"Whether discussing Maori cinema in New Zealand or activist community radio in Colombia, the contributors describe how native peoples use both traditional and new media to combat discrimination, advocate for resources and rights, and preserve their cultures, languages, and aesthetic traditions. By r
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epresenting themselves in a variety of media, Indigenous peoples are also challenging misleading mainstream and official state narratives, forging international solidarity movements, and bringing human rights violations to international attention. Global Indigenous Media addresses Indigenous self-representation across many media forms, including feature film, documentary, animation, video art, television and radio, the Internet, digital archiving, and journalism. The volume's sixteen essays reflect the dynamism of Indigenous media-making around the world. One contributor examines animated films for children produced by Indigenous-owned companies in the United States and Canada. Another explains how Indigenous media producers in Burma (Myanmar) work with NGOs and outsiders against the country's brutal regime. Still another considers how the Ticuna Indians of Brazil are positioning themselves in relation to the international community as they collaborate in creating a CD-ROM about Ticuna knowledge and rituals. In the volume's closing essay, Faye Ginsburg points out some of the problematic assumptions about globalization, media, and culture underlying the term "digital age" and claims that the age has arrived. Together the essays reveal the crucial role of Indigenous media in contemporary media at every level: local, regional, national, and international." (Back cover)
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"A Igreja Eletrônica é uma realidade concreta que surge no contexto pós-moderno, na contemplação das imagens, dentro de um mundo globalizado, técnico e espetacular. Ela é aqui analisada como fenômeno imagético e de comunicação. A TV Brasileira se torna palco e púlpito de novos atores rel
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igiosos, especialmente os pastores neopentecostais, que acreditam na força desse instrumento eficaz, na conquista de um novo rebanho virtual. O país já produz seus profetas midiáticos, não necessitando mais migrar do norte da América. As igrejas desfilam na passarela televisiva. A Igreja Internacional da Graça, por meio de seu fundador R.R. Soares, mostra sua força e sua capacidade de manter-se no ar, por meio de um programa diário na Rede Bandeirantes de Televisão. A análise de sua estratégia, por meio de alguns programas, na perspectiva de autores contemporâneos, aponta para importantes conclusões a respeito da pedagogia e metodologia carismática neopentecostal. A força midiática o torna cada vez mais forte. Procuramos responder a essa questão: em que medida a utilização da mídia televisiva é importante como novo púlpito da fé e captação de adeptos para a Igreja Internacional da Graça." (Resumo)
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"What are the effects of television, and of role models portrayed in TV programs, on individual behavior? We focus on fertility choices in Brazil, a country where soap operas (novelas) portray families that are much smaller than in reality. We exploit differences in the timing of entry into differen
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t markets of Rede Globo, the network that has an effective monopoly on novelas production in this country. Using Census data for the period 1970-1991, we find that women living in areas covered by the Globo signal have significantly lower fertility. The effect is strongest for women of lower socioeconomic status and for women in the central and late phases of their fertility cycle, consistent with stopping behavior. The result is robust to placebo treatments and does not appear to be driven by selection in Globo entry. Finally, we provide suggestive evidence that novelas, and not just television, affected individual choices. First, people living in areas covered by the signal were more likely to name their children after novela characters. Second, entry of a network that relied on imported shows did not have a significant impact on fertility. Third, the impact of Globo presence was strongest for women close in age to the main novela characters." (Abstract)
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"Este texto presenta relatos que demuestran que la (in)seguridad ciudadana en América Latina “no es un partido de fútbol” pero sí “una urgencia cultural” y que por eso hay “tantos cuentos que contar” y muchas historias detrás de la ceremonia mediática y política de los miedos. Por
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eso, Más allá de víctimas y culpables trae relatos de la realidad latinoamericana, 14 experiencias y 1 texto de reflexión. Se trabajó con periodistas de 13 países de América Latina para relatar experiencias de seguridad ciudadana en las cuáles la comunicación hecha medios, prácticas, símbolos y narración es la clave de sentido político. De otros sujetos, de otras prácticas, de estas muchas vidas que “no pasan por” los medios o que “la pasan mal” en los medios es que está lleno este texto. La única regla de la comunicación en seguridad ciudadana es tratar a todos los sujetos y colectivos más allá de víctimas y culpables." (www.c3fes.net, November 12, 2009)
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"Gli studi sul rapporto tra famiglia e mass-media solitamente limitano il loro campo di ricerca a questioni come l'effetto della violenza televisiva sui minori, la violenza domestica e il consumo familiare dei mezzi di comunicazione. Il progetto qui proposto considera la famiglia come istituzione un
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itaria e non solo, quindi, da una determinata e limitata prospettiva. Alla base di questa considerazione c'e' la convinzione che conoscere il modo in cui i mass-media rappresentano la famiglia ha un interesse non solo descrittivo ma anche operativo. Da un lato, infatti, può offrire strumenti che facilitino e orientino l'azione della famiglia come agente sociale, formativo e pubblico. Dall'altro, va ad arricchire il background dei professionisti della comunicazione." (Descrizione della casa editrice)
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"Oral history is inherently about memory, and when oral history interviews are used "in public," they invariably both reflect and shape public memories of the past. Oral History and Public Memories is the only book that explores this relationship, in fourteen case studies of oral history's use in a
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variety of venues and media around the world. Readers will learn, for example, of oral history based efforts to reclaim community memory in post-apartheid Cape Town, South Africa; of the role of personal testimony in changing public understanding of Japanese American history in the American West; of oral history's value in mapping heritage sites important to Australia's Aboriginal population; and of the way an oral history project with homeless people in Cleveland, Ohio became a tool for popular education. Taken together, these original essays link the well established practice of oral history to the burgeoning field of memory studies." (Publisher description)
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"This essay provides an overview of mediated religion in Brazil, focusing on people’s responses to the 'Life Network' (Rede Vida) in Porto Alegre. In addition to a general overview, a case study offers a glimpse into how countries and cultures outside of the U.S. experience the interaction of comm
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unication and religious practices. Based on dissertation research (Sierra Gutiérrez, 2006), the text falls into six parts: the first part reviews past research in North and South America; the second explicates the context and the general problem encountered in this kind of study; the third part lists the central questions and objectives. Part 4 reviews the theoretical implications of mediated religion while Part 5 reviews methodology for studying the topic. Finally, the last section specifies some conclusions based on the investigation and some more general observations about televised religion and the post-modern challenge it presents." (Page 3)
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"Los enfoques de agenda setting, de network society y de public sphere constituyen el marco teórico básico para el abordaje metodológico y posterior desarrollo de “El Observador de Medios de Comunicación en América Latina” que presentamos. El Observador analiza la agenda de los principales
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medios de comunicación masiva, determinando si el tratamiento de unos temas (y la exclusión de otros) favorecen a los principios e ideales del sistema democrático y contribuyen a su desarrollo." (Introducción, página 9-10)
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