"César e Valério, com o rigor acadêmico que os caracteriza, nos brindam aqui com um marco amplo sobre a convergência tecnológica em geral e sobre a televisão digital em particular. Passam em revista o acontecido nos últimos anos na União Europeia, Estados Unidos e Japão; e analisam a fundo
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o caso do Brasil, seu mercado televisivo e as regulações do setor. O foco principal, porém, é aproveitar o momento da regulação da tecnologia digital para redesenhar o conjunto do sistema de comunicação do país em um sentido mais democrático. Este é um livro útil para todos os que batalham cada dia pela democratização das comunicações." (Descrição da editora de livros)
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"Discussions on how to support sustainability of independent media generally focus on the political conditions, the legal framework and – especially in German development cooperation – on the quality of journalistic coverage. Nevertheless, economic factors are of equal importance, not only for p
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ure survival but also with respect to editorial independence and the resources available to enhance or guarantee the quality of media outlets. The German Forum Medien und Entwicklung (Media and Development) highlighted in its annual international Symposium, “Money Matters – How independent media manage to survive”, two dimensions marking economic sustainability: factors constituting a restricting or enabling media environment; factors supporting the business management of media in their endeavour to become self-sustainable." (Executive summary, page 5)
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"El desarrollo de estudios de recepción constituye una asignatura pendiente en Paraguay. Analizando el ámbito académico de la comunicación, en la única carrera universitaria que ha producido tesinas de grado en los últimos 30 años, sólo tres investigaciones se aproximan a este campo. Sus eje
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s son publicidad e infancia, canales de información y actitudes políticas y sexuales de la juventud, y la música (cachaca) como industria cultural." (Resumen)
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"Quito fue una suerte de "capital de la comunicación latinoamericana" com la presencia de ocho organizaciones internacionales de comunicación. No obstante esto y las importantes actividades realizadas en el campo comunicacional, paradójicamente los efectos, especialmente en el ámbito de la inves
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tigación, han sido mínimos. El texto pone en evidencia la condición marginal de la investigación en el Ecuador (aunque con un interesante repunte en los últimos años) y, más aún, la de los estudios de recepción (ER)." (Resumen)
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"By examining recent developments in the world system of television as well as several theories of culture, industry, genre, and audience, author Joseph D. Straubhaar offers new insights into the topic. He argues that television is being simultaneously globalized, regionalized, nationalized, and eve
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n localized, with audiences engaging it at multiple levels of identity and interest; therefore the book looks at all these levels of operation." (Publisher description)
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"This unique dossier was assembled by the activist Copy South Research Group, a loosely-affiliated group of researchers based in a number of countries across the South and the North who seek to research the inner workings of the global copyright system and its effects on the Global South. The dossie
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r contains more than 50 articles examining many dimensions of the issue of copyright across the Global South, such as access, culture, economics, libraries, education, software, the Internet, the public domain, and resistance. The dossier is addressed to readers who want to learn more about the global role of copyright and, in particular, its sometimes negative role in the Global South. The articles critically analyze and assess a wide range of copyright-related issues that impact on the daily lives, and future lives, of those who live in the countries of the South. It aims to do so in a manner which the editors hope will bring these questions ‘alive’, show the direct human stakes of the many debates, “and make the issues accessible to those who want to go beyond the platitudes, half-truths, and serious distortions that often plague discussions of this topic." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 1815)
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