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La pobreza y el discurso de los mass media: Un estudio de la prensa local argentina
Ámbitos. Revista Internacional de Comunicación (Sevilla), issue 49 (2020), pp. 136-157
"La pobreza constituye un problema estructural en Argentina, realidad que se evidencia, más allá de las controversias en torno a su delimitación conceptual y su medición, desde diversos enfoques teórico metodológicos que abordan el fenómeno. Este trabajo busca aportar a la explicación de est
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Las representaciones de la pobreza y los pobres en la prensa argentina: Análisis de los editoriales de los diarios La Nación y Clarín
Barcelona: Doctoral Thesis Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) (2020), xv, 295 pp.
The ‘changing’ Face of Media Discourses on Poverty in the Age of Populism and Anti-Globalisation: The Political Appeal of Anti-Modernity and Certainty in Brazil
International Communication Gazette, volume 82, issue 1 (2020), pp. 101-116
"This article analyses how the political right in parts of the Global South has appropriate agendas and issues that in the past were often associated to the political left and presented them instead as their own. It does so by articulating narratives around poverty and social exclusion in the contex
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Framing Toolkit: #TalkingAboutPoverty
Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF); FrameWorks Institute (2019), 15 pp.
"At JRF, we want to inspire action and change to solve UK poverty, but we know there’s a lot of work to do if more people are to understand it and call more loudly for solutions. To help with this challenge, we’re changing the story we tell about poverty, using framing. This toolkit explains wha
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The Next Billion Users: Digital Life Beyond the West
Top Insights
Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press (2019), 269 pp.
"The Next Billion Users reveals that many assumptions about internet use in developing countries are wrong. After immersing herself in factory towns, slums, townships, and favelas, Payal Arora assesses real patterns of internet usage in India, China, South Africa, Brazil, and the Middle East. She fi
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La pobreza en la prensa: Palabras clave en los diarios de Argentina, Brasil, Colombia y México
Buenos Aires: Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO) (2019), 856 pp.
"[...] Uno de los principales fines del Proyecto PoLaMe consistía en la construcción de una taxonomía del léxico de la pobreza que funcionara como un insumo útil para la consulta de periodistas, especialistas en discurso y estudiosos del fenómeno de la pobreza en español y portugués. Ese es
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La construcción periodística de la pobreza infantil: Cobertura informativa de la prensa española y valoración de las ONG
Madrid: Doctoral Thesis Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2019), 373 pp.
Media Frames and Public Perceptions of Global Poverty in the UK: Is There a Link?
Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research, volume 44, issue 1 (2019), pp. 59-80
"This study investigates the relationship between media frames and public perceptions of global poverty. Building on a frame analysis, the paper reconstructs prevailing poverty narratives in British news articles and non-governmental organizations’ (NGO’s) advertisements between 2011 and 2013. F
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Poor News: Media Discourses of Poverty in Times of Austerity
London; New York: Rowman & Littlefield (2018), viii, 225 pp.
"Poor News examines the way discourses of poverty are articulated in the news media by incorporating specific narratives and definers that bring about certain ideological worldviews. This happens, the authors claim, because journalists and news editors make use of a set of information strategies whi
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The Precarious in the Cinemas of the Americas
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xxii, 308 pp.
"Historically, cinema in the Americas has been signed by a state of precariousness. Notwithstanding the growing accessibility to video and digital technologies, access to the material means of film production is still limited, affecting the spheres of production, distribution, and reception. Equally
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The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality: Understanding Social and Cultural Complexity
London: UCL Press (2018), 2 vols.
"The informal practices revealed in this book include emotion-driven exchanges (from gifts or favours to tribute for services), values-based practices of solidarity and belonging enacting multiple identities, interest-driven know-how (from informal welfare to informal employment and entrepreneurship
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A Baseline Study on the Media Coverage of Inequality Issues in Ghana
Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) (2018), 29 pp.
"The study found that the media gives only 12% coverage to inequality issues in Ghana. Thus, across the 22 media outlets, 783 stories focused on inequalities out of a total of 6,477 stories monitored. It was also observed the media’s attention is largely focused on social inequalities overlooking
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Tangible Information and Citizen Empowerment: Identification Cards and Food Subsidy Programs in Indonesia
Journal of Political Economy, volume 126, issue 2 (2018), pp. 451-491
"Redistribution programs in developing countries often “leak” because local officials do not implement programs as the central government intends. We study one approach to reducing leakage. In an experiment in over 550 villages, we test whether mailing cards with program information to targeted
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Praxisleitfaden kommunale Armuts- und Sozialberichterstattung
Stuttgart: Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württembeg (2018), 47 pp.
"Dieser Praxisleitfaden versteht sich als Angebot an Kommunen, die einen Armuts- oder Sozialbericht erstellen bzw. ihre Berichterstattung fortschreiben möchten. Im ersten Kapitel dieses Leitfadens werden wichtige Grundlagen kommunaler Armuts- und Sozialberichterstattung benannt. Das zweite Kapitel
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Revealing Poverty: Speech and Representation of the Poor in the Brazilian Media
Bergen: CROP (2018), 3 pp.
"This brief approaches the study of poverty and inequality in Latin America from a cultural perspective. It is based on an analysis of newspaper articles in Brazil, which shows how both poverty and inequality are “naturalised” within the hegemonic media." (Page 1)
A Village Goes Mobile: Telephony, Mediation, and Social Change in Rural India
Top Insights
New York: Oxford University Press (2018), ix, 200 pp.
"In A Village Goes Mobile, Sirpa Tenhunen examines how the mobile telephone has contributed to social change in rural India. Tenhunen's long-term ethnographic fieldwork in West Bengal began before the village had a phone system in place and continued through the introduction and proliferation of the
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Late Capitalism, Urbanisation, and Cultures of Economic “survivalism” in the BBC’s 'Welcome to Lagos'
Africa Spectrum, volume 52, issue 1 (2017), pp. 101-113
"This article examines the depiction of three impoverished Lagosian slums in the controversial British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) documentary, Welcome to Lagos, which highlights the negative impacts of globalised capitalism on urban culture in Nigeria’s commercial centre and biggest city. In r
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Coverage of Poverty by a Nonprofit News Outlet: A Comparative Study
[authors] (2017), 17 pp.
"This qualitative content analysis has examined coverage of poverty-related issues by Oklahoma Watch, a nonprofit news organization with a mission of covering public problems, particularly those of disadvantaged people. The first set of coverage constituted the body of stories written on poverty fro
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Connected for Development? Theory and Evidence About the Impact of Internet Technologies on Poverty Alleviation
Top Insights
Development Policy Review, issue 3 (2017), pp. 315-336
"Based on the assumption that increased access to internet services boosts economic growth and improves the well-being of the poor, governments in both developed and emerging regions are heavily investing in internet connectivity projects. This article reviews the existing evidence as to the impact
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The People in the Pictures: Vital Perspectives on Save the Children’s Image Making. A Research Project to Understand How Contributors and Their Communities Experience and Perceive Save the Children’s Communications and its Image-Making Process
Top Insights
Save the Children (2017), xi, 81 pp.
"Debates about the visual representations of global poverty have been going on for many years, yet the experiences and views of those featured have been notably absent. 'The People in the Pictures' addresses that gap. Save the Children commissioned research in the UK, Jordan, Bangladesh and Niger, t
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