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Media Capture in Africa and Latin America: Power and Resistance

Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara, Bethia Pearson (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2025), xliii, 388 pp.

"How can current debates on ‘media capture’ be understood within the contexts of Africa and Latin America? This edited collection provides a nuanced exploration of media capture—a critical yet contested concept that examines and illuminates how media can become skewed in favour of power—whil ... more

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Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2025
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Nic Newman, Richard Fletcher, Craig T. Robertson, Amy Ross Arguedas, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (eds.)

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2025), 170 pp.

"• Engagement with traditional media sources such as TV, print, and news websites continues to fall, while dependence on social media, video platforms, and online aggregators grows. This is particularly the case in the United States where polling overlapped with the first few weeks of the new Trum ... p administration. Social media news use was sharply up (+6pp) but there was no ‘Trump bump’ for traditional sources. • Personalities and influencers are, in some countries, playing a significant role in shaping public debates. One-fifth (22%) of our United States sample says they came across news or commentary from popular podcaster Joe Rogan in the week after the inauguration, including a disproportionate number of young men. In France, young news creator Hugo Travers (HugoDécrypte) reaches 22% of under-35s with content distributed mainly via YouTube and TikTok. Young influencers also play a significant role in many Asian countries, including Thailand. • News use across online platforms continues to fragment, with six online networks now reaching more than 10% weekly with news content, compared with just two a decade ago. Around a third of our global sample use Facebook (36%) and YouTube (30%) for news each week. Instagram (19%) and WhatsApp (19%) are used by around a fifth, while TikTok (16%) remains ahead of X at 12%. • Data show that usage of X for news is stable or increasing across many markets, with the biggest uplift in the United States (+8pp), Australia (+6pp), and Poland (+6pp). Since Elon Musk took over the network in 2022 many more right-leaning people, notably young men, have flocked to the network, while some progressive audiences have left or are using it less frequently. Rival networks like Threads, Bluesky, and Mastodon are making little impact globally, with reach of 2% or less for news. • Changing platform strategies mean that video continues to grow in importance as a source of news. Across all markets the proportion consuming social video has grown from 52% in 2020 to 65% in 2025 and any video from 67% to 75%. In the Philippines, Thailand, Kenya, and India more people now say they prefer to watch the news rather than read it, further encouraging the shift to personality-led news creators. • Our survey also shows the importance of news podcasting in reaching younger, better-educated audiences. The United States has among the highest proportion (15%) accessing one or more podcasts in the last week, with many of these now filmed and distributed via video platforms such as YouTube and TikTok. By contrast, many northern European podcast markets remain dominated by public broadcasters or big legacy media companies and have been slower to adopt video versions. • TikTok is the fastest growing social and video network, adding a further 4pp across markets for news and reaching 49% of our online sample in Thailand (+10pp) and 40% in Malaysia (+9pp). But at the same time people in those markets see the network as one of the biggest threats when it comes to false or misleading information, along with Facebook. • Overall, over half our sample (58%) say they remain concerned about their ability to tell what is true from what is false when it comes to news online, a similar proportion to last year. Concern is highest in Africa (73%) and the United States (73%), with lowest levels in Western Europe (46%). • When it comes to underlying sources of false or misleading information, online influencers and personalities are seen as the biggest threat worldwide (47%), along with national politicians (47%). Concern about influencers is highest in African countries such as Nigeria (58%) and Kenya (59%), while politicians are considered the biggest threat in the United States (57%), Spain (57%), and much of Eastern Europe." (Executive summary, page 10-11) more

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Media Compass: A Companion to International Media Landscapes
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Aljosha Karim Schapals, Christian Pentzold (eds.)

Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell (2025), xxiii, 502 pp.

"In Media Compass: A Companion to International Media Landscapes, an international team of prominent scholars examines both long-term media systems and fluctuating trends in media usage around the world. Integrating country-specific summaries and cross-cutting studies of geopolitical regions, this i ... more

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The Intimacy of Images: Saints, Death, and Devotion to La Santa Muerte in Oaxaca

Myriam Lamrani

Austin: University of Texas Press (2025), 224 pp.

"It's been said that Oaxacans "believe in images." Visual manifestations of saints and loved ones are a fundamental part of life there. Oaxacans also seem to have a special relationship with La Santa Muerte, a female reaper-like figure whose cult has grown rapidly as violence in Mexico has increased ... more

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Querida Panamá: Carta Pastoral sobre Ecología Integral

Conferencia Episcopal Panameña

Panamá: Panorama Católico (2024), 11 pp.

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Barriers to Press Freedoms in Central America: Literature Review Report

Manuel Alejandro Guerrero

USAID (2024), 40 pp.

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Informe sobre la situación de la libertad de expresión en Nicaragua. Contribución para el cuarto ciclo del examen periódico universal sobre Nicaragua

PEN Internacional;Periodistas y Comunicadores Independientes de Nicaragua (PCIN);Fundación por la Libertad de Expresión y Democracia (FLED);PEN Nicaragua en el Exilio;IFEX-ALC;Article 19;Comité para la Protección de los Periodistas (CPJ);Sociedad Interamericana de Prensa (SIP) (2024), 20 pp.

"Este es un informe presentado en conjunto por las organizaciones mencionadas arriba. El objetivo del informe es presentar información y visibilizar ante el Consejo de Derechos Humanos de la ONU en Ginebra, durante el Examen Periódico Universal (EPU) a Nicaragua en 2024, las continuas violaciones ... more

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Communications, media and internet concentration in Mexico, 2019-2021

Rodrigo Gómez, Argelia Muñoz-Larroa, Orlando Rizo Mendoza, Carlos Pérez Cerón

Global Media & Internet Concentration Project (GMIC) (2024), 55 pp.

"The analysis in this report relies on a detailed and comprehensive analysis across 22 distinct markets within three broad sets of industries: (a) Telecommunications and internet access, (b) Online and traditional media services, and (c) Core internet sectors. Through this structured approach, the r ... more

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Press Freedom Under Siege: Women Journalists in Mexico

Lucía Elisa Miguel Osorio, María José de Icaza

Potsdam: Friedrich Naumann Foundation;Article 19 (2024), 15 pp.

"The abuse and harassment against women journalists has become increasingly frequent and more coordinated in Mexico. As demonstrated throughout this study, it aims to threaten, silence, and stigmatize women journalists, with the potential to keep them out of public spaces. Despite the importance of ... more

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Refugees and the Media: Local and Global Perspectives

Nasir Uddin, Delaware Arif (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2024), xxv, 354 pp.

"Should the media stand by refugees or maintain deliberate ‘neutrality’? Should the media dehumanize the refugees further in their humanitarian conditions? Are the media entitled to publish photographs of refugees without informed consent? Should the media stand by the state being responsible fo ... more

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Afectaciones al derecho a la libertad de expresión por medidas estatales de censura en las Américas: Audiencia regional
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Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights;Media Defence;Associação Brasileira de Jornalismo Investigativo (Abraji);Article 19;Asocación de Periodistas de El Salvador (APES);Asociação de Jornalismo Digital (AJOR);Centro Prodh;Coalização em defesa do Jornalismo;Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ);CIMAC;El Veinte (2024), 68 pp.

"El presente informe detalla la información aportada durante la audiencia regional temática "Afectaciones al derecho a la libertad de expresión por medidas estatales de censura en las Américas" liderada por 25 organizaciones de la sociedad civil durante el 190° Período Ordinario de Sesiones de ... more

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The supply chain capitalism of AI: A call to (re)think algorithmic harms and resistance through environmental lens

Ana Valdivia

Information, Communication & Society (2024), 17 pp.

"Artificial Intelligence (AI) is woven into a supply chain of capital, commodities and human labour that has been neglected in critical debates. Given the current surge in generative AI – which is estimated to drive up the extraction of natural resources such as minerals, fossil fuels or water – ... more

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En la mira: Seguridad y principales amenazas digitales en América Latina

Valentín Díaz

Derechos Digitales (2024), 41 pp.

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Los caminos regulatorios para la IA en América Latina: Recopilación de estudios de caso en Brasil, México, Perú y Colombia

AlSur (2024), 24 pp.

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La fiesta de las paces

Catalina Uribe Rincón, Omar Rincón (eds.)

Bogotá: Universidad de los Andes (2024), 305 pp.

"Paz y reconciliación son temas cruciales de nuestra historia. En la coyuntura de análisis y debates, La fiesta de las paces reflexiona sobre la construcción de la paz desde una perspectiva interdisciplinaria y, lo que es más importante, desde voces no institucionales. Los autores demuestran que ... more

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The Global Faith and Entertainment Study: A Study of Attitudes and Perceptions Regarding Faith and Religion in Entertainment

HarrisX;Faith & Media Initiative (2024), 25 pp.

"The study seeks to understand consumers’ and decisionmakers’ perspectives on how current entertainment media treats themes of faith, religion and spirituality in its narratives and characters, if there is a market for more accurate and diverse representation of faith, and what opportunities exi ... more

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Mexico: Financing Journalism

Juan S. Larrosa-Fuentes, Rodrigo Gómez, Gabriel Sosa Plata, Argelia Muñoz Larroa

London: Media and Journalism Research Center (MJRC);Observacom (2024), 64 pp.

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Countering Xenophobic Frames and Contextualizing Coverage Through North-South Cooperation: Collaborative Investigative Journalism Across the U.S.-Mexico Border

Kirsi Cheas

International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 4490-4510

"This article focuses on collaborative investigative journalism across the U.S.-Mexico (Global North-South) border. The frame theoretical study examines how virtual and inperson cross-border collaboration counters xenophobic frames and contextualizes coverage of Central America and Mexico and forced ... more

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Reading Justice Claims on Social Media: Perspectives from the Global South

Phillip Santos, Cleophas T. Muneri (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2024), xxi, 326 pp.

"This book explores how unresolved questions of social justice shape the character of the political terrain and political actors, through the lens of social media. It treats communication as the medium through which social issues and processes are made visible. Given the rise and spread of populist ... more

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La historia oral en Argentina y Latinoamérica

Maylén Bolchinsky Pinsón, Facundo De Feudis Taboada, Francisco Santillán (comp.)

Mar del Plata: Facundo Felipe De Feudis Taboada;Teseopress (2024), 653 pp.

"Este libro reúne un conjunto de investigaciones que desde diferentes perspectivas, problemáticas y objetos de estudio hacen uso de la oralidad para la escritura de la historia. Es fruto del trabajo realizado en el XV Encuentro Nacional y IX Congreso Internacional de Historia Oral. Pasado, present ... more

Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2025 Top Insights

Media Compass: A Companion to International Media Landscapes Quick Overview

Afectaciones al derecho a la libertad de expresión por medidas estatales de censura en las Américas: Audiencia regional Top Insights

Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2025
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Media Compass: A Companion to International Media Landscapes
Quick Overview

Afectaciones al derecho a la libertad de expresión por medidas estatales de censura en las Américas: Audiencia regional
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