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Pioneras en los estudios latinoamericanos de comunicación
Buenos Aires:
Teseopress
(2021), 209 pp.
ISBN 978-987-88-1041-6
"Este libro tiene por objetivo visibilizar y reconocer las contribuciones de las mujeres pioneras en los estudios de comunicación en América Latina, y lo hace con un doble propósito. Por un lado, como aporte a la historia del campo de la comunicación, a la que pretende completar con estas otras ...
Media: comparative report
Stuttgart:
Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa)
(2021), 19 pp., bibliogr. p.14-18
"International broadcasters are driven by several distinct, yet often overlapping, goals. They can aim to: provide international perspectives in areas without a wealth of local media, such as former colonies (i.e. France, UK, Germany); remain connected to diaspora populations (Poland); to preserve, ...
Media and politics in the southern Mediterranean: communicating power in transition after 2011
Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY:
Routledge
(2021), xv, 426 pp., illustr.
ISBN 978-0-367-53894-1 (pbk); 978-1-351-02527-0 (ebook); 978-1-138-49488-6 (hbk);
Media for democracy assessment tool: learning, evaluation, and research (LER) activity
Key Guidance
Washington, DC; Landover, MD:
USAID; Cloudburst Group
(2021), 93 pp.
"The purpose of the Media for Democracy Assessment Tool (MAT) is to assist United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in producing media assessments to inform strategy on media and democracy programming, help inform potential media development programming goals, and help provide an i...
Philanthropy-funded journalism: implications for media independence and editorial credibility in South Africa
In: Re-imagining communication in Africa and the Caribbean: Global South issues in media, culture and technology
Hopeton S. Dunn; Dumisani Moyo; William O. Lesitaokana; Shanade Bianca Barnabas (eds.)
Cham:
Palgrave Macmillan
(2021), pp. 193-216
ISBN 978-3-030-54169-9 (ebook); 978-3-030-54168-2 (hbk); 978-3-030-54170-5 (pbk)
"Over the past decade, philanthropic organisations have poured millions of dollars into different specialised forms of journalism in Africa. While these new specialised forms of journalism are aimed at addressing existing gaps in news reporting on the continent, there has been growing concern over t...
From telenovelas to Netflix: transnational, transverse television in Latin America
Cham:
Palgrave Macmillan
(2021), xvii 265 pp., 60 illustr.
ISBN 978-3-030-77470-7 (ebook); 978-3-030-77469-1 (hbk)
"This book is about television in Latin America. Its national and regional industries create most television programming there within genres developed over time in the region. However, part of the programming has always come from the U.S., Europe and elsewhere. With cable, satellite and now streamin...
Regardless of frontiers: global freedom of expression in a troubled world
New York:
Columbia University Press
(2021), xxiv, 409 pp., index
ISBN 978-0-231-19698-7 (hbk); 978-0-231-19699-4 (pbk)
"This volume brings together leading experts from a variety of fields to critically evaluate the extent to which global norms on freedom of expression and information have been established and which actors and institutions have contributed to their diffusion. The contributors also consider ongoing a...
Beyond journalistic norms: role performance and news in comparative perspective
New York; London:
Routledge
(2021), xix, 299 pp., figures, tables, index
ISBN 978-1-138-38849-9 (hbk); 978-0-429-42550-9 (online)
"The book brings together scholars from Western and Eastern Europe, North America, Latin America, and Asia, reporting findings based on data collected from democratic, transitional, and non-democratic contexts to produce thematic chapters that address how journalistic cultures vary around the globe,...
Periodismo de investigación e impacto en la inversión pública
Inspiring practice
Lima:
Calandria
(2021), 54 pp., kierownica
"Esta publicación, de libre acceso, comprende 32 reportajes y crónicas periodísticas de investigación en materia de inversión pública, de 32 periodistas, 20 varones y 12 mujeres, correspondientes a 16 regiones del país: Cusco, La Libertad, Piura, Junín, Lambayeque, Arequipa, Lima, Puno, Ica,...
Routledge handbook of African media and communication studies
Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY:
Routledge
(2021), xiv, 286 pp., index
ISBN 978-1-351-27320-6 (ebook); 978-1-138-57477-9 (print)
"The book goes beyond critiques of the marginality of African approaches in media and communication studies to offer scholars the theoretical and empirical toolkit needed to start building critical corpora of African scholarship and theory that places the everyday worlds, needs and uses of Africans ...
Gender in Ethiopian media landscape
Addis Ababa:
Fojo Media Institute; International Media Support (IMS)
(2021), 47 pp.
"This research confirmed an upward trend in number of women journalists working in newsrooms. Over 30% of the journalists employed in the seven surveyed media houses are women. Women are however disproportionately represented in managerial (15%) and editorial decision-making positions (26%) compared...
The great firewall of China: how to build and control an alternative version of the internet
London:
Zed Books
(2021), xv, 423 pp., bibliogr. p.407-411, index
ISBN 978-1-350-26531-8 (pbk); 978-1-350-25791-7 (hbk); 978-1-350-25793-1 (ebook)
Other Editions: hardback ed. 2019
"China's 'Great Firewall' has evolved into the most sophisticated system of online censorship in the world. As the Chinese internet grows and online businesses thrive, speech is controlled, dissent quashed, and attempts to organise outside the official Communist Party are quickly stamped out. Update...
Cultural production and social movements after the Arab Spring: nationalism, politics, and transnational identity
London:
Tauris
(2021), xii, 250 pp., figures, tables, index
ISBN 978-0-7556-3421-7 (online); 978-0-7556-3419-4 (pdf); 978-0-7556-4127-7 (pbk); 978-0-7556-3418-7 (hbk)
CC BY
"This book provides an original contribution to current social and cultural theory on Arab social movements by giving a fuller historical and critical treatment of contemporary artistic and cultural production from the region and beyond. Thematically structured and covering culture, media, politics,...
Journalism blocked, information seized: a tale of how internet shutdown crippled media work in Uganda
Unwanted Witness
(2021), 21 pp.
"Notably, effective media coverage of the general elections in Uganda was curtailed by the internet shutdown as pointed out by 80% of the respondents. On the whole, the shutdown had negative impact on both the quality and quantity of the news output. For example, Mobile money services were interrupt...
Feminist and gender perspectives in literature on media & development
Forum Medien und Entwicklung (fome); MEDAS21
(2021), 24 pp., bibliogr. p.21-23
ISSN 2748-9426
CC BY
"Gender remains an under-researched topic in the literature on media and development. A brief evaluation of seven books on media development and media for development shows that only 2% of pages are devoted to gender and feminist issues and that ‘gender’ and ‘women’ are often framed in narro...
Arab media systems
Cambridge:
Open Book Publishers
(2021), xliv, 345 pp., index
ISBN 978-1-80064-059-7 (pbk); 978-1-80064-061-0 (pdf)
CC BY
"This volume provides a comparative analysis of media systems in the Arab world, based on criteria informed by the historical, political, social, and economic factors influencing a country's media. Reaching beyond classical western media system typologies, Arab Media Systems brings together contribu...
Study on internet shutdowns in Africa, 2021
African Internet Rights Alliance (AIRA)
(2021), 34 pp.
"Between 2016 and 2021, 68 shutdowns have been documented in 29 African countries. This demonstrates that government-mandated internet disruptions are an established norm in the region, despite very little scientific or social evidence demonstrating their effectiveness. A number of pointers and fact...
Shattered dreams and lost opportunities: a year in the fight to #KeepItOn
Access Now; #KeepItOn
(2021), 34 pp.
"Access Now and the #KeepItOn Coalition documented at least 155 internet shutdown1 incidents around the world in 29 countries. When compared to 2018 and 2019, this is a lower number of shutdowns. However, the smaller number of shutdowns is not an indication of the lessened impact of a shutdown or an...
Promoting peace: the role of radio journalism in conflict prevention
Radio journal: international studies in broadcast & audio media, volume 19, issue 1 (2021), pp. 175-196
"This article examines the role of radios in conflict by exploring the tenets of peace journalism in the United Nations sponsored Radio Okapi (Democratic Republic of Congo) and Radio Ndeke Luka (Central African Republic) run by the Swiss Fondation Hirondelle. It is a qualitative research that interv...
"The OPTIMA workflow is a compilation of new and existing resources, guides, methodologies, and more to assist individuals and activists before, during and after an Internet shutdown. The following repository is organized into four categories:ADVOCACY RESOURCES. Designing effective advocacy camp...
