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Curtailing Corruption: People Power for Accountability and Justice

Shaazka Beyerle
Rienner (2014), vi, 325 pp.
"Campaigns and movements targeting corruption often face decentralized targets rather than an identifiable dictator or external government, and can be found both in undemocratic and democratic systems. Graft and abuse are manifested in a systemic manner rather than a hodgepodge collection of illicit ... more
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Resumo: Diretório de comunicação da Igreja no Brasil

Nelson Gonçalves de Oliveira Junior (org.)
Conferência Nacional dos Bispos do Brasil (CNBB) (2014), 28 pp.
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Digital News Report 2014

Nic Newman, David A. L. Levy (eds.)
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2014), 93 pp.
"The use of smartphones and tablets has jumped significantly in the past year, with fewer people using their computers for news. More than a third of online news users across all countries (39%) use two or more digital devices each week for news and a fifth (20%) now say their mobile phone is their ... more
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Radio: The Resilient Medium. Papers from the Third Conference of the ECREA Radio Research Section

Madalena Oliveira, Grazyna Stachyra, Guy Starkey (eds.)
Sunderland: University of Sunderland, Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies (2014), vi, 311 pp.
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Cultura y desarrollo económico en Iberoamérica

Ernesto Espíndola (coord.)
Madrid: Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura (OEI); Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) (2014), 345 pp.
"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 ... more
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Trânsitos religiosos, cultura e mídia: A expansão neopentecostal

Adilson José Francisco
São Paulo: Paulus (2014), 438 pp.
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Novos rumos da comunicação católica brasilieira: O processo de construção do Diretório de Comunicação da Igreja no Brasil

Ricardo Costa Alvarenga, Poliana Sales Alves Alves
Foz do Iguaçu: Intercom – Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Comunicação, XXXVII Congresso Brasileiro de Ciências da Comunicação (2014), 15 pp.
"Consideramos que o Diretório de Comunicação da Igreja no Brasil aponta, essencialmente, para três novos rumos na comunicação católica brasileira. Um deles é a disseminação da cultura de educação para os meios. A preocupação da Igreja vai além do domínio das técnicas de produção, ... more
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Postcolonial Piracy: Media Distribution and Cultural Production in the Global South

Lars Eckstein, Anja Schwarz (eds.)
London: Bloomsbury Academic (2014), ix, 300 pp.
"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 ... more
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Backward March: The Turnaround in Public Cultural Policy in Brazil

Sergio Amadeu da Silveira, Murilo Bansi Machado, Rodrigo Tarchiani Savazoni
Media, Culture & Society, volume 35, issue 5 (2013), pp. 549-564
"The article analyses the turnaround in guidelines occurring in public policies for culture in Brazil. This is placed in the context of the transition from the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to the Dilma Rousseff administration, including the end of the cycle of shared leadership between M ... more
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Das igrejas para os palcos: O mercado da música católica. Apropriações e ressignificações

Selene Ferreira
Niterói: Universidade Federal Fluminense, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação, Tesis (2013), 121 pp.
"A partir das influências do processo de globalização percebe-se o surgimento de novas formas de produzir música e expressar a fé através delas. O público cristão, nesse sentido, torna-se um nicho comercial promissor dentro desse mercado, na medida em que, gradativamente, a música católica ... more
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Comunicação e música católica: Convergências, estratégias e sinergias

Selene Nogueira Ferreira
Congresso Internacional Comunicação e Consumo (Comunicon 2014) (2013), 13 pp.
"O presente trabalho trata das relações estabelecidas entre música, comunicação e Igreja Católica. A partir de uma análise acerca das estratégias de apropriação da lógica de mercado atual, aliadas ao uso sistemático e interligado dos meios de comunicação de massa, procura-se perceber a ... more
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The Global Information Technology Report 2013: Growth and Jobs in a Hyperconnected World

Beñat Bilbao-Osorio, Soumitra Dutta, Bruno Lanvin (eds.)
Geneva: World Economic Forum; INSEAD (2013), 413 pp.
"Through the methodological framework of the Networked Readiness Index (NRI), the report measures the extent to which 144 economies, from both the developed and developing worlds, take advantage of ICTs and other new technologies to increase their growth and well-being. The NRI identifies the most r ... more
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Frische Formate für Brasilien: Kultur und Wissenschaft für den Markt der Telenovelas

Weltzeit (Deutsche Welle), issue 5 (2013), 27 pp.
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Freedom on the Net 2013: A Global Assessment of Internet and Digital Media

Sanja Kelly, Mai Truong, Madeline Earp, Laura W. Reed, Adrian Shahbaz, Ashley Greco-Stoner (eds.)
Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2013), 881 pp.
"Freedom House has conducted a comprehensive study of internet freedom in 60 countries around the world. This report is the fourth in a series and focuses on developments that occurred between May 2012 and April 2013. The previous edition, covering 47 countries, was published in September 2012. 'Fre ... more
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The Digital Divide: The Internet and Social Inequality in International Perspective

Massimo Ragnedda, Glenn W. Muschert (eds.)
London: Routledge (2013), 324 pp.
"This book provides an in-depth comparative analysis of inequality and the stratification of the digital sphere. Grounded in classical sociological theories of inequality, as well as empirical evidence, this book defines “the digital divide” as the unequal access and utility of internet communic ... more
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Encuesta latinoamericana de hábitos y prácticas culturales 2013

Madrid: Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura (OEI) (2013), 165 pp.
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The Media Landscape in 54 Countries: Country Profiles from the 2011 and 2012 UIS Pilot Surveys

Paris: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2013), 155 pp.
"The current UIS Questionnaire on Media Statistics provides information for three UNESCO frameworks, namely the Media and Information Literacy Framework, the Media Development Indicators Framework and the Framework for Cultural Statistics. The questionnaire collects data for reporting global progres ... more
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TIC Kids Online Brasil 2012: Pesquisa sobre o uso da Internet por crianças e adolescentes = ICT Kids Online Brazil 2012: Survey on Internet Use by Children in Brazil

Alexandre F. Barbosa (coord.)
São Paulo: Comitê Gestor da Internet no Brasil (2013), 335 pp.
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Bücher öffnen Welten: Medienangebote für Menschen in Haft in Deutschland und international

Förderverein Gefangenenbüchereien, Gerhard Peschers (eds.)
Berlin: De Gruyter Saur (2013), x, 416 pp.
"In diesem Band wird sowohl das Gefangenenbüchereiwesen in Deutschland als auch international vorgestellt. Neben der Geschichte der Gefangenenbüchereien werden die Gesetzesgrundlagen und unterschiedliche Bibliotheksangebote für Menschen in Haft erstmalig in einem Band zusammengefasst." (Verlagsbe ... more
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Ibero-American Television Fiction Observatory Obitel 2013: Social Memory and Television Fiction in Ibero-American Countries

Maria Immacolata Vassallo de Lopes, Guillermo Orozco Gómez (eds.)
Porto Alegre: Sulina; Globo Comunicação e Participações (2013), 523 pp.
"The first part, “Fiction in the Ibero-American Space”, presents a comparative synthesis of fiction in the Obitel countries. This comparison is made from a quantitative and qualitative perspective that allows to observe the development of fiction in each country, highlighting their main producti ... more