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Shooting Cameras for Peace: Youth, Photography, and the Colombian Armed Conflict = Disparando cámaras para la paz: Juventud, fotografía y el conflicto armado colombiano

Alexander L. Fattal

Cambridge, Mass.: Peabody Museum Press (2020), 251 pp.

"As a young Fulbright scholar in Bogotá, determined to democratize the photographic gaze and bring new visions and voices to public debate about Colombia's armed conflict, Alexander L. Fattal founded Disparando Cámaras para la Paz (Shooting Cameras for Peace). The project taught photography to you ... more

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Why are journalists threatened and killed? A portrait of neo-paramilitary anti-press violence in Colombia's Bajo Cauca

Matthew Charles

Journalism, volume 23, issue 4 (2020), pp. 841-857

"Anti-press violence in Colombia's Bajo Cauca is an inherent part of the structures, which underpin the region's alternative social (dis)order. Through ethnographic interviews with four members of Colombia's neo-paramilitary group, Los Urabenos, who have perpetrated attacks against journalists, this ... more

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Media Activist Research Ethics: Global Approaches to Negotiating Power in Social Justice Research

Sandra Jeppesen, Paola Sartoretto (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xxiii, 276 pp.

"This book maps complex ethical dilemmas in social justice research practices in media and communication. Contributors critically analyse power dynamics that arise when building equitable research relations with media activists, social movements, and cultural producers, considering issues of access, ... more

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Evaluación rápida del ecosistema de información en derechos de la comunidad venezolana migrante y retornada en Bogotá, Cúcuta y Maicao/Riohacha

Mauricio Beltrán, Miguel A. Morffe, Olimpia Palma

Internews (2020), 32 pp.

"Esta Evaluación del Ecosistema de Información (IEA) aborda, desde la demanda, el flujo de información para el acceso a servicios en protección de derechos de la comunidad migrante y retornada en Bogotá, el área metropolitana de Cúcuta y los municipios de Maicao y Riohacha en La Guajira. La i ... more

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Derechos a la comunicación: Ética y competencias del comunicador

Roberto Sánchez Montoya, María del Carmen Ramírez Soasti (coords.)

Quito: Abya-Yala;Universidad Politécnica Salesiana (2020), 210 pp.

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The Routledge Companion to Media and Activism

Graham Meikle (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge, paperback ed. (2020), xvi, 419 pp.

"The Routledge Companion to Media and Activism is a wide-ranging collection of 42 original and authoritative essays by leading contributors from a variety of academic disciplines. Introducing and exploring central debates about the diverse relationships between both media and protest, and communicat ... more

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Making Civic Space Resilient

Cordaid;Hivos (2020), 31 pp.

"The 10 countries included in this paper all show specific characteristics and contexts but also show similar barriers. Identifying shared characteristics will facilitate the development of shared approaches to deal with shrinking space. Don’t work in silos! It’s (also) about upholding the law: ... more

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La UC y Canal 13: De la televisión experimental a la era digital

Patricio Donoso Ibañez, Ignacio Sánchez Díaz

Santiago de Chile: Ediciones UC (2020), 138 pp.

"La UC y Canal 13: de la televisión experimental a la era digital es un recorrido breve a través de la participación de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile en el inicio, institucionalización y evolución del Canal 13 de televisión. Este nace como una actividad experimental en un labora ... more

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Media and the Image of the Nation During Brazil's 2013 Protests

César Jiménez-Martínez

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xv, 219 pp.

"This book explores the struggles over the mediated construction and projection of the image of the nation at times of social unrest. Focusing on the June 2013 protests in Brazil, it examines how different actors -authorities, activists, the national media, foreign correspondents- disseminated compe ... more

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Diálogo de saberes en colectivos de comunicación

Angela Piedad Garcés Montoya (ed.)

Medellín: Sello Editorial Universidad de Medellín (2020), 262 pp.

"Esta publicación sobre diálogo de saberes en colectivos recoge el espíritu del diálogo de saberes para reflexionar sobre temas recientes en los procesos de agrupación juvenil y sus formas de apropiación de medios y territorios, pues resulta pertinente pensar la ciudad y a través de las diná ... more

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Mapeando la comunicación comunitaria: Cartografías de la información, de experiencias de comunicación y de liderazgos comunitarios en Cali-Colombia

Fanny Patricia Franco Chávez (ed.)

Cali: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (2020), 131 pp.

"Uno de los aspectos a destacar de este libro, es la coautoría entre académicos, investigadores, profesionales de la comunicación, líderes comunitarios y estudiantes universitarios. Lo cual, concreta un movimiento epistemológico descolonizador en términos de participación, apostándole a la c ... more

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The Bible Onscreen in the New Millennium: New Heart and New Spirit

Wickham Clayton (ed.)

Manchester: Manchester University Press (2020), xx, 278 pp.

"The remarkable commercial success of Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ in 2004 came as a surprise to the Hollywood establishment, particularly considering the film’s failure to find production funding through a major studio. Since then the Biblical epic, long thought dead in terms of mains ... more

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Pablo Escobar and Colombian Narcoculture

Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky

Gainesville: University of Florida Press (2020), x, 293 pp.

"In the years since his death in 1993, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar has become a globally recognized symbol of crime, wealth, power, and masculinity. In this long-overdue exploration of Escobars impact on popular culture, Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky shows how his legacy inspired the development of ... more

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Discourses of Anxiety Over Childhood and Youth Across Cultures

Liza Tsaliki, Despina Chronaki (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xxi, 426 pp.

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Comunicación política y elecciones en el Perú: Avanzando en certezas

Sandro Macassi Lavander (ed.)

Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP), Fondo Editorial;Grupo de Investigación en Comunicación y Política (GICYP); (2020), 357 pp.

"Los artículos reunidos en esta publicación estudian los procesos electorales a partir de conceptos como enmarcamiento, polarización, cultura política, prominencia o deliberación, que hacen que la reflexión sea menos coyuntural y comprenda procesos de más largo aliento, con una pluralidad met ... more

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Consumo y pago de noticias digitales: Oportunidades y desafíos del modelo de suscripción en América Latina

Luminate Foundation;Provokers (2020), 62 pp.

"Durante la pandemia de COVID-19, el 57% de los lectores de medios digitales en Argentina, Brazil, Colombia y Mexico ha aumentado su consumo de noticias. El 90% de los consumidores está accediendo a las noticias digitales por lo menos dos veces a la semana y el 78% por lo menos una vez al día. Las ... more

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I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: The Effect of Crime News Coverage on Crime Perception

Daniel Velásquez, Santiago Medina Serna, Gustavo Yamada, Pablo Lavado, Miguel Nuñez, Hugo Alatrista, Juandiego Morzán

World Development, volume 136 (2020), pp. 1-20

"Crime perception has increased in Peru, as in other developing and developed countries, in spite of the reduction in crime victimization figures. Our hypothesis is that the news industry is partially responsible for such opposing trends. As Peruvians are great consumers of written news, we focus on ... more

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The ‘changing’ Face of Media Discourses on Poverty in the Age of Populism and Anti-Globalisation: The Political Appeal of Anti-Modernity and Certainty in Brazil

Jairo Lugo-Ocando

International Communication Gazette, volume 82, issue 1 (2020), pp. 101-116

"This article analyses how the political right in parts of the Global South has appropriate agendas and issues that in the past were often associated to the political left and presented them instead as their own. It does so by articulating narratives around poverty and social exclusion in the contex ... more

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Mining the Media: How Community Radio Breaks Through Extractivist Discourse Articulations in a Context of Disaster and Socio-Environmental Conflicts

Karla Palma, Camila Alcaíno

Environmental Communication, volume 14, issue 6 (2020), pp. 830-843

"Mining extractive companies have extended their operations to other realms, such as the management of media. Thus, from a space of physical intervention, they start to conquer a space of symbolic representation, creating a gap between local communities’ perceptions of the mining process and the p ... more

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Voces por la verdad: Una mirada interdisciplinaria a las comisiones de la verdad para comprender el caso colombiano

Arbeláez Rojas, Olga Lucía (eds.)

Medellín: Editorial Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (2020), 199 pp.