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Poverty & Impoverished People: Reporting & Media Representation
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Digital & Social Media Use, Internet Use
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Digital Divide, Digital Inequalities
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Cinema
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Community Radios
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Urban Areas
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Community Telecommunication Networks
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Crime & Violence Reporting
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Data
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Minorities & Disadvantaged Groups: Reporting & Media Representation
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Environmental Communication
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History of Radio
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Local Press
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Stereotypes in Media & Communication
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Urban Radios
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Media Use: Minorities & Disadvantaged Groups
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Television Use: Women
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Cinema in the Global South & Third Cinema
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Aesthetics in Media & Communication
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Discourse & Discourse Analysis
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Anthropology of Media & Communication
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Street Theatre
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Popular Cultures
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ICT / Internet Projects (Development Aid)
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Development Communication, Communication for Development (C4D)
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Data Governance, Data Justice, Data Sovereignty
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Digital Inclusion
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Internet
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Social Media in Political Communication
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Netflix
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Information Society
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Disaster Risk & Preparedness Communication, Disaster Prevention Communication
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Informal Sector, Informal Economy
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Soap Operas & Telenovelas
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Sustainable Development
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Impact Assessment & Outcome Evaluation
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HIV / AIDS Communication
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Colonial Legacies
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Indigenous Communication
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Africa: Foreign Media Representation & Image Abroad
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Journalism
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Communication Networks
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Information
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Press Landscapes
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Citizenship
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Election Campaigns: Social Media
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Magazines
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Youth Radio Programmes, Youth Radio Stations, School Radios
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Social Participation
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Research in Media & Communication
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Internet & ICTs in Rural Areas
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Social Conflicts, Social Problems
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Television
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Regional Television
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Television Channels
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Youth and Media
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Favela Media Activism: Counterpublics for Human Rights in Brazil
Lanham: Lexington Books (2017), 227 pp.
"Leonardo Custódio provides multifaceted analyses of how favela youth engage in individual and collective media activist initiatives despite social class constraints and neoliberal imperatives in their everyday life. This book details processes experienced by young favela residents while becoming i
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Slums on Screen: World Cinema and the Planet of Slums
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2016), ix, 283 pp.
"Combining approaches from the social sciences and the humanities, the book provides an interdisciplinary perspective while outlining a transnational history of films that either document or fictionalise the favelas, shantytowns, Elendsviertel, gecekondu, barrios populares or chawls of our diverse '
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Lexique de la ville durable: 80 mots pour comprendre la ville en devenir
Groupe de recherche et d’échanges technologiques (GRET) (2016), 42 pp.
Making News in Global India: Media, Publics, Politics
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2015), xiii, 278 pp.
"Through an ethnography of English and Kannada print news media in Bangalore, this ambitious and innovative new study reveals how the expanding private news culture played a critical role in shaping urban transformation in India, when the allegedly public profession of journalism became both an obje
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When the Marginalized Enter the National Spotlight: The Framing of Brazilian Favelas and Favelados
Global Media and Communication, volume 11, issue 1 (2015), pp. 61-80
"How are marginalized peoples and places framed in their dominant national media? Framing theory applied through a comparative narrative analysis of 313 news articles, 291 photos and 1051 telenovela scenes allowed Brazilian media representations of a marginalized people, favelados, and marginalized,
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Slum Discourse, Media Representations and Maisha Mtaani in Kibera, Kenya
African Journalism Studies, volume 35, issue 1 (2014), pp. 92-108
"This article examines the discourse surrounding Kibera, a highly populated low-income community in Nairobi, Kenya. Based on 11 months of fieldwork and interviews with 56 Kibera residents, this article discusses the disconnect between the lives experienced by residents and the hyperbolic and essenti
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Favela Digital: O Outro Lado da Tecnologia
Vitoria: GSA Grafica e Editora (2013), 128 pp.
"The idea for this book came up during the fieldwork I did in Vitória, Brazil for my doctoral dissertation. My research aims to understand the experience of marginalized people in community technology centers and how this experience informs the ways we think about what constitutes “empowerment”
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Bigger Cities, Smaller Screens: Urbanization, Mobile Phones, and Digital Media Trends in Africa
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2012), 36 pp.
"As Africa becomes increasingly urban, the reach and use of mobile telephones and other portable digital devices inevitably are becoming a mass medium. This shift creates new opportunities for existing broadcasters and publishers. And it creates new opportunities for a much larger number of new inde
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Localizing the Internet: An Anthropological Account
New York et al.: Berghahn (2011), xxv, 150 pp.
"Internet activism is playing a crucial role in the democratic reform happening across many parts of Southeast Asia. Focusing on Subang Jaya, a suburb of Kuala Lumpur, this study offers an in-depth examination of the workings of the Internet at the local level. In fact, Subang Jaya is regarded as Ma
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Body Parts on Planet Slum: Women and Telenovelas in Brazil
London: Anthem Press (2011), xxv, 156 pp.
"Based on a year's research from within a Brazilian slum, this study follows a series of unemployed women who watch up to six hours of telenovelas a day, often in the midst of arduous physical labour in the home. The women suffer in relation to their bodies, but simultaneously invest in a masochisti
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Information Literacy Competency and Readership Study of Five Specific Localities in the Urban, Industrial and Semi-Urban Areas of Kolkata Metropolitan City
New Dehli: UNESCO (2008), 62 pp.
"The objectives of this field survey are as follows: to attempt a critical study of the readership of people from different social strata of five specific localities of Kolkata Metropolitan City; to attempt a study of the influence and to measure the encroachment of different media on people’s rea
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Visual Communication: Urban Representations in Latin America = Comunicación visual: Representaciones urbanas en América Latina
Porto Alegre: editoraplus (2008), 401 pp.
Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria
Durham: Duke University Press (2008), xi, 314 pp.
"In this groundbreaking work, Brian Larkin provides a history and ethnography of media in Nigeria, asking what media theory looks like when Nigeria rather than a European nation or the United States is taken as the starting point. Concentrating on the Muslim city of Kano in the north of Nigeria, Lar
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Comunicación y ciudadanía: La creación del tejido social de Maracaibo
Mérida (VE): Universidad de Zulia Ediciones del Vice Rectorado Académico (2007), 218 pp.
Mídia e violência urbana no Brasil
Brasília; Rio de Janeiro: UNESCO; Viva Rio (2007), 92 pp.
Cidade digital: Infoinclusão social e tecnologia em rede
São Paulo: Senac (2006), 351 pp.
Kabul, Teheran 1979ff: Filmlandschaften, Städte unter Stress und Migration
Berlin: b_books (2006), 395 pp.
"1979: Im Iran wird der Schah gestürzt, die islamische Republik entsteht; parallel eskaliert mit dem sowjetischen Einmarsch der Bürgerkrieg in Afghanistan. Bilder über Afghanistan waren seither zumeist Bilder der Zerstörung. Diesen Außenansichten setzt ›Kabul/ Teheran 1979 ff‹ Perspektiven
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Communicating for Development: Experience from the Urban Environment
London: ITDG (2002), 278 pp.
"Much research on urban development is supply-led - generated by the interests of donors and researchers in the North rather than the needs of poor households in the growing cities of the South, Communicating for Development focuses attention on the most fundamental of questions about development: h
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Comunicación y culturas urbanas
Armenia: Fondo para la Reconstrucción y el Desarrollo Social de Eje Cafeterio (Forec) (2000), 62 pp.
Les caméras des favelas
Paris: Éditions de l'Atelier (1998), 156 pp.
