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Reclaiming the public sphere in a global health crisis

Hans-Jörg Trenz; Annett Heft; Michael Vaughan; Barbara Pfetsch (eds.)

Javnost: the public, volume 28, issue 2 (2021), pp. 111-235

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Mobile technology and social transformations: access to knowledge in global contexts

Stefanie Felsberger; Ramesh Subramanian (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2021), xviii, 180 pp.

ISBN 978-0-367-54522-2 (hbk); 978-0-367-54524-6 (pbk); 978-1-00-308957-5 (online)

"This book investigates the ways in which the mobile telephone has transformed societies around the world, bringing both opportunities and challenges. At a time when knowledge and truth are increasingly contested, the book asks how mobile technology has changed the ways in which people create, disse... more

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Informe regional de vulneración de derechos humanos en la Panamazonía: tejiendo redes de resistencia y lucha en Colombia, Brasil, Ecuador, Perú y Bolivia. Resumen ejecutivo

Red Eclesial Panamazónica (REPAM) (2021), 20 pp.

"El presente documento es un resumen del Informe Regional de Vulneración de Derechos Humanos en la Panamazonía. Recoge 13 casos de violación sistemática a los derechos humanos de diferentes pueblos indígenas, comunidades campesinas y ribereñas de Colombia, Brasil, Ecuador, Perú y Bolivia. La ... more

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The Routledge companion to digital media and children

Lelia Green; Donell Holloway; Kylie Stevenson; Tama Leaver; Leslie Haddon (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2021), xxv, 603 pp., illustr., tables, index

ISBN 978-1-138-54434-5 (hbk); 978-1-351-00410-7 (ebook)

"This collection investigates and critiques the dynamism of children's lives online with contributions fielding both global and hyper-local issues, and bridging the wide spectrum of connected media created for and by children. From education to children's rights to cyberbullying and youth in challen... more

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Beyond journalistic norms: role performance and news in comparative perspective

Claudia Mellado (ed.)

New York; London: Routledge (2021), xix, 299 pp., figures, tables, index

ISBN 978-1-138-38849-9 (hbk); 978-0-429-42550-9 (online)

"The book brings together scholars from Western and Eastern Europe, North America, Latin America, and Asia, reporting findings based on data collected from democratic, transitional, and non-democratic contexts to produce thematic chapters that address how journalistic cultures vary around the globe,... more

MEDIAting theology

Jione Havea (ed.)

Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt (2021), 209 pp.

ISBN 978-3-374-06811-1

"The intersection of media with theology is reciprocating: media boosts theology in its functions to inform, connect and educate; theology humbles the globalizing media with a reminder – media is in mediation but not in domination. Media and theology thus intersect at mediating (negotiating, inter... more

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Policy brief and recommendations for an enabling environment for community networks in Brazil

Adriana Labardini Inzunza; Bruna Zanolli et al.

Association for Progressive Communication (APC) (2021)

ISBN 978-92-95113-47-3 CC BY

Other Editions: also published in Portuguese

"The policy brief we hereby present to the Brazilian National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) includes recommendations and specific proposals to enable community networks in Brazil, considering extensive research in both the global and Brazilian context, the state of the art of these small, not-f... more

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Communications on climate change and biodiversity loss with local populations: exploring best-practices and postcolonial moments in eight case studies from across the globe

Dawud Ansari et al.

Berlin: DIW Berlin (2021), 51 pp., illustr., bibliogr., p.44-51

"... in this article, we present the results of a collective self-assessment exercise for a panel of eight case studies (covering four continents) [Amazon rainforest, Brazil; Colombia; India; Bangaldesh; Egypt; Lake Manyara Basin, Tanzania; Baltic Sea, Germany; Isles of Scilly, UK] ] of communicatio... more

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Media activist research ethics: global approaches to negotiating power in social justice research

Sandra Jeppesen; Paola Sartoretto (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xxiii, 276 pp.

ISBN 978-3-030-44389-4 (ebook); 978-3-030-44388-7 (print); 978-3-030-44390-0 (print)

"This book maps complex ethical dilemmas in social justice research practices in media and communication. Contributors critically analyse power dynamics that arise when building equitable research relations with media activists, social movements, and cultural producers, considering issues of access,... more

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The digital exclusion of women with disabilities: a study of seven low- and middle-income countries

London: GSMA (2020), 43 pp.

"1. Women with disabilities have among the lowest rates of mobile and smartphone ownership. In most countries, ownership gaps are widest between men without disabilities and women with disabilities. Even in countries where the mobile gender gap is small or nonexistent, there is still a disability ga... more

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De-Westernizing visual communication and cultures: perspectives from the Global South

Thomas Herdin; Maria Faust; Guo-Ming Chen (eds.)

Baden-Baden: Nomos (2020), 225 pp.

ISBN 978-3-8487-6577-5 (print); 978-3-7489-0693-3 (online)

"This edited volume gives voice to pluralised avenues from visual communication and cultural studies regarding the Global South and beyond, including examples from China, India, Cambodia, Brazil, Mexico and numerous other countries. Defining visual communication and culture as an umbrella term that ... 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

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Rádio: credibilidade, resultado e união nacional

São Paulo: Associacão Brasileira de Emissoras de Rádio e Televisão (ABERT) (2019), 25 pp.

"Nove em cada 10 adultos conectados escutam rádio off-line. O rádio é o meio líder em confiança no Brasil. 64% percebem que a maioria das notícias consumidas no rádio é verdadeira. Mais da metade dos ouvintes brasileiros ligam o rádio porque querem se informar. Quando usado de forma combina... more

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Metodologias emergentes na comunicação católica: documentos oficiais das Conferências Episcopais Italiana, Brasileira e Caribenha

Mauricio Cruzz

Comunicación, volume , issue 40 (2019), pp. 12-34

"Este artigo integra pesquisas desenvolvidas em minha tese de doutoramento “A Educomunicação no Diretório de Comunicação da Igreja no Brasil: aprendizagem em perspectiva”, defendida junto à Universidade de São Paulo. Aqui apresentamos os documentos específicos produzidos pelas três prim... more

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Atlas panamazônico: aproximaçao da realidade eclesiástica e socioambiental

Rede Eclesial Pan-Amazônica (REPAM) (2019), 52 pp., many maps, many graphs

"Este mapeamento foi estabelecido com os seguintes objetivos: contribuir com uma visão global na Pan-Amazônia, suas culturas, seus povos, superando visões fragmentadas e favorecer o testemunho de uma plena comunhão eclesiástica e de toda uma pastoral na bacia amazônica; oferecer um amplo panor... more

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Reporting human rights, conflicts, and peacebuilding: critical and global perspectives

Ibrahim Seaga Shaw; Senthan Selvarajah

Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan (2019), xxi, 280 pp.

ISBN 978-3-030-10718-5 (hbk); 978-3-030-10719-2 (ebook)

"This book focuses on the reporting of human rights in broadly defined times of conflict. It brings together scholarly and professional perspectives on the role of the media in constructing human rights and peacebuilding options in conflict and post-conflict environments, drawing on case studies fro... 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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Computational propaganda: political parties, politicians, and political manipulation on social media

Samuel C. Woolley; Philip N. Howard (eds.)

New York: Oxford University Press (2019), vi, 263 pp., index

ISBN 978-0-19-093141-4 (pbk)

"Computational propaganda is an emergent form of political manipulation that occurs over the Internet. The term describes the assemblage of social media platforms, autonomous agents, algorithms, and big data tasked with the manipulation of public opinion. Our research shows that this new mode of int... more

Spiritual news: reporting religion around the world

Yoel Cohen (ed.)

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2018), vii, 418 pp., index

ISBN 978-1-4331-2862-2

"The media's coverage of religion is an important question, given the central role which news media play in ensuring that people are up-to-date with religion news developments. The book examines it in different countries. After an introductory section looking at trends in religion news in print, on-... more

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Online supplement to working paper 2018.1. Challenging truth and trust: a global inventory of organized social media manipulation

Samantha Bradshaw; Philip N. Howard

Oxford: Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford; Computational Propaganda Research Project (2018), 81 pp.

CC BY-NC-SA

"These are the background case notes complied for MEMO 2018.1: Challenging Truth and Trust: A Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation. For details on the methods behind this content analysis please see the methodology section of the report. This document contains data from over 500 s... more