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Trauma and Public Memory

Jane Goodall, Christopher Lee (eds.)

Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2015), xii, 231 pp.

"This collection of essays and interviews offers perspectives on traumatic experience from the social and public side of the equation. Like other books in the Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies Series, it is concerned with redressing the balance of public memory through a focus on what has been negle ... more

Freedom on the Net 2014. Tightening the Net: Governments Expand Online Controls

Sanja Kelly, Madeline Earp, Laura Reed, Adrian Shahbaz, Mai Truong (eds.)

Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2014), 986 pp.

"Internet freedom around the world has declined for the fourth consecutive year, with a growing number of countries introducing online censorship and monitoring practices that are simultaneously more aggressive and more sophisticated in their targeting of individual users. In a departure from the pa ... more

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Global Communication: New Agendas in Communication

Karin Gwinn Wilkins, Joseph D. Straubhaar, Shanti Kumar (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2014), ix, 206 pp.

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¡Muestra! Kino aus Spanien und Lateinamerika in Deutschland

Verena Schmöller, Birgit Aka (eds.)

Marburg: Schüren (2014), 219 pp.

"Die Beiträge dieses Buches zeigen am Beispiel des ¡muestra! IberoAmerikanischen Filmfests in Passau, welche filmischen Schätze der Kulturraum zu bieten hat und wie diese im deutschsprachigen Raum rezipiert werden. Gleichzeitig dokumentieren sie die zwar junge, aber sehr erfolgreiche Festivalgesc ... more

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Blogging Politics in Cuba: The Framing of Political Discourse in the Cuban Blogosphere

Stefania Vicari

Media, Culture & Society, volume 36, issue 7 (2014), pp. 998-1015

"By investigating the content of 62 blogs from four different ideological streams, this study specifically focuses on the Cuban blogosphere to address the question of how political consciousness and potential for collective action may emerge in blogging practice. Findings show that (1) critical eval ... more

El cine comunitario en América Latina y el Caribe
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Alfonso Gumucio Dagron (coord.)

Bogotá: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), Centro de Competencia en Comunicación para América Latina (2014), 534 pp.

Informe anual de la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos 2013, vol. II: Informe de la relatoría especial para la libertad de expresión

Catalina Botero Marino

Washington, DC: Organización de los Estados Americanos (OEA) (2014), vii, 634 pp.

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Watching TV in Havanna: Revisiting the Local/global Television Past Through the Lens of the Television Present

Yeidy M. Rivero

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Karin Gwinn Wilkins; Joseph D. Straubhaar; Shanti Kumar (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2014), pp. 50-65

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Lautsprecher und Widersprecher: Ein Ansatz zum Vergleich der Mediensysteme
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Roger Blum

Köln: Herbert von Halem Verlag (2014), 440 pp.

"Der Autor porträtiert 23 Länder aus sechs Weltregionen. Anschließend bildet er mittels des pragmatischen Differenz-Ansatzes sechs Modelle heraus: Das liberale Modell, das Public-Service-Modell, das Klientel-Modell, das Schock-Modell, das Patrioten-Modell und das Kommando-Modell. Dabei zeigt sich ... more

Zapping TV: El paisaje de la tele latina
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Omar Rincón (ed.)

Bogotá: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), Centro de Competencia en Comunicación para América Latina (2013), 331 pp.

Christen in großer Bedrängnis: Diskriminierung und Unterdrückung. Dokumentation 2013

Berthold Pelster (Red.)

München: Kirche in Not (2013), 184 pp.

Freedom on the Net 2013: A Global Assessment of Internet and Digital Media

Sanja Kelly, Mai Truong, Madeline Earp, Laura W. Reed, Adrian Shahbaz, Ashley Greco-Stoner (eds.)

Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2013), 881 pp.

"Freedom House has conducted a comprehensive study of internet freedom in 60 countries around the world. This report is the fourth in a series and focuses on developments that occurred between May 2012 and April 2013. The previous edition, covering 47 countries, was published in September 2012. 'Fre ... more

With Open Voices: Collection of News Stories Written by Independent Journalists in Cuba;Con Voz Abierta: Colección de noticias escritas por periodistas independientes en Cuba

London; Washingtion, DC: Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR) (2013), 279 pp.

"This book is a collection of articles by a group of Cuban journalists who completed a course on the international standards of journalism. Each text opens a window onto the changes and contradictions in which Cuban society is immersed. A reporter’s keen eye reveals the subtleties which lie within ... more

Media Propaganda: A Framing Analysis of Radio Broadcasts from the U.S. to Cuba

Melissa Joy Gonzalez

University of South Florida, Master Thesis (2013), ii, 108 pp.

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The Education of the Filmmaker in Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas

Mette Hjort (ed.)

New York et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2013), xiv, 302 pp.

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Political Communication in the Cuban Blogosphere: A Case Study of Generation Y

Rainer Rubira, Gisela Gil-Egui

Global Media and Communication, volume 9, issue 2 (2013), pp. 153-178

"Blogs have become a communicative alternative for Cuban civil society in recent years. Cuban communities, inside and outside the island, are characterized by substantial ideological differences and economic gaps that highlight the challenges for consensus building and collective action in the count ... more

Internet Enemies Report 2012

Paris: Reporters Without Borders (2012), 72 pp.