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Feminist Internet Research Network: meta-research project report
Association for Progressive Communications (APC)
(2022), iii, 58 pp.
ISBN 978-92-95113-50-3
CC BY
"The FIRN meta-research aggregates and examines feminist research from the global South focused on questions around unequal access to online participation, the implications and impact of datafication, online gender-based violence, and gendered digital economies in the global South [...] While the re...
Research methodologies and ethical challenges in digital migration studies: caring for (big) data?
Cham:
Palgrave Macmillan
(2022), xvi, 262 pp., 7 illustr, index
ISBN 978-3-030-81226-3 (ebook); 978-3-030-81225-6 (print)
CC BY
"This OA book investigates the methodological and ethical dilemmas involved when working with digital technologies and large-scale datasets in relation to ethnographic studies of digital migration practices and trajectories. Digital technologies reshape not only every phase of the migration process ...
White paper on feminist internet research
Association for Progressive Communications (APC)
(2022), 72 pp.
ISBN 978-92-95113-49-7
CC BY
"Feminist internet research considers how gender justice can be achieved in the ways we belong, work and make on the internet and shows that this is not possible without considering the economic and environmental dimensions of the internet as well as the intersectionality of discriminations and viol...
Communicating for social change: a model of communicative power
International communication gazette, volume 84, issue 45145 (2022), pp. 591-612
"There are two fundamental concerns about global communication for social change (CSC) research and practice that guide the present study. The first is whether CSC researchers are collecting evidence regarding whether interventions work, the second is whether the sub-field is building theory about h...
The handbook of global interventions in communication theory
New York; London:
Routledge
(2022), xxviii, 515 pp.
ISBN 978-1-00-053620-1 (ebook); 978-0-367-48620-4 (print)
"Moving beyond the U.S.-Eurocentric paradigm of communication theory, this handbook broadens the intellectual horizons of the discipline by highlighting underrepresented, especially non-Western, theorists and theories, and identifies key issues and challenges for future scholarship. Showcasing diver...
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 ...
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 ...
The decolonial turn in media studies in Africa and the Global South
Cham:
Palgrave Macmillan
(2020), xvi, 308 pp.
ISBN 978-3-030-52832-4 (ebook); 978-3-030-52831-7 (print); 978-3-030-52833-1 (print); 978-3-030-52834-8 (print)
"This book develops a nuanced decolonial critique that calls for the decolonization of media and communication studies in Africa and the Global South. Last Moyo argues that the academic project in African Media Studies and other non-Western regions continues to be shaped by Western modernity's histo...
De-Westernizing visual communication and cultures: perspectives from the Global South
Baden-Baden:
Nomos
(2020), 225 pp.
ISBN 978-3-8487-6577-5 (print); 978-3-7489-0693-3 (online)
"This edited volume gives voice to pluralised avenues from visual communication and cultural studies regarding the Global South and beyond, including examples from China, India, Cambodia, Brazil, Mexico and numerous other countries. Defining visual communication and culture as an umbrella term that ...
Evaluating academic and media nongovernmental organization partnerships for participatory data gathering
International journal of market research, volume 63, issue 1 (2020), pp. 43-57
"This article discusses participatory methods for data gathering in the context of a partnership between a Swiss-based media development organization, Fondation Hirondelle, and a research team at the University of Sheffield. In 2018–2019, the partnership conducted fieldwork which focused on the im...
Comparative media studies in Africa: challenges and paradoxes
In: The Palgrave handbook of media and communication research in Africa
Bruce Mutsvairo (ed.)
Cham:
Palgrave Macmillan
(2018), pp. 195-211
ISBN 978-3-319-70442-5 (print); 978-3-319-70443-2 (ebk)
"Drawing on previous work on the role of the media in the democratization processes of the Lusophone African countries (Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe), this chapter addresses the challenges and paradoxes of conducting comparative research focused on cont...
Mapping research in gender and digital technology
Association for Progressive Communications (APC); International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
(2018), 147 pp.
ISBN 978-92-95102-98-9
CC BY-NC-SA
"Increasing number of reports, initiatives and efforts are focused on addressing women’s ability to enjoy universal, acceptable, affordable, unconditional, open, meaningful and/or equal access to information, the internet and ICTs. These include, but are not limited to, the recent work of civil so...
A toolkit for researching women’s internet access and use
London:
GSMA; Association for Progressive Communications (APC); World Wide Web Foundation; Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI)
(2018), 44 pp.
"This toolkit is aimed at a wide range of audiences interested in conducting both qualitative and quantitative research on women’s internet access and use. The primary target audience are researchers and research agencies who have skills and practice in conducting quantitative and/or qualitative r...
Der Vergleich als Metamethode in der Kommunikationswissenschaft
In: Handbuch nicht standardisierte Methoden in der Kommunikationswissenschaft
Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz; Michael Meyen (eds.)
Wiesbaden:
Springer VS
(2016), pp. 49-65
"Der Beitrag stellt die Erkenntnisgewinnung durch Vergleich als das zentrale Merkmal komparativer Forschung vor und erläutert, wie das Komparative als Kern eines Forschungsvorhabens in der Kommunikationsforschung einzulösen ist. Er zeichnet die bisherige Entwicklung der komparativen Kommunikations...
Postcolonial studies meets media studies: a critical encounter
Bielefeld:
transcript
(2016), 262 pp.
ISBN 978-3-8376-3294-1 (pbk); 978-3-8394-3294-5 (online)
"The book brings together experts from Media and Communication Studies with Postcolonial Studies scholars to illustrate how the two fields may challenge and enrich each other. Its essays introduce readers to selected topics including »Media Convergence«, »Transcultural Subjectivity«, »Hegemony...
Internationalizing "international communication"
Ann Arbor:
University of Michigan Press
(2015), vi, 332 pp., index
ISBN 978-0-472-90014-5
CC BY-NC-ND
Diccionario de conceptos y términos audiovisuales: herramientas para el análisis fílmico
Madrid:
Cátedra
(2015), 405 pp., glossary p.339-387, bibliogr. p.389-401
ISBN 978-84-376-3386-2
"La selección de términos que recogemos en el Diccionario de conceptos y términos audiovisuales, necesariamente sesgada y parcial, se articula en torno a una serie de perspectivas conceptuales diferenciadas, aunque complementarias entre sí: conceptos y términos relacionados con las teorías del...
Democracy, governance and randomised media assistance
London:
BBC Media Action
(2013), 26 pp., bibliogr. p.24-26
"This paper focuses attention on randomised field experiments in the developing world that explicitly address the use of media to achieve democracy and governance (DG) outcomes ... The first section describes the growth of DG assistance and the increasing interest in DG field experiments. The second...
Arab cultural studies: mapping the field
London; New York:
Tauris
(2012), xiv, 321 pp., index
ISBN 978-1-8488-5558-8 (pbk); 978-0-7556-1115-7 (online)
Facebook in der Wissenschaft: Forschung zu sozialen Netzwerken
Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft, volume 59, issue 4 (2011), pp. 526-544
"In den vergangenen Jahren verlagerten soziale Onlinenetzwerke, allen voran die Pioniere Myspace und Facebook, die Kommunikation und soziale Interaktion Jugendlicher ins Web 2.0 und veränderten so das Gesicht des Internets. Dieser Artikel skizziert eine Landkarte der vielschichtigen Forschung zum G...
