"Guía de transición ecosocial y principios éticos para nuestros medios” es un manual de redacción y valores que busca inspirar a las personas lectoras a través de principios éticos narrativos relacionados con la práctica del periodismo en los medios audiovisuales y en las prácticas de tran
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smedialidad. Este trabajo recoge narrativas o formas en las que se debería informar sobre asuntos fundamentales en torno a los que gira gran parte de la información de actualidad y que requieren un tratamiento adecuado, crítico y reflexivo. Parte de la idea fundamental de que la comunicación es un eje transversal de transformación y transiciones así como de la importancia de construir a partir de lo local, desde la proximidad. La guía se conforma en torno a cinco grandes temas de debate o bloques: Transición ecosocial; Perspectiva de género; Discursos de odio, Migraciones y grupos minorizados; Menores; y Discapacidades. El manual se completa con una sucinta guía en forma de anexo, un glosario de términos y algunas recomendaciones bibliográficas." (Descripción de la casa editorial)
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"This article describes how the mass media in Ghana use quantitative information to communicate the prevalence of child labour. During the period 2000–2020, stories about child labour frequently appeared in Ghana’s mass media. Within nearly 30 per cent of the stories, at least one numerical quan
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tification is used. Quantifications appear to be constructed primarily to dazzle readers. The large numbers and the weight of the technical jargon used would appear to significantly reduce the potential to inform. We ask why successive governments have not used the mass media tools at their disposal to more effectively address the complex policy problem of child labour." (Abstract)
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"Communicators in the end child marriage movement are responsible for ensuring the storytelling process is a source of power for contributors, and that contributors feel positive about the following portrayal. This means examining biases, story and image choices, and decision making to ensure they r
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eflect contributors’ wishes, as expressed by them. It also means constantly learning and improving approaches to ethical communications based on contributors’ diverse experiences and feedback. These guidelines outline ethical communications principles and good practices for the end child marriage movement, and include the practical considerations and tools needed to deliver on them. They are designed to support those communicating around the issue of child marriage to consider: 1. if their communications materials reflect the wishes and expectations of the girls, adolescents and young women who share their stories; 2. how communications materials are received by external audiences." (Introduction)
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"A key element of the guidebook are the follow-up questions, which can guide us in the right direction when children feature in our stories. Some of the questions focus on written rules—for example, making sure we have complied with all the laws—but others target the “unwritten” rules, the t
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erritory of ethics and morality. Questions of the latter type are not always straightforward and may require us to try putting ourselves in the place of the child, imagining how they feel or how our actions might affect their feelings. As the popular phrase goes, we must “walk in their shoes." (Page 3)
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"The chapters in this collection offer original interrogations of the representation of humanitarian crisis and catastrophe, and the refraction of humanitarian intervention and action, from the mid-twentieth century to the present, across a diverse range of media forms: traditional and contemporary
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screen media (film, television and online video) as well as newspapers, memoirs, music festivals and social media platforms (such as Facebook, YouTube and Flickr). Addressing humanitarian media culture as it evolved over a period of more than seventy years, the chapters offer a critical assessment of the historical precedents of our contemporary humanitarian communications. The contributors to the book are all specialists in the fields of media and communications, film studies, cultural studies, history or sociology: these different disciplinary perspectives inform their approaches to and understanding of the relationship between humanitarianism and media culture. Our authors reveal and explore the signific nt synergies between the humanitarian enterprise, the endeavour to alleviate the suffering of particular groups, and media representations, and their modes of addressing and appealing to specific publics." (Introduction, page 2)
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"Images of suffering children have long been used to illustrate the violence and horror of conflict. In recent years, it is images of dead children that have garnered attention from media audiences around the world. In response to the deaths of four children killed by the Israeli army while playing
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on a Gazan beach, Israeli Prime Minister Netenyahu accused Hamas of generating “telegenically dead” Palestinian children for their cause (CNN 2014). In this article, it argues with this term to consider the appearance of images of dead children in global politics. I draw on a growing literature relating to the corpse as a subject in international relations (IR), asking how children's bodies are understood, following Butler, as “grievable lives.” It explores the notion of “iconic” images and the politics of sharing images of dead bodies and consider global power relations that allow certain children's deaths to be visible and not others. Through this analysis, the article argues that the idea of telegenic death might be productively considered to understand how the fleshy reality of children's deaths contribute to discussions about the representation and visibility of children in contexts of crisis and conflict." (Abstract)
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"Despite having a robust child protection framework and a burgeoning media, child rights abuse still occurs in Uganda. This takes the form of child neglect, defilement, torture, trafficking. The researchers set out to investigate media coverage of child rights issues in Uganda. A triangulation of me
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thods was used, and as will be shown later, reporting on child rights abuses is not systematic due to fragmentation of actors. The researchers found out that 185 child abuse stories were published in The New Vision in 2015. Most of the published stories were from the country’s capital – Kampala. The other obstacles to effective child rights reporting identified are as follows: concentration of reporters in urban areas, lack of special training in child rights reporting and commercial interests of media houses. The researchers recommend recruiting and training journalists to specifically report on issues of child rights and empowering upcountry reporters where many cases are committed." (Abstract)
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"Esta mirada sobre los medios -que analizó durante seis años medios de comunicación impresos, y, entre 2016 y 2017, programas periodísticos de la televisión peruana, respectivamente- tuvo el objetivo de determinar cómo se representaba a la niñez y adolescencia en las noticias y observar si el
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tratamiento informativo era respetuoso de sus derechos. Al respecto, el documento señala que en promedio solo el 21% de las notas de los medios impresos y el 32% de las audiovisuales presentaron un tratamiento noticioso con enfoque de derechos. Como se desprende de los indicadores señalados, la gran mayoría de notas informativas sobre niñez y adolescencia de alguna forma afecta los derechos de la población más joven. El Grupo Niñez y Medios considera que una nota periodística tiene enfoque de derechos cuando protege la identidad e intimidad de niños, niñas y adolescentes, y utiliza términos adecuados que evitan su estigmatización o victimización. De igual forma, cuando incluye referencias a sus derechos; les muestra como personas con derechos y capacidades; incluye su voz o documenta el grado en que el Estado y otras instituciones o personas protegen o vulneran tales derechos." (https://reliefweb.int)
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"En este trabajo de investigación posdoctoral se invita a los periodistas de los medios de comunicación de América Latina a transformar sus prácticas y narrativas para dar voz a la niñez e incluirlas en los discursos mediáticos autorregulando el ejercicio profesional para aportar en la consoli
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dación de imaginarios de la niñez como sujeto de derechos, partiendo de estudios en sociología jurídica sobre el derecho y la comunicación, y tomando como referentes a autores como Liebel (2015), quien expone las contradicciones que tiene la Convención sobre los Derechos del Niño al dejar fuera a las infancias (Gaitán, 2006) y a su autonomía (Cordero, 2015), centrando su postulado en la mirada adultocéntrica (Picontó, 2016). Así mismo, aquí se expone que la Convención no contempla los medios de comunicación en los escenarios convergentes (Prensky, 2001), sino en la linealidad del siglo pasado, dejando de lado la sociosemiótica de las hipermediaciones (Scolari, 2013), la teoría de los nuevos medios y los nuevos consumos culturales (Igarza, 2009). Así, esta investigación busca abrir nuevas tramas de significación que permeen el discurso mediático en el que predomine la concepción de los niños y las niñas como sujetos de derechos y sujetos sociales." (Descripción de la casa editorial)
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