"While the Internet has offered the world unparalleled access to information, journalism as an industry is in crisis […] especially in Latin America, the possibility of making a living out of the desire to tell stories is increasingly shrinking. Media outlets suffer from the migration of private a...nd public advertising to the Internet, a process that has empowered several intermediary companies that have almost monopolized the advertising industry. Hence, it makes sense to seek ways in which journalism as a paid, resource-intensive profession and business can survive amidst social, political, economic, cultural, and technological disruption. We also focus on the particular challenges in Latin American media systems, which often operate in a context of patronage, powerful media oligarchs, and the ever-important presence of a discretionary and arbitrary state." (p.2-3)
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"Despite information disorder being a widespread problem in countries in the Global South, the study of this phenomenon remains dominated by examples, case studies, and models from the Global North. Knowledge about the various manifestations of information disorder, the range of responses, and the s...uccess rate of interventions to counter the disorder remains fragmented and partial. In order to gain a better understanding of the knowledge gaps and areas where further research is required, as well as to identify opportunities for inter- and intra-regional cooperation, a scoping study of efforts to counter information disorder in the Global South was needed. The project that was subsequently launched had three interconnected objectives: 1. To map the actors currently working to counter information disorder and to identify the frameworks upon which such interventions are based; 2. To learn from current approaches, tools, and methods used to counter information disorder; 3. To gain an overview of the research landscape and to identify key issues and questions for further research. This scoping study provides an overview of key stakeholders and regional networks and a wide overview of approaches, tools, and methods being used currently. On the basis of the information gathered through this scoping, an agenda for further research and areas for intervention has been identified." (Introduction, p.7)
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"The contributions of this special issue are grouped in three sections: context, theoretical framework and empirical research. The first articles set up two important dimensions of the context we are living in that have to be definitely improved if we want to take advantage of the positive sides of ...Covid-19’s effects to bring about real social relations and a good communication of science ... The following articles deal with three important core components needed to set up a theoretical framework, from which this issue intends to start a serious scholarly conversation around the lessons learned from the Covid’s impact on social communication: (1) how a person knows and shapes his/her judgment in practical affairs when s/he is critically involved in them, (2) why and how science has surrendered to technology in the last decades, (3) and how practical knowledge is socially shared ... The context and theoretical framework having been set up, the issue enters into the empirical part of our research: several papers examine the news coverage of the Church dealing with the pandemic in a good sample of newspapers around the world, one paper looks at how social media have engaged in the response to the pandemic by the Catholic Church, and another at how local churches have managed the challenges of the pandemic ... The analysis of worldwide media coverage aims to find out how the mainstream press has portrayed the role of Christian churches and other religious bodies in dealing with the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic. All researchers have broadly shared a common qualitative methodology: looking for the frames and inducing the topoi (common places) underlying the resulting frames of the examination of news and editorial items." ()p.2-4)
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"Die Mehrheit der christlichen Weltbevölkerung lebt heute im globalen Süden. Kenntnisse ihrer Geschichte sind darum unerlässlich. Dieses Lehrbuch bietet einen ebenso kompakten wie anschaulichen Überblick über die Christentumsgeschichte Asiens, Afrikas und Lateinamerikas seit ca. 1450. Vielfalt ...und Verflechtung, lokale Akteure und globale Auswirkungen stehen im Fokus der Darstellung." (Verlag)
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"The book offers a critical map to navigate the field of media governance. A thread of cosmopolitan critique connects the fourteen chapters to enhance media governance literature beyond the West and regional foci. The first part addresses the epistemological and ontological flaws in the use and adap...tation of media governance. The second part opens pathways for critique and provides a thorough understanding of the ambivalences that scholars encounter when addressing media governance as a field of study. The third part highlights shortcomings like geographical narrowness and tensions in the use of media governance concepts. The scholarly contributions show that media governance as a field of study is far from being established: its conceptualizations are in flux and need scholarly self-reflection, and ongoing discussions need to leave behind universalist conceptualizations and methods of analysis. The chapters reflect on hegemony, power, sovereignty, and identity as conceptual center points in media governance research. The book uniquely breaks with self-referential Western academia and is part of ongoing collaborative scholarly efforts towards epistemic transformation through dialogue." (Publisher)
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"Moving beyond the U.S.-Eurocentric paradigm of communication theory, this handbook broadens the intellectual horizons of the discipline by highlighting underrepresented, especially non-Western, theorists and theories, and identifies key issues and challenges for future scholarship. Showcasing diver...se perspectives, the handbook facilitates active engagement in different cultural traditions and theoretical orientations that are global in scope but local in effect. It begins by exploring past efforts to diversify the field, continuing on to examine theoretical concepts, models, and principles rooted in local cumulative wisdom. It does not limit itself to the mass-interpersonal communication divide, but rather seeks to frame theory as global and inclusive in scope. The book is intended for communication researchers and advanced students, with relevance to scholars with an interest in theory within information science, library science, social and cross-cultural psychology, multicultural education, social justice and social ethics, international relations, development studies, and political science." (Publisher)
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"Este documento recoge los resultados de los Diálogos Intergeneracionales de Comunicación Comunitaria (en adelante, DICC), los cuales consistieron en una serie de cuatro encuentros virtuales realizados a finales de 2020. En los DICC se habló sobre temas que consideramos son ejes transversales par...a entender las dinámicas de los medios comunitarios en la actualidad, tales como, los sentidos de lo comunitario en los medios, las radios comunitarias en la era digital, sus agendas y el papel de las redes de medios. Nos interesaba especialmente identificar las transformaciones experimentadas en el paisaje de los medios comunitarios en clave de perspectivas, nuevas miradas y voces que siguen gestionando la vida de estas múltiples experiencias comunicativas. En los cuatro DICC participaron más de 40 representantes de medios y colectivos de comunicación comunitarios de diferentes países de América Latina, así como académicos y académicas del campo de la comunicación que han aportado desde sus investigaciones y reflexiones a la comprensión de los medios comunitarios y sus dinámicas." (Apuntes iniciales, p.9)
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"Urgidos por los gritos de las comunidades afectadas por la minería y los gemidos de la madre naturaleza, en comunión con el llamado del papa Francisco y del CELAM, la Agencia de Cooperación Katholische Jungschar (DKA) y la Red Iglesias y Minería (IyM) animamos un espacio ecuménico para interca...mbiar reflexiones en torno a las Teologías, Ecologías y Extractivismos. En este espacio ecuménico de reflexión, contamos con la participación de teólogos y teólogas de América Latina, Europa y EUA. Dispuestosas a escuchar, dialogar, aprender y compartir sus saberes, experiencias. Las reflexiones colectivas, ayudaron también a fundamentar teológicamente la Campaña de Desinversión en Minería, animada por IyM y el Proyecto Oro e Iglesia, impulsada por DKA. Metodológicamente este Grupo de Reflexión se organizó en tres Ejes Temáticos: 1) Perspectiva ética teológica: en el que buscamos iluminar las prácticas del modelo político y económico extractivista que se ha establecido, en la modernidad, como dogma para el crecimiento. Este modelo que se sustenta en una financiarización utilitaria de la naturaleza para salvaguardar el capital especulativo mediante el control de la Madre Tierra y del futuro ... 2) Teología litúrgica: diálogos abiertos, sobre la Liturgia y la opción evangélica preferencial por los pobres ¿cómo entender la utilización del oro, la plata y los diamantes en nuestras personas y particularmente en nuestras Iglesias? ... 3) Teología Poscolonial: reflexionó la sobreexplotación de la naturaleza, con la consiguiente devastación territorial por parte de la minería y las empresas multinacionales. Hemos avanzado en actualizar y proponer una versión “moderna” del colonialismo: asumimos que para compartir “un principio de esperanza” post extractivista, es urgente descolonizar nuestro pensamiento, el imaginario y los poderes/saberes que actualmente tenemos." (Presentación, p.2-4)
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"This collection engages with alternatives to mainstream radio systems, histories and concepts. It addresses the impacts and challenges that alternative, community and pirate radio represent." (Publisher)
"¿Cuáles son las principales herramientas comunicativas de los movimientos feministas en Iberoamérica? ¿Qué papel juega la comunicación en la cuarta ola? ¿Cómo se articulan las contranarrativas a los discursos del odio digitales contra activistas y comunicadoras? Las investigaciones en comun...icación y género de este libro permiten observar cómo se están produciendo avances a ambos lados del Atlántico, que dialogan sobre el espacio digital como un lugar de disputa discursiva y el rol fundamental de los movimientos feministas y las profesionales de la comunicación en la actualidad." (Tapa posterior)
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"The MDP has since 2018 supported various capacity-building activities for Latin American and Caribbean judicial actors, such as the 5th and 6th edition of the MOOC “International Legal Framework on Freedom of Expression, Access to Public Information and the Safety of Journalists”, additional MO...OCs on the Internet ecosystem and on Artificial Intelligence and the rule of law, training-of-trainers for judges based on UNESCO toolkits, as well as sessions on UNESCO’s Internet Universality Indicators. In addition, durable relations with regional judicial institutions were consecrated through the signing of two Memoranda of Understanding, first with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACrtHR) in 2019, and the following year with the Ibero-American Association of Public Prosecutor (AIAMP). In 2021, this area of work was expanded to security forces through a regional webinar which discussed the connections between law enforcement and media workers in terms of maintaining public order and defending the rights to freedom of expression and information." (p.1)
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"Seit Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts nehmen Konflikte um Land und Ressourcen in vielen lateinamerikanischen Ländern stark zu. Dieses Phänomen einer vermehrt neo-extraktivistisch orientierten Politik bedroht insbesondere Gebiete, in denen indigene Gemeinschaften leben. Im Kontext des indigenen Filmsch...affens sind derartige Konflikte daher ein zentrales Thema. Wie werden Machtverhältnisse, unterschiedliche territoriale Vorstellungen und Mensch-Umwelt-Beziehungen hier verhandelt? Teresa Millesi analysiert eine Auswahl von Filmen unter Einbezug raumwissenschaftlicher und ökokritischer Ansätze. Im Zentrum steht dabei die Bedeutsamkeit der Filme als Widerstandspraxis gegen die nationalstaatliche Hegemonie." (Verlag)
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"This 3rd edition maps the new world of Investigative Journalism, where technology and globalisation have connected and energized journalists, whistle-blowers and the latest players, with far-reaching consequences in politics and business worldwide. In this new edition, expert contributors demonstra...te how crowdsourcing, big data, globalization of information and changes in media ownership and funding have escalated the impact of investigative journalists. The book includes case studies of investigative journalism from around the world including the exposure of EU corruption, destruction of the Malaysian environment, and investigations in China, Poland and Turkey. From Ibero-America to Nigeria, India to the Arab world, investigative journalists intensify their countries' evolution by inquisition and revelation. This new edition reveals how investigative journalism has gone digital and global." (Publisher)
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"This book brings together twelve contributions that trace the empirical-conceptual evolution of Popular Communication, associating it mainly with the context of inequalities in Latin America and with the creative and collective appropriation of communication and knowledge technologies as a strategy... of resistance and hope for marginalized social groups. In this way, even while emphasizing the Latin American and even ancestral identity of this current of thought, this book positions it as an epistemology of the South capable of inspiring relevant reflections in an increasingly unequal and mediatized world. The volume's contributors include both early-career and established professionals and natives of seven countries in Latin America." (Publisher)
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"Este libro tiene por objetivo visibilizar y reconocer las contribuciones de las mujeres pioneras en los estudios de comunicación en América Latina, y lo hace con un doble propósito. Por un lado, como aporte a la historia del campo de la comunicación, a la que pretende completar con estas otras ...historias de investigadoras. Por el otro, como aporte a la enseñanza de los estudios latinoamericanos en el ámbito universitario. Recogemos aquí el desafío de diversos colectivos de estudiantes que comenzaron en los últimos años a advertir sobre la ausencia de autoras en los (nuestros) programas de estudio. Entendimos que tal cuestión —al mismo tiempo, cuestionamiento— no podía ser despachada con la inclusión de algún cupo bibliográfico, sino que más bien debía ser abordada a partir del examen atento de las contribuciones de aquellas primeras investigadoras que abrieron un camino: Regina Gibaja, Lisa Block de Behar, Mabel Piccini, Michèle Mattelart, Beatriz Sarlo, Margarita Graziano, Paula Wajsman, Elizabeth Fox, Margarita Zires Roldán, Fátima Fernández Christlieb, entre otras." (Editora)
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"This book is about television in Latin America. Its national and regional industries create most television programming there within genres developed over time in the region. However, part of the programming has always come from the U.S., Europe and elsewhere. With cable, satellite and now streamin...g TV, that inflow of foreign programming has increased substantially. While many in the audience still prefer national or regional programs for their cultural proximity, an increasing number among the upper-middle and middle classes, particularly the young, are turning to the new foreign services, like Netflix, Amazon and Disney for class distinction, cosmopolitanism or other motives. Among the television industries global regional and national actors are creating a variety of programs and channels (broadcast, pay-TV and streaming) to segment and appeal to different parts of the audience." (Publisher)
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"This volume brings together leading experts from a variety of fields to critically evaluate the extent to which global norms on freedom of expression and information have been established and which actors and institutions have contributed to their diffusion. The contributors also consider ongoing a...nd new challenges to these norms, from conflicts over hate speech and the rise of populism to authoritarian governments, as well as the profound disruption introduced by the internet. Together, these essays lay the groundwork for an international legal doctrine on global freedom of expression that considers issues such as access to government-held information, media diversity, and political speech." (Publisher)
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"... el libro propone un diálogo a partir de tres categorías, a saber: 1) las limitaciones al acceso a la información y sus impactos en la vida política; 2) el régimen jurídico de la comunicación; y 3) los medios de comunicación y la representación política. Esta perspectiva, nos ayuda a f...undamentar un estado de la discusión al tiempo en que vislumbramos una reflexión posicional que contribuye al análisis comparado del caso latinoamericano." (Introducción, p.15)
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"Making Open Development Inclusive: Lessons from IDRC Research focuses on the connection between openness and inclusion in global development. It brings together the latest research that cuts across a wide variety of political, economic, and social arenas - from governance to education to entreprene...urship and more. The chapters draw on empirical evidence from a wide and diverse range of applications of openness, uncovering the many critical and underlying elements that shape and structure how particular openness initiatives and/or activities play out - and critically - who gets to participate, and who benefits [or not] from openness, while exploring the frontiers where openness intersects with deeper challenges of development, technology, and innovation." (Publisher)
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