"O ambiente digital emerge como um novo lócus religioso e teológico. Formam-se novas modalidades de percepção, de experiência e de expressão do "sagrado" em novos ambientes comunicacionais. E as práticas sociais no ambiente on-line, a partir de lógicas midiáticas, complexificam o fenômeno
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religioso. O "sagrado" passa a circular, fluir, deslocar-se nos meandros da internet por meio de uma ação não apenas do âmbito da "produção" eclesiástica nem só industrial-midiática, mas também mediante uma ação comunicacional das inúmeras pessoas conectadas. "A internet é uma realidade que já faz parte da vida cotidiana: não uma opção, mas um fato. A rede, hoje, se apresenta como um tecido conectivo das experiências humanas. Não um instrumento. As tecnologias da comunicação, portanto, estão criando um ambiente digital no qual o ser humano aprende a se informar, a conhecer o mundo, a estreitar e a manter vivas as relações [...]. A evangelização não pode desconsiderar essa realidade. E é esse fenômeno que Moisés Sbardelotto perscruta neste seu livro, de modo articulado, preciso e profundo, ao mesmo tempo." (Antonio Spadaro, SJ, diretor da revista La Civiltà Cattolica)
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"Este artículo expone los principales rasgos del mercado de la radio y la televisión de señal abierta en el Perú, y hace hincapié en los niveles de concentración de la inversión publicitaria, el control de las frecuencias y el marco regulatorio hecho a la medida de los grupos mediáticos más
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poderosos del país. También analiza las posibilidades de sostenibilidad económica, crecimiento y modernización de buena parte de los medios locales y regionales en un contexto mundial caracterizado por acelerados cambios tecnológicos y transformaciones en los hábitos y estilos de consumo de las audiencias. Asimismo, describe algunas fortalezas y estrategias desplegadas por las radios y televisoras locales, comerciales y con objetivos de desarrollo social (educativas y comunitarias), orientadas a posibilitar su permanencia en el mercado y sentar las bases para el complejo tránsito hacia la digitalización de la producción y distribución de contenidos multimedia." (Sumilla)
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"Applied Theatre: Performing Health and Wellbeing is the first volume in the field to address the role that theatre, drama and performance have in relation to promoting, developing and sustaining health and wellbeing in diverse communities. Challenging concepts and understanding of health, wellbeing
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and illness, it offers insight into different approaches to major health issues through applied performance. With a strong emphasis on the artistry involved in performance-based health responses, situated within a history of the field of practice, the volume is divided into two sections: Part One examines some of the key questions around research and practice in applied performance in health and wellbeing, specifically addressing the different regional challenges that dominate the provision of health care and influence wellbeing: how the aging population of the global north creates pressure on lifetime healthcare provision, while the global south is dominated by a higher birth rate and a larger population under 15 years old. Part Two comprises case studies and interviews from international practitioners that reflect the diversity of practices across the world and in particular differences between work in the northern and southern hemispheres. These case studies include a sanitation project in a Hmong refugee camp in Thailand in the 1980s, and the sanitation and rural development projects initiated by the traveling theatre troupes of a number of University theatre departments in Africa – Makerere in Kampala, Uganda; Botswana; Lesotho and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania – which began in the 1960s. It considers the emergence of Theatre for Development's use as a health approach, considering the work of Laedza Batanani and the influences of Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed." (Publisher description)
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"Era febrero del 2014 y estábamos ante las eliminatorias de la Copa Libertadores de América, la competencia a nivel de clubes más prestigiosa del fútbol sudamericano. En esa etapa, Real Garcilaso —equipo cusqueño fundado en el 2009 y novato en la copa— jugaba contra el Cruzeiro, uno de los
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equipos más exitosos de Brasil y dos veces ganador de la Copa. Los días previos al partido del 12 de febrero, la prensa deportiva peruana ya anunciaba al oponente extranjero como la “Bestia negra” (Líbero, 12 de febrero del 2014), un equipo temido, que entre sus jugadores contaba, además, con la “bestia” Julio Baptista (Líbero, 11 de febrero del 2014). Lo que sucedió luego pasaría a ser un hito en la historia del racismo peruano. Contra todo pronóstico, Real Garcilaso, un equipo con menos presupuesto y reconocimiento que Cruzeiro, ganó el partido. En una cancha provinciana, en la ciudad de Huancayo, a más de tres mil metros de altura, frente a una afición que pocas veces tiene la oportunidad de ver un encuentro como este, se encendió la esperanza de que Real Garcilaso llegue lejos en la Copa Libertadores. La noticia en los diarios al día siguiente podría haber sido que un pequeño equipo peruano había logrado ganarle a un equipo de Brasil, país cantera de cracks futboleros. En su lugar, medios brasileños y peruanos hacían eco de una denuncia de discriminación racial por los gritos de la hinchada durante el partido. Cada vez que Paulo César “Tinga” Fonseca tocaba el balón, los aficionados en las tribunas gritaban al unísono. La denuncia hecha por Tinga ante la Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol —conocida como la CONMEBOL— se inscribe en un fenómeno mayor en el Perú. Un estudio hecho por el Ministerio de Cultura sobre la discriminación racial en el fútbol peruano ubicó diecisiete casos de racismo entre el 2013 y el 2015. Dicha lista no tiene en cuenta la denuncia de Tinga, por tratarse de un torneo internacional; sin embargo, este último comparte con los otros casos una característica: todos tienen como protagonista a un afrodescendiente. Lo sucedido en Huancayo tuvo un impacto tal que la presidenta de Brasil, Dilma Rousseff, y el presidente de Perú, Ollanta Humala, se pronunciaron en contra de este tipo de manifestaciones (Straub y otros, 2015). Así, el tema del racismo fue puesto nuevamente en la agenda mediática del Perú. Finalmente, el 24 de marzo del 2014, el Tribunal de Disciplina de la CONMEBOL decidió sancionar al club Real Atlético Garcilaso de Perú con USD 12.000 “por los cánticos de naturaleza racista entonados por parte de un sector de sus aficionados." (Página 114-115)
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"Los periodistas que leamos esta guía, de principio a fin, encontraremos una ruta rápida para investigar procesos relacionados con la contratación pública y la identificación y construcción de redes de poder; a su vez, se encontrarán elementos para hacer consultas en bases de datos. Todo esto
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desde el punto de vista de un periodismo de investigación." (Página 4)
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"Combining perspectives from media studies and political ecology, this book analyses socially constructed news regarding three environmental conflicts in South America. In recent decades, South American political administrations have tied national economies to neo-extractive development strategies,
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creating not only vulnerabilities to global commodity boom and bust pricing cycles, but also to conflict regarding environmental and cultural degradation from extraction activities. Environmental contestations among indigenous peoples, environmental and social NGOs, state actors, and extraction industries receive media attention, but how these disputes are covered has implications for understandings of media performance in democratizing nations. The authors examine three case studies of environmental contestation in a region that is simultaneously vulnerable to the effects of climate change, and yet has become once again dependent on commodity exportation to industrializing and industrialized nations for economic benefit and social development strategies." (Publisher description)
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"Currency research organisations, i.e. organisations conducting research into media use, whose results constitute a nationally valid standard (“currency”) for the advertising business, are of prime importance for developed media systems. In 2017, the global advertising market will reach a volume
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of more than 500 billion US dollars. Nearly a third of that is spent in the USA, but countries such as China, Brazil and Mexico are registering big increases too.(199) Therefore, currency organisations and their research findings contribute not only to the allocation of economically significant resources, but also determine the very existence of media companies and products. Their relevance is thus not only of an (advertising) economic nature, but indirectly bears a political dimension. First and foremost, however, the function of the currency organisations is to provide transparency for the advertisers in terms of the advertising media’s contact performance. The current situation of currency research organisations is heavily shaped on onehand by developments in the media markets, and on the other by historic circumstances and the institutionalisation of the media systems in the various countries. As a general rule, in countries with strongly libertarian institutionalised media such as the USA and Brazil it seems to be harder to establish nationally recognised currencies – in the USA this is even banned through anti-trust laws. Then again, the institutionalisation of currencies may also hit difficulties in a country such as South Korea, where the boundaries between the media and (the rest of) the economic system are somewhat fluid, as the major industry conglomerates have their own media and advertising agencies." (Conclusions)
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"Juliano Spyer procura entender por que brasileiros de baixa renda investiram tanto tempo e dinheiro para incorporar o uso das mídias sociais a seu cotidiano. Explora essa questão por uma variedade de temas, incluindo educação, relacionamentos, trabalho e política e argumenta que o uso das míd
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ias sociais reflete valores e motivações contraditórias. Brasileiros de baixa renda abraçam as mídias sociais para exibir sua crescente escolaridade e mobilidade social, mas a mesma tecnologia também fortalece redes de apoio mútuo tradicionais que rejeitam atitudes individualistas." (Descrição da casa editora)
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"Latin American comics and graphic novels have a unique history of addressing controversial political, cultural, and social issues. This volume presents new perspectives on how comics on and from Latin America both view and express memory formation on major historical events and processes. The contr
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ibutors, from a variety of disciplines including literary theory, cultural studies, and history, explore topics including national identity construction, narratives of resistance to colonialism and imperialism, the construction of revolutionary traditions, and the legacies of authoritarianism and political violence. The chapters offer a background history of comics and graphic novels in the region, and survey a range of countries and artists such as Joaquín Salvador Lavado (a.k.a Quino), Hector G. Oesterheld, and Juan Acevedo. They also highlight the unique ability of this art and literary form to succinctly render memory. In sum, this volume offers in-depth analysis of an understudied, yet key literary genre in Latin American memory studies and documents the essential role of comics during the transition from dictatorship to democracy." (Publisher description)
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"Remembering the Holocaust is a central part of historical awareness and political culture in reunified Germany, Israel, and the United States. But can the same be said for other parts of the world? How have societies that were not affected by occupation and extermination measures under the Nazi reg
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ime dealt with the legacy of the Holocaust? How have minorities with their own experiences of persecution reacted to specific acts of remembrance? How does demographic change affect memory? In what ways have immigrants come to terms with the central significance of the Holocaust? From a global perspective and in different national and regional contexts, international experts analyse the worldwide transformation of Holocaust remembrance. The fourteen case studies focus on the genesis and functions of remembrance in Europe, North and South America, Israel, North Africa, South Africa and Asia. The volume identifies and discusses contradictions and challenges in a process often referred to as the ‘globalisation’ or ‘universalisation’ of Holocaust remembrance." (Publisher description)
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"If everyone with a smartphone can be a citizen photojournalist, who needs professional photojournalism? This rather flippant question cuts to the heart of a set of pressing issues, where an array of impassioned voices may be heard in vigorous debate. While some of these voices are confidently predi
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cting photojournalism's impending demise as the latest casualty of internet-driven convergence, others are heralding its dramatic rebirth, pointing to the democratisation of what was once the exclusive domain of the professional. Regardless of where one is situated in relation to these stark polarities, however, it is readily apparent that photojournalism is being decisively transformed across shifting, uneven conditions for civic participation in ways that raise important questions for journalisms forms and practices in a digital era. This book's contributors identify and critique a range of factors currently recasting photojournalism's professional ethos, devoting particular attention to the challenges posed by the rise of citizen journalism. This book was originally published as two special issues, in Digital Journalism and Journalism Practice." (Publisher description)
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"Há 73 anos foi ao ar o primeiro programa de rádio brasileiro de cunho religioso, A Voz da Profecia. Hoje, rádio e igreja estão atados de forma visceral, ligando altares e microfones num fenômeno que desafia os pesquisadores do campo da Comunicação. Este trabalho tem o objetivo de dar início
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a um breve mapeamento do rádio religioso no Brasil, buscando entender a sua configuração. Na ausência de um órgão ou entidade que centralize as informações sobre a presença da igreja na radiofonia, a pesquisa foi realizada a partir de duas investigações: dados do livro Panorama do rádio no Brasil e informações disponibilizadas pelo portal Donos da Mídia." (Resumo)
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"This e-book was first published in Spanish on April 23, 2017 on the occassion of the 10th Ibero-American Colloquium for Digital Journalism organized by the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas at Austin. The book compiles reports from the series “Innovative Jour
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nalism in Latin America,” published on the Knight Center’s blog between December 2016 and April 2017. It also offers practical advice for digital journalistic innovation on different topics." (Cover)
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"O material aqui divulgado representa, em essência, a contribuição do VII Encontro Brasileiro de Educomunicação ao V Global MIL Week, da UNESCO, ocorrido na ECA/USP, entre 3 e 5 de novembro de 2016. Estamos diante de um conjunto de 104 papers executivos, com uma média de entre 7 e 10 páginas,
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cada um. Com este rico e abundante material, chegamos ao sétimo E-book publicado pela ABPEdu-com, em seus seis primeiros anos de existência. A especificidade desta obra é a de trazer as “Áreas de Intervenção” do campo da Educomunicação, colocando-as a serviço de uma meta essencial ao agir educomunicativo: o diálogo intercultural." (Plano de leitura e de pesquisa, página 14)
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"Fernandes considers the rise of storytelling alongside the broader shift to neoliberal, free-market economies. She argues that stories have been reconfigured to promote entrepreneurial self-making and restructured as easily digestible soundbites mobilized toward utilitarian ends. Fernandes roams th
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e globe and returns with stories from the Afghan Women's Writing Project, the domestic workers movement and the undocumented student Dreamer movement in the United States, and the Misión Cultura project in Venezuela. She shows how the conditions under which certain stories are told, the tropes through which they are narrated, and the ways in which they are responded to may actually disguise the deeper contexts of global inequality. Curated stories shift the focus away from structural problems and defuse the confrontational politics of social movements." (Back cover)
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