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Resistiendo desde la comunicación popular

Cal y Canto, issue 3 (2017), 65 pp.
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Digital Environments: Ethnographic Perspectives Across Global Online and Offline Spaces

Urte Undine Frömming, Steffen Köhn, Samantha Fox, Mike Terry (eds.)
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2017), 267 pp.
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Ethical Perspectives in Latin America’s Journalism Community: A Comparative Analysis of Acceptance of Controversial Practice for Investigative Reporting

Vanessa de M. Higgins Joyce, Magdalena Saldaña, Amy Schmitz Weiss, Rosental Calmon Alves
International Communication Gazette, volume 79, issue 5 (2017), pp. 459-482
"This study analyzes ethical interpretations in the region’s investigative journalism community through a comparative analysis based on a survey conducted with journalists, journalism educators, and students from 20 Latin American and Caribbean countries. Our findings highlight the prevalence of a ... more
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Voces de rebeldía: Mujeres, radios comunitarias, movimiento social. una mirada desde la experiencia

Esperanza del Carmen González Valentín
Puebla: Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla, Master Thesis (2017), 123 pp.
"La emergencia de las radios comunitarias se da al interior de un proceso comunitario y colectivo de toma de conciencia de las agresiones institucionales por parte del Estado; de los intentos de despojo del territorio por parte de empresas trasnacionales, de la desinformación de los medios comercia ... more
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Favela Media Activism: Counterpublics for Human Rights in Brazil

Leonardo Custódio
Lanham: Lexington Books (2017), 227 pp.
"Leonardo Custódio provides multifaceted analyses of how favela youth engage in individual and collective media activist initiatives despite social class constraints and neoliberal imperatives in their everyday life. This book details processes experienced by young favela residents while becoming i ... more
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Media Interventions as Humanitarian Action

Shawn Powers
In: The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action
Robin Andersen, Robin Purnaka L. de Silva (eds.)
London: Routledge (2017), pp. 416-427
"This chapter aims to introduce the concept of an information intervention as an example of humanitarian action. Typically associated negatively with government efforts to incite conflict and tension, two case studies are explored-Haiti and Syria-to better understand how state-led information interv ... more
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Global Pop: Das Buch zur Weltmusik

Claus Leggewie (ed.)
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Lizenzausg. (2017), 392 pp.
"Der Begriff "Weltmusik" war in den 1980er Jahren die gängige Beschreibung für Musikstile, die aus westlicher Perspektive "exotisch" wirkten. Er stand für unterschiedlichste musikalische Traditionen, die oftmals nicht viel mehr gemein hatten, als dass sie plötzlich für den westlichen Markt inte ... more
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Violence, co-optation and corruption: Risks for the exercise of journalism and freedom of expression in Mexico

Armando Rodríguez Luna
In: Beyond the Drug War in Mexico: Human Rights, the Public Sphere and Justice
W. G. Pansters, Benjamin T. Smith, Peter Watt (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2017), pp. 97-110
"Freedom of expression is a cornerstone of democratic society and essential for the formation of an informed public opinion. A society that is not well informed is never totally free. This chapter examines the interplay of external and internal risks on press freedom in five Mexican states. The conc ... more
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Radio Sutatenza: Una revolución cultural en el campo colombiano (1947-1994)

Juan Pablo Angarita Bernal et al.
Bogotá: Banco de la República; Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango (2017), 176 pp.
"En esta publicación se reproducen algunos ensayos escritos por los curadores e investigadores de la exposición itinerante “Radio Sutatenza: una revolución cultural en el campo colombiano (1947-1994)”, que ha viajado por distintas sucursales de la Red de Bibliotecas del Banco de la República ... more
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"Popular Culture" in a Changing Brazil

Edson Farias, Bianca Freire-Medeiros
In: The Routledge Companion to Global Popular Culture
Toby Miller (ed.)
New York; London: Routledge (2017), pp. 510-518
"Throughout the last century, the idea of popular culture in Brazil was intertwined with matters affecting the nation and national identity – symbols and practices that in combination became representative emblems of the essence of the country. However, there is a structural ambiguity that pervade ... more
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Shifting the South African Media Diversity Debate from the Stick to the Carrot: Lessons from Scandinavia, Latin America and West Africa
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Julia Plessing
African Journalism Studies, volume 38, issue 1 (2017), pp. 66-84
"More than 20 years into democracy, the South African media landscape, although free and moderately pluralistic, still does not represent fairly the diversity of viewpoints held in the country. Yet, the South African media debate on transformation has been dominated by the ANC’s continued focus on ... more
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Global Information Society Watch 2017: National and Regional Internet Governance Forum Initiatives (NRIs)
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Association for Progressive Communications (APC); International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2017), 249 pp.
"National and Regional Internet Governance Forums (NRIs) are the stars of the 2017 Global Information Society Watch. The story of NRIs began two years after the first global IGF held in 2006. In 2008, stakeholders from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda organised national forums and a subsequent Eas ... more
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Manual de capacitación para periodistas en cobertura de violaciones de DDHH

Caracas: Espacio Público (2017), 3 pp.
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Transborder Media Spaces: Ayuujk Videomaking Between Mexico and the US

Ingrid Kummels
New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2017), xvii, 336 pp.
"Transborder Media Spaces offers a new perspective on how media forms like photography, video, radio, television, and the Internet have been appropriated by Mexican indigenous people in the light of transnational migration and ethnopolitical movements. In producing and consuming self-determined medi ... more
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The Next Ronald Reagan? Celebrity, Social Entrepreneurism, and the Case of Brazilian TV Host Luciano Huck

Bruno Campanella
In: The Routledge Companion to Global Popular Culture
Toby Miller (ed.)
New York; London: Routledge (2017), pp. 397-406
"Taking the participation in social and humanitarian campaigns of TV host and social entrepreneur Luciano Huck as a case in point, this chapter investigates how new models of celebrity civic engagement are becoming increasingly popular in Brazil. Huck belongs to a growing group of Brazilian celebrit ... more
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Redes comunitarias en América Latina: Desafíos, regulaciones y soluciones

Carlos Baca, Luca Belli, Erick Huerta, Karla Velasco
Internet Society; Association for Progressive Communications (APC); FGV Direito Rio (2017), 45, xxviii pp.
"[...] El objetivo de este estudio no es solamente destacar el potencial de las redes comunitarias en términos de expansión de conectividad y sus externalidades positivas en materia social, cultural y económica; sino también destacar los elementos regulatorios que podrían optimizar su desarroll ... more
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Violence against journalists in the Northern Triangle of Central America

José Luis Benítez
Media Asia, volume 44 (2017), pp. 61-65
"José Luis Benítez provides an overview of the safety situation in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador." (Abstract)
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Against the Current: The Emergence of a Media Democratization Policy Agenda in Latin America

Philip Kitzberger
Global Media and Communication, volume 13, issue 3 (2017), pp. 229-248
"In Latin America, the role of the media in democratic societies has recently become the subject of public debates, struggles and political mobilizations that have denaturalized the existing media order and established a distinct policy agenda oriented towards media democratization. This region-wide ... more
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Journalists in Colombia

Jesús Arroyave, Miguel Garcés
Worlds of Journalism Study (2017), 6 pp.
"With regards to how Colombian journalists reportedly viewed their professional purpose/role, they found it was most important to report news accurately, to provide analysis of current affairs, to promote tolerance and cultural diversity, to promote social change, and lastly, to educate the audience ... more
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Internet: Smarte neue Welt

welt-sichten, issue 12 (2017), pp. 12-42
"Digitale Medien verbreiten sich über die Welt: Auch in Madagaskar verwenden Kinder Handys. In Kenia nutzt die Regierungspartei in Wahlkämpfen bereits die gleichen Datenanalysen, die in den USA Donald Trump geholfen haben, Präsident zu werden. Und in der Wirtschaft bewirken Daten und Internet-Pla ... more