"A central theme running through this report is the basic and fundamental conviction that journalists and programme-makers should aim to explore the “lived experience” of religion as well as its doctrinal, ritual and ceremonial elements. This view was supported across the full body of our submis
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sions and by panellists from a variety of different faiths. Too often, religion and belief are reduced to a series of rules to be learnt and practices understood; it was instructive that the majority of responses from media organisations understood religious literacy only as a matter of acquiring knowledge. For the vast majority of people of faith, this is only one part of their religious lives. Focusing on practices and rituals fundamentally misses the lived experience of faith as something which informs every part of public and private life and acts as a source of motivation, strength and guidance to the majority of the world’s inhabitants. Until this simple truth is understood, the media will continue to misrepresent and misunderstand religion." (Executive summary)
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"La Cátedra Unesco de Comunicación en su XXV edición se diseñó como un espacio para reflexionar sobre comunicación, información y lenguajes de la memoria. Con esa perspectiva, se consideró fundamental analizar el papel de la ciencia de la información en los procesos de recuperación, preser
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vación y divulgación de la memoria colectiva. En segundo lugar, desde los estudios del lenguaje, se buscó construir una agenda de investigación orientada a la generación de saberes pertinentes y el fomento de prácticas de intervención social que apuntaran a la recuperación de narrativas olvidadas o aún no contadas que, en conjunto, permitieran reconstruir la memoria del país. Y, en tercer lugar, analizar los procesos de representación, circulación y apropiación social del conocimiento que sobre la memoria se vienen realizando desde la comunicación social, el periodismo y áreas afines. Este libro compila, en la primera parte, doce textos de los conferencistas y panelistas que participaron en la Cátedra y, en la segunda parte, se incluyen los resúmenes de las ponencias presentadas en nueve grupos temáticos de trabajo, en los que participaron miembros de diversas universidades, estudiantes, profesores, investigadores y activistas sociales de todo el país." (Cubierta del libro)
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"Indonesia, the state with the largest Muslim population in the world, is in a process of continuous societal transformation. From the perspective of Media and Communication Studies, recent political developments towards an increasingly consolidated democratic system are of great interest. The compa
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rison with Germany may seem unusual and asymmetrical. The countries differ with regard to the religious and cultural practices, and media and social developments are neither intertwined nor similar at first glance. A closer look, however, reveals structural similarities between Germany and Indonesia: dynamics and regressions of political transformation under pressure from radical political movements; hyper-modernization in parts of the economies and social life-worlds of post-modern urbanization; a heritage of genocides and cultural struggles over the multi-ethnic and multi-religious fabrics of society. The book deals with the role media play in the course of these political, economic and cultural transformations. Do they ‘follow’ or ‘lead’ the changes in political systems and societies? What can countries learn from each other if they step outside the usual ethnocentric comparisons and engage in a more intense global dialogue? The book is a groundbreaking endeavour in comparative Media and Communication Studies and brings together well-known researchers from hitherto largely separated academic communities." (Publisher description)
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"[...] there seems to be an understanding that the media is important and that society needs the media. In October 2018, KAS Media Africa, therefore, gathered the CEOs of media houses, publishers and editors-in-chief from 16 different countries, both from Anglophone and Frenchspeaking Africa, in Acc
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ra. In the Ghanaian capital, they heard about different models of how to make one’s media enterprise economically stronger. Questions such as whether Africa needs or accepts a paywall featured. Along with several other key sustainability issues, the critical question of how the media can make itself more independent from government advertising – often a vital cog in the media’s sustainability in most parts of Africa – was also debated. There is no one-size-fits-all model of a good media enterprise, but we do encourage the exchange between people who realise that making an online publication in Cape Town is completely different from defending one’s publication in Bamako, Mali against government interference and terrorist threats. Some media in Africa will not survive the gathering storms, while others will make it through diversification, innovation, an exchange with other players in the African market, and with the passion of their publishers." (Foreword)
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"West Africa sits at a critical juncture that will determine whether the coming years are spent defending against reversals in media freedom and pluralism, or moving forward toward new and lasting progress. In this context, the Media Foundation for West Africa consulted stakeholders from all 16 coun
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tries of the West Africa region on the question of how cross-border coalitions can help to promote a robust and independent press. This report puts forward a vision for such a region-wide strategy, and how it can coordinate the efforts of civil society organizations, media actors, government allies, and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Specifically, the report highlights four concrete actions that could be taken as the foundation for such a coordinated, regional strategy: 1. Formulate a network of media freedom and governance groups and enter into a memorandum of understanding with ECOWAS; 2. Initiate a process and strategy for supplemental protocols and a subsequent legislative review to align national legislation; 3. Commission comprehensive regional research to provide contextually relevant recommendations on media sustainability interventions; 4. Integrate capacity-building efforts into broader governance agendas, including elections and peace-building." (Key findings)
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"[...] la Fundación Gabo, que él [Gabriel García Márquez] mismo fundó, diseñó el proyecto “La paz con los ojos abiertos: periodismo, comunicación y construcción de paz en Colombia”, que honra y recoge el legado de Gabo en estos tres ámbitos. La iniciativa, que contó con el apoyo de la
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organización holandesa Porticus y el Programa de Alianzas para la Reconciliación de la Agencia de Estados Unidos para el Desarrollo Internacional (USAID) y ACDI/VOCA, tuvo como objetivo propiciar un proceso participativo y colaborativo de reflexión sobre el rol que han asumido, y que podrían asumir, el periodismo y la comunicación, en un sentido amplio, en la construcción de espacios de diálogo, convivencia y reconciliación en Colombia después de la firma del acuerdo de paz con uno de los grupos alzados en armas del país. Para lograrlo, la Fundación Gabo priorizó seis sectores: organizaciones e instituciones públicas implicadas directamente en el período del posacuerdo (organizaciones civiles locales y medios comunitarios); community managers, gestores de contenido y estrategas digitales, medios de comunicación y periodistas; sector privado y empresariado; y sector educativo. Durante seis meses llevó a cabo siete talleres en Bogotá, Medellín y Cartagena (uno con cada sector y otro de carácter estratégico al inicio), en los cuales se exploraron las lecciones aprendidas en experiencias periodísticas y de comunicación pasadas y presentes, emanadas de esos sectores. Tras la reflexión conjunta, surgieron una serie de recomendaciones con las que se pretende proponer una hoja de ruta que permita trazar el camino hacia una comunicación con visión de país, que responda a los desafíos de la actual coyuntura. “La paz con los ojos abiertos” es una propuesta innovadora en su abordaje. Hasta donde se sabe, no ha habido iniciativas similares, en las que un abanico tan amplio y diverso de sectores sociales hayan analizado su aporte a la construcción de la paz desde el ejercicio periodístico o de la comunicación en espacios en los que, más que buscar consensos, se propicie el diálogo entre diversas concepciones de país. El presente documento contiene algunas de las reflexiones más importantes en este campo, así como las recomendaciones ya mencionadas. Así mismo, recoge el trabajo llevado a cabo por la Fundación Gabo alrededor de los temas relacionados con el proyecto en sus 23 años de historia, repasa el surgimiento de iniciativas de comunicación, periodismo y construcción de paz en su contexto mientras las enmarca conceptualmente, y analiza el camino que estas han recorrido hasta la actualidad. Muchas de ellas fueron destacadas por los participantes en los talleres y son brevemente caracterizadas. También se incluye una línea de tiempo con algunos acontecimientos relevantes de los últimos 70 años, que, sin embargo, no pretende ser un resumen histórico, sino que quiere ubicar al lector en el contexto al que se refiere el documento." (Introducción, página 7-8)
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"The report is split into three chapters: chapter one looks at over one hundred different campaigns, highlighting effective and successful campaigns, and the evaluations of them where possible. Those that are not evaluated can be used as inspiration. The categorisation of the different campaigns was
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difficult, therefore within the chapter itself the campaigns have been categorised into 12 different topics, however in the bibliography they are categorised by the country that they originated in. In order to visualise how many campaigns fell into two different categories, the campaign crossover table was created. It is important to note that some of the campaigns in the table may also have fallen into a third category as well, but this has not been displayed. Chapter two identifies training resources and articles that lay out the current state of thinking on the following six different topics: counter/alternative narratives, disinformation resources, good/best practices, current thinking, educational resources and toolkits, and finally, resources discussing online radicalisation. Chapter three provides summaries and key takeaways from the three round table discussions we conducted in Brussels, London and The Hague [...] Finally, as a result of the knowledge gathered in this report, the conclusion and recommendations lay out the necessary components for building a successful, effective, and impactful campaign, in the hopes that it will be informative and useful for future campaigners and trainers." (Introduction)
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"After a long time of neglect, Artificial Intelligence is once again at the center of most of our political, economic, and socio-cultural debates. Recent advances in the field of Artifical Neural Networks have led to a renaissance of dystopian and utopian speculations on an AI-rendered future. Algor
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ithmic technologies are deployed for identifying potential terrorists through vast surveillance networks, for producing sentencing guidelines and recidivism risk profiles in criminal justice systems, for demographic and psychographic targeting of bodies for advertising or propaganda, and more generally for automating the analysis of language, text, and images. Against this background, the aim of this book is to discuss the heterogenous conditions, implications, and effects of modern AI and Internet technologies in terms of their political dimension: What does it mean to critically investigate efforts of net politics in the age of machine learning algorithms?" (Publisher description)
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"Narrativas del miedo: Terror en obras literarias, cinemáticas y televisivas de Latinoamérica es una colección de ensayos escritos en inglés y en español en los que se analizan distintas representaciones del miedo como un elemento estructural y simbólico en obras literarias, teatrales y visual
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es de Argentina, Chile, Brasil, Colombia, Costa Rica, República Dominicana y Venezuela. Este libro ofrece una coherente y comprensiva visión de conjunto que abre una discusión sobre una de las más problemáticas consecuencias de la violencia: el miedo. A los largo de los últimos dos siglos, los países de América Latina han experimentado numerosos conflictos tales como guerras, revoluciones, dictaduras, narcotráfico, desplazamientos, exilios, etc. Existen abundantes estudios críticos sobre estas problemáticas, así como también sobre sus representaciones literarias y cinematográficas. Sin embargo, es muy poco lo que se ha dicho sobre el miedo que distintos tipos de violencia infligen en la sociedad, los individuos y sobre cómo estos fenómenos condicionan las representaciones artísticas y literarias. El valor y la originalidad de este volumen yace en el hecho de que enfoca su atención en esta fuerza emocional tan profundamente integrada en la producción de novelas, cuentos, teatro, películas y cómics en América Latina." (Descripción de la casa editorial)
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"This briefing summarises the proceedings of the third workshop in a project to stimulate dialogue between European and Arab stakeholders about European screen content for young children of Arab heritage who are living in Europe through forced migration." (Page 28)
"The overall aim of the workshop was to promote discussion among the archives on their respective practices, to reflect on the practice of interviewing with the involved historians and, last but not least, to find ways to make better use of the interviews available in the archives [...] The first pa
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rt of this reader contains the self-portrayals of the archives involved in the network and presentations of their contemporary witness projects, while the second part features reports from the historians on their practice, including reflections on their approaches. The appendix contains detailed overviews of the archived interviews of contemporary witnesses. Together with the texts, they are intended to give an impression of the interesting interviews that can already be found in the Ecology Archives and to arouse curiosity about their scientific use." (Editorial, page 4)
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"The present publication has a Janus-like function. It looks back on and reflects on a highly successful series of expert meetings and related work carried out by the Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media between 2014 and 2015. At the same time, it also looks forward, wondering h
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ow the regulatory, ethical, technological and market-related challenges facing Open Journalism can be overcome in the future" [...] "Open Journalism is an umbrella term that covers a variety of collaborative and cooperative forms of journalism, for instance between professional journalists and recognised experts on the topics they are covering, or between professional journalists and members of the general public. There is no fixed or authoritative definition of the term, but the notion of participation is key. The term also denotes an opening up of journalism and the recognition that a growing number of actors engage in the activity of journalism. What has changed is the nature of the relationship between journalists and the public. Journalism is no longer the preserve of professional journalists and there can be interaction with the public during all stages of the news production process." (Introduction, page 3-6)
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"From HIV to Ebola, from gender discrimination and violence to infant mortality, from malaria to climate change and access to justice, evidence shows that Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) works. It is critical to strengthening the agency of ordinary people, transforming societies and
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assuring access to life-saving information and support. Uniting us across SBCC’s diverse methodologies and approaches are core principles that came to the fore at this Summit. These constitute the foundation of all our work: Communication is a right. The SDGs are for everyone. We embrace complexity and appreciate the importance of geographical, cultural and social context. We are committed to the active participation of citizens and communities in shaping and implementing public policies and programs. We are committed to rigorous analysis of what works, building on successes and turning failures into lessons. We ensure our work is informed by evidence, and we are also willing to take the risks that go along with innovation. We value participatory evaluation of our SBCC work through which communities actively question, review and weigh the impact of what we do together. We believe that the credibility of our field rests on transparency regarding who decides how social and behavior change investments get prioritized, which behaviors or social norms should be changed, and in whose interest. We keep the ethical dimension of our practice at the forefront of everything we do. We will engage with the media – traditional and new – to shine a light on untold stories of change. We embrace new approaches fuelled by science and breakthroughs in technology." (Declaration of the 2018 International Social and Behavior Change Communication Summit, page 9-10)
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"Das Hörbuch hat in den letzten Jahren an Beliebtheit und Bedeutung gewonnen. Es ist kaum mehr aus Bibliotheken und Buchhandlungen wegzudenken - und zunehmend zeigt sich auch die Forschung interessiert. Gleichzeitig herrscht noch erheblicher Konturierungsbedarf: Wie die Wortbildung »Hör-Buch« be
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reits andeutet, handelt es sich um einen vielschichtigen Gegenstand, der nicht nur verschiedene Sinne zugleich anspricht, sondern auch in Abhängigkeit von der Perspektive, aus der man ihn betrachtet, seine Gestalt verändert.Die Beiträge des Bandes widmen sich dieser Vielgestaltigkeit an der Schnittstelle verschiedener Disziplinen." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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