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Mary John O'Hair, Philip A. Woods, H. Dan O'Hair (eds.)

Newark: Wiley (2024), xi, 299 pp.

"Examining the crucial role of crisis communication and education on a global scale, this research-based compendium covers a broad range of key topics, such as democratizing education, promoting peace through complexity science, understanding how factionalism threatens democracy, encouraging citizen ... more

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Narratives Crossing Boundaries: Storytelling in a Transmedial and Transdisciplinary Context

Joachim Friedmann (ed.)

Bielefeld: transcript (2023), 280 pp.

"As the dominant narrative forms in the age of media convergence, films and games call for a transmedial perspective in narratology. Games allow a participatory reception of the story, bringing the transgression of the ontological boundary between the narrated world and the world of the recipient in ... more

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Observatorio Iberoamericano de Ficción Televisiva OBITEL 2023. As produtoras independentes e a internacionalização da produção de ficção televisiva na Ibero-América;Las productoras independientes y la internacionalización de la producción de ficción televisiva en Iberoamérica
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Maria Immacolata Vassallo de Lopes, Juan Piñon, Catarina Duff Burnay, Rosario Sánchez Vilela, Mónica S. Kirchheimer (eds.)

Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Universidad Católica de Chile (2023), 367 pp.

"In some of the countries, to a greater extent Spain and the Hispanic USA, fiction consistently occupies at least 40% of the programming time. This occurs in countries that, due to income levels, should be those with a higher degree of access to other sources of fiction audiovisual content, such as ... more

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Women's Activism Online and the Global Struggle for Social Change

Carmit Wiesslitz (ed.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xxi, 310 pp.

"This book showcases the online activism of women's groups around the world in the post-#MeToo era, and presents an overview of the diversity of its current expressions. The focus of this book extends beyond campaigns against rape culture to include women's struggles on other political and environme ... more

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Feminismos, violencias y redes sociales: Prácticas y estrategias iberoamericanas contra los discursos del odio

Inmaculada Postigo Gómez, Teresa Vera Balanza, Ruth de Frutos García (eds.)

New York: Peter Lang (2022), xii, 326 pp.

"¿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 ... more

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Ibero-American Observatory of Television Fiction Obitel 2022: Transformations in the Seriality of Ibero-American Television Fiction in Times of Streaming
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Maria Immacolata Vassallo de Lopes, Juan Piñon, Catarina Duff Burnay, Rosario Sánchez Vilela (eds.)

Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Universidad Católica de Chile (2022), 382 pp.

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Observatório Ibero-Americano da Ficção Televisiva OBITEL 2022: Transformaciones en la serialidad de la ficción televisiva iberoamericana en tiempos de streaming
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Maria Immacolata Vassallo de Lopes, Juan Piñon, Catarina Duff Burnay, Rosario Sánchez Vilela (eds.)

Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Universidad Católica de Chile (2022), 373 pp.

"En algunos de los países, en mayor medida España y los EE.UU. Hispanos, la ficción ocupa de un modo consistente al menos el 40% de los tiempos de programación. Esto, en países que por niveles de ingreso deberían ser los con un mayor grado de acceso a otras fuentes de contenidos audiovisuales ... more

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Observatório Ibero-americano da Ficção Televisiva (OBITEL) 2021. Ficção televisiva ibero-americana em tempos de pandemia. Ficción televisiva iberoamericana en tiempos de pandemia
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Maria Immacolata Vassallo de Lopes, Morella Alvarado Miquilena (eds.)

Santiago de Chile: Editorial Universidad Católica de Chile (2021), 483 pp.

"La comparación con los años previos pone en evidencia el brutal desplome de la producción durante 2020 a raíz de los confinamientos y otras restricciones debidos a la pandemia de COVID-19. Tomada como un todo, la exhibición nacional de estreno cayó respecto de 2019 en un 41%, pero en algunos ... more

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The Handbook of Media Education Research

Divina Frau-Meigs, Sirkku Kotilainen, Manisha Pathak-Shelat, Michael Hoechsmann, Stuart R. Poyntz (eds.)

Newark: Wiley (2021), 529 pp.

"Featuring contributions from a diverse range of internationally-recognized experts and practitioners, this timely volume discusses recent developments in the field in the context of related scholarship, public policy, formal and non-formal teaching and learning, and DIY and community practice. Offe ... more

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Handbook of Communication for Development and Social Change
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Jan Servaes (ed.)

Singapore: Springer (2020), 2 vols.

"The book contains 85 chapters written by persons who have been on those frontlines of communication and development [...] A variety of case studies appear in the book. For example, Kriss Barker and Fatou Jah – in a chapter titled “Entertainment-Education in Radio: Three Case Studies from Africa ... ” – explore in detail projects in Nigeria, Burundi and Burkina Faso that used a communication intervention approach advanced by the Population Media Center. Other chapters in the Handbook take the reader to Spain, Kenya, South Africa, Kazakhstan, and beyond. Song Shi examines “ICTs and Modernization in China,” revealing that assumptions and theories of the modernization paradigm have significantly influenced the policies and projects on ICT4D in contemporary China. And, Song Shi writes, discussion on the potential of other approaches in ICT4D in China has also emerged among scholars. Hina Ayaz discusses the “Multiplicity Approach in Participatory Communication” in Pakistan – wherein the country adopted the Global Polio Eradication Initiative – only to run into negative perceptions and banning of polio vaccinations. However, a shift to a more successful approach, grounded in UNICEF’s social mobilization and communityinvolvement communication strategy, brought significant success. While many of the Handbook case studies incorporate participation as a significant development factor, they also address a wide range of social and political issues including, for example, civic engagement, sexual harassment, empowerment, and community voices. In addition to an abundance of case studies from around the world, the Handbook delves into various research methods that are being used to understand and design communication for development and social change interventions [...] Handbook editor Jan Servaes' own chapter (with Rico Lie), “Key Concepts, Disciplines, and Fields in Communication for Development and Social Change ” identifies five clusters of concepts and practices that are evident in the field today and which determine the activities and approaches in communication for sustainable development and social change interventions: The clusters are (1) a normative cluster of concepts; (2) a cluster of concepts that sets an important context for communication activities for development; (3) a cluster of strategic and methodological concepts; (4) a cluster of concepts that relate to methods, techniques, and tools; and (5) a cluster of concepts that addresses the practices of advocacy, (participatory) monitoring and evaluation, and impact assessment. The authors extend their discussion into three subdivisions: (1) health communication, (2) agricultural extension and rural communication, and (3) environmental communication (including climate change communication). This leads the reader into issues related to (1) right to communicate; (2) education and learning; (3) innovation, science, and technology; (4) natural resource management; (5) food security; (6) poverty reduction; (7) peace and conflict; (8) children and youth, women, and senior citizens; and (9) tourism. Some of the forerunners of development communication have not been forgotten. In “Daniel Lerner and the Origins of Development Communication”, Hemant Shah links Lerner’s 1958 book Passing of Traditional Society to today’s modernization and faith in technology to solve social problems. Also contributing to the foundation of this field is Paulo Freire who contributed much to idea that participation should be a vital part of the development dialogue. Ana Fernández-Aballí Altamirano’s chapter on "The Importance of Paulo Freire to Communication for Development and Social Change" highlights his main work Pedagogy of the Oppressed as a "before-and-after" in the fields of education, research, and communication, initially in Latin America and later in both North and South. Particularly in the case of development communication and communication for social change, the author stresses, Freire’s work had a definitive impact ..." (Review by Royal Donald Colle, Journal of Development Communication, vol. 30 (2), page 92-94) more

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Maria Immacolata Vassallo de Lopes, Guillermo Orozco Gómez (eds.)

Porto Alegre: Sulina (2019), 390 pp.

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Trends in Radio Research: Diversity, Innovation and Policies

J. Ignacio Gallego, Manuel Fernández Sande, Nieves Limón (eds.)

Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2018), xii, 364 pp.

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Guía de estilo sobre salud mental para medios de comunicación: Las palabras sí importan
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M. Fábregas, A. Tafur, A. Guillén, L. Bolaños, J. L. Méndez, P. Fernández de Sevilla

Madrid: Confederación Salud Mental España (2018), 57 pp.

"Esta guía de estilo [que] tiene como objetivo ofrecer a periodistas datos y claves sobre la manera más adecuada para informar acerca de temas o aspectos relacionados con la salud mental. Con el fin de que los y las profesionales de la comunicación puedan generar información veraz, contrastada y ... more

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Educar para los nuevos medios: Claves para el desarrollo de la competencia mediática en el entorno digital

Rosa García-Ruiz, Amor Pérez-Rodríguez, Ángel Torres (eds.)

Cuenca; Quito: Universidad Politécnica Salesiana, Área de Ciencias Sociales y del Comportamiento Humano, Carrera de Comunicación Social;Abya-Yala (2018), 219 pp.

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Controversial Ebola Vaccine Trials in Ghana: A Thematic Analysis of Critiques and Rebuttals in Digital News

Per Egil Kummervold, William S. Schulz, Elizabeth Smout, Luis Fernandez-Luque, Heidi J. Larson

BMC Public Health, volume 17, issue 642 (2017), 24 pp.

"A web-based system was developed to download and analyse news reports relevant to Ebola vaccine trials. This included monitoring major online newspapers in each country with planned clinical trials, including Ghana. All news articles were downloaded, selecting out those containing variants of the w ... more

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Comparative Media Systems: European and Global Perspectives

Boguslawa Dobek-Ostrowska, Michal Glowacki, Karol Jakubowicz, Miklós Sükösd (eds.)

Budapest; New York: Central European University Press (2010), xiv, 290 pp.

"Leading researchers from different regions of Europe and the United States address five major interrelated themes: 1) how ideological and normative constructs gave way to empirical systematic comparative work in media research; 2) the role of foreign media groups in post-communist regions and the e ... more

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Public Health Communication: Evidence for Behaviour Change

Robert C. Hornik (ed.)

Mahwah, New Jers.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (2002), xv, 435 pp.

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L'enseignement du journalisme en Amérique latine

J. Fernandez

Journalisme , issue 27 (1966), pp. 243-246

"Renseignements statistiques — Le CIESPAL et l'enseignement du journalisme — L'enseignement des sciences de l'information." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 809, topic code 163.21)

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Problems related to the Training of Journalists in Latin America

J. Fernandez

International Communication Gazette, volume 12, issue 1 (1966), pp. 45-51

"Same statistics — Teaching staff — Students — The CIESPAL and Journalistic Training — Problems related to the training of journalists — Recommendations." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 810, topic cod ... more

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