"En América Latina las relaciones entre medios y Estado son bien complejas, ambiguas y contradictorias. Casi siempre es una relación entre medios de comunicación y gobiernos porque hay pocas políticas de Estado, pues cada gobierno acomoda leyes, poder y medios para asegurar su éxito. ¡La comun
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icación como gobierno! ¡La efervescencia del Estado Comunicador! Y del otro lado el gran poder de los medios de comunicación para incidir en la toma de decisiones; los medios de comunicación han optado políticamente hacia la derecha para defender al mercado; la crisis de la legitimidad del periodismo y el auge de los medios comunitarios y digitales en el internet. ¡La mediática del poder!" (Página web)
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"Jenseits von Kulturkritik und Rechtfertigungsrhetorik untersucht Joachim Michael die Telenovela als Ergebnis des medialen Umbruchs der lateinamerikanischen Kulturen. Er zeigt, dass die Telenovela mehr als nur ein Format ist – sie markiert eine spezifische Kultur, deren eigentümliche Faszination
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sich aus dem televisionären Blickregime des Genres speist. Zudem ist sie in der lateinamerikanischen Moderne und ihrem Begehren nach nationaler Emanzipation verwurzelt. Hierin finden sich die Voraussetzungen für die allabendliche ›Tele-ImagiNation‹ der Gattung." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"El Libro blanco sobre la Televisión Educativa y Cultural es la primera publicación de conjunto sobre este tipo de televisiones que operan en Iberoamérica. Este libro es un balance provisional y parcial del camino recorrido en las últimas décadas por las televisiones de Argentina, Brasil, Chile
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, Colombia, México, España, Perú, Portugal, Uruguay, Venezuela. Describe el origen, contexto y estado actual de las Televisiones educativas y culturales (TEC) en 10 países Iberoamericanos. El enfoque del libro es global y da cuenta del estado presente de unas televisiones con vocación de competir en calidad y excelencia para llegar al máximo posible de espectadores en plena transformación tecnológica. El estudio correspondiente a cada país presenta inicialmente una descripción del sistema general audiovisual dando cuenta de su organización, principales actores e impacto en públicos y audiencias, así como una visión general de las tendencias de programación y producción. Este libro es una referencia indispensable para operadores audiovisuales del área educativa y cultural, así como para estudiosos, docentes y destinatarios de estas televisiones en Iberoamérica." (Contratapa)
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"With contributions from an international team of well-known experts, media activists, and promising young scholars, this comprehensive volume examines community-based media from theoretical, empirical, and practical perspectives. More than 30 original essays provide an incisive and timely analysis
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of the relationships between media and society, technology and culture, and communication and community. Key Features: provides vivid examples of community and alternative media initiatives from around the world; explores a wide range of media institutions, forms, and practices—community radio, participatory video, street newspapers, Independent Media Centers, and community informatics; offers cutting-edge analysis of community and alternative media with original essays from new, emerging, and established voices in the field; takes a multidimensional approach to community media studies by highlighting the social, economic, cultural, and political significance of alternative, independent, and community-oriented media organizations; enters the ongoing debates regarding the theory and practice of community media in a comprehensive and engaging fashion." (Publisher description)
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"En 2009 hubo un total de 2 mil 405 notas informativas y reportajes. Divididos los contenidos en ejes de sucesos y de interés social, las notas y reportajes de sucesos suman 910 (37.83%) y las de interés social 1 mil 495 (62.16%), una cantidad y porcentaje ampliamente favorable a los ejes de inter
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és social, lo que constituye un resultado altamente satisfactorio y un cambio cualitativo que esperamos se mantenga en el futuro. Sigue preocupando la escasa cantidad de notas sobre el VIH/SIDA y de la poca conciencia sobre la problemática de este tema, en un momento en que el país y su población se encuentran gravemente amenazados por una epidemia generalizada, cuyas secuelas podrían significar una catástrofe o un proceso irreversible que representarían la perdida de valiosas vidas y tener que pagar un costo altísimo para evitar que este mal avance o se desarrolle. Los fenómenos del crimen organizado y narcoactividad continúan creciendo en Guatemala, lo que genera una preocupación por el nivel de desarrollo y penetración del grupo mexicano denominado los zetas que parecen consolidar su presencia en el país. La cantidad de reportajes que los medios difundieron sobre los departamentos continúa siendo importante en relación con las notas departamentales, son más de la mitad (54.55%) del total de la información." (Conclusiones, página 49)
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"Ein Bücherbus in Nicaragua" - Bericht über ein außergewöhnliches Solidaritätsprojekt in Nicaragua und eine außergewöhnliche Bibliothekarin in Deutschland." (Klappentext)
"This chapter reviews the situation of violence against the press in Mexico and what each of the different actors involved is doing, or not doing, to address a problem that in some Mexican states has reached alarming crisis levels. The essay examines the political willingness and steps taken by the
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federal and legislative branches of government to protect freedom of expression, through the exercise of journalism. It discusses measures taken by reporters, editors, media companies and civil society, to defend that right. Special attention is given to explain how the failure of federal and local authorities to effectively prosecute crimes against reporters has resulted in almost total impunity. Most crimes againts reporters remain unsolved, authorities rarely determine who perpetrated the crime and there are no prosecutions much less convictions. The report also examines the extent to which editors and journalists, working in states overwhelmed with violence, have engaged in widespread self-censorship out of fear for their lives. The report emphasizes freedom of expression and a free press as fundamental and universal rights protected by international law. These rights are also consider an effective way to measure the strength of a democracy." (Page 3)
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This report examines the murders of 22 journalists and three media support workers, along with the disappearances of seven journalists, during the Calderón presidency, which began in December 2006. The report identifies systemic law enforcement failures and offers potential solutions.
"Evaluation data gathered between 1975 and 2000 demonstrated that Interactive Radio Instruction (IRI) had improved learning outcomes in conventional classrooms by between 10% and 20% when compared with control classrooms not using IRI. These programs often had relatively well-funded evaluation compo
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nents, often taught a single subject, and focused almost entirely on improving quality. This study focuses on the use of IRI in more taxing circumstances and the outcomes it achieved as well as children learning in conventional school settings. It looks at the use of radio to teach children who are not in school, who are affected by conflict, who are orphans, who live in countries where most social systems have broken down or never existed – the poorest, least supported and most remote learners to whom access to education has traditionally been denied. It also looks at IRI operating in systems of huge scale, such as the 20+ million learners in India. The projects documented in this study were largely carried out since 2000 (although reference is made to earlier projects also) and addressed early childhood education, mathematics and language instruction and teacher training. They were not research projects, and their circumstances challenged data collection and student testing. Nevertheless, the data demonstrate that these IRI programs have had a positive impact on learning outcomes and on the behavior of teachers. Interactive Radio Instruction (IRI) delivers daily 30-minute radio broadcasts that promote active learning and are designed to improve educational quality and teaching practices in schools and to deliver a complete basic education to learners not in school. This paper uses student assessment data collected on recent EDC IRI projects to determine the impact of IRI on student achievement and to highlight general patterns that emerged from the review. In all, 15 projects provided 37 records (grade-year combinations e.g. grade 1 in 2007) containing student learning data which served as the basis of this report." (Executive summary)
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