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Media Literacy in a Disruptive Media Environment

William G. Christie, Belinha S. De Abreu (eds.)

New York: Routledge (2020), 338 pp.

"This book, part of the BEA Electronic Media Research Series, brings together top scholars researching media literacy and lays out the current state of the field in areas such as propaganda, news, participatory culture, representation, education, social/environmental justice, and civic engagement. T ... more

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Professional Autonomy and Structural Influences: Exploring How Homicides, Perceived Insecurity, Aggressions Against Journalists, and Inequalities Affect Perceived Journalistic Autonomy in Colombia

Miguel Garces Prettel, Jesús Arroyave Cabrera, Adolfo Baltar Moreno

International Journal of Communication, volume 14 (2020), pp. 3054-3075

"Journalistic autonomy has been studied more frequently in countries with secure democracies in terms of journalists’ perceptions of freedom and independence to work in the midst of the controls, pressures, and influences perceived in the newsrooms. Based on objective variables and on a national s ... more

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Information Needs Assessment of the City of El Alto (Bolivia)

La Paz: Fundación UNIR;Internews (2020), 61 pp.

"There are close to 60 operating print news media, radio and television stations in El Alto, in addition to a half dozen digital information portals. There are approximately 200 journalists in El Alto, but most of them lack formal labor contracts and perform their work as independent producers or co ... more

Journalists' Safety and Multifaceted Censorship in Colombia

Yennué Zárate Valderrama

In: Handbook of Research on Combating Threats to Media Freedom and Journalist Safety

Sadia Jamil (ed.)

Hershey, PA: IGI Global (2020), pp. 298-318

"Safety of journalists has been studied as part of freedom of expression. This chapter seeks to address issues surrounding journalists' safety and censorship in Colombia by shedding light on a triple menace: the decrease in journalistic quality, citizens' right to information, and the influence on j ... more

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Impacto social de la formación de comunicadores sociales: Demandas y desafíos en el mundo laboral

Flora Fernández Ortega, Jessany Herrera Castro

Medellín: Editorial Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (2020), 95 pp.

Memorias: Conceptos, relatos y experiencias compartidas

Patricia Nieto (ed.)

Medellín: Fondo Editorial Facultad de Comunicaciones de la Universidad de Antioquia;Hacemos Memoria (2020), 400 pp.

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Why are journalists threatened and killed? A portrait of neo-paramilitary anti-press violence in Colombia's Bajo Cauca

Matthew Charles

Journalism, volume 23, issue 4 (2020), pp. 841-857

"Anti-press violence in Colombia's Bajo Cauca is an inherent part of the structures, which underpin the region's alternative social (dis)order. Through ethnographic interviews with four members of Colombia's neo-paramilitary group,Los Urabenos, who have perpetrated attacks against journalists, this ... more

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Pablo Escobar and Colombian Narcoculture

Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky

Gainesville: University of Florida Press (2020), x, 293 pp.

"In the years since his death in 1993, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar has become a globally recognized symbol of crime, wealth, power, and masculinity. In this long-overdue exploration of Escobars impact on popular culture, Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky shows how his legacy inspired the development of ... more

Secuencia e hitos de la polémica ley de las TIC en Colombia

Débora Margarita Pérez Serna, Diana Lombana

Bogotá: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2020), 9 pp.

"La ley TIC (tecnologías de la información y las comunicaciones) 1978, aprobada en julio de 2019 por el Congreso de la República de Colombia, es fruto de numerosas polémicas que desencadenaron movilizaciones, debates ciudadanos y cuestionamientos públicos. ¿Cuáles fueron sus ejes de discusió ... more

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Film ab! Kunst, Geschäft und Widerstand: Kino im globalen Süden

welt-sichten, issue 6 (2020), pp. 12-33

Ondas de inspiración. Los medios comunitarios en Ecuador: Una radiografía

Jorge Guachamín, Patricio Luna, Magnus Kossmann

Coordinadora de Medios Comunitarios Populares y Educativos del Ecuador (CORAPE);Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2020), 38 pp.

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Evaluación rápida del ecosistema de información en derechos de la comunidad venezolana migrante y retornada en Bogotá, Cúcuta y Maicao/Riohacha

Mauricio Beltrán, Miguel A. Morffe, Olimpia Palma

Internews (2020), 32 pp.

"Esta Evaluación del Ecosistema de Información (IEA) aborda, desde la demanda, el flujo de información para el acceso a servicios en protección de derechos de la comunidad migrante y retornada en Bogotá, el área metropolitana de Cúcuta y los municipios de Maicao y Riohacha en La Guajira. La i ... more

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"Communication for Change": Radio Sutatenza/Acción Cultural Popular, the Catholic Church, and Rural Development in Colombia during the Cold War

Mary Roldán

In: Itineraries of Expertise: Science, Technology, and the Environment in Latin America's long Cold War

Andra B. Chastain; Timothy W. Lorek (eds.)

Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press (2020), pp. 114-136

"In 1947 Father José Joaquín Salcedo laid the cornerstone of what would become, until its demise nearly a half century later, Latin America’s largest, Catholic, mass media-based education and community development network, the Radiophonic Schools of Radio Sutatenza and Acción Cultural Popular ( ... more

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The Routledge Companion to Local Media and Journalism
Top Insights

Agnes Gulyas, David Baines (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2020), xxiii, 497 pp.

"Offering a collection of invited contributions from scholars across the world, the volume is structured in seven parts, each exploring a particular aspect of local media and journalism that provide the framework to bring together and consolidate the latest research and theorisations from the field, ... more

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Digital Media, Young Adults, and Religion: An International Perspective

Marcus Moberg, Sofia Sjö (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2020), xi, 179 pp.

"Utilising results of an unprecedented global study, this volume explores the ways in which young adults in seven different countries engage with digital and social media in religiously significant ways. Presenting and analysing the findings of the international research project Young Adults and Rel ... more

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Evaluación de necesidades de información en la ciudad de El Alto (Bolivia)

Fundación UNIR;Internews (2020), 61 pp.

"En El Alto funcionan cerca de 60 medios impresos, de radio y televisivos, además de media docena de portales digitales informativos. Los periodistas suman alrededor de 200, aunque la mayoría de ellos carecen de una relación laboral formal y desarrollan su trabajo en condición de productores ind ... more

Les médias en Amérique Latine: Dire et construire l'actualité latino-américaine

Morgan Donot, Églantine Samouth, Yeny Serrano (eds.)

Paris: L'Harmattan (2020), 318 pp.

Dossier: Etnografía de los medios de comunicación indígenas y afroamericanos. Propuestas metodológicas

Revista Española de Antropología Americana, volume 50 (2020), pp. 211-306