"This essay examines the Responsible Procreation campaign of Acción Cultural Popular (ACPO) within the context of “zones of crisis” characterized not only by the legacy of long-standing violence but by tensions experienced within the Catholic Church and Colombian society at large during the tum
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ultuous decades of the 1960s and 1970s. ACPO centered its Responsible Procreation campaign on a radical critique of authoritarian and exclusionary gender relations that could only be remedied by guaranteeing women’s access to education and their participation as equals in household and community decision making. As a Catholic-affi liated organization, ACPO enjoyed legitimacy many secular organizations did not, enabling it to provide spaces where rural Colombians, especially women, could experiment with voice and agency and explore alternative visions of citizenship and community development without fear of reprisal or social ostracism. Christian social activism, the essay concludes, often laid the basis for the proliferation today of social movements spearheaded by rural women." (Abstract)
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"La cultura es la riqueza de los pueblos que defienden su identidad y que tratan de reinventarse en un mundoglobalizado, multicultural y diverso. Es imprescindible, pues, impulsar la reflexión sobre el papel de la cultura en su desarrollo. Esta segunda edición del estudios "Cultura y desarrollo ec
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onómico en Iberoamérica" aborda el efecto de la cultura en el desarrollo económico de nuestros paíse, y llega a una conclusión impactante: los aportes de la cultura al desarrollo económico de los países son muy superiores a los presupuestos que los mismos países beneficiados invierten en el desarrollo de la cultura. Finalmente, el estudio pon en relieve que aún falta mucho camino por recorrer para que todos los países lleguen a destinar al menos el 1% de su presupuesto a la inversión cultural, tal como se aprobó en la Conferencia de Ministros de Cultura celebrada en Chile, en Julio de 2007." (Tapa posterior)
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"Global Journalism Practice and New Media Performance provides an overview of new and traditional media in their political, economic and cultural contexts while exploring the role of journalism practice and media education. The authors examine media systems in 16 countries, including China, Russia a
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nd the United States." (Publisher description)
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"Media Systems and Communication Policies in Latin America proposes, tests and analyses the liberal captured model. It explores to what extent to which globalisation, marketization, commercialism, regional bodies and the nation State redefine the media's role in Latin American societies." (Publisher
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"Consideramos que la adquisición en propiedad del grupo “Epensa” por parte del grupo empresarial “El Comercio”, en virtud de la cual este último grupo concentra ahora el 78% de la lectoría (tiraje) de los medios de comunicación escritos en el Perú, afecta seriamente la libertad de expre
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sión –en especial en el ámbito colectivo y en el aspecto de la indispensable pluralidad y diversidad de la información pública- consagrada en el artículo 13° de la Convención Americana sobre Derechos Humanos (CADH)." (Conclusiones, página 51)
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"The structure of this Yearbook is divided in three parts. The first part is an introduction chapter that makes a comparative synthesis of fiction in Obitel countries. This comparison is made from a quantitative and qualitative perspective that allows us to observe fiction development in each countr
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y, pointing out its main products as well as the topic of the year: transmedia production strategies in television fiction. The second part includes 12 chapters (one for each country) with an internal structure in which sections of the Yearbook are usually constant, although some are more specific than others." (Pages 19-20)
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"Across the global South, new media technologies have brought about new forms of cultural production, distribution and reception. The spread of cassette recorders in the 1970s; the introduction of analogue and digital video formats in the 80s and 90s; the pervasive availability of recycled computer
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hardware; the global dissemination of the internet and mobile phones in the new millennium: all these have revolutionised the access of previously marginalised populations to the cultural flows of global modernity. Yet this access also engenders a pirate occupation of the modern: it ducks and deranges the globalised designs of property, capitalism and personhood set by the North. Positioning itself against Eurocentric critiques by corporate lobbies, libertarian readings or classical Marxist interventions, this volume offers a profound postcolonial revaluation of the social, epistemic and aesthetic workings of piracy. It projects how postcolonial piracy persistently negotiates different trajectories of property and self at the crossroads of the global and the local." (Publisher description)
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"El manual que aquí se presenta tiene como propósito arrojar luces y facilitar herramientas, a partir de la experiencia práctica de periodistas y comunicadores, sobre los desafíos de los medios de comunicación en el posconflicto, basándose en una encuesta realizada a nivel nacional con distint
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os profesionales de la comunicación. En particular, el manual se centra en el reportaje y el periodismo de datos como modos de reconstruir y narrar historias de paz. Además de ser una guía didáctica para la labor periodística, consideramos que este manual constituye un hito en el camino de promover la (re)construcción plural y responsable de la memoria histórica, y de un ejercicio clave para el posconflicto: el reconocimiento y la confrontación con el pasado, como punto de partida para la reconciliación del país." (Presentación, página 6)
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"El libro [...] presenta los conceptos básicos de comunicación democrática y periodismo de paz, además muestra cómo se pueden cubrir conflictos en cada una de sus fases. Con fines explicativos presenta ejemplos de coberturas periodísticas bolivianas en situaciones de conflicto, analizando y pr
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oponiendo un enfoque alternativo de la misma información desde el periodismo de paz. También se muestran ejemplos positivos de coberturas informativas que contribuyeron a posicionar las ideas de diálogo y cultura de paz. El capítulo final del libro hace referencia a los desafíos y dificultades del periodismo de paz en el contexto boliviano, en el marco del ejercicio del Derecho a la Información y Comunicación (DIC). Para este enfoque periodístico es necesario cubrir los conflictos desde que están latentes, explicitando las posiciones de todos los actores con el debido contexto, los antecedentes, los análisis desde distintos enfoques, todos los datos que permitan visibilizar la magnitud del conflicto y alertar sobre su posible escalada violenta. Con este enfoque se cubre el episodio (coyuntural) pero también el epicentro (las causas)." (https://www.unirbolivia.org)
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"Internet freedom around the world has declined for the fourth consecutive year, with a growing number of countries introducing online censorship and monitoring practices that are simultaneously more aggressive and more sophisticated in their targeting of individual users. In a departure from the pa
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st, when most governments preferred a behind-the-scenes approach to internet control, countries are rapidly adopting new laws that legitimize existing repression and effectively criminalize online dissent." (Page 1)
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"This Global Information Society Watch tracks the state of communications surveillance in 57 countries across the world – countries as diverse as Hungary, India, Argentina, The Gambia, Lebanon and the United Kingdom. Each country report approaches the issue from a different perspective. Some analy
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se legal frameworks that allow surveillance, others the role of businesses in collecting data (including marketing data on children), the potential of biometrics to violate rights, or the privacy challenges when implementing a centralised universal health system. The perspectives from long-time internet activists on surveillance are also recorded. Using the 13 International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance as a starting point, eight thematic reports frame the key issues at stake. These include discussions on what we mean by digital surveillance, the implications for a human rights agenda on surveillance, the “Five Eyes” inter-government surveillance network led by the US, cyber security, and the role of intermediaries." (GIS website)
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"This MA thesis explores the emergence of new citizenship practices among youth participating in two school-based media collectives in areas of Colombia marked by violence and conflict. I draw from Rodriguez’s (2001, 2011) citizens’ media theory, which highlights the role of performance in commu
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nication processes as a mechanism for social change, to study media products created by youth participating in two school-based communication groups, one in the city of Tumaco and one in the city of Pasto. These two groups are part of the Paco project, an initiative of Aprendiendo Crecemos, a Canadian-funded education program operated by Save the Children International and the Norwegian Refugee Council in the Nariño department of Colombia, an area facing high levels of violence and internal displacement. These media collectives are spaces where youth produce different forms of media, such as television, radio, and press, on topics related to children’s rights and local issues. In this context, this MA thesis explores the ways in which youth use these media production opportunities to negotiate, perform, and learn their roles as citizens whose voices matter and whose political actions can lead to social change. I argue that youth participation in these media collectives contributes to the internalization of understandings of citizenship based on pluralism, dialogue, and relationships with public institutions based on accountability and transparency." (Abstract)
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