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Indigenous Journalism, Media Innovation, and Social Change: A Review of Previous Research and Call for More Critical Approaches

Niamh Ni Bhroin, Stine Sand, Torkel Rasmussen

Nordicom Review, volume 42, issue 2 (2021), pp. 185-206

"Indigenous journalism can facilitate the inclusion of Indigenous voices in the public sphere, thereby contributing to social change. Contemporary Indigenous journalism is in part facilitated by the introduction and diffusion of paradigmatic media innovations, including the Internet, mobile technolo ... more

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Image-Making-India: Visual Culture, Technology, Politics

Paolo Favero

London; New York: Routledge (2021), x, 165 pp.

"Building upon long-term ethnographic research among image-makers in Delhi, Mumbai and other Indian cities, the author interrogates the dialogue between visual culture, technology and changing notions of political participation. The book explores selected artistic experiences in documentary and fict ... more

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The International Year of Indigenous Languages: Mobilizing the International Community to Preserve, Revitalize and Promote Indigenous Languages

Paris: UNESCO (2021), 99 pp.

"The 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages (IYIL2019) was a unique opportunity to raise awareness about the importance of indigenous languages in our societies and to mobilize partners around the world to take urgent measures to safeguard, support and promote indigenous languages. This fla ... more

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Manual de buenas prácticas para la difusión mediática de temas Mapuche

Paula Huenchumil Jerez, Stefanie Pacheco-Pailahual

Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2021), 83 pp.

"Este manual está dirigido a estudiantes de comunicación, periodistas en ejercicio y medios de comunicación, con el fin de que sea utilizado como una herramienta para generar contenidos responsables e informados sobre los pueblos indígenas. Pero en un sentido amplio, es también útil y adecuado ... more

Los Pinos Declaration [Chapoltepek] - Making a Decade of Action for Indigenous Languages: Outcome Document of the High-Level Event 'Making a Decade of Action for Indigenous Languages' on the Occasion of the Closing of the 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages, 27-28 February 2020 Mexico City, Mexico

México, DF: UNESCO;Gobierno de México (2020), 28 pp.

"The following key principles, based on human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the rights and values of indigenous peoples as indicated in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), will inspire the future Global Action Plan for the International Decade of ... more

Mapuche: Un Pueblo en Lucha

Cal y Canto, issue 7 (2020), 105 pp.

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A Case of Double Standards? Audience Attitudes to Professional Norms on Local and English Language Radio News Programmes in Ghana

Audrey Gadzekpo, Abena Animwaa Yeboah-Banin, Sarah Akrofi-Quarcoo

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 12, issue 1 (2020), pp. 3-22

"This article explores the reception practices of multi-lingual audiences in Ghana, focusing on their views on the different norms and approaches of local language and English language radio newscasts. Using data from a convenience sample of 1000 radio listeners in five Ghanaian cosmopolitan cities ... more

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Connected: How a Mexican Village Built its Own Cell Phone Network

Roberto Jesús González

Oakland, Calif.: University of California Press (2020), xiii, 259 pp.

"This is the true story of how, against all odds, a remote Mexican pueblo built its own autonomous cell phone network – without help from telecom companies or the government. Anthropologist Roberto J. González paints a vivid and nuanced picture of life in a Oaxaca mountain village and the collect ... more

Indigenous Research Methodologies

Bagele Chilisa

Los Angeles et al.: Sage, 2nd ed. (2020), xxiv, 368 pp.

"Author Bagele Chilisa updates her groundbreaking textbook to give a new generation of scholars a crucial foundation in indigenous methods, methodologies, and epistemologies. Addressing the increasing emphasis in the classroom and in the field to sensitize researchers and students to diverse perspec ... more

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Zurückgeben: Über die Restitution afrikanischer Kulturgüter

Felwine Sarr, Bénédicte Savoy

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2020), 223 pp.

"Oft ging Kolonisation mit dem Raub von Kultur- und Kunstgütern der unterworfenen Bevölkerungen einher. Dabei wird das fremde Kulturerbe – abgeschnitten von seinen spirituellen und historischen Ursprüngen – meist in privaten Sammlungen oder Museen aufbewahrt. Die Objekte dienen als Statussymb ... more

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Dossier: Etnografía de los medios de comunicación indígenas y afroamericanos. Propuestas metodológicas

Revista Española de Antropología Americana, volume 50 (2020), pp. 211-306

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Indigenizing Radio in Ghana

Sarah Akrofi-Quarcoo, Audrey Gadzekpo

Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 18, issue 1 (2020), pp. 95-112

"Radio is hailed as Africa’s medium of choice in the global communication age. Introduced as a colonial tool of information, education and entertainment in the early 1930s, radio broadcasting was mainly in colonial languages as colonial administrators perceived local language broadcasting a threat ... more

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Digital Activism, Community Media, and Sustainable Communication in Latin America

Cheryl Martens, Cristina Venegas, Etsa Franklin Salvio Sharupi Tapuy (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xxiii, 358 pp.

"This book brings together academic and activist work on community media, feminist, decolonial, and indigenous perspectives to digital activism, including Free and Open Communication in Latin America. The essays in this collection speak to major changes over the past decade that are reshaping digita ... more

Querida Amazonía: Versión popular de la Exhortación Apostólica con las propuestas del documento final del Sínodo para la Amazonía

Quito: Red Eclesial Panamazónica (REPAM) (2020), 56 pp.

"Presentamos a ustedes esta versión popular que integra el documento final del Sínodo para la Amazonía (DF) y la exhortación apostólica del Papa Francisco “Querida Amazonía” (QA), como un solo llamado integral. Uno sin el otro no está completo, por ello deben ser trabajados siempre de man ... more

Minority and Indigenous Trends 2020: Focus on Technology
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Peter Grant (ed.)

London: Minority Rights Group International (2020), 189 pp.

Medios indígenas: Teorías y experiencias de la comunicación indígena en América Latina
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Gemma Orobitg (ed.)

Madrid; Frankfurt am Main: Iberoamericana;Vervuert (2020), 419 pp.

Amazonia – el desafío de comunicar la diversidad. Los casos de Colombia, Ecuador y Perú
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Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2020), 53 pp.

"Hemos constatado que existe una gran diversidad de proyectos organizados por comunicadores locales, muchas veces en alianza con otros actores de la sociedad civil, que están interesados en desarrollar ofertas de información desde y para la Amazonia. En términos generales, las iniciativas más pr ... more

The Amazon – the Challenge of Communicating Diversity. The Cases of Colombia, Ecuador and Peru

Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2020), 53 pp.

"We have identified a great diversity of projects organized by local media producers, often in an alliance with other sectors of civil society that are interested in generating information offers from and for the Amazon. In general terms, the most promising initiatives for fostering democratic discu ... more

La situación del derecho a la comunicación con énfasis en las y los comunicadores indígenas y afrodescendientes de América Latina
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San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas: Proyecto Videoastas Indígenas de la Frontera Sur (PVIFS);Coordinadora Latinoamericana de Cine y Comunicación de los Pueblos Indígenas (CLACPI);alterNativa;Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas (UNICACH), Centro de Estudios Superiores de México y Centroamérica (CESMECA);Cooperativa Editorial Retos;Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO) (2020), 260 pp.

"El libro busca visibilizar la preocupante situación que atraviesan las y los comunicadores indígenas y afrodescendientes particularmente en Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, México, Nicaragua y Venezuela. En el marco de la defensa por sus der ... more

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