"El libro consta de 20 capítulos. El primero de ellos es un estudio introductorio del coordinador titulado “La estimulante diversidad de la radio iberoamericana”. Además de presentar el volumen, Arturo Merayo hace un primer análisis comparativo de los informes de cada país. Particular releva
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ncia tiene la clasificación que ofrece de los diferentes modelos de radio pública que existen en Iberoamérica –muy diferente al del modelo de radio pública europea–, y la referencia a la puesta en marcha de redes internacionales de emisoras comerciales para intercambiar programación informativa –cuestión en la que Europa también ha fracasado en varias oportunidades–. Los restantes 19 capítulos ofrecen la radiografía de la radio de los países de la región, presentándolos por orden alfabético desde Argentina hasta Venezuela, con la excepción antes mencionada de Nicaragua. A pesar de que el resultado es bastante homogéneo por la extensión y calidad de los capítulos, hay que destacar los dedicados a la radio en Bolivia, Colombia, México y Perú. Sus autores han sabido mostrar la realidad del medio con claridad y gran capacidad de síntesis, lo que facilita al lector hacerse cargo de la evolución y situación actual de la radio en dichos países y obtener conclusiones relevantes. El libro se cierra con una anexo en el que se relacionan las 1.162 emisoras y cadenas mencionadas, indicando en cada caso el capítulo principal en el que se citan." (Reseña por María del Pilar Martínez-Costa Pérez en la revista Communication & Society, 2008)
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"¿Es la (in)seguridad ciudadana un invento mediático o una realidad? La respuesta está en este estudio del contenido de los diarios latinoamericanos sobre el tema de seguridad ciudadana desde una perspectiva cotidiana del delito. ¿Qué hace la noticia del delito? ¿Cuáles son los temas? ¿Cómo
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es el tratamiento? ¿Quiénes actúan la inseguridad? Una investigación realizada en 14 periódicos: Chile: El Mercurio; Argentina: El Clarín y La Nación; Brasil: La Folha de Sao Paulo; Colombia: El Tiempo y El Colombiano; Venezuela: El Nacional; México: El Universal; Perú: EL Comercio; Costa Rica: La Nación y La Prensa Libre; El Salvador: El diario de Hoy, El mundo y La prensa gráfica. 795 piezas periodísticas. Período analizado: Nov. 20 a Dic. 6, 2004." (Página 1)
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"This book has been written as a tool for people involved or interested in communication and natural resource management who seek a better understanding of how different theories and strategic change principles relate to actual practise. It is not, however, a book of theory nor is it an argument for
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one approach over another. Instead, it relates a variety of theories and change principles in simplified, almost schematic form, to a series of real initiatives in the field through interactive «experiences». It asks that the reader become a participant in a process that requires reading and analysing each initiative using different theoretical lenses. Each «experience» is organised around a theme, a learning objective, a description of an actual natural resource management and communication initiative, and one or two theoretical lenses through which to analyse the initiative. As you work through each «experience», you will be asked questions about the theory and change principles and how they relate to the initiative. The idea is not to «discover» the right approach but rather to create an interactive space that enables you to reflect on what might work in your own context and also on how different contexts may require different approaches, principles and theoretical frameworks." (Introduction)
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"Este es el primer estudio de cubrimiento regional sobre la distribución y comercialización del libro, con énfasis en las librerías de América Latina y para realizarlo se escogieron cuatro países: Colombia y México que han desarrollado investigaciones sistemáticas sobre la producción editor
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ial, y Chile y Costa Rica que no tienen publicaciones actualizadas sobre estos temas." (Introduccón)
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"In these two volumes, readers will find comparative, in-depth essays on the press systems of 232 countries and/or territories. World Press Encyclopedia (WPE) is unique and valuable to users because, in addition to essays on each country’s press system, WPE also contains custommade graphs and stat
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istical tables, as well as regional maps, useful appendices, and an extensive index. This comprehensive, authoritative source of information allows for easy comparison between essays with a standard format or set of “rubrics” used whenever possible (see section titled “Essay Components”). Each essay also features basic data information—such as official country name, literacy rate, language(s), and number of daily newspapers—clearly marked with headings at the beginning of each entry. Additionally, WPE’s contributors include scholars, professionals, and educators from across the United States and around the world; each essay has a byline. Although this is the second edition, WPE has been completely reconceptualized and 100 percent revised from the first edition, which was published in 1982." (Introduction)
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"Media Power in Central America is unique in the field, very readable, and tells an exciting story about the relationship between strong commercial media and authoritarian regimes. Rockwell and Janus provide a valuable description and analysis of the history, politics, culture, and economics of the
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print and electronic media in the six countries." (Elizabeth Fox, senior advisor with USAID and the author of Latin American Broadcasting: From Tango to Telenovela)
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"This is a book about an inter-continental community theatre project. It is an attempt to gain a better understanding of this increasingly popular cultural practice that operates on the cutting edge between performing arts and sociocultural intervention. The main emphasis in this book, and in the ac
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companying video, has been placed on the diverse mechanics and inspirations of community theatre as an artistic process that always evolves under very particular local sociocultural conditions. Through written word and moving image, this package thus documents, contextualizes, and theorizes the methods that were used to create six community performances in distinct locations around the world in the course of 1997. Both in the video and in the book I have opted to tell these six tales as relatively independent narratives. I recommend watching the appropriate video segments before reading each book chapter, which provides the background about (community) theatre in each particular region, the facilitators, the organizations they work in, the evolution of their method, and a more technically oriented case study of the distinctive approach they used to create one specific community theatre performance in 1997." (Introduction, page 1)
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