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Olivo de León, Adalberto Grullón Morillo et al.
Paris; La Habana: UNESCO (2017), 203 pp.
"Este libro presenta y analiza el estado de los medios de comunicación y del ejercicio periodístico en la República Dominicana. Es el resultado de un proceso de investigación que abarcó dos encuestas nacionales: una en 1,200 hogares de todo el territorio nacional para medir el grado de credibil ... more
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Dazwischenfunken: Aktivismus in Freien Radios

iz3w, issue 360 (2017), pp. D1-D26
"Weltweit ist das Radio das Medium, das die meisten Menschen erreicht. In Europa verliert der Hörfunk zwar an Zuhörerschaft, aber gerade in Ländern des Südens sind Radiostationen ein sehr wichtiges Mittel der Kommunikation. Eine südafrikanische Universität entwickelte jüngst ein Spracherkennu ... more
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Pressefreiheit in Mexiko: Kampf um ein Grundrecht

Jana Flörchinger
Berlin: Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung (2017), 25 pp.
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Periodismo y comunicación de riesgos de desastres

Lima: Calandria (2017), 66 slides
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Conflict, Trauma and the Media: A Collection of Essays

Guy Hodgson (ed.)
Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2017), vi, 168 pp.
"This collection of essays explores the complicated relationship between the messengers bringing news of catastrophic upheaval and the recipients of that message. It concentrates on the journalists, photographers and film-makers, reflecting not only the motivations behind their work, but also the ps ... more
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Global Media Giants
Deep Insights

Benjamin J. Birkinbine, Rodrigo Gómez, Janet Wasko (eds.)
New York; London: Routledge (2017), xiii, 496 pp.
"Global Media Giants takes an in-depth look at how media corporate power works globally, regionally, and nationally, investigating the ways in which the largest and most powerful media corporations in the world wield power. Case studies examine not only some of the largest media corporations (News C ... more
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Guía de referencia para un tratamiento periodístico con enfoque de derechos: Nuevos caminos para la construcción de noticias sobre niños, niñas y adolescentes

Germán Guajardo Méndez (coord.)
Lima: Fundación Nuestro Hogar; TV Cultura (2017), 60 pp.
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O perfil de um ouvinte ativo e participativo: Consumo radiofônico em plataformas digitais

Cálita Fernanda de Paula Martins
Editora Fi (2017), 138 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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'De los medios a las mediaciones' de Jesús Martín Barbero, 30 años después

Miquel de Moragas, José Luis Terrón, Omar Rincón (eds.)
Barcelona: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Institut de la Comunicació (2017), 183 pp.
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Live from the Bully Pulpit: The Abuse of Obligatory Presidential Broadcasts in Latin America

Andrés Cañizález
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2017)
"In Latin America, several countries’ laws permit the president to commandeer all radio and television broadcasts. Initially contemplated for use in rare circumstances such as national emergencies, a few leaders in the region, beginning with Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez, have taken advantage of thes ... 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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Social Media in Emergent Brazil: How the Internet Affects Social Change

Juliano Spyer
London: UCL Press; University College London (2017), xviii, 240 pp.
"Based on 15 months of ethnographic research, this book aims to understand why low-income Brazilians have invested so much of their time and money in learning about social media. Juliano Spyer explores this question from a number of perspectives, including education, relationships, work and politics ... more
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Educomunicação e suas áreas de intervenção: Novos paradigmas para o diálogo intercultural

Ismar de Oliveira Soares, Claudemir Edson Viana, Jurema Brasil Xavier
São Paulo: Associação Brasileira de Pesquisadorese Profissionais em Educomunicação (ABPEducom) (2017), 949 pp.
"O material aqui divulgado representa, em essência, a contribuição do VII Encontro Brasileiro de Educomunicação ao V Global MIL Week, da UNESCO, ocorrido na ECA/USP, entre 3 e 5 de novembro de 2016. Estamos diante de um conjunto de 104 papers executivos, com uma média de entre 7 e 10 páginas, ... more
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Mobile Selves: Race, Migration, and Belonging in Peru and the U.S.

Ulla D. Berg
New York; London: New York University Press, paperback ed. (2017), xv, 304 pp.
"Berg examines the conditions under which Peruvians of rural and working-class origins leave the central highlands to migrate to the United States. Migrants often create new portrayals of themselves to overcome the class and racial biases that they had faced in their home country, as well as to cont ... 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