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La comunicazione di una istituzione ecclesiale sui social media: Il caso della diocesi di Itumbiara

Mauro Almeida Cecilio
Rome: Pontificia Università della Santa Croce (2017), 93 pp.
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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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Liberation Technology in El Salvador: Re-Appropriating Social Media Among Alternative Media Projects

Summer Harlow
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2017), xvii, 214 pp.
"This ethnographic study explores how four alternative media projects in El Salvador integrated digital technologies-particularly social media-into their practices, and whether incorporating these technologies affected citizen participation not only in the media production process, but in a broader ... more
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Environmental News in South America: Conflict, Crisis and Contestation

Juliet Pinto, Paola Prado, J. Alejandro Tirado-Alcaraz
London: Palgrave Macmillan (2017), xi, 168 pp.
"Combining perspectives from media studies and political ecology, this book analyses socially constructed news regarding three environmental conflicts in South America. In recent decades, South American political administrations have tied national economies to neo-extractive development strategies, ... more
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Perspectives from the Global Entertainment and Media Outlook 2017–2021: Curtain Up! User Experience Takes Center Stage

Price Waterhouse Coopers (pwc) (2017), 40 pp.
"To thrive in a marketplace that is increasingly competitive, slower-growing, and dependent on personal recommendations, companies must develop strategies that engage, grow, and monetize their most valuable customers — i.e., their fans. To do so, they must combine excellent content with breadth an ... more
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Applied Theatre: Performing Health and Wellbeing
Deep Insights

Veronica Baxter, Katharine E. Low (eds.)
London et al.: Bloomsbury (2017), xxiii, 315 pp.
"Applied Theatre: Performing Health and Wellbeing is the first volume in the field to address the role that theatre, drama and performance have in relation to promoting, developing and sustaining health and wellbeing in diverse communities. Challenging concepts and understanding of health, wellbeing ... 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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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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Activismo en red y multitudes conectadas: Comunicación y acción en la era de Internet

Guiomar Rovira
Barcelona; México, DF: Icaria; Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Xochimilco (2017), 254 pp.
"El uso lúdico y libertario de las tecnologías digitales, iniciado por los primeros programadores y hacktivistas, se ha profundizado en las últimas décadas a partir de experiencias concretas que sorprenden en su irrupción y que contrastan con el desarrollo de estrategias tecnológicas para el c ... 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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Discriminación étnico-racial en medios de comunicación: Diagnóstico situacional

Marisol Castañeda Menacho, Silvia Lorena Chávarri De Los Ríos et al.
Lima: Ministerio de Cultura (2017), 134 pp.
"De acuerdo con los estudios de análisis de medios reseñados, se confirma con claridad que las poblaciones que sufren más discriminación de manera sistemática en los medios son las comunidades indígenas y afroperuanas. Por un lado, la población indígena es comúnmente representada en asociac ... 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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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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Todo por la libertad: 55 años de Radio Ñandutí

Nery Peña
Asunción: Servilibro (2017), 241 pp.
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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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Resistiendo desde la comunicación popular

Cal y Canto, issue 3 (2017), 65 pp.
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Comunicación y sociedades en movimiento: La revolución sí está sucediendo

Paula Restrepo, Juan Carlos Valencia, Claudio Maldonado Rivera (coord.)
Quito: CIESPAL (2017), 362 pp.
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Rádios comunitárias: O que fazer diante de ações de fiscalização e processos judiciais?

Carolina Martins, Camila Marques, Mariana Rielli
Article 19 (2017), 67 pp.
"A Artigo 19 entende que muitos comunicadores populares se encontram em situação de vulnerabilidade social e legal em decorrência da omissão do Estado em regularizar o funcionamento de suas rádios e de suas políticas restritivas para o setor. Por esse motivo, elaborou orientações que serão ... more
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Audiencia radial rural a nivel nacional y perfil de consumo

Lima: CPI (2017), 4 pp.
"Con el objetivo de incluir a toda la población del país en las audiencias radiales, el Grupo RPP encargó una investigación a nivel nacional rural que representa el 22% de la población, según cifras oficiales del INEI. De este modo, al juntar los resultados de la audiencia de esta investigaci ... more
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Adoption and Impact of OER in the Global South

Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams, Patricia B. Arinto (eds.)
Cape Town; Ottawa: African Minds; Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D); International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2017), xiii, 592 pp.
"Education in the Global South faces several key interrelated challenges, for which Open Educational Resources (OER) are seen to be part of the solution. These challenges include: unequal access to education; variable quality of educational resources, teaching, and student performance; and increasin ... more