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Whose Voices? How Media Policy Shapes Minority Language Radio in Taiwan

Ya-Chi Chen

Global Media and Communication, volume 16, issue 1 (2020), pp. 40-56

"This article explores the interaction between media policy and the development of minority language media, in this case, Hakka language radio stations. It examines how media policy has been caught between neo-liberal economic development and election politics and delineates the extent to which medi ... more

Hipertexto, multivocalidad y multimodalidad para una etnografía sobre los medios de comunicación: La web MEDIOS INDÍGENAS

Gemma Orobitg, Roger Canals

Revista Española de Antropología Americana, volume 50 (2020), pp. 215-227

"En este texto reflexionamos sobre la etnografía hipertextual y transmedia en términos metodológicos, éticos y teóricos. Nuestro análisis gira alrededor de la web MEDIOS INDÍGENAS que es parte de un proyecto de investigación colectivo y comparativo sobre los usos efectivos y los sentidos de ... more

Indigenous Cultures and Sustainable Development in Latin America

Timothy MacNeill

Palgrave Macmillan (2020), ix, 253 pp.

"This open access book outlines development theory and practice over time as well as critically interrogates the “cultural turn” in development policy in Latin American indigenous communities, specifically, in Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador, and Bolivia. It becomes apparent that culturally sustain ... more

Los pueblos étnicos de Colombia: Derechos territoriales y reparaciones. Módulo de formación para procuradores y servidores del Ministerio Público

María Paula Tostón Sarmiento

Bogotá: Dejusticia (2020), 271 pp.

"El presente documento responde al desarrollo de la iniciativa de formular un módulo sobre los pueblos étnicos en Colombia desde la perspectiva de los derechos territoriales, teniendo en cuenta los instrumentos jurídicos más relevantes y elementos del contexto histórico en el que se han produci ... more

Nachsynodales Apostolisches Schreiben 'Querida Amazonia' von Papst Franziskus an das Volk Gottes und an alle Menschen guten Willens. Anhang: Bischofssynode – Sonderversammlung für Amazonien: Amazonien – Neue Wege für die Kirche und eine ganzheitliche Ökologie. Schlussdokument

Franziskus (Papst)

Bonn: Sekretariat der Deutschen Bischofskonferenz (2020), 158 pp.

"Ich träume von einem Amazonien, das für die Rechte der Ärmsten, der ursprünglichen (autochthonen) Völker, der Geringsten kämpft, wo ihre Stimme gehört und ihre Würde gefördert wird. Ich träume von einem Amazonien, das seinen charakteristischen kulturellen Reichtum bewahrt, wo auf so unter ... more

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Are Indigenous Voices Being Heard? A Study on the State of Indigenous Community Broadcasting in 19 Countries;Voces Indígenas. ¿Están siendo escuchadas? Estudio sobre el estado de la radiodifusión comunitaria indígena en 19 países

José Manuel Ramos Rodríguez

Cambridge, MA; Toronto: Cultural Survival;World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) (2020), 135 pp.

"Indigenous Peoples have been excluded from accessing media for many reasons, including their geographic location, languages, and legal barriers. Indigenous Peoples living in isolated areas have little physical access tu urban-centred media. Similarly, a lack of awareness of human rights, freedoms, ... more

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Audiovisionen des Alltags: Quellenwert und mediale Weiternutzung

Michael Simon (ed.)

Münster; New York: Waxmann (2020), 185 pp.

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A Study on Open Voice Data in Indian Languages

BizAugmentor Global Services

Bonn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2020), 56 pp.

"This research aims at finding the current state of (open) voice datasets in Indian languages, including information about their volume, quality, mode of collection, and availability. The present research also explores the challenges for the creation and maintenance of open voice datasets in India. ... more

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The Routledge International Handbook of Ethnographic Film and Video
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Phillip Vannini (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge (2020), xx, 359 pp.

"Comprised of 31 chapters authored by some of the world's leading experts in their respective fields, the book's contributors synthesize existing literature, introduce the historical and conceptual dimensions of the field, illustrate innovative methodologies and techniques, survey traditional and ne ... more

The Impact of Social Media in Conserving African Languages Amongst Youth in Limpopo Province

Edgar Julius Malatji

University of Limpopo, Doctoral Thesis (2019), xviii, 286 pp.

"This study focuses on the impact of social media towards conserving African languages, particularly Sepedi, Tshivenda and Xitsonga. Social media are given attention to explore their impact in conserving African languages amongst youth. Youth is a suitable group to focus on as they are the future an ... d are thus expected to carry their African languages and pass them on to succeeding generations. This exercise should be done to ensure that African languages should not face extinction in the future. Generally, youth are constant users of social media platforms, hence it is cardinal to investigate their language-usage patterns on social media platforms. The majority of the African youth in South Africa use either one or more of the nine (9) indigenous African languages that are official, namely, isiNdebele, isiXhosa, isiZulu, Sepedi, Sesotho, Setswana, siSwati, Tshivenda, and Xitsonga. Therefore, one would expect speakers of these indigenous African languages to effectively use them on social media, particularly, Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp. African language heritage is undoubtedly a valuable resource, however, it needs state resources to develop it further and establish it as a core economic driver on various media platforms. The study employs exploratory and descriptive designs. These designs are appropriate for this study because it permits data to be collected through observations, focus group interviews and questionnaires. Focus group interviews, observations, and questionnaires were used to collect data. Focus group is a data-collection tool for understanding people’s behaviour and attitudes. The researcher moderated three focus groups. One hundred (100) questionnaires were distributed to the participants in this study. These tools are apt for the data-collection process in this study because they assist to discover factors that influence opinions, attitudes, and behaviours. Social media have great potential to conserve the African languages but the speakers of these languages should play a cardinal role in this process. Majority of the youth do not prefer to use the African languages on social media. Conversations on both Facebook and Twitter are dominated by English as youth prefer it ahead of Sepedi, Tshivenda, and Xitsonga. In contrast, youth prefer to use the African languages on WhatsApp because they know their contacts. However, code-switching is used a lot by youth on social media. Despite the fact that Sepedi, Tshivenda, and Xitsonga are not mostly used on Facebook and Twitter they remain relevant and useful amongst their speakers on a daily basis. Nevertheless, there is a need to develop the African languages based social media sites to stimulate their usage on these platforms. Additionally, these languages should be developed to fit the needs of social media." (Abstract) more

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Communicating Environmental Health Risks with Indigenous Populations: A Systematic Literature Review of Current Research and Recommendations for Future Studies

Amanda D. Boyd, Chris M. Furgal

Health Communication, volume 34, issue 13 (2019), pp. 1564-1574

"A systematic literature review was conducted to consolidate peer-reviewed research on the communication of environmental health risks with Indigenous populations. The comprehensive literature review procedures included searching databases and key journals that represented various fields in communic ... more

Las cosmologías amazónicas y las narraciones mediáticas: El caso de la Radio Ucamara del pueblo indígena Kukama Kukamiria (Perú)

Miguel Angel Angulo Giraldo

Pós, volume 14, issue 1 (2019), pp. 119-147

"Este artículo reflexiona sobre la reivindicación de una perspectiva amazónica de los Kukama Kukamiria expresada en las narraciones audiovisuales que Radio Ucamara realiza en esta región, principalmente en dos perspectivas: la temática regional e indígena como respuesta a las temáticas de los ... more

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Covering Rakhine: Journalism, Conflict and Identity

Eaint Thiri Thu

In: Myanmar Media in Transition: Legacies, Challenges and Change

Lisa Brooten; Jane Madlyn McElhone; Gayathry Venkiteswaran (eds.)

Singapore: ISEAS (2019), pp. 229-238

"In this chapter I explore the challenge of gaining access, and remaining independent, in an ethnic state where you are expected to be on one side of the conflict or on the other. For decades the military junta restricted access to information and wielded a powerful propaganda strategy. This has had ... more

Situation of Human Rights of the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples of the Pan-Amazon Region

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) (2019), 208 pp.

Comunicación intercultural y cambio social en la relación entre los kichwas del Putumayo ecuatoriano y el Vicariato de Sucumbíos

Julio César Caldeira Ferreira

Bogotá: Universidad Santo Tomás (2019), 213 pp.

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The Metamorphosis of Media in Myanmar's Ethnic States

Jane Madlyn McElhone

In: Myanmar Media in Transition: Legacies, Challenges and Change

Lisa Brooten; Jane Madlyn McElhone; Gayathry Venkiteswaran (eds.)

Singapore: ISEAS (2019), pp. 210-228

"In this chapter I explore the challenging move from the borderlands and the growth of the media sector inside the ethnic states. The outlets launched inside now outnumber those that have moved inside. BNI's members - now totalling fourteen - are also in the minority. Yet in many ways it is Burma Ne ... more

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