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Media Use: Urban Populations
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Poverty & Impoverished People: Reporting & Media Representation
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Urban Communication, Urban Media
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Urban Issues: Media Representation & Reporting
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Community Telecommunication Networks
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Minorities & Disadvantaged Groups: Reporting & Media Representation
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Digital Divide, Digital Inequalities
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Digital Activism, Cyber Advocacy
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Media Advocacy, Media Activism
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Digital & Social Media Use, Internet Use
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Digital & Social Media Use: Youth
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Media Use: Lower Classes & Poor Population
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Films
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Alternative Communication & Media
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Community Radios
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Crime & Violence Reporting
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Data
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Data Governance, Data Justice, Data Sovereignty
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Soap Operas & Telenovelas
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Photojournalism
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Stereotypes in Media & Communication
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Radio Programmes & Genres
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Urban Radios
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Postcolonial & Decolonial Communication Approaches
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Advocacy & Empowerment: Indigenous People
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Advocacy & Political Films
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Civic Engagement, Citizen Participation, Civil Society & Digital Communication
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Community Radio Audiences & Use
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Digital & Social Media Use: Children
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Media Use: Minorities & Disadvantaged Groups
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Television Use: Women
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Radio Use: Youth
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Radio Consumption, Radio Use, Radio Audiences
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Media Use: Catholic Media Productions
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Television Consumption, Televison Use, Television Audiences
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Campaigning
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Catholic Church
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Catholic Radios
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Digital Media Socialisation
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Christian Churches & Denominations
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Urban Pastoral
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Celebrities, Idols, Stars
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Cinema in the Global South & Third Cinema
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Documentaries, Television Documentaries, Web Documentaries
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Videos
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Cybersecurity, Digital Safety, Privacy, Right to Privacy
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Nonprofit Public Relations: Experiences
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Strategic Communication Planning
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Community Media
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Community Television
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Participatory Communication
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Discourse & Discourse Analysis
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Messages, Message Design, Message Analysis
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Cultural Identity
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Popular Religious Cultures & Practices
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ICT / Internet Projects (Development Aid)
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Digital Inclusion
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Digital Media, Internet & Religion
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E-Governance, E-Democracy
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Governance & Accountability: Role of Digital Communication
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Indigenous Digital & Social Media Communication
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Political Blogging
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Podcasts
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Social / Digital Media and ICTs in Disaster & Humanitarian Crisis Management & Prevention
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ICTs and Development
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Homeless People
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Informal Sector, Informal Economy
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Water Resources Management, Water Access & Supply
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Journalism Ethics
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Feminism & Communication
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Africa: Foreign Media Representation & Image Abroad
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Constructive Journalism, Solution-Oriented Journalism
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Drug Trafficking Reporting & Media Representation
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Election Reporting
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Local Press
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Marketing & Branding
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Migration & Refugees Reporting & (Social) Media Representation
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Music
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Social Photography
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Citizenship
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Political Doctrines
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Fragile / Post-Conflict States
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National Identity & Media, Nationalism & Communication
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Political Communication
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Youth Radio Programmes, Youth Radio Stations, School Radios
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Media Effects
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Youth & Religious Communication
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Social Conflicts, Social Problems
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Social Aspects
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Castes
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Mobile Phone Use for Social Purposes, Mobiles for Development
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Television
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Youth and Media
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Youth Cultures, Youth Milieus, Youth Identities
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Children's digital experiences in Indian slums: Technologies, identities, and Jugaad
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2024), 175 pp.
"This book departs from the universalising and rescue narratives of poor children and technologies. It offers complex stories on how children's social identities (gender, caste, and religion), cultural norms, and personal aspirations influence their digital experiences. How do children challenge, ci
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Converged Radio, Youth and Urbanity in Africa: Emerging Trends and Perspectives
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xxiii, 250 pp.
"This book explores the convergence of urban radio with digital media technologies in Africa, focusing on how youth are riding on the rapid (though uneven) internet rollout on the continent to participate and drive the production and consumption of urban radio. With thirteen original chapters, the b
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The Routledge Companion to Media and Poverty
New York: Routledge (2022), xxv, 478 pp.
"The book is divided into five sections that examine philosophical principles for reporting on poverty, the history and nature of poverty coverage, problematic representations of people experiencing poverty, poverty coverage as part of reporting on public policy, and positive possibilities for pover
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Decolonising Political Communication in Africa: Reframing Ontologies
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
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Technology of the Oppressed: Inequity and the Digital Mundane in Favelas of Brazil
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (2022), xi, 218 pp.
"David Nemer draws on extensive ethnographic fieldwork to provide a rich account of how favela residents engage with technology in community technology centers and in their everyday lives. Their stories reveal the structural violence of the information age. But they also show how those oppressed by
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Voices from the Favelas: Media Activism and Counter-Narratives from Below
New York; London: Rowman & Littlefield (2021), xiv, 184 pp.
"The mainstream media in Brazil portrays favelas (unregulated low-income neighbourhoods) in a negative light. This has been the case since their emergence over a century ago. Voices from the Favelas navigates through the contemporary representation of the favelas in the established media, discussing
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Branding Brazil: Transforming citizenship on Screen
New Brunswick et al.: Rutgers University Press (2021), vii, 207 pp.
"Branding Brazil examines a panorama of contemporary cultural productions including film, television, photography, and alternative media to explore the transformation of citizenship in Brazil from 2003 to 2014. A utopian impulse drove the reproduction of Brazilian cultural identity for local and glo
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Digital Activism, Community Media, and Sustainable Communication in Latin America
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
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Listening Into Others: An Ethnographic Exploration in Govindpuri
Institute of Network Cultures (2020), 149 pp.
"The essays collected here are based on two decades of engagement with the residents of the slums of Govindpuri in India’s capital, Delhi. The book presents stories of many kinds, from speculative treatises, via the recollection of a thousand everyday conversations, to an account of the making of
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Online Activism in Latin America
New York; London: Routledge (2019), ix, 317 pp.
Making Informal Settlements ‘Visible’ Through Datafication: A Case Study of Quarry Road West Informal Settlement, Durban, South Africa
Manchester: Centre for Development Informatics (2019), 37 pp.
Community-Based Data Justice: A Model for Data Collection in Informal Urban Settlements
Manchester: Centre for Development Informatics (2019), 26 pp.
Data Justice Through the Prism of Information Politics and Resource Injustice: A Case Study from Hyderabad’s Urban Frontier
Manchester: Centre for Development Informatics (2019), 25 pp.
"How does data visibility affect vulnerable communities that face uncertainty over occupational rights? Or in other words, can data justice be realized in settings of acute resource injustice? These are the overarching questions that our case study interrogates by opening up the black box of the com
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An Applied Data Justice Framework: Analysing Datafication and Marginalised Communities in Cities of the Global South
Manchester: Centre for Development Informatics (2018), 25 pp.
Experiences of ICT Use in Shared, Public Access Settings in Philippine Slums
Development in Practice, volume 28, issue 3 (2018), pp. 358-373
"This article examines how privacy is understood, lived, and negotiated by youth users of information and communication technology (ICT) in slum communities in the Philippines. In the context of shared and public access arrangements prevalent in many low-income communities in the Global South, the a
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Late Capitalism, Urbanisation, and Cultures of Economic “survivalism” in the BBC’s 'Welcome to Lagos'
Africa Spectrum, volume 52, issue 1 (2017), pp. 101-113
"This article examines the depiction of three impoverished Lagosian slums in the controversial British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) documentary, Welcome to Lagos, which highlights the negative impacts of globalised capitalism on urban culture in Nigeria’s commercial centre and biggest city. In r
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Diversidad de prácticas religiosas en las villas de la ciudad de Buenos Aires
Debates en Sociología, volume 44 (2017), pp. 119-143
"El trabajo describe y analiza la diversidad de prácticas religiosas de habitantes de villas de Buenos Aires. Se basa en datos agregados relevados con un cuestionario aplicado a una muestra representativa de residentes de estos territorios. Se presenta primero una discusión sobre el concepto de re
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Favela Media Activism: Counterpublics for Human Rights in Brazil
Lanham: Lexington Books (2017), 227 pp.
"Leonardo Custódio provides multifaceted analyses of how favela youth engage in individual and collective media activist initiatives despite social class constraints and neoliberal imperatives in their everyday life. This book details processes experienced by young favela residents while becoming i
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Slums on Screen: World Cinema and the Planet of Slums
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2016), ix, 283 pp.
"Combining approaches from the social sciences and the humanities, the book provides an interdisciplinary perspective while outlining a transnational history of films that either document or fictionalise the favelas, shantytowns, Elendsviertel, gecekondu, barrios populares or chawls of our diverse '
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When the Marginalized Enter the National Spotlight: The Framing of Brazilian Favelas and Favelados
Global Media and Communication, volume 11, issue 1 (2015), pp. 61-80
"How are marginalized peoples and places framed in their dominant national media? Framing theory applied through a comparative narrative analysis of 313 news articles, 291 photos and 1051 telenovela scenes allowed Brazilian media representations of a marginalized people, favelados, and marginalized,
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