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Veracruz: Journalists and the State of Fear

Artur Lara Romeu, Balbina Flores Martínez et al.

Paris: Reporters Without Borders (2017), 35 pp.

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How Unsafe Contexts and Overlapping Risks Influence Journalism Practice: Evidence from a survey of Mexican journalists

Sallie Hughes, Mireya Marquez-Ramirez

In: The Assault on Journalism. Building Knowledge to Protect Freedom of Expression

Ulla Carlsson; Reeta Pöyhtäri (eds.)

Göteborg: Nordicom (2017), pp. 303-318

"Journalists in many countries work in contexts of continuous risk, but few empirical studies identify how these conditions influence practice or measure the relative influence of different kinds of risk. This study asks a national sample of Mexican journalists to report use of several measures to a ... more

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Latin American Women Filmmakers: Production, Politics, Poetics

Deborah Martin, Deborah Shaw (eds.)

London et al.: Bloomsbury Academic (2017), xx, 268 pp.

"Latin American women filmmakers have achieved unprecedented international prominence in recent years. Notably political in their approach, figures such as Lucrecia Martel, Claudia Llosa and Bertha Navarro have created innovative and often challenging films, enjoying global acclaim from critics and ... more

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Transborder Media Spaces: Ayuujk Videomaking Between Mexico and the US

Ingrid Kummels

New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2017), xvii, 336 pp.

"Transborder Media Spaces offers a new perspective on how media forms like photography, video, radio, television, and the Internet have been appropriated by Mexican indigenous people in the light of transnational migration and ethnopolitical movements. In producing and consuming self-determined medi ... more

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Violence, co-optation and corruption: Risks for the exercise of journalism and freedom of expression in Mexico

Armando Rodríguez Luna

In: Beyond the Drug War in Mexico: Human Rights, the Public Sphere and Justice

W. G. Pansters; Benjamin T. Smith; Peter Watt (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2017), pp. 97-110

"Freedom of expression is a cornerstone of democratic society and essential for the formation of an informed public opinion. A society that is not well informed is never totally free. This chapter examines the interplay of external and internal risks on press freedom in five Mexican states. The conc ... more

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Dazwischenfunken: Aktivismus in Freien Radios

iz3w, issue 360 (2017), pp. D1-D26

"Weltweit ist das Radio das Medium, das die meisten Menschen erreicht. In Europa verliert der Hörfunk zwar an Zuhörerschaft, aber gerade in Ländern des Südens sind Radiostationen ein sehr wichtiges Mittel der Kommunikation. Eine südafrikanische Universität entwickelte jüngst ein Spracherkennu ... more

Violence against journalists in the Northern Triangle of Central America

José Luis Benítez

Media Asia, volume 44 (2017), pp. 61-65

"José Luis Benítez provides an overview of the safety situation in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador." (Abstract)

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Análisis de las narrativas periodísticas sobre las maras en El Salvador

Marlon Hernández-Anzora

San Salvador: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2017), 36 pp.

"Las pandillas no sólo son protagonistas del miedo en los territorios que controlan, sino también en los medios. La alta cantidad de portadas que ganan, así como la avalancha de notas que tratan sobre ellos o les mencionan, así lo demuestran. Al contrastar los datos arrojados por la muestra del ... more

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Comunicación y democracia en México: Los pasos dados

Jesús Becerra Villegas (ed.)

Zacatecas; México, DF: Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas;Colofón (2017), 212 pp.

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Journalists in Mexico

Mireya Márquez Ramírez, Sallie Hughes

Worlds of Journalism Study (2016), 7 pp.

"With regards to professional role orientations, the vast majority of journalists in Mexico found it extremely or very important to report things as they are, followed in second place by the role of promoting tolerance and cultural diversity, and the role of advocating for social change in third pla ... more

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Audience Responses to Peace Journalism: Merging Results from a Four-Country Research Study

Annabel McGoldrick, Jake Lynch

Journalism Studies, volume 17, issue 5 (2016), pp. 628-646

"This article shows how results were merged from a study conducted in four countries-Australia, the Philippines, South Africa and Mexico-in which differently versioned television news stories about conflict were played to audiences, and their responses gathered through a mix of methods, to yield bot ... more

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Comunicación gubernamental en acción: Narrativas presidenciales y mitos de gobierno

Mario Riorda, Omar Rincón (eds.)

Buenos Aires: Biblos (2016), 284 pp.

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The War Correspondent

Greg McLaughlin

London: Pluto Press, 2nd ed. (2016), x, 267 pp.

"This book has presented a critical, historically grounded analysis of the role of the war correspondent. It has highlighted the risks, the problems and the failures that have defined the role but it has also given credit where that is due and acknowledged the inspirational example of correspondents ... more

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Creative Economy Outlook and Country Profiles: Trends in International Trade in Creative Industries

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) (2016), vii, 161 pp.

"International trade in creative industries showed sustained growth in the last decade. The global market for traded creative goods and services totaled a record $547billion in 2012, as compared to $302 billion in 2003. Exports from developing countries, led by Asian countries, were growing faster t ... more

Inclusión digital: Una mirada crítica sobre la evaluación del modelo Uno a Uno en Latinoamérica

Sebastián Benítez Larghi, Rosalía Winocur Iparraguirre (eds.)

Buenos Aires: Teseo (2016), 194 pp.

"En los últimos años, la mayoría de los gobiernos latinoamericanos han realizado esfuerzos destinados a mejorar la inclusión digital en sus países, desarrollando diversas políticas aplicadas en el ámbito educativo. Estas políticas han sido y continúan siendo profusamente evaluadas a través ... more

Thirty Rising Media Markets 2016

Anne Austin, Jonathan Barnard, Nicola Hutcheon

London: ZenithOptimedia (2016), 51 pp.

"The markets we do include are a very diverse bunch, from the very closed and politically tightly controlled such as Laos; through a large number of nations on the African continent which have seen a sudden improvement in digital infrastructure thanks to the landing of several new submarine intercon ... more

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Who Owns the World's Media? Media Concentration and Ownership Around the World
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Eli M. Noam (ed.)

Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press (2016), xix, 1412 pp.

"Media concentration has been an issue around the world. To some observers the power of large corporations has never been higher. To others, the Internet has brought openness and diversity. What perspective is correct? The answer has significant implications for politics, business, culture, regulati ... more

Public Service Media Initiatives in the Global South

Anis Rahman, Gregory Ferrell Lowe (eds.)

Burnaby: Simon Fraser University Library (2016), xiii, 131 pp.

"While acknowledging the significant contributions of the public service broadcasting heritage in the Global North in efforts to establish such provision in the Global South, the contributors explain why simple imitation is unlikely to ever work well enough across such a diverse range of countries a ... more

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Ibero-American Observatory of Television Fiction Obitel 2016: (re)invention of TV Fiction Genres and Formats

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

Porto Alegre: Sulina;Globo Comunicação e Participações (2016), 540 pp.