"Esta nueva publicación compila, analiza y socializa información socio demográ ca sobre las poblaciones indígenas de los países del SICSUR. Además, contribuye a difundir las politicas culturales relativas a los pueblos indígenas, que han sido adoptadas por los diversos paises del SICSUR. El S
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istema de Información Cultural del Mercosur (SICSUR) es un espacio dedicado a la construcción de metodologías estandarizadas y datos válidos sobre el campo cultural en América del Sur." (Tapa posterior)
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"In 2014, Mexico, Brazil, Portugal, Colombia and Argentina, in that order, were the top five countries in the production of national fiction hours. Once again, Brazil and Mexico, despite the drop suffered by the latter, continued to be the largest producers of fiction in the Ibero-American region. I
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n contrast, Peru and Ecuador had the lowest offer of national fiction hours, while Uruguay did not produce hours of national fiction during 2014." (Page 39)
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"Video games have become a global industry, and their history spans dozens of national industries where foreign imports compete with domestic productions, legitimate industry contends with piracy, and national identity faces the global marketplace. This volume describes video game history and cultur
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e across every continent, with essays covering areas as disparate and far-flung as Argentina and Thailand, Hungary and Indonesia, Iran and Ireland. Most of the essays are written by natives of the countries they discuss, many of them game designers and founders of game companies, offering distinctively firsthand perspectives. Some of these national histories appear for the first time in English, and some for the first time in any language." (Back cover)
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"Este documento ofrece una serie de cifras y perspectivas claves para ayudar a los profesionales del sector editorial de todo el mundo a entender la transformación que está teniendo lugar en los mercados en idioma español y portugués, así como las oportunidades de negocio derivadas de dicha tra
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nsformación." (Página 3)
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"Este libro nace como una propuesta que busca dar visibilidad a una serie de iniciativas sociales e investigaciones enmarcadas en el ámbito de la comunicación, los conflictos y el cambio social, que en ocasiones no tienen los espacios ni la cobertura necesaria en los contextos académicos. Su obje
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tivo es mostrar buenas prácticas que apoyen el desarrollo de las actividades profesionales y de intervención social de los comunicadores y los activistas, además de favorecer el pensamiento crítico sobre la violencia que se transmite desde el periodismo, el cine o la publicidad, entre otros. En un escenario como el actual, en el que los medios de comunicación están sometidos a un acelerado proceso de concentración y mercantilización que daña su papel como garantes de una democracia de alta calidad, cobra más relevancia que nunca la investigación y la reflexión que favorezcan la difusión de una información plural, responsable, crítica contra las injusticias y que aborde las cuestiones centrales de interés colectivo. La comunicación para el cambio social, o los diferentes conceptos que sirven para detallar una comunicación transformadora, se posiciona como un enfoque de contrapoder que busca revertir los discursos de control. Un posicionamiento ético que incentiva la autonomía de las personas en cuanto a sus capacidades de reflexión, crítica y análisis, especialmente en relación a la violencia que margina, excluye e invisibiliza. Otro objetivo de este tipo de comunicación es promover la participación de los ciudadanos en los debates y en las decisiones comunes que impliquen una mejora de sus sociedades, en un contexto de reconocimiento mutuo." (Introducción, página 11)
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"This volume celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library, established to document and publish online formerly inaccessible and neglected archives from across the globe. From Dust to Digital showcases the historical signifi cance of the collections ide
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ntified, catalogued and digiti sed through the Programme, bringing together articles on 19 of the 244 projects supported since its inception. These contributions demonstrate the range of materials documented — including rock inscriptions, manuscripts, archival records, newspapers, photographs and sound archives — and the wide geographical scope of the Programme. Many of the documents are published here for the first time, illustrating the potential these collections have to further our understanding of history." (Back cover)
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"En una minuciosa investigación, se realiza un recorrido a través de la comunicación de gobierno de los últimos tres mandatos presidenciales y se indaga en las particularidades de un aparato comunicacional sin precedentes en la historia de la República Argentina, en el que los gobiernos de Nés
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tor Kirchner y Cristina Fernández de Kirchner se han servido, entre otras cosas, de los medios del Estado para montar una maquinaria mediática cuyo presupuesto “supera la facturación del principal multimedios del país”." (Prólogo, página 7)
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"Through a paired comparison of two moments of mass mobilization, in Ukraine and Argentina, focusing on the role of different actors involved, this text maps out a multi-layered sequence of events leading up to mass mobilization." (Publisher description)
"Die Beiträge dieses Buches zeigen am Beispiel des ¡muestra! IberoAmerikanischen Filmfests in Passau, welche filmischen Schätze der Kulturraum zu bieten hat und wie diese im deutschsprachigen Raum rezipiert werden. Gleichzeitig dokumentieren sie die zwar junge, aber sehr erfolgreiche Festivalgesc
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hichte der Passauer ¡muestra!" (Buchrücken)
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"Our project used video as a tool for enabling two Indigenous Mapuche communities in Chile, and particularly their youth, to approach and analyze local development issues and bring local perspectives to the forefront of debates on biocultural diversity conservation and equitable development. The pro
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ject brought together Canadian and Mapuche research, cultural, and Indigenous organizations using an approach that breaks down disciplinary boundaries and the hierarchies that often separate Western science from Indigenous expertise, while emphasizing co-learning and the co-production and sharing of knowledge. The project had three major activity components: 1) The Mapuche School of Filmmaking and Communication offered intensive training in digital filmmaking to Mapuche youth. This training created a space for youth to explore and analyze the challenges faced by their communities, providing them the skills to represent these through short films that meet high technical and artistic standards. Youth became knowledge collectors, interpreters, and communicators, appropriating new ICTs while rooting their films in Indigenous ways of knowing and communicating, such as storytelling and conversation with Elders. The films produced are compiled as an educational tool for the promotion of biocultural diversity. 2) Collaborative research about territory, carried out by Mapuche researchers in coordination with the Canadian team, aims at restructuring existing knowledge about the geographical, social, and cultural elements of the Lake Budi territory. Information shared by traditional knowledge holders is systematized in audiovisual and written formats. 3) Indigenous youth from Chile and Québec shared videos through an online platform, creating new knowledge through co-learning, analysis of shared challenges, and intercultural exchange." (Abstract)
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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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"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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