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Digital News Report 2020

Nic Newman, Richard Fletcher, Anne Schulz, Simge Andi, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (eds.)
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2020), 111 pp.
"The bulk of this report is based on data collected by a survey of more than 80,000 people in 40 markets and reflects media usage in January/February just before the coronavirus hit many of these countries. But the key trends that we document here, including changes in how people access news, low tr ... 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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Understanding Viral Communism: A Thematic Analysis of Twitter During Brazil’s 2018 Elections

Helton Levy, Claudia Sarmento
Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, volume 15, issue 1 (2020), pp. 19-36
"This research performs a thematic analysis on tweets published during Brazil’s 2018 elections that mentioned communism. The idea was to identify the linkages to other underlying themes that emerged during what we saw as the Twitter ‘virality of communism’ and interpret them considering the ba ... more
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Prosumidores y comunicación en la era digital

Gustavo Hernández Díaz, Johanna Pérez Daza (eds.)
Caracas: Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB) (2020), 107 pp.
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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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Melodrama and Public Pedagogy: The Construction of Memory from Television Fiction

Cristian Cabalin, Lorena Antezana
Comunicación y Sociedad, issue e7362 (2020), pp. 1-19
"This article presents the main results of a research project that aims to analyze the construction of cultural memory through fictional series that represented the dictatorship period of Augusto Pinochet in Chile. Based on interviews and focus groups with young people between 18 and 24 years old wh ... more
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Routledge Handbook of Conspiracy Theories

Michael Butter, Peter Knight (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2020), xx, 680 pp.
"Taking a global and interdisciplinary approach, the Routledge Handbook of Conspiracy Theories provides a comprehensive overview of conspiracy theories as an important social, cultural and political phenomenon in contemporary life. This handbook provides the most complete analysis of the phenomenon ... more
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Media Education in Latin America

Julio-César Mateus, Pablo Andrada Sola, María Teresa Quiroz (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2020), xix, 282 pp.
"This book offers a systematic study of media education in Latin America. As spending on technological infrastructure in the region increases exponentially for educational purposes, and with national curriculums beginning to implement media related skills, this book makes a timely contribution to ne ... more
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Lügen, Hass und Desinformation: Lateinamerika in postfaktischen Zeiten

Perspectivas (Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung), issue 6 (2020), 36 pp.
"In Lateinamerika haben Politiker wie Bolsonaro in Brasilien oder Bukele in El Salvador die Präsidentschaftswahlen nicht zuletzt durch ihre Abgrenzung vom politischen Establishment gewonnen, ungeachtet dessen, dass auch sie schon lange zu diesem von ihnen so diskreditierten Politikbetrieb gehören. ... 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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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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Comunicação, media e indústrias criativas na era digital

Paulo Faustino, Carla Martins, Iván Puentes, Francisco Belda (orgs.)
Porto: Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Letras (2020), 416 pp.
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Digital Media, Young Adults, and Religion: An International Perspective

Marcus Moberg, Sofia Sjö (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2020), xi, 179 pp.
"Utilising results of an unprecedented global study, this volume explores the ways in which young adults in seven different countries engage with digital and social media in religiously significant ways. Presenting and analysing the findings of the international research project Young Adults and Rel ... more
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Desinformación en Venezuela: Reflexiones en tiempos de pandemia

Andrés Cañizález
Caracas: Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB); ABediciones; Medianálisis (2020), 87 pp.
"Todo se inició, en verdad, cuando tuve el encargo, en mi calidad de consultor internacional, de realizar una serie de entrevistas en torno a la desinformación en Venezuela con expertos venezolanos en temas comunicacionales y políticos. Las transcripciones de aquellas notas de voz, que se hiciero ... more
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The Digital Exclusion of Women with Disabilities: A Study of Seven Low- and Middle-Income Countries

London: GSMA (2020), 43 pp.
"1. Women with disabilities have among the lowest rates of mobile and smartphone ownership. In most countries, ownership gaps are widest between men without disabilities and women with disabilities. Even in countries where the mobile gender gap is small or nonexistent, there is still a disability ga ... more
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WhatsApp Audios and the Remediation of Radio: Disinformation in Brazilian 2018 Presidential Election

Marcelo Kischinhevsky, Itala Maduell Vieira, João Guilherme Bastos dos Santos, Viktor Chagas, Miguel de Andrade Freitas, Alessandra Aldé
Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 18, issue 2 (2020), pp. 139-158
"This article brings the results of an investigation into the role of WhatsApp audio messages in the 2018 Brazilian presidential elections, proposing that instant voice messaging borrows elements from radio language. We started from a broader research, conducted by the Brazilian National Institute o ... more
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Comunicação política digital

Freiburg: KoBra Kooperation Brasilien (2020), 5 pp.
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Consejo de Redacción: Travesías de una experiencia

Abelardo Gómez et al.
Bogotá: Consejo de Redacción; Opciones Gráficas Editores (2020), 120 pp.
"Hace doce años, un equipo de periodistas compartió el sueño de mejorar la investigación en Colombia y para cumplirlo definieron un plan de trabajo y se juntaron durante meses. Querían crear una red de periodistas de investigación y un espacio para intercambiar experiencias y conocimientos con ... more
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Festín de datos: Empresas y datos personales en América Latina

Vivian Newman Pont, Daniel Ospina Celis, Juan Carlos Upegui
Bogotá: Dejusticia (2020), 204 pp.
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Kommunikation und Aktion in der Krise: Wertewandel in Brasilien

Brasilikum (KoBra), issue 258-259 (2020), pp. 19-26
"Als Tagungsreader der ersten Runder Tisch Brasilien Online Fachtagung analysiert das vorliegende Heft die Kommunikationslandschaft Brasiliens neu. Wer bestimmt gesellschaftliche Diskurse? Auf welcher Basis? In der virtuellen politischen Arena 2020 geht es längst nicht mehr allein um politische Bot ... more