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Murder in Mexico: Are journalists victims of general violence or targeted political violence?

Jos Midas Bartman

Democratization, volume 25, issue 7 (2018), pp. 1093-1113

"Journalists in Mexico face hundreds of attacks each year, ranging from online harassment and physical intimidation to outright murder. The official narrative typically claims that murdered journalists are the victims of general criminal violence. This article finds that despite the rampant violence ... more

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New Visions of Adolescence in Contemporary Latin American Cinema

Geoffrey Maguire, Rachel Randall (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xiii, 229 pp.

"This volume explores the recent 'adolescent turn' in contemporary Latin American cinema, challenging many of the underlying assumptions about the nature of youth and distinguishing adolescence as a distinct and vital area of study. Its contributors examine the narrative and political potential of t ... more

Marcos regulatorios para las redes comunitarias: Argentina, Brasil, Colombia y México

Marianne Díaz Hernández

Derechos Digitales (2018), 19 pp.

Techio comunitario: Caminos hacia un programa de formación en comunicación indígena

Erick Huerta Velázquez, Carlos F. Baca Feldman

Revista NuestrAmérica, volume 6, issue 12 (2018), pp. 22-35

"A partir de la experiencia de investigación participativa y la construcción de un programa de formación de técnicos comunitarios en México, en este texto se problematizan las características, retos y posibilidades de la comunicación indígena. La invitación que hacemos es a reflexionar sobr ... more

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Media, Politics, and Democratization in Latin America

Javier Campo, Tomás Crowder-Taraborrelli (eds.)

Latin American Perspectives, volume 45, issue 3 (2018), pp. 4-283

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Ciudadanías conectadas, sociedades en conflicto: Investigaciones sobre medios de comunicación, redes sociales y opinión pública

Carlos Andrés Charry Joya (ed.)

Bogotá: Universidad del Rosario, Editorial (2018), xv, 251 pp.

Narrativas del miedo: Terror en obras literarias, cinemáticas y televisivas de Latinoamérica

Marco Ramírez, David Rozotto, Karem Langer (eds.)

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2018), xi, 212 pp.

"Narrativas del miedo: Terror en obras literarias, cinemáticas y televisivas de Latinoamérica es una colección de ensayos escritos en inglés y en español en los que se analizan distintas representaciones del miedo como un elemento estructural y simbólico en obras literarias, teatrales y visual ... more

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Digital News Report 2018

Nic Newman, Richard Fletcher, Antonis Kalogeropoulos, David A. L. Levy, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (eds.)

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2018), 143 pp.

"The use of social media for news has started to fall in a number of key markets after years of continuous growth. Usage is down six percentage points in the United States, and is also down in the UK and France. Almost all of this is due to a specific decline in the discovery, posting, and sharing o ... more

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Tejiendo nuestra historia: Investigación de la comunicación en América Latina

Delia María Crovi Druetta, Raúl Trejo Delarbre (eds.)

México, DF: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) (2018), 364 pp.

"Reúne los relatos sobre el devenir de la investigación en comunicación en América Latina que se presentaron en el coloquio homónimo el cual, dirigido a participantes del XIII Congreso de la Asociación Latinoamericana de Investigadores de la Comunicación, se realizó en la UNAM en octubre de ... more

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News Media Coverage of Environmental Challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean: Mediating Demand, Degradation and Development

Bruno Takahashi, Juliet Pinto, Manuel Chavez, Mercedes Vigón (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xiii, 195 pp.

"This edited collection provides a unique survey of the ways in which news media organizations across Latin America and the Caribbean cover global, regional and local environmental issues and challenges. There is growing recognition within academia, governments, industries, NGOs and civil society ab ... more

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Transnationalisierte Öffentlichkeit und Klimapolitik: Akteursensembles in der Medienberichterstattung von 15 Ländern

Mike S. Schäfer, Senja Post, Rafel Schwab, Katharina Kleinen-von Königslöw

Publizistik, volume 63, issue 2 (2018), pp. 207-244

"Die kommunikationswissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsforschung hat sich in den vergangenen Jahren verstärkt mit transnationalisierten Formen von Öffentlichkeit beschäftigt. Allerdings gehen nur wenige empirische Arbeiten über die (mögliche) Entstehung einer europäischen Öffentlichkeit hinaus. ... more

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Publics Globally Want Unbiased News Coverage, But Are Divided on Whether Their News Media Deliver: Deep Political Divides in Many Nations on Satisfaction with News Media

Amy Mitchell, Katy Simmons, Katerina Eva Matsa, Laura Silver

Pew Research Center (2018), 54 pp.

"Publics around the world overwhelmingly agree that the news media should be unbiased in their coverage of political issues, according to a new Pew Research Center survey of 38 countries. Yet, when asked how their news media are doing on reporting different political issues fairly, people are far mo ... more

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The Precarious in the Cinemas of the Americas

Constanza Burucúa, Carolina Sitnisky (eds.)

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 ... more

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Ibero-American Observatory of Television Fiction Obitel 2018: Ibero-American TV Fiction on Video on Demand Platforms
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Maria Immacolata Vassallo de Lopes, Guillermo Orozco Gómez (eds.)

Porto Alegre: Sulina;Globo Comunicação e Participações (2018), 410 pp.

"This Yearbook is divided into three parts. The first is an introduction chapter, containing a comparative synthesis of fiction in the Obitel countries. This comparison is made from a quantitative and qualitative point of view, which makes possible to observe the development of fiction in each count ... ry, highlighting their main productions, as well as the theme of the year. The second part consists in 11 chapters, one for each country, with an internal structure of fixed topics, but with new additions every year. The sections that compound each chapter are the following: 1) Country’s audiovisual context: this section presents general information about the audiovisual sector regarding the production of television fiction, such as history, trends and relevant events. 2) Analysis of premiere fictions: it is made through quantitative tables that show specific data about national and Ibero-American TV fictions released in each country. In this section the ten most watched titles of the year are highlighted. Since 2017, the Yearbook also brings the five most watched national productions of the year in an effort to enhance and deepen the issue of national identities in each country. 3) Transmedia reception: this section presents and exemplifies what channels offer to the audience fiction on the internet, as well the description of the audience’s behavior when watching, consuming and interacting with their fictions through websites, social networks and other platforms. 4) Highlights of the year: the most important productions not only in terms of audience (rating), but also for their sociocultural impact and for generating innovation in television fiction production or reception. 5) Theme of the year, which this year is Ibero-American TV fiction on video on demand platforms. This theme converges with the interests of Obitel, which for years has been following the trajectory of Ibero-American television fiction by rapidly changing scenarios. Multiple screens, transmissions, new formats, pay TV, UGC, among other topics, have been monitored and analyzed theoretically by each Obitel country research group. In this Yearbook, the proposal is to discuss production on video on demand platforms (VoD), addressing new forms of distribution and consumption. The objective was to verify the panorama of VoD production and consumption in the Obitel countries and the presence of national fiction on these platforms. In order to do so, we attempted to identify the reconfigurations that are occurring in the television scenario of each country in the face of new platforms of production, distribution and audiovisual consumption. Such reconfigurations take place from production to reception, from narrative forms to business models, to debates on legislation and regulation." (Pages 21-22) more

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Local-Level Authoritarianism, Democratic Normative Aspirations, and Antipress Harassment: Predictors of Threats to Journalists in Mexico

Sallie Hughes, Mireya Marquez-Ramirez

International Journal of Press/Politics, volume 23, issue 4 (2018), pp. 539-560

"Cross-national research has identified crime, corruption, and human rights abuses as explanations for threats against journalists in democracies and authoritarian hybrids plagued by antipress violence. In-depth studies additionally suggest gender or occupational characteristics such as risky newsbe ... more

Redes sociales, ciudadanía y política: Claves de la nueva esfera pública

Albertina Navas, Carlos Sabino, César Ricaurte, Israel Márquez

UWI St. Augustine Campus;Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business;Asociación de Estudios en Redes Sociales Digitales (ASREDES) (2017), 147 pp.

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Journalists in El Salvador

José Luis Benítez Alvarez, Lydia Frost, Thomas Hanitzsch

Worlds of Journalism Study (2017), 6 pp.

"With regards to professional role orientations, journalists in El Salvador found it most important to report things as they are, to monitor and scrutinize political leaders, to educate the audience, and to let people express their views. The relevance of these roles was fairly undisputed among the ... more

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Latin American Women Filmmakers: Production, Politics, Poetics

Deborah Martin, Deborah Shaw (eds.)

London et al.: Bloomsbury Academic (2017), xx, 268 pp.

"Latin American women filmmakers have achieved unprecedented international prominence in recent years. Notably political in their approach, figures such as Lucrecia Martel, Claudia Llosa and Bertha Navarro have created innovative and often challenging films, enjoying global acclaim from critics and ... more

Retención de datos y registro de teléfonos móviles: Chile en el contexto lationamericano

Marianne Díaz

Derechos Digitales (2017), 36 pp.

"Frente a la tendencia regional y global que lleva a gobiernos y a proveedores de servicio a acumular una cantidad cada vez mayor de información sobre sus usuarios, este estudio intenta una aproximación comparada a la manera en que las legislaciones de México, Brasil, Colombia, Perú, Argentina y ... more