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Engaging with Narratives for Peace

Julia Roig

Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2019), 13 pp.

"How do peacebuilding organisations communicate about peace online and offline? Narrative competency must be a fundamental aspect of our work as peacebuilders in the modern age, as we confront the challenges posed by social media, divided on-line communities, growing political polarisation globally ... more

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Be the Narrative: How Changing the Narrative Could Revolutionize What it Means to Do Human Rights

Krizna Gomez, Thomas Coombes

Bogotá: JustLabs (2019), 48 pp.

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Historias, terrenos y aulas: La narrativa sonora en español desde dentro

Charlotte de Beauvoir (comp.)

Bogotá: Ediciones Uniandes Universidad de los Andes (2018), 227 pp.

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Sé la narrativa: Cómo el cambio de narrativa puede hacer una revolución en el trabajo de derechos humanos

Krizna Gomez, Thomas Coombes

Bogotá: JustLabs (2018), 50 pp.

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The Islamic State's Global Propaganda Strategy

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Nathaniel Barr, Bridget Moreng

The Hague: International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT) (2016), 83 pp.

"This Research Paper aims to analyse in depth the global propaganda strategy of the so-called “Islamic State” (IS) by looking at the methods through which this grand strategy is carried out as well as the objectives that IS wants to achieve through it. The authors first discuss IS’ growth mode ... more

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Identification with Characters, Elaboration, and Counterarguing in Entertainment-Education Interventions Through Audiovisual Fiction

Juan-Jose Igartua, Jair Vega Casanova

Journal of Health Communication, volume 21, issue 3 (2016), pp. 293-300

"The aim of this article is to further knowledge of the explanatory processes of narrative persuasion in the field of health communication, using data obtained in a research study of entertainment-education based on audiovisual fiction. Participating in the study were 208 young persons between the a ... more

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Beyond peace journalism: Reclassifying conflict narratives in the Israeli news media

Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt, Thomas Hanitzsch, Rotem Nagar

Journal of Peace Research, volume 53, issue 2 (2016), pp. 151-165

"This article presents a general framework for deconstructing and classifying conflict news narratives. This framework, based on a nuanced and contextual approach to analyzing media representations of conflict actors and events, addresses some of the weaknesses of existing classification schemes, fo ... more

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Narrating Conflict in the Middle East: Discourse, Image and Communication Practices in Lebanon and Palestine

Dina Matar, Zahera Harb (eds.)

London; New York: Tauris (2013), x, 276 pp.

"The starting point of this innovative book is that it is unsatisfactory either to consider conflict within a singular concept or alternatively to consider each conflict as entirely distinct and unique; Narrating Conflict in the Middle East explores another path to addressing long-term conflict. The ... more

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Acerca del cine como medio expresivo

Sergio Navarro Mayorga

Valparaíso: Editorial Universidad de Valparaíso (2011), 252 pp.

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The Clash of Narratives: Swat Military Operation Against the Taliban

Ayesha Salman (ed.)

Islamabad: Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) (2011), 29 pp.

"The anti-Taliban discourse during the Swat military operation, as mediated by the Pakistani state in its propaganda campaign, was aimed at maligning the Taliban militants in order to build support and legitimacy for the military offensive. The dominant trends in the analysis of state’s propaganda ... more

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Telling Stories: Language, Narrative, and Social Life

Anna De Fina, Anastasia Nylund, Deborah Schiffrin (eds.)

Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press (2010), vi, 219 pp.

"This collection of seventeen contributions provides a small but significant window into some of the themes that, in our view, will define research on narrative in the coming years. Some of these themes have already started taking center stage— for example, the diversification of methodological to ... more

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Telenovelas und kulturelle Zäsur: Intermediale Gattungspassagen in Lateinamerika
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Joachim Michael

Bielefeld: transcript (2010), 400 pp.

"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 ... more

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Media Studies. Volume 3: Media Content and Media Audiences

Pieter J. Fourie (ed.)

Cape Town: Juta (2009), xxvi, 646 pp.

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Telenovela: Um olhar do cinema

José Roberto Sadek

São Paulo: Summus Editorial (2008), 151 pp.

"Neste livro, José Roberto Sadek mostra que as telenovelas são uma maneira moderna de contar histórias. O autor baseia-se em estudos consagrados sobre as narrativas do cinema clássico e os aplica às telenovelas, mostrando ângulos pouco conhecidos. Na primeira parte do livro, traça um breve hi ... more

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Periódicos: Sistemas complejos, narradores en interacción

Mar de Fontcuberta, Héctor Borrat

Buenos Aires: La Crujía (2006), 351 pp.

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Narrativas mediáticas: O cómo se cuenta la sociedad del entretenimiento

Omar Rincón

Barcelona: Gedisa (2006), 224 pp.

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Narrativas televisivas: Programas populares na TV

Vera França (ed.)

Belo Horizonte: Autêntica (2006), 150 pp.

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The Theatre of Violence: Narratives of Protagonists in the South African Conflict

Don Foster, Paul Haupt, Marésa De Beer

Capetwon; Oxford: Institute of Justice and Reconciliation; HSRC Press; James Currey (2005), xii, 364 pp.

"If the dominant media stereotype portrays perpetrators as monsters, as ‘Prime Evil’, then the dominant academic image is the opposite. It paints them as ordinary people (gender ignored, but assumed as male) diligently under sway of modern bureaucratic compartmentalisation (the banality of evil ... thesis), or as obedient to authority and conforming to social pressures (the situationist thesis). No monsters here, just ordinary people under rather extraordinary circumstances. The moral message: we co uld all potentially become perpetrators, depending on the situation. There is a competing view: the perpetrator as a willing, even eager, executioner driven by strong negative emotions against the ‘other’. The scholarly world presents us with antagonistic perspectives. What picture do we get from narrative approaches, from stories told by those actually responsible for politically-related violence? First, there are only a few narrative studies. Second, they also paint competing pictures. On the one hand, is a picture of the perpetrator as a victim – of organisational routines, hierarchies, pressures and secrecy, and of dominant ideologies, as well as brutal initiation rites which instil the practice of obedience to authority. These narrative studies support the situationist and ordinary person line of explanation. They also correct the erstwhile neglect of gender issues by placing emphasis on masculinity as an important ingredient. On the other hand, the South African storytelling studies by Marks (2001), Straker (1992) and Campbell (1992) throw up a different picture. While victims in one sense – of Bantu education, poverty and violence at the hands of both state security agents and older vigilante groups – they are also action-oriented moral crusaders in defence of their communities and in politically-minded offensive against the apartheid state and its allies. Once again, we have contrasting and competing pictures of those responsible for political violence. In these particular storytelling perspectives, differences are partly due to the different positions of protagonists across the dividing line of power: state security personnel on the one hand and resistance activists on the other. Apart from the conflicting images from varying epistemological perspectives and different theoretical angles, the very label or category of a ‘perpetrator’ is more muddied, contested and problematic than a first glance would suggest. We described seven grey areas which challenge or disrupt the dominant binaries of victim-perpetrator and the triangular view of dramatis personae: perpetrator – ‘victim’ – bystander/observer. Moreover, in Chapter 4, we raise a number of moral quandaries or dilemmas in the study of those responsible for violence, which again dislodge the simple and tidy categories. Therefore a central component of the present study aims to problematise and disrupt the complacency of the very label and category of ‘perpetrator’. What should be done? In the face of these competing images and explanations we carve out a ‘third space’ beyond, or perhaps better, between the theoretical antagonisms of situationism versus agency (willing killers); among the grey areas between category labels of victim/perpetrator/bystander. Rather than this being seen as an alternative position, it should be read as an attempt at synthesis. Instead of the oppositional pairing of ‘either-or’, it should be seen in terms of the inclusive pairing ‘both-and’ (Foster, 1999).We argue that those responsible for violence should be regarded as potentially both victim and perpetrator, as well as both subject to circumstances/influences and active initiators." (Conclusion, page 321-322) more

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Handbook of Visual Communication: Theory, Methods, and Media

Sheree Josephson, James D. Kelly, Ken Smith (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2005), xxiii, 493 pp.

"The second edition of this already-classic text has been completely revised to reflect the metamorphosis of communication in the last 15 years and the ubiquity of visual communication in our modern mediated lifestyle. 13 major theories of communication are defined by the top experts in their fields ... more

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African Video Film Today

Foluke Ogunleye (ed.)

Manzini (SZ): Academic Publisher (2003), xiii, 162 pp.

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