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Don’t Talk to Strangers? The Role of Network Composition, WhatsApp Groups, and Partisanship in Explaining Beliefs in Misinformation About COVID-19 in Brazil

Patricia Rossini, Antonis Kalogeropoulos
Journal of Information Technology & Politics, volume 22, issue 1 (2025), pp. 113-130
"The spread of disinformation has been a topic of heightened concern, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, as the response to a public health crisis relies on the ability for public officials to inform citizens. Using a representative two-wave panel of internet users in Brazil, we examine the ... more
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Mulheres da comunicação: Região Sul

Nilda Jacks, Lírian Sifuentes, Guilherme Libardi, Leslie Sedrez Chaves, Milena Freire de Oliveira Cruz, Sérgio Luiz Gadini (coord.)
Bogotá: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), FES Comunicación (2025), 353 pp.
"Este livro celebra a trajetória acadêmica das mulheres que ajudaram a construir o campo da Comunicação na Região Sul. Organizado por regiões, os volumes resgatam as histórias de pesquisadoras que, como fundadoras e consolidadoras, desafiaram estruturas e deixaram sua marca na produção de c ... more
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Die Rapper aus dem Regenwald

Sarah Fernandes
welt-sichten, 14. Januar (2025)
"Im Amazonasgebiet, abgelegen von den brasilianischen Metropolen, hat sich eine lebendige Rap-Szene etabliert. Anders als im Großstadt-Rap geht es in ihren Texten weniger um soziale Ungleichheit, sondern vor allem um Umweltzerstörung und kulturelle Identität." (Einleitung)
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Digital Sovereignty in the BRICS Countries: How the Global South and Emerging Power Alliances Are Reshaping Digital Governance

Min Jiang, Luca Belli (eds.)
Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press (2025), xxix, 282 pp.
In a world where digital development and policymaking are dominated by Silicon Valley tech giants, the BRICS countries - Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa - play an increasingly important role. With forty percent of the world's population and twenty-five percent of global GDP, these nat ... more
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Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2025
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Nic Newman, Richard Fletcher, Craig T. Robertson, Amy Ross Arguedas, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (eds.)
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2025), 170 pp.
"• Engagement with traditional media sources such as TV, print, and news websites continues to fall, while dependence on social media, video platforms, and online aggregators grows. This is particularly the case in the United States where polling overlapped with the first few weeks of the new Trum ... more
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Communication and democracy in Brazil and Germany: Media accountability, public service media, internet access and right to information

Danilo Rothberg, Susanne Fengler, Fernando Oliveira Paulino, Rogério Christofoletti (eds.)
São Paulo: Cultura Acadêmica (2025), 304 pp.
"The expertise brought by three important Brazilian public universities (Unesp, UnB, and UFSC), combined with the knowledge accumulated through research investment by the Technische Universität Dortmund, was taken here as a unique and rich source of knowledge capable of avoiding the pitfalls and ov ... more
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Governing Misinformation in Everyday Knowledge Commons

Madelyn Sanfilippo, Melissa G. Ocepek (eds.)
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2025), xiv, 278 pp.
"Governing Misinformation in Everyday Knowledge Commons delves into the complex issue of misinformation in our daily lives. The book synthesizes three scholarly traditions - everyday life, misinformation, and governing knowledge commons - to present 10 case studies of online and offline communities ... more
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Lo ancestral funciona: Pasado, presente y futuro de la radio comunitaria

Ernesto Lamas (ed.)
Bogotá: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), FES Comunicación (2025), 249 pp.
"Este libro es una invitación a viajar por las ondas invisibles de las radios comunitarias de América Latina y el mundo. Desde las montañas del norte argentino hasta los barrios populares de Barranquilla, desde las selvas peruanas hasta las calles de México, miles de comunicadores y comunicadora ... more
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Media Compass: A Companion to International Media Landscapes

Aljosha Karim Schapals, Christian Pentzold (eds.)
Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell (2025), xxiii, 502 pp.
"In 'Media Compass: A Companion to International Media Landscapes', an international team of prominent scholars examines both long-term media systems and fluctuating trends in media usage around the world. Integrating country-specific summaries and cross-cutting studies of geopolitical regions, this ... more
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Disarming Disinformation: Brazil
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Julie Posetti, Nabeelah Shabbir, Kaylee Williams (eds.)
International Center for Journalists (ICFJ); University of London, City St George's (2025), 35 pp.
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Media Capture in Africa and Latin America: Power and Resistance

Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara, Bethia Pearson (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2025), xliii, 388 pp.
"How can current debates on ‘media capture’ be understood within the contexts of Africa and Latin America? This edited collection provides a nuanced exploration of media capture—a critical yet contested concept that examines and illuminates how media can become skewed in favour of power—whil ... more
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WhatsApp in the World: Disinformation, Encryption, and Extreme Speech
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Sahana Udupa, Herman Wasserman (eds.)
New York: New York University Press (2025), vii, 375 pp.
"Known by the popular nickname “ZapZap” in Brazil and synonymous with the Internet across Africa and South Asia, WhatsApp has emerged as a major means of communication for millions of people around the world. Unlike social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook, WhatsApp offers a closed, e ... more
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Selva sedienta: La paradoja hídrica de la región panamazónica

Carolina Martínez Molina et al.
Bogotá: Grupo Comunicarte; Red Eclesial Panamazónica (REPAM); Catholic Media Council (CAMECO); Fundación IPSA (2025), 161 pp.
"Este prediagnóstico tiene como objetivo ofrecer un panorama detallado sobre el agua y los recursos hídricos en la Amazonía. Buscamos explorar la magnitud y las características singulares de la red hidrográfica, los usos vitales que proporciona al ecosistema y a las poblaciones, así como las a ... more
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Online Disinformation in Brazil: A Typology of Discursive Action of Harmful Political Content on WhatsApp and Facebook

Tatiana Dourado, Victor Piaia, Viktor Chagas, Dalby Dienstbach, Marco Aurelio Ruediger, Eurico Matos, João Guilherme Bastos dos Santos
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 2685-2709
"This article investigates harmful political content in public WhatsApp and Facebook groups of the radical Right in Brazil. Considering harmful political content as that which generates direct damage to the quality, reasonableness, and plurality of public discussion, we investigate the enunciative a ... more
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Líneas de ayuda para atender casos de violencia de género en entornos digitales: Monitoreo y tendencias en Bolivia, Brasil y Ecuador

Derechos Digitales (2024), 46 pp.
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The Planalto riots: Making and unmaking a failed coup in Brazil

Lou Caffagni, Isabel Löfgren, Gizelle Martins, Paola Sartoretto (eds.)
Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2024), 254 pp.
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Midiatização, humor e performances no discurso religioso

Herivelton Regiani, Viviane Borelli
Ciências Sociais e Religião (Campinas), volume 26, issue e024008 (2024), 34 pp.
"O artigo traz resultados de pesquisa de doutoramento acerca da comicidade como estratégia discursiva nas religiosidades contemporâneas. No contexto de intensificação da presença do humor e do riso nas ambiências religiosas, compreendemos esse fenômeno como uma das consequências das sociedad ... more
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La historia oral en Argentina y Latinoamérica

Maylén Bolchinsky Pinsón, Facundo De Feudis Taboada, Francisco Santillán (comp.)
Mar del Plata: Facundo Felipe De Feudis Taboada; Teseopress (2024), 653 pp.
"Este libro reúne un conjunto de investigaciones que desde diferentes perspectivas, problemáticas y objetos de estudio hacen uso de la oralidad para la escritura de la historia. Es fruto del trabajo realizado en el XV Encuentro Nacional y IX Congreso Internacional de Historia Oral. Pasado, present ... more
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How Democracy Promoters Can Respond to Populist Protests: The Case of Brazil

Melissa Li
Berlin: Global Public Policy Institute (GPPI) (2024), 86 pp.
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The Global Faith and Entertainment Study: A Study of Attitudes and Perceptions Regarding Faith and Religion in Entertainment

HarrisX; Faith & Media Initiative (2024), 25 pp.
"The study seeks to understand consumers’ and decisionmakers’ perspectives on how current entertainment media treats themes of faith, religion and spirituality in its narratives and characters, if there is a market for more accurate and diverse representation of faith, and what opportunities exi ... more