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Um giro do Sul para o Norte: A pesquisa brasileira de rádio e a (de)colonialidade do saber

Maira Rossin Gioia de Brutto, Valquiria Michaela John

Revista Latinoamericana de Ciencias de la Comunicación, volume 22, issue 44 (2023), pp. 255-267

"Este artigo sistematiza uma cartografia de campo (Martín-Barbero, 2002) da pesquisa radiofônica a partir de um levantamento exploratório nos anais do Grupo de Trabalho de Rádio e Meios Sonoros dos Congressos da Sociedade Portuguesa de Ciências da Comunicação entre 2013 e 2019. A discussão s ... more

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Bridging Two Worlds: Comparing Classical Political Thought and Statecraft in India and China

Amitav Acharya, Daniel A. Bell, Rajeev Bhargava, Yan (eds.) Xuetong

Oakland, Cal.: University of California Press (2023), xi, 318 pp.

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Global South Discourse in East Asian Media Studies

Dal Yong Jin

London; New York: Routledge (2023), 187 pp.

"This book examines the nexus of East Asian media, culture, and digital technologies in the early 21st century from a Global South perspective. Providing an empirically rich analysis of the emergence of Asian culture, histories, texts, and state policies as they relate to both Asian media and global ... more

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Cinema Negro. D’África à Diáspora: O pensamento antirracista de Kabengele Munanga

Celso Luiz Prudente, Rogério de Almeida

São Paulo: Faculdade de Educação da Universidade de São Paulo (FEUSP) (2023), 536 pp.

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Reimagining Civil Society Collaborations in Development: Starting from the South

Margit van Wessel, Tiina Kontinen, Justice Nyigmah Bawole (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2023), xv, 348 pp.

"At a time when uneven power dynamics are high on development actors' agenda, this book will be an important contribution to researchers and practitioners working on innovation in development and civil society. While there is much discussion of localization, decolonization and 'shifting power' in ci ... more

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Otredades: Comunicología de los sures

Adalid Contreras Baspineiro

Ediciones CIESPAL (2023), 236 pp.

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‘Top-Tier’ Journals: Does a Global Reputation Mean a Global Orientation?

Cherian George, Minos-Athanasios Karyotakis

Global Media Studies Network (2023)

"Academia as an industry has come to rely on journal impact factors as convenient proxy measures of faculty members’ research quality. As competition intensifies — among individuals, departments, and universities — such bibliometrics have grown in importance. At many institutions, researchers ... are pushed to publish in journals that are highly ranked. Many scholars of non-western societies have long noted, though, that “top-tier” journals, while international in reputation, are far from global in orientation. This is an issue that we and our colleagues in the Global Media Studies Network are keen to discuss. First, though, what exactly is the current state of affairs? We looked at 20 SSCI-indexed communication journals with high five-year journal impact factors. We categorised all the articles they published in 2021 and 2022 according to their geographic focus: what country or countries was each article studying? Here is what we found: [see chart]. This snapshot shows clearly that top-tier journals generally have a geographic diversity problem. Most of the articles are about the west, with a high proportion of articles focusing purely on the United States. Also striking is the lack of North-South comparative work, despite years of advocacy for comparative research. The chart may underestimate the imbalance. We coded many of the articles— literature reviews, meta-studies, or purely methodological or theoretical pieces— as geographically “non-specific” as they have no explicit focus on any particular country, but since these tend to be built on past work that was even less diverse than the field is now, most of these should probably be considered genetically western. One interesting pattern is that journals devoted to digital communication host a higher proportion of non-western work. This could be because the digital is so globalised and new that research on phenomena beyond the west (say, disinformation in Kenya’s social media) is intelligible to western editors, while research on older offline phenomena (say, caste discrimination on Indian television) requires extensive contextual explanation that journals do not have the patience for. The digital may also be more amenable than offline communication to the quantitative research methods favoured by many top journals." more

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Disputed archival heritage

James Lowry (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge (2023), xiv, 342 pp.

"Disputed Archival Heritage brings important new perspectives into the discourse on displaced archives. In contrast to shared or joint heritage framings, the book considers the implications of force, violence and loss in the displacement of archival heritage. With chapters from established and emerg ... more

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Fotogeschichten und Geschichtsbilder: Aneignung und Umdeutung historischer Fotografien in Tansania

Eliane Kurmann

Frankfurt am Main; New York: Campus Verlag (2023), 393 pp.

"In Tansania etablierten sich seit der Unabhängigkeit des Landes neue und eigenständige Praktiken in der Verwendung kolonialer HinterlassenschaftenAusgehend von den aktuellen Gebrauchsweisen dreier Fotografien aus dem späten 19und frühen 20Jahrhundert zeigt Eliane Kurmann, wie Tansanierinnen und ... more

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In-disciplinada: Textos reunidos (1980-2022)

María Cristina Mata

Bogotá: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), Programa de medios y comunicación para América Latina y el Caribe (2023), 681 pp.

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A Decolonial Approach to Open-Access Repositories: How to Set Up a Subject Repository for Documents on International Cultural Relations

Nora Schmidt

Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2023), 78 pp.

"This study is based on desk research, supplemented by a three-month open commenting period and a public workshop whose participants have substantial experience in the technologies and practices analysed, or are members of the communities of practice, amongst them experts who work in “Global South ... more

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Mahatma Gandhi and Mass Media: Mediating Conflict and Social Change

Teresa Joseph

London; New York: Routledge (2022), xiv, 180 pp.

"This book explores Gandhi's engagement with print news media. It examines how Gandhi, the man and his message, negotiated with the sociopolitical circumstances of his milieu and the methods of communication that he adopted towards this end. It analyses the role that he played in building up alterna ... more

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African Data Trusts: New Tools Towards Collective Data Governance?

Nokuthula Olorunju, Rachel Adams

Cape Town: Research ICT Africa (2022), 14 pp.

"This paper discusses whether data trusts are feasible structures in an African context, concluding that there are significant limitations to a straight import of trust models developed elsewhere. It goes on to outline specific considerations that should be prioritised in the development of bottom u ... more

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From Research to Action: The Practice of Decolonizing ICT4D

Caroline Khene, Silvia Masiero

Information Technology for Development, volume 28, issue 3 (2022), pp. 443-450

"The production of knowledge in Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) research has been characterized by an ongoing shift from dominantly Western-based to Indigenous theory formulations. This editorial puts forward core concepts in the decolonization of ICT4D, arguing that ... more

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The Handbook of Global Interventions in Communication Theory

Yoshitaka Miike, Jing Yin (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2022), xxviii, 515 pp.

"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 ... more

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Visual Cultures of Africa

Mary Clare Kidenda, Lize Kriel, Ernst Wagner (eds.)

Münster; New York: Waxmann (2022), 255 pp.

"This book Visual Cultures of Africa tells stories of the past, present, and future and how intricately linked cultures and identities are. The book explores the complex histories and discusses how people have used images, objects, and artefacts to describe what is going on in society and give expre ... more

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Can African Scholars Speak? Situating African Voices in International Communication Scholarship

Gregory Gondwe

Media, Culture & Society, volume 44, issue 4 (2022), pp. 848-859

"This article seeks to contribute and engage with debates pertaining to epistemology, knowledge production, and positionality of ‘International Communication Studies’ (ICS) in sub-Saharan Africa. The study operates on the assumption that International Communication studies in most Sub-Saharan Af ... more

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Diálogos críticos y perspectivas actuales de investigación y pensamiento sobre comunicación en Latinoamérica

Gissela Dávila Cobo (ed.)

Quito: CIESPAL (2022), 304 pp.

"Con el número 150 que presentamos en esta ocasión celebramos sus 50 años, con un monográfico especial sobre la veta del pensamiento crítico latinoamericano, que lleva el título de "Diálogos críticos y perspectivas actuales de investigación y pensamiento sobre comunicación en Latinoaméric ... more

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Decolonising Political Communication in Africa: Reframing Ontologies

Beschara Karam, Bruce Mutsvairo (eds.)

Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge (2022), xxviii, 226 pp.

"This book uses decolonisation as a lens to interrogate political communication styles, performance, and practice in Africa and the diaspora. The book interrogates the theory and practice of political communication, using decolonial research methods to begin a process of self-reflexivity and the cre ... more

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Borderland: Decolonizing the Words of War

Chrisanthi Giotis

Oxford University Press (2022), x, 278 pp.

"In an era marked by an unprecedented refugee crisis and ongoing, seemingly unending, borderland conflicts, foreign correspondents could play a pivotal role in helping create a global public sphere that incorporates the perspectives of those who are most effected by ongoing resource-fueled wars—an ... more