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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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Last Station Before Hell: United Nations Peacekeepers

Pierre-Olivier François
In: The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action
Robin Andersen, Robin Purnaka L. de Silva (eds.)
London: Routledge (2017), pp. 428-434
"The article discusses the film 'Last Station Before Hell' by Pierre-Olivier François. United Nations' Peacekeepers known as the Blue Helmets, are often the subject of criticism and negative press reports. Most notably they have been blamed for transmitting cholera to the victims of the earthquake ... more
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El suelo no está parejo: Límites y posibilidades de los medios locales en un mercado altamente concentrado

Jorge Acevedo
Conexión (Departamento de Comunicaciones de la PUCP, Lima), issue 7 (2017), pp. 78-103
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Diez años de Aparecida: Iglesia y comunicación

Punto de Encuentro (Signis ALC), volume 9, issue 126 (2017), pp. 3-17
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Ficção seriada televisiva no espaço lusófono

Covilhã (PO): Universidade da Beira Interior (2017), 274 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 Networks: The Internet by the People, for the People. Official Outcome of the UN IGF Dynamic Coalition on Community Connectivity
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Luca Belli (ed.)
Rio de Janeiro: Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro da Fundação Getulio Vargas (2017), 244 pp.
"This volume is structured in two sections exploring benefits, challenges and opportunities for community networks and analysing a series of community network case studies and forward-looking proposals, from which useful recommendations can be drawn. As a conclusion, this book includes the updated v ... more
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Journalistic Performance in Latin America: A Comparative Study of Professional Roles in News Content

Claudia Mellado, Mireya Márquez-Ramírez, Jacques Mick, Martìn Oller Alonso, Dasniel Olivera
Journalism, volume 18, issue 9 (2017), pp. 1087-1106
"Comparative research across the world has shown that nation-level variables are strong predictors of professional roles in journalism. There is, however, still insufficient comparative research about three key issues: cross-national comparison of journalistic role performance, exploration of how - ... more
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Surinam: Land der vielen Völker und Religionen

Freddy Dutz, Martin Keiper (Red.)
Hamburg: Evangelisches Missionswerk in Deutschland (EMW); Weltgebetstag der Frauen (2017), 184 pp.
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Libertad a medias: La regulación de los medios comunitarios en América Latina y su compatibilidad con los estándares interamericanos de libertad de expresión
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Gustavo Gómez (coord.)
Observacom; Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), Centro de Competencia en Comunicación para América Latina (2017), 27 pp.
"Como parte de sus objetivos y tareas principales, el Observatorio Latinoamericano de Regulación Medios y Convergencia (OBSERVACOM) realiza un monitoreo sistemático de las regulaciones y políticas públicas de los países de la región respecto al acceso, la diversidad y el pluralismo en materia ... more
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‘The Communal’ in School and Indigenous Radio: Evidence from the North of Argentina

Francesca Belotti, Emilse Siares
Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 15, issue 2 (2017), pp. 211-226
"The Argentinian Law 26.522 on Audiovisual Communication Services (currently under reform) aimed at democratizing the media arena by recognizing multiple actors such as community broadcasters, school and indigenous media, among others. According to the legal classification, community broadcasters we ... more
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Beyond the Hype: Mobile Phones and the Web to Improve Agricultural Value Chains

Paul Mundy, Benjamin Kwasi Addom, Krishan Bheenick
Wageningen: Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) (2017), 16 pp.
"CTA’s ICT4Ag project (2014–15) enabled seven organisations in Africa and the Caribbean to develop, test and promote information services for smallscale farmers and fishers, traders and lobbying groups. Key recommendations: Understanding users’ needs requires intensive interaction with potenti ... more
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How Unsafe Contexts and Overlapping Risks Influence Journalism Practice: Evidence from a survey of Mexican journalists

Sallie Hughes, Mireya Marquez-Ramirez
In: The Assault on Journalism. Building Knowledge to Protect Freedom of Expression
Ulla Carlsson, Reeta Pöyhtäri (eds.)
Göteborg: Nordicom (2017), pp. 303-318
"Journalists in many countries work in contexts of continuous risk, but few empirical studies identify how these conditions influence practice or measure the relative influence of different kinds of risk. This study asks a national sample of Mexican journalists to report use of several measures to a ... more
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Applied Theatre: Performing Health and Wellbeing
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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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Diversidad de prácticas religiosas en las villas de la ciudad de Buenos Aires

Ana Lourdes Suárez, Isabel Gatti
Debates en Sociología, volume 44 (2017), pp. 119-143
"El trabajo describe y analiza la diversidad de prácticas religiosas de habitantes de villas de Buenos Aires. Se basa en datos agregados relevados con un cuestionario aplicado a una muestra representativa de residentes de estos territorios. Se presenta primero una discusión sobre el concepto de re ... more
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El derecho a la libertad de expresión: Curso avanzado para jueces y operadores jurídicos en las Américas. Guía curricular y materiales de estudio

Catalina Botero Marino, Federico Guzmán Duque, Sofía Jaramillo Otoya, Salomé Gómez Upegui
Bogotá: Dejusticia (2017), 356 pp.
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Cobertura de eventos electorales en Venezuela

Caracas: Espacio Público (2017), 2 pp.
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El rol de las relaciones públicas comunitarias en una década de conflictos sociales en el Perú

Luis Urquizo Valdeiglesias
Lima: Universidad de San Martín de Porres (2017), 341 pp.
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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
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Tras las pistas de los dineros públicos: Guía para investigar contratación pública y redes de poder

Consejo de Redacción; La Silla Vacía; Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) (2017), 61 pp.
"Los periodistas que leamos esta guía, de principio a fin, encontraremos una ruta rápida para investigar procesos relacionados con la contratación pública y la identificación y construcción de redes de poder; a su vez, se encontrarán elementos para hacer consultas en bases de datos. Todo esto ... more