"As primeiras cópias da Bíblia Sagrada chegaram ao Brasil no início do século XIX. Os missionários protestantes estabelecidos posteriormente somente implementaram a sua distribuição. Mas, até o final da Segunda Guerra Mundial, as bíblias eram impressas no exterior e sua distribuição depen
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dia dos esforços da Sociedade Bíblica Britânica Estrangeira ou da Sociedade Bíblica Americana. A Sociedade Bíblica do Brasil (SBB) foi fundada em 1948 após a junção das sociedades estrangeiras que operaram no País por mais de 100 anos. Porém, o boom de publicação de bíblias se deu após 1995, com o estabelecimento da “Gráfica da Bíblia”. Desde então, a SBB imprimiu 100 milhões de exemplares, os quais foram distribuídos no Brasil, em países de fala portuguesa, e exportados para outros 105 países. Nesse período, o mercado de bíblias se tornou crescentemente competitivo e diversificado. As editoras especializadas em bíblias passaram a usar as ferramentas do marketing no tratamento de seu principal e único produto - a Bíblia - submetendo-o às leis do mercado e as necessidades e demandas dos seus consumidores." (Resumo)
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"A comunicação cujo conteúdo é centrado nas qualidades e nos diferenciais da marca religiosa, exatamente como é recorrente nas ações da Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus, busca relacionar os benefícios do entretenimento a ela, possibilitando à igreja integrar sua imagem marcária ao discurs
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o, não eximindo o público receptor de desfrutar do programa no qual está inserida a branded content — comunicação por conteúdo. O presente artigo aborda o fenômeno religioso em curso que sobrepuja a categoria de religião perdida para o religioso por todas as partes-, cenário contemporâneo no qual a religiosidade é manifesta intensamente na vida privada das pessoas, em formas afetivas e emocionais, sem referência à doutrina ou à instituição eclesiástica." (Resumo)
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"Turning the tide on the killing of journalists involves several steps, but primarily it is a matter of having the political will to acknowledge the issue as important and ending the impunity for those responsible for the violence. These steps include: following through on making attacks on the medi
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a, particularly murders, a federal rather than a state or local crime, in order to remove the investigations from often corrupt or intimidated local law enforcement groups. This fundamental legal change would be significant in ending the cycle of impunity and the botched investigations that currently feed the violence; strengthening the special prosecutor’s office, with additional funding and staff, to more effectively go after those accused of these crimes; forming a common front in the media to tackle the problems of security for journalists and the risks of reporting on transnational organized crime; persuading national opinion leaders to speak out about the violence and its impact on society; targeting international aid specifically for the protection of journalists." (Executive summary, page 6-7)
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"Concentrated and usually conservative media are characteristic of Latin American countries, and at the same time these structures undermine meaningful democracy. Given the political influence of large media conglomerates, even most center-left governments are reluctant to limit the power of influen
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tial companies. Argentina, however, passed a new comprehensive media law in 2009 designed to democratize the media sector. This article traces the origins of the law and analyzes the strategies of the actors involved, with the focus resting on the roles of social movements and large media companies. The article then presents the main features of the new regulation that social movements now take as a model case for other countries. I argue that the new law originates from an unusually participatory legislative process and furthers the democratization of communication. The passage of this law is explained through the associational capabilities of the movement, the potent framing of media regulation as a matter of democracy and the changing mediaÞstate dynamics that disrupted the long-standing mutually supporting ties between the dominant Clarín Group and the government." (Abstract)
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"Por meio das tecnologias digitais, configura-se um novo tipo de interação comunicacional fiel-Igreja-Deus, em uma experiência religiosa online. Esse fenômeno é ilustrado, na prática, por inúmeros serviços religiosos no ambiente católico online, que manifestam novas modalidades de discurso
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e de prática religiosos, fora do âmbito tradicional do templo – o que aqui chamamos de rituais online –, marcadas por um processo de midiatização. Neste artigo, portanto, repassaremos primeiramente conceitos-chave para a compreensão desse fenômeno como sistema e interação. Examinaremos, em seguida, em sites católicos brasileiros, configurações comunicacionais da experiência religiosa a partir de três âmbitos: interface interacional; interações discursivas; e interações rituais. Por último, apresentaremos pistas de conclusão sobre o que a religião em midiatização revela acerca da mídia e sobre que religião nasce a partir do ambiente online." (Resumo)
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"For decades, television scholars have viewed global television through the lens of cultural imperialism, focusing primarily on programs produced by US and UK markets and exported to foreign markets. Global Television Formats revolutionizes television studies by de-provincializing its approach to me
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dia globalization. It re-examines dominant approaches and their legacies of global/local and center/ periphery, and offers new directions for understanding television’s contemporary incarnations. The chapters in this collection take up the format phenomena from around the globe, including the Middle East, Western and Eastern Europe, South and West Africa, South and East Asia, Australia and New Zealand, North America, South America, and the Caribbean. Contributors address both little known examples and massive global hits ranging from the Idol franchise around the world, to telenovelas, dance competitions, sports programming, reality TV, quiz shows, sitcoms and more." (Publisher description)
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"The Global Journalist in the 21st Century systematically assesses the demographics, education, socialization, professional attitudes and working conditions of journalists in various countries around the world. This book updates the original Global Journalist (1998) volume with new data, adding more
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than a dozen countries, and provides material on comparative research about journalists that will be useful to those interested in doing their own studies. The editors put together this collection working under the assumption that journalists' backgrounds, working conditions and ideas are related to what is reported (and how it is covered) in the various news media round the world, in spite of societal and organizational constraints, and that this news coverage matters in terms of world public opinion and policies. Outstanding features include:"Coverage of 33 nations located around the globe, based on recent surveys conducted among representative samples of local journalist, comprehensive analyses by well-known media scholars from each country, a section on comparative studies of journalists and an appendix with a collection of survey questions used in various nations to question journalists" (Publisher description)
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"According to Argentinean law, the government can transmit on television and radio broadcasters in grave, exceptional or institutionally significant circumstances. Nestor Kirchner, Mrs. Fernández de Kirchner’s predecessor and deceased husband, spoke to citizens by nationwide broadcast twice in hi
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s time in office between 2003 and 2007. The current president has made 52 of these broadcasts in the last three years. Opposition organisations have used the social networks Twitter and Facebook to call on people to disrupt the broadcasts with noise." (Page 22)
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"This book aims to provide a context in which a clear link can be traced between the politics of memory and its manifold representations and misrepresentations in public media towards a viable politics of justice. The assumption is that public awareness and perceptions of injustice, whether they are
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political, economic, or social, depend on the mass media of communication for recognition and valorization – including, today, new communication and information technologies such as social media platforms. Undoubtedly this assumption is based on a system in which mass media can operate independently, fairly, and in a balanced and unbiased way: in other words, according to a much vaunted and fast vanishing ‘public service ethos’ imbued with high standards of truthtelling, objectivity, balance, and accountability. A parallel assumption is that if the public is made aware and has access to relevant information and knowledge, it will be motivated to pressure governments for reform, reparation, and – in the best possible scenario – some kind of consensus between all parties on ways to move forward as a nation. As we have pointed out above, this argues for an a priori ‘right to memory’ that affirms and protects those frameworks and structures of collective memory that guarantee the physical, psychological, and symbolic integrity of a group of people or, indeed, a nation. There are many aspects to the debate." (Introduction, page 17)
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"Chapters explore what happens in praxis when digital media are implemented across cultures and are contested and negotiated within complex local and political conditions. The book showcases interpretative and critical research from voices with diverse backgrounds, from locations around the world."
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"This report is the third in a series of comprehensive studies of internet freedom around the globe and covers developments in 47 countries that occurred between January 2011 and May 2012. Over 50 researchers, nearly all based in the countries they analyzed, contributed to the project by researching
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laws and practices relevant to the internet, testing the accessibility of select websites, and interviewing a wide range of sources. This year's findings indicate that restrictions on internet freedom in many countries have continued to grow, though the methods of control are slowly evolving, becoming more sophisticated and less visible. Brutal attacks against bloggers, politically motivated surveillance, proactive manipulation of web content, and restrictive laws regulating speech online are among the diverse threats to internet freedom emerging over the past two years. Nevertheless, several notable victories have also occurred as a result of greater activism by civil society, technology companies, and independent courts, illustrating that efforts to advance internet freedom can yield results." (www.freedomhouse.org, January 14, 2013)
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