecología integral. Documento preparatorio

Ciudad del Vaticano: Sínodo de los Obispos, Asamblea Especial para la Región Panamazónica (2018), 33 pp.
"Escuchar a los pueblos indígenas y a todas las comunidades que viven en la Amazonía, como los primeros interlocutores de este Sínodo, es de vital importancia también para la Iglesia universal. Para ello necesitamos una mayor cercanía. Queremos saber ¿Cómo imaginan su “futuro sereno” y el ... more
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Contemporary BRICS Journalism: Non-Western Media in Transition
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Svetlana Pasti, Jyotika Ramaprasad (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2018), xiv, 273 pp.
"Contemporary BRICS Journalism: Non-Western Media in Transition is the first comparative study of professional journalists working in BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). The book presents a range of insider perspectives, offering a valuable insight into the nature of jo ... more
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Digital News Report 2018

Nic Newman, Richard Fletcher, Antonis Kalogeropoulos, David A. L. Levy, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (eds.)
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2018), 143 pp.
"The use of social media for news has started to fall in a number of key markets after years of continuous growth. Usage is down six percentage points in the United States, and is also down in the UK and France. Almost all of this is due to a specific decline in the discovery, posting, and sharing o ... more
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Media Pluralism, Public Trust, and Democracy: New Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean

Mariana Rodríguez, Elizabeth J. Zechmeister
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2018), 25 pp.
"There has been a decline in trust in the media in the LAC region. While in 2004 nearly two-thirds of individuals reported having high trust in the media, this result dropped to only half of individuals in 2016/17. Individuals who perceive the media as representative of different viewpoints or who h ... more
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Why Populism is Troubling for Democratic Communication

Silvio Waisbord
Communication, Culture & Critique, volume 11, issue 1 (2018), pp. 21-34
"In this article, I argue that populism has a troubling relationship with democratic communication. As illustrated by contemporary Latin American cases, populism’s illiberalism is contrary to the existence of the communication commons—a public space characterized by diversity, tolerance, reason, ... more
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Innovators in Latin American Journalism
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Teresa Mioli, Ismael Nafría (eds.)
Austin, Tex.: Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas (2018), 106 pp.
"This book was presented in April 2018 at the 11th Iberian American Colloquium on Digital Journalism, organized by the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas at Austin. The book compiles reports from the series “Innovators in Latin American Journalism,” published ... more
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Handbook of State Aid for Film: Finance, Industries and Regulation

Paul Clemens Murschetz, Roland Teichmann, Matthias Karmasin (eds.)
Cham: Springer (2018), xxx, 666 pp.
"This book is an analysis of the specificities of public film funding on an international scale. It shows how public funding schemes add value to film-making and other audio-visual productions and provides a comprehensive analysis of today’s global challenges in the film industry such as industry ... more
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Educar para los nuevos medios: Claves para el desarrollo de la competencia mediática en el entorno digital

Rosa García-Ruiz, Amor Pérez-Rodríguez, Ángel Torres (eds.)
Cuenca; Quito: Universidad Politécnica Salesiana, Área de Ciencias Sociales y del Comportamiento Humano, Carrera de Comunicación Social; Abya-Yala (2018), 219 pp.
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Media Ownership Monitor Mexico

Reporters Without Borders; Centro Nacional de Comunicación Social (Cencos) (2018), 1547 pp.
"Mexico’s booming media industry is controlled by some of the richest businessmen on earth. While the sector grows at a rate three times that of the overall economy, an alarming concentration of media ownership goes hand in hand with the well-known lack of safety for Mexico’s journalists, many o ... more
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Polígrafo de género

Cristina Vélez Vieira, Nicolás Velasquez
Bogotá: Linterna Verde; Colnodo; Fundación para la Libertad de Prensa (FLIP) (2018), 34 pp.
"Como parte de un proyecto sobre desinformación, el centro de Internet y Sociedad Linterna Verde, en asocio con la Fundación para la Libertad de Prensa, presenta un informe que monitorea los discursos de género –tanto de candidatos presidenciales como de sus fórmulas– a través del análisis ... more
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Estado depredador: Informe sobre el estado de la libertad de prensa en Colombia 2017

Bogotá: Fundación para la Libertad de Prensa (FLIP) (2018), 50 pp.
"La violencia sin protección ni sanciones; la pauta oficial que compra silencios; la estigmatización de la prensa como respuesta a las críticas; la violencia estatal y letal contra periodistas; las decisiones judiciales que abren la puerta a la censura y, sobretodo, aquellos extensos territorios ... more
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Organizaciones de prensa y posconflicto en Colombia

Jonathan Bock
Bogotá: Universidad Colegio Mayor de Nuestra señora del Rosario, Trabajo de Grado (2018), 90 pp.
"Esta investigación tiene como objetivo determinar los alcances y las limitaciones que tienen las organizaciones de prensa colombianas al momento de preparar a los periodistas para cubrir y afrontar el proceso de posconflicto, derivado del Acuerdo Final para la Terminación del Conflicto y la Const ... more
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Niños, niñas y adolescentes conectados: Informe Kids Online Uruguay

Matías Dodel, Carola Kweksilber, Florencia Aguirre, Inés Méndez
Montevideo: UNICEF Uruguay; Plan Ceibal; UNESCO (2018), 153 pp.
"1. Todos los niños uruguayos se conectaron alguna vez a internet [...] 2. El teléfono celular es el dispositivo más usado por los niños para conectarse a internet [...] 3. Los niños no son expertos en el uso de internet [...] 4. Los niños consideran que hay cosas buenas para ellos en internet ... more
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Digital in 2018: Essential Insights Into Internet, Social Media, Mobile, and E-Commerce Use Around the World

Simon Kemp
We Are Social; Hootsuite (2018), 153 slides
"Perhaps the most exciting headline in this year’s reports is that global internet users have now passed the 4 billion mark. Well over half of the world’s population now uses the internet, and a quarter of a billion new users came online for the first time during the past 12 months. People are s ... more
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Online Supplement to Working Paper 2018.1. Challenging Truth and Trust: A Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation

Samantha Bradshaw, Philip N. Howard
Oxford: University of Oxford, Oxford Internet Institute; Computational Propaganda Research Project (2018), 81 pp.
"These are the background case notes complied for MEMO 2018.1: Challenging Truth and Trust: A Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation. For details on the methods behind this content analysis please see the methodology section of the report. This document contains data from over 500 s ... more