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2017 Global NGO Online Technology Report

Nonprofit Tech for Good; Public Interest Registry (2017), 15 pp.
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Discriminación hacia las mujeres y su representación en medios de comunicación

Jorge Andrés Díaz Londoño, Ana Paola Martínez S., Fernanda L. Espinoza Jiménez et al.
Consejo de Regulación y Desarrollo de la Información y Comunicación (CORDICOM) (2017), 414 pp.
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Comics & Memory in Latin America

Jorge L. Catalá-Carrasco, Paulo Drinot, James Scorer (eds.)
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press (2017), vi, 262 pp.
"Latin American comics and graphic novels have a unique history of addressing controversial political, cultural, and social issues. This volume presents new perspectives on how comics on and from Latin America both view and express memory formation on major historical events and processes. The contr ... more
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Pressefreiheit in Mexiko: Kampf um ein Grundrecht

Jana Flörchinger
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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
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New York; London: Routledge (2017), pp. 397-406
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Mídias sociais no Brasil emergente: Como a internet afeta a mobilidade social

Juliano Spyer
London: UCL Press; University College London (2017), xviii, 291 pp.
"Juliano Spyer procura entender por que brasileiros de baixa renda investiram tanto tempo e dinheiro para incorporar o uso das mídias sociais a seu cotidiano. Explora essa questão por uma variedade de temas, incluindo educação, relacionamentos, trabalho e política e argumenta que o uso das míd ... more
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Social Media in Trinidad: Values and Visibility

Jolynna Sinanan
London: UCL Press (2017), xiv, 236 pp.
"Drawing on 15 months of ethnographic research in one of the most under-developed regions in the Caribbean island of Trinidad, this book describes the uses and consequences of social media for its residents. Jolynna Sinanan argues that this semi-urban town is a place in-between: somewhere city dwell ... more
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Ibero-American Observatory of Television Fiction Obitel 2017: One Decade of Television Fiction in Ibero-America: Analysis of Ten Years of Obitel (2007-2016)

Maria Immacolata Vassallo de Lopes, Guillermo Orozco Gómez (eds.)
Porto Alegre: Sulina; Globo Comunicação e Participações (2017), 456 pp.
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Curated Stories: The Uses and Misuses of Storytelling

Sujatha Fernandes
New York: Oxford University Press (2017), xii, 212 pp.
"Fernandes considers the rise of storytelling alongside the broader shift to neoliberal, free-market economies. She argues that stories have been reconfigured to promote entrepreneurial self-making and restructured as easily digestible soundbites mobilized toward utilitarian ends. Fernandes roams th ... more
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Mecanismos de la posverdad

Jacqueline Fowks
Lima: Fondo de Cultura Económica (FCE) (2017), 152 pp.
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Comunicación y cambio

Carla Colona Guadalupe, Juan Jorge Vergara Gerstein (comps.)
Lima: Fondo de Cultura Económica (FCE); Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (2017), 357 pp.
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What if We All Governed the Internet? Advancing Multistakeholder Participation in Internet Governance

Anri van der Spuy
Paris: UNESCO (2017), 108 pp.
"The research in these pages covers the theory around multistakeholder participation in Internet governance through a review of relevant literature. It also analyses case studies from Kenya to Brazil, South Korea, and the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), which illustrate how multistakeholder approac ... more
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Community Radio Rehabilitation Project, Haiti 2017

Anahi Ayala Iacucci, Jalal Shah
Internews (2017), 5 pp.
"Internews’ Humanitarian Information Service in Haiti, which ran from October 2016 to February 2017, was a DFID funded humanitarian project with the goal to improve the quality of timely and actionable information exchanges with Haitian communities affected by Hurricane Matthew. Internews’ two-w ... more
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The Economic Contribution of Copyright Industries in the Republic of Ecuador

Pablo Cardoso
Geneva: World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) (2017), 98 pp.
"The survey establishes that from 2010 to 2014, copyright industries in Ecuador experienced rapid growth and increased their share of GDP from 3.65 per cent to 4.47 per cent, or 3,116 million US dollars in monetary terms. In 2014, the creative sector generated 3.47 per cent of national employment (2 ... more
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Assessment of Media Development in Bolivia: Based on UNESCO's Media Development Indicators

Erick Torrico Villanueva, Sandra Villegas Taborga
Paris: UNESCO (2017), 105 pp.
"The UNESCO’s Media Development Indicators study (MDI) in Bolivia made a comprehensive media diagnosis as a democratic discourse platform, current laws related to Communication and Journalism, and the Constitutional warranties to freedom of expression for citizen and journalists. However, private ... more
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Media, Diaspora and Conflict
Deep Insights

Ola Ogunyemi (ed.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2017), xxiii, 240 pp.
"This edited collection argues that the connective and orientation roles ascribed to diasporic media overlook the wider roles they perform in reporting intractable conflicts in the Homeland. Considering the impacts of conflict on migration in the past decades, it is important to understand the capac ... more
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Free Basics in Real Life: Six Case Studies on Facebook’s Internet “on Ramp” Initiative from Africa, Asia and Latin America

Amsterdam: Global Voices (2017), 35 pp.
According to the executive summary "Facebook’s Free Basics program aims to help bridge the digital divide through a mobile-based platform that allows users to connect to a handful of online services free of charge [...] This paper highlights the following findings: Language: Free Basics does not m ... more
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Discursos mediáticos sobre la diferencia en América Latina y el Caribe

Tânia Hoff, Doris E. Martínez (eds.)
Barcelona: Editorial UOC (2017), 214 pp.
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El libro en cifras: Boletín estadístico del libro en Iberoamérica

Bogotá: Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe (CERLALC) (2017), 20 pp.
"Undécimo número de El libro en cifras, que apareció por primera vez en junio de 2012, con un objetivo: retratar en cifras la situación del libro, la lectura, las bibliotecas y el derecho de autor en Iberoamérica. Desde entonces, dos veces al año, este boletín ha venido ofreciendo informes so ... more
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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