"En este artículo se analiza en qué medida las políticas públicas de comunicación y cultura fueron uno de los factores fundamentales que contribuyeron para construir la posición de profunda desventaja en términos de sostenibilidad económica de los medios comunitarios, populares y alternativo
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s de Argentina con respecto a los medios de propiedad privada con fines de lucro, a los de propiedad estatal y a otras industrias culturales. Se pretende demostrar que estos medios, en comparación con medios privados y estatales y con otras industrias culturales, se han desarrollado en históricas condiciones de desigualdad que perjudicaron sus posibilidades de sostenibilidad económica en el tiempo." (Abstract)
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"La organización del texto que sigue recorta, con fines analíticos, diez nudos críticos de la tarea periodística en materia de cobertura de casos policiales. Para su exposición se han tomado materiales que fueron objeto de reclamos ante esta Defensoría o que fueron seleccionados de los monitor
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eos de noticieros que se realizan periódicamente, así como de fragmentos de las reuniones realizadas con trabajadores de la comunicación durante estos tres años. La totalidad de los casos que se mencionan -una selección pequeña del universo de reclamos recibidos por el organismo- fueron debatidos con los trabajadores de los medios de comunicación -desde los periodistas hasta las productoras-, de modo de reflexionar de manera conjunta acerca de lo que las audiencias habían reclamado y la perspectiva que esta Defensoría tiene sobre cada uno de ellos. En casi todos los casos, dichos debates concluyeron en actividades de capacitación, lectura de materiales específicos y debates sobre legalidades, legitimidades y potenciales abordajes alternativos. Abordajes que posibilitaran realizar la actividad profesional en materia policial sin que ésta vulnerara derechos." (Introducción, página 8)
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"El presente volumen recoge diferentes enfoques teóricos y metodológicos sobre las memorias, transiciones políticas e identidades en Alemania, Argentina y España, buscando establecer comparaciones y puntos de convergencia en sociedades signadas durante el siglo XX por regímenes políticos autor
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itarios y procesos de democratización paradigmáticos. Privilegia la reflexión a partir de fuentes orales, indagación en archivos, sitios de memoria y otros documentos como representaciones literarias y cinematográficas." (Descripción de la casa editorial)
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"La Defensoría del Público asumió el desafío de impulsar a emisoras de gestión pública y de gestión privada con y sin fines de lucro para que adopten el camino de la coregulación creando sus propios códigos de ética y manuales de estilo. Estas guías pueden partir de la definición de la c
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omunicación como un derecho básico inalienable y de reconocer la necesidad de transmitir imágenes y mensajes inclusivos y no discriminatorios, que respeten la dignidad de las personas, para contribuir a mejorar la comunicación y, con ella, la mejora de la vida en general, la convivencia como comunidad y, por ende, la construcción de una sociedad inclusiva. De allí que en estas páginas, la Defensoría procura aportar y sistematizar herramientas existentes a nivel nacional e internacional para brindar instrumentos acordes a los desafíos del paradigma de la comunicación en Argentina: la concepción que la comunicación como derecho humano le plantea al campo de los medios audiovisuales." (Introducción)
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"En el artículo se analiza cómo se conformó un entramado de cooperación entre el periodismo, los medios y la Dictadura para construir un orden represivo en el período 1976-1982. La prensa hegemónica ha realizado un trabajo articulado y sistemático para hacer posible el exterminio de un grupo
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social y, luego, para legitimar y para ocultar su destrucción. En las páginas de Editorial Atlántida, y de los diarios Clarín, La Nación, La Nueva Provincia y El Día las autoras examinan algunas de las operaciones criminales de esta maquinaria cultural, en un esfuerzo por construir mapas de verdad que nos permitan acceder a la justicia." (Resumen)
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"International trade in creative industries showed sustained growth in the last decade. The global market for traded creative goods and services totaled a record $547billion in 2012, as compared to $302 billion in 2003. Exports from developing countries, led by Asian countries, were growing faster t
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han exports from developed countries. Among developed country regions, Europe is the largest exporter of creative goods. In 2012, the top 5 creative goods exporters included Germany, France, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Belgium. Exports of creative goods from developed economies grew during the period 2003 to 2012, with export earnings rising from $134 billion to $197 billion. Among developing countries, China is the largest exporter of creative goods. In 2012, the top 5 exporters were China, Hong Kong, China, India, Turkey and South Korea. Exports of creative goods from developing economies grew during the period 2003 to 2012, with export earnings rising from $87 billion to $272 billion. Developing countries are playing an increasingly important role in international trade in creative industries." (Executive summary)
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"Este libro muestra los resultados de una investigación cuyo objetivo fue explorar la producción académica sobre Consumos Culturales en la Argentina en el período 2000-2012. Con el fin de poder delimitar el alcance del estudio, en un primer momento se definieron las dimensiones que esta indagaci
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ón atendería, teniendo en cuenta que los consumos culturales generalmente abarcan prácticas, o conjunto de prácticas, numerosas y diversas. Se decidió seguir el camino de la definición convencional. Es decir, se contemplaron aquellas publicaciones que tratan los fenómenos estudiados bajo el paraguas de esa expresión e investigaciones reconocidas tradicionalmente en el país que son comentadas tanto en el marco referencial como en otros s de esta obra. En este sentido, los textos analizados sustentan argumentos, o son producto de investigaciones, que examinan la asistencia a cines, teatros, festivales y fiestas populares, las audiencias y los públicos de radio y televisión, la lectura de prensa gráfica y de libros de circulación masiva y el uso y la apropiación de tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TIC). Si bien pueden existir referencias a investigaciones o estudios que incluyan prácticas diferentes, las citadas son las que aparecen más recurrentemente estudiadas en las publicaciones que pueden enmarcarse como estudios dirigidos a registrar prácticas y hábitos vinculados a los consumos de bienes culturales en el país en la última década." (Introducción, página 15)
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"With regards to professional role orientations, Argentinian journalists found it most important to report things as they were, to promote tolerance and cultural diversity, to provide analysis of current affairs, and to let people express their views (see Table 1). A majority of journalists in Argen
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tina found it important to monitor and scrutinize political leaders and business. Considering the political polarization context as it was seen in Argentina during the years when the survey was conducted, options of conveying a positive image of political leadership or being an adversary of the government were surprisingly supported by only a minority of respondents. They showed some consensus towards more politically assertive roles such as supporting government policy or setting political agenda, both roles related to partisan journalism. Regarding this popular model, half of the respondents considered important, in increasing order, setting the political agenda, motivating people to participate in political activity, influencing public opinion, supporting national development, providing information people need to make political decisions and advocating for social change." (Journalistic roles, page 2)
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"In March 2006, socialist politician Michelle Bachelet became not only the first woman to assume the presidency of Chile, but also the first female president in South America. Bachelet appointed a cabinet with an equal number of men and women. Although there were several other changes to her cabinet
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as well, hers was significant for being the only government since the country’s return to democracy that established equal representation of female and male ministers (Fernández and Rubilar 2011). Bachelet’s rise to power was a milestone in the fight for equal rights among men and women in Chile, a movement which began toward the end of the 19th century and continued throughout the 20th, with Chile’s first wave of feminism and women’s demands for access to education and the right to vote (Kirkwood 1986). Despite this longstanding movement and the gender milestone represented by her presidency, Bachelet did not fundamentally change the participation of women in positions of political power." (Abstract)
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"Media concentration has been an issue around the world. To some observers the power of large corporations has never been higher. To others, the Internet has brought openness and diversity. What perspective is correct? The answer has significant implications for politics, business, culture, regulati
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on, and innovation. It addresses a highly contentious subject of public debate in many countries around the world. In this discussion, one side fears the emergence of media empires that can sway public opinion and endanger democracy. The other side believes the Internet has opened media to unprecedented diversity and worries about excessive regulation by government. Strong opinions and policy advocates abound on each side, yet a lack of quantitative research across time, media industries, and countries undermines these positions. This book moves beyond the rhetoric of free media and free markets to provide a dispassionate and data-driven analysis of global media ownership trends and their drivers. The book covers thirteen media industries, including television, newspapers, book publishing, film, search engines, ISPs, wireless telecommunication, and others across a 10- to 25-year period in thirty countries. After examining these countries, this book offers comparisons and analysis across industries, regions, companies, and development levels. It calculates overall national concentration trends beyond specific media industries, the market share of individual companies in the overall national media sector, and the size and trends of transnational companies in overall global media." (Publisher description)
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"This article examines the targets and activities of mobile app developers in two Latin American economies – Argentina and Bolivia – analysing the political, social and economic conditions that connect or disconnect app developers and the interests of local users. Findings suggest that app distr
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ibution platforms do not favour local markets and that app developers largely focus on custom-design projects for commercial firms." (Abstract)
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"Media diaries of 36 Chilean adults were being collected as two disasters unfolded: an earthquake on the northern coast and 11 days later a massive fire in Valparaiso. From an audience reception theoretical approach, these events provide a unique opportunity to compare people's engagement with media
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and responses to two mediated disasters. By complementing textual and computerized linguistic analyses, this study reveals that audiences' responses differ by type of disaster and proximity. Where earthquakes abound, people express more rational analyses of media quake coverage and more emotional responses to the fire. Also, proximity played an expected role with the fire but not the quake, suggesting that audiences' engagement with media events depends on the context and the type of disaster." (Abstract)
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"The first book in Why We Post, a book series that investigates the findings of nine anthropologists who each spent 15 months living in communities across the world, including Brazil, Chile, China, England, India, Italy, Trinidad and Turkey. This book offers a comparative analysis summarising the re
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sults of the research and exploring the impact of social media on politics and gender, education and commerce. What is the result of the increased emphasis on visual communication? Are we becoming more individual or more social? Why is public social media so conservative? Why does equality online fail to shift inequality offline? How did memes become the moral police of the internet? Supported by an introduction to the project’s academic framework and theoretical terms that help to account for the findings, the book argues that the only way to appreciate and understand something as intimate and ubiquitous as social media is to be immersed in the lives of the people who post. Only then can we discover how people all around the world have already transformed social media in such unexpected ways and assess the consequences." (Back cover)
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"Now in paperback for the first time, the Handbook is an academic adaptation of information contained in the Global Report on the Status of Women in News Media, a study commissioned by the International Women's Media Foundation. The book's editor was the principal investigator of the original study.
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This text draws together the most robust data from that original study, presenting it in 29 chapters on individual nations and three additional theoretical chapters. The book is the most expansive effort to date to consider women's standing in the journalism profession across the world. Contents organize nations in relation to their progress within newsrooms, with those most advanced in gender equality representing diversity in terms of region and national development. Contributing authors are, in most cases, the original researchers for their respective nations in the Global Report study." (Publisher description)
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"The 45 country reports gathered here illustrate the link between the internet and economic, social and cultural rights (ESCRs). Some of the topics will be familiar to information and communications technology for development (ICT4D) activists: the right to health, education and culture; the socioec
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onomic empowerment of women using the internet; the inclusion of rural and indigenous communities in the information society; and the use of ICT to combat the marginalisation of local languages. Others deal with relatively new areas of exploration, such as using 3D printing technology to preserve cultural heritage, creating participatory community networks to capture an “inventory of things” that enables socioeconomic rights, crowdfunding rights, or the negative impact of algorithms on calculating social benefits. Workers’ rights receive some attention, as does the use of the internet during natural disasters. Ten thematic reports frame the country reports. These deal both with overarching concerns when it comes to ESCRs and the internet – such as institutional frameworks and policy considerations – as well as more specific issues that impact on our rights: the legal justification for online education resources, the plight of migrant domestic workers, the use of digital databases to protect traditional knowledge from biopiracy, digital archiving, and the impact of multilateral trade deals on the international human rights framework. The reports highlight the institutional and country-level possibilities and challenges that civil society faces in using the internet to enable ESCRs. They also suggest that in a number of instances, individuals, groups and communities are using the internet to enact their socioeconomic and cultural rights in the face of disinterest, inaction or censure by the state." (Back cover)
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