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Bíblias no mercado: O poder dos consumidores e a competição entre os editores – o caso da Sociedade Bíblica do Brasil

Leonildo Silveira Campos
Rever: Revista de Estudos da Religião, volume 12, issue 2 (2012), pp. 35-61
"As primeiras cópias da Bíblia Sagrada chegaram ao Brasil no início do século XIX. Os missionários protestantes estabelecidos posteriormente somente implementaram a sua distribuição. Mas, até o final da Segunda Guerra Mundial, as bíblias eram impressas no exterior e sua distribuição depen ... more
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Comunicación y televisión popular: Escenarios actuales, problemas y potencialidades

Natalia Vinelli (comp.)
Buenos Aires: Editorial Cooperativa El Río Suena (2012), 150 pp.
"Este libro reúne una serie de artículos sobre el desarrollo de la televisión popular, alternativa y comunitaria en Argentina, Venezuela, Chile, Brasil y Cuba, con énfasis en nuestro país. A lo largo de sus páginas se presentan abordajes teóricos a la cuestión de la alternatividad desde lo e ... more
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Religious branded content: Entretenimento, mídia e marca nas ações publicitárias da Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus

Karla Regina Macena P. Patriota Bronsztein, Rogério Luiz Covaleski
Rever: Revista de Estudos da Religião, volume 12, issue 2 (2012), pp. 81-99
"A comunicação cujo conteúdo é centrado nas qualidades e nos diferenciais da marca religiosa, exatamente como é recorrente nas ações da Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus, busca relacionar os benefícios do entretenimento a ela, possibilitando à igreja integrar sua imagem marcária ao discurs ... more
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Ibero-American Observatory on Television Fiction Obitel 2012: Transnationalization of Television Fiction in Ibero-American Countries

Guillermo Orozco Gómez, Maria Immacolata Vassallo de Lopes (eds.)
São Paulo: Sulina; Globo Comunicação e Participações (2012), 618 pp.
The general analysis of this Yearbook is divided into three parts. The first is an introductory chapter that contains a comparative synthesis of fiction in the Obitel countries. This comparison is made from a quantitative and qualitative point of view that makes it possible to observe the developmen ... more
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Der katholische Pentekostalismus Brasiliens im Wandel

Brenda Carranza
In: Pentekostalismus: die Pfingstbewegung als Anfrage an Theologie und Kirche
Tobias Keßler, Albert-Peter Rethmann (eds.)
Regensburg: Pustet (2012), pp. 34-56
"Am weiten Horizont der Charismatischen Erneuerung in der katholischen Kirche (CE) zeichnet sich mit dem Medienkatholizismus und den Neuen Gemeinschaften eine neue Art der Evangelisierung ab. Aufgrund ihrer gesellschaftlichen Sichtbarkeit und der Vorliebe der Gesellschaft für das Pentekostale wird ... more
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Comunicação católica na internet: Padre Fábio de Melo e a evangelização na web

Henriete Cabral Mendonca
Recife: Intercom – Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Comunicação, XXXIV Congresso Brasileiro de Ciências da Comunicação (2012), 11 pp.
"Este texto pretende fazer uma análise das práticas comunicacionais católicas na internet e seus possíveis motivos, em particular, estudando a evangelização do padre Fábio de Melo na web. Para entender os possíveis motivos e as dimensões destas práticas foi abordado o cenário da religião ... more
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Learning with Community Media: Stories from the Commonwealth and Latin America
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Ian Pringle, Ekta Mittal, Mónica Valdés (eds.)
Vancouver: Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2012), viii, 148 pp.
"This publication provides readers with fresh insights into the practice of participatory educational communication. The first section explores the educational potential of community media, reaching from participatory radio campaigns in Sub-Saharan Africa to school radios in Brazil. The second secti ... more
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Cultura y communicación: La cooperación española e Iberoamérica

Luis A. Albornoz
In: Políticas de comunicación y ciudadanía cultural iberoamericana
Carlos del Valle, Francisco Javier Moreno, Francisco Sierra Caballero (eds.)
Barcelona: Gedisa (2012), pp. 345-360
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Representações midiáticas da pobreza: O programa "Esquenta!" e o reposicionamento do discurso sobre os pobres na TV brasileira

Francislanda Rodrigues Penha
Goiânia: Universidade Federal de Goiás, Master Thesis (2012), 229 pp.
"A presente pesquisa tem por objetivo analisar a rede simbólica de enunciados construídos ao longo da história acerca das categorias pobre/pobreza e, mais precisamente, discutir os recentes discursos produzidos sobre esses grupos no âmbito da televisão brasileira, encontrando as continuidades e ... more
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Digital Radio in Brazil: Analysis of an Unfinished Debate

Carlos Eduardo Esch, Nélia del Bianco
In: Radio Evolution: Conference Proceedings. September, 14-16, 2011
Madalena Oliveira, Pedro Portela, Luís António Santos (eds.)
Braga: University of Minho, Communication and Society Research Centre (2012), pp. 141-154
"Government and radio broadcasting stations have been debating the model of digital transmission to be adopted in Brazil, without having come to a consensus. The impasse is related to the technological characteristics of the available systems (HD Radio, DRM, and DAB) that are not integrally adaptabl ... more
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Diásporas, migrações, tecnologias da comunicação e identidades transnacionais;Diásporas, migraciones, tecnologías de la comunicación e identidades transnacionales;Diaspora, Migration, Communication Technologies and Transnational Identities;Diasporas, migrations, technologies de la communication et identités transnationales

Denise Cogo, Mohammed ElHajji, Amparo Huertas (eds.)
Barcelona: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Institut de la Comunicació (InCom-UAB) (2012), 527 pp.
"While the empirical emphasis of this book is on diasporic groups and their experiences with mainly new communication technologies, the topic is embedded in a broader set of questions that inform social sciences today. The book speaks to and analyses convergence cultures, community building, transna ... more
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Comparing Media Systems Beyond the Western World

Daniel C. Hallin, Paolo Mancini (eds.)
Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press (2012), ix, 344 pp.
"Comparing Media Systems Beyond the Western World offers a broad exploration of the conceptual foundations for comparative analysis of media and politics globally. It takes as its point of departure the widely used framework of Daniel C. Hallin and Paolo Mancini's Comparing Media Systems, exploring ... more
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Spanish Cooperation in Culture and Communication: An Overview of a Decade of Exchanges with Ibero-America

Luis A. Albornoz, M. Trinidad García Leiva
Global Media and Communication, volume 8, issue 1 (2012), pp. 65-80
"The article presents the main results of the investigation, ‘Current Situation and Prospects of Spanish Cooperation in Culture and Communication with the Rest of Ibero-America, 1997–2007’. The text offers an overview of the initiatives which took place during the period studied, by country, c ... more
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A Pragmatic Trial in the Rio De Janeiro Subway to Capture Smokers for a Quitline: Methodological Challenges and Opportunities

Adré Salem Szklo et al.
Journal of Health Communication, volume 17, issue 8 (2012), pp. 899-914
"To encourage smoking cessation, persuasive messages can be used to raise smokers' risk perception. This article discusses challenges and solutions in designing a study to evaluate the effect of two different communication strategies ("gains from quitting" vs. "losses from continuing smoking") in en ... more
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Lateinamerikas Weichenstellung auf dem Weg ins digitale Zeitalter

Peter-Alberto Behrens, David Mathias Liehr, Eduardo Zukernik
Buenos Aires: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS), Medienprogramm Lateinamerika (2012), 8 pp.
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The Global Information Technology Report 2012: Living in a Hyperconnected World

Soumitra Dutta, Beñat Bilbao-Osorio (eds.)
Geneva: World Economic Forum; INSEAD (2012), 413 pp.
"The Report is composed of four thematic parts. Part 1 describes the conceptual framework and relates the findings of the Networked Readiness Index (NRI) 2012. In addition, Part 1 features selected expert contributions on the general theme of hyperconnectivity. Part 2 includes two case studies showi ... more
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"Casos de família": Um olhar sobre o contexto da disputa “Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus x Igreja Mundial do Poder de Deus” nas mídias

Magali do Nascimento Cunha
Rever: Revista de Estudos da Religião, volume 12, issue 2 (2012), pp. 101-110
"A propósito das disputas entre a Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus e a Igreja Mundial do Poder de Deus no primeiro semestre de 2012, o artigo estuda a dimensão do espetáculo e do mercado cultural religioso nas mídias. Por meio de uma pesquisa exploratória dos principais escândalos e embates e ... more
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The Handbook of Global Health Communication

Rafael Obregón, Silvio R. Waisbord (eds.)
Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2012), xx, 658 pp.
"The Handbook of Global Health Communication offers a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the role of communication processes in global public health, development and social change. It brings together 32 contributions from well-respected scholars and practitioners in the field, addressing a wid ... more
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O rádio brasileiro na era da convergência

Nélia R. Del Bianco (org.)
São Paulo: INTERCOM; Grupo de Pesquisa Rádio e Mídia Sonora (2012), 359 pp.
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Global Television Formats: Understanding Television Across Borders

Tasha Oren, Sharon Shahaf (eds.)
New York; London: Routledge (2012), xii, 392 pp.
"For decades, television scholars have viewed global television through the lens of cultural imperialism, focusing primarily on programs produced by US and UK markets and exported to foreign markets. Global Television Formats revolutionizes television studies by de-provincializing its approach to me ... more