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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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Let free media thrive: stories of impact of the multi-donor programme on freedom of expression and safety of journalists

Paris: UNESCO (2020), 19 pp.

"2019 has seen major achievements resulting from needs-based, and specifically-tailored support through the Multi-Donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists (MDP). Actions building on ongoing work and others opening new avenues, have initiated substantial changes in favour of... more

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Digital inclusion across the globe: what is being done to tackle digital inequities?

Bianca C. Reisdorf; Colin Rhinesmith (eds.)

Social inclusion, volume 8, issue 2 (2020), pp. 132-259

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Internet y pandemia en las Américas: primera crisis sanitaria en la era digital

Elaine Ford; Winfried Weck (eds.)

Ciudad de Panama: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS); Democracia Digital (2020), 286 pp.

ISBN 978-9962-8528-2-7 CC BY

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Routledge handbook of environmental journalism

David B. Sachsman; JoAnn Myer Valenti (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2020), xx, 421 pp., illustrations, index

ISBN 978-1-138-47850-3 (hbk); 978-1-351-06840-6 (online)

"An increasing number of media platforms - from newspapers and television to Internet social media networks - are the major providers of indispensable information about the natural world and environmental risk. Despite the dramatic changes in the news industry that have tended to reduce the number o... more

Comics beyond the page in Latin America

James Scorer (ed.)

London: UCL Press; University College London (2020), xiv, 229 pp., figures, index

ISBN 978-1-78735-756-3 (hbk); 978-1-78735-755-6 (pbk); 978-1-78735-754-9 (pdf) CC BY-NC-ND

"Despite lack of funding and institutional support, not since the mid-twentieth century have comics in the region been so dynamic, so diverse and so engaged with pressing social and cultural issues. Comics are being used as essential tools in debates about, for example, digital cultures, gender iden... more

Transnational media: concepts and cases

Suman Mishra; Rebecca Kern-Stone (eds.)

Newark: Wiley & Sons (2019), ix, 246 pp.

ISBN 978-1-119-39460-0

"Transnational Media: Concepts and Cases provides a clear and engaging overview of media communication from a global and a region-based perspective. Rather than focusing on just complex theories and industry-specific analyses, this unique book offers an inclusive, comparative approach to both journa... more

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Latin American film industries

Tamara L. Falicov

London; New York: Bloomsbury; British Film Institute (bfi) (2019), ix, 193 pp., bibliogr. p.154-184, index

ISBN 978-1-84457-310-3

"Focusing in particular on Argentina, Brazil and Mexico, Tamara Falicov examines commonalities among Latin American film industries, such as the challenges of procuring funding, competition from Hollywood, state funding battles, and the fickle nature of audiences, as well as censorship issues, compe... more

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Worlds of journalism: journalistic cultures around the globe

Thomas Hanitzsch; Folker Hanusch; Jyotika Ramaprasad; Arrie De Beer (eds.)

New York: Columbia University Press (2019), xi, 434 pp., bibliogr. p.371-411, index

ISBN 978-0-231-18643-8 (print); 978-0-231-54663-8 (ebook)

"How do journalists around the world view their own function and role in society? Based on a landmark study that has collected data from more than 25,000 journalists in 66 countries between 2012 and 2015, Worlds of Journalism examines the different ways journalists conceive of their responsibilities... more

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Historias, terrenos y aulas: la narrativa sonora en español desde dentro

Charlotte de Beauvoir (comp.)

Bogotá: Ediciones Uniandes Universidad de los Andes (2018), 227 pp.

ISBN 978-958-774-737-9

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The little data book on information and communication technology 2018

Washington, DC; Geneva: World Bank; International Telecommunication Union (ITU) (2018), vi, 240 pp., glossary p.235-240

ISBN 978-0-8213-8996-6 (print); 978-0-8213-9519-6 (ebook) CC BY-NC

"In 2016, there were more than 7.3 billion mobile-cellular subscriptions worldwide. Globally, 3.5 billion people were using the Internet, of which 2.5 billion were from developing countries. Mobile-broadband subscriptions have risen constantly to reach 3.6 billion, while the number of fixed-broadban... more

World radio TV handbook: the directory of global broadcasting 2019

Oxford: WRTH Publications (2018) 73rd ed., 672 pp.

ISBN 978-1-9998300-1-4

Culturas indígenas: investigación, comunicación y resistencias

Amparo Huertas Bailén; Maria Luna (eds.)

Barcelona: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2018), 221 pp.

ISBN 978-84-948252-0-0 CC BY-NC-ND

"Este libro es resultado del proyecto "Acercandonos a las realidades socioculturales, luchas y resistencias de las comunidades indigenas de America Latina", realizado por el InCom-UAB durante el curso 2015-2016 gracias a la financiacion de la Fundacio Autonoma Solidaria (FAS-UAB) y el apoyo de la Ca... more

Telenovelas en el mundo latino

June Carolyn Erlick

Lima: Universidad del Pacífico (2018), 215 pp., index

ISBN 978-9972-57-398-9

Other Editions: English ed.: Telenovelas in pan-latino context. Routledge, 2018

"El presente libro ofrece una visión general de fácil comprensión sobre la historia de la telenovela en América Latina. Las telenovelas, una variedad aparte de series televisivas que se originan en América Latina, invoucran temas clave de raza, clase, identidad sexual y violencia, entretejiendo... more

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Perspectives from the global entertainment and media outlook 2017–2021: Curtain up! User experience takes center stage

Price Waterhouse Coopers (pwc) (2017), 40 pp.

"To thrive in a marketplace that is increasingly competitive, slower-growing, and dependent on personal recommendations, companies must develop strategies that engage, grow, and monetize their most valuable customers — i.e., their fans. To do so, they must combine excellent content with breadth an... more

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Estándares internacionales de libertad de expresión: guía básica para operadores de justicia en América Latina

Silvia Chocarro

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2017), 39 pp.

" ... es una herramienta indispensable para operadores de justicia que tratan casos sobre la libertad de expresión. La guía, producida conjuntamente por la UNESCO y la oficina del Relator Especial para Libertad de Expresión (RELE) y escrita por Silvia Chocarro, es un mapa esencial de los estánda... more

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Media movements: civil society and media policy reform in Latin America

María Soledad Segura; Silvio Waisbord

London: Zed Books (2016), 214 pp., bibliogr. p.186-205, index

ISBN 978-1-78360-462-3

"Our interest in this book is to examine the contribution of citizens’ movements to a uniquely intense period of policy reforms in public communication in Latin America during the 2000–2015 period. We examine a range of experiences of citizen participation to reshape media systems and change med... more

Plataformas de crowdfunding en América Latina

César Rentería

Lima: Diálogo Regional sobre Sociedad de la Información; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2016), 68 pp., diagr., tables

CC BY-NC-SA

"El presente documento es un analisis descriptivo del sector de crowdfunding – financiamiento mediante una multitud de donantes por medio de Internet - en América Latina. Su objetivo es conocer el tamaño, las caracteríticas y la dinámica de las plataformas latinoamericanas de crowdfunding. Par... more

Apropiarse de las redes para fortalecer la palabra: una introducción al activismo digital de lenguas indígenas en América Latina

Genner Llanes Ortiz et al.

Leiden: Global Voices (2016), 35 pp.

"Del análisis de los quince estudios de caso se desprende un complejo retrato del trabajo que encabezan actores indígenas y no indígenas para que los idiomas nativos del continente ganen espacios y se visibilicen en la esfera digital. El estudio muestra que las formas de hacer activismo digital d... more

World radio TV handbook: the directory of global broadcasting 2016

Oxford: WRTH Publications (2015) 70th ed., 672 pp.