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Black / Africana Communication Theory
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xxix, 345 pp.
"Most Western-driven theories do not have a place in Black communicative experience, especially in Africa. Many scholars interested in articulating and interrogating Black communication scholarship are therefore at the crossroads of either having to use Western-driven theory to explain a Black commu
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Historias e historietas: Representaciones de la historia en el cómic latinoamericano actual
Madrid; Frankfurt am Main: Iberoamericana; Vervuert (2018), 258 pp.
"Con el presente volumen quisimos reunir trabajos que presentan diversos aspectos tanto de la producción historietística en la América hispanohablante, como de la representación de la Historia en este medio. Tan diversos como los países son los cómics aquí analizados, lo cual demuestra a nues
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Manual de seguridad holística para periodistas de Cuba
Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR) (2018), 112 pp.
"El manual fue creado por IWPR en base a las experiencias y recomendaciones de periodistas trabajando en Cuba, con la participación de expertos y varias organizaciones internacionales comprometidas con la libertad de expresión y la protección de periodistas. El producto final es único en su tipo
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The Precarious in the Cinemas of the Americas
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xxii, 308 pp.
"Historically, cinema in the Americas has been signed by a state of precariousness. Notwithstanding the growing accessibility to video and digital technologies, access to the material means of film production is still limited, affecting the spheres of production, distribution, and reception. Equally
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Análisis del desarrollo mediático en República Dominicana: Basado en la aplicación de los indicadores de desarrollo mediático de la UNESCO
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
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Discursos mediáticos sobre la diferencia en América Latina y el Caribe
Barcelona: Editorial UOC (2017), 214 pp.
Freedom on the Net 2017: Manipulating Social Media to Undermine Democracy
Deep Insights
Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2017), 1060 pp.
"Governments around the world have dramatically increased their efforts to manipulate information on social media over the past year. The Chinese and Russian regimes pioneered the use of surreptitious methods to distort online discussions and suppress dissent more than a decade ago, but the practice
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Beyond the Hype: Mobile Phones and the Web to Improve Agricultural Value Chains
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
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Social Media in Trinidad: Values and Visibility
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
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Last Station Before Hell: United Nations Peacekeepers
"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
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Comics & Memory in Latin America
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
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Community Radio Rehabilitation Project, Haiti 2017
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
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Media Interventions as Humanitarian Action
"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
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Emergent Voices and Evolving Agendas: Writing Realities in Cuba’s New Media Landscape
Philadelphia, PA: Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) (2017), 25 pp.
"This paper aims to understand the motivations, decision-making processes, and missions of the producers of new Cuban media using interviews with journalists recruited from the wider group of twenty non-governmental publications. In ten semi-structured interviews, participants described their person
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Visualising Facebook: A Comparative Perspective
London: UCL Press (2017), ix, 224 pp.
"Why do women respond so differently to becoming a mother in England from the way they do in Trinidad? How are values such as carnival and suburbia expressed visually? Based on an examination of over 20,000 images, the authors argue that phenomena such as selfies and memes must be analysed in their
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Comunicación gubernamental en acción: Narrativas presidenciales y mitos de gobierno
Buenos Aires: Biblos (2016), 284 pp.
"La presente propuesta metodológica para la promoción del uso seguro del Internet producto de un acuerdo de trabajo entre el Instituto Interamericano del Niño, la Niña y Adolescentes (IIN-OEA) y World Visión República Dominicana aborda, en forma conjunta, los desafíos que, desde la perspectiv
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Periodismo muerto: Más de mil periodistas asesinados en América Latina (1970-2015)
Deep Insights
México, DF: Editorial Planeta Mexicana (2016), 389 pp.
"Más de 1050 periodistas asesinados y desaparecidos (unos 22,8 casos al año) hicieron de América Latina el escenario más peligroso del mundo para el ejercicio profesional, entre 1970 y 2015, incluso en países sin guerras oficialmente aceptadas. Desde las dictaduras hasta el narcopoder, desde M
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Creative Economy Outlook and Country Profiles: Trends in International Trade in Creative Industries
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) (2016), vii, 161 pp.
"International trade in creative industries showed sustained growth in the last decade. The global market for traded creative goods and services totaled a record $547billion in 2012, as compared to $302 billion in 2003. Exports from developing countries, led by Asian countries, were growing faster t
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Social Inequalities, Media, and Communication: Theory and Roots
Lanham et al.: Lexington Books (2016), xxxix, 272 pp.
