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Latin America's Contested Pasts in Telenovelas and TV Series: History as Fuel for Entertainment
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Berlin: De Gruyter (2025), xxii, 381 pp.
"In Latin America, the production of telenovelas and TV series about the region's recent and traumatic past has grown considerably in the last 20 years, affecting societal perceptions of the past, historical consciousness, and political culture. While these TV products are usually perceived as trivi
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Commodifying Violence in Literature and on Screen: The Colombian Condition
New York; London: Routledge (2022), xii, 188 pp.
"This book traverses the cultural landscape of Colombia through in-depth analyses of displacement, local and global cultures, human rights abuses, and literary and media production. Through an exploration of the cultural processes that perpetuate the "darker side" of Latin America for global consump
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The Neoliberal Houdini Who Escaped from (poverty And) Prison: Chapo’s Narcocorridos, Political Communication and Propaganda
Media, War & Conflict, volume 15, issue 1 (2022), pp. 99-117
"Chapo Guzmán was the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel. Although he was a well-known criminal, there is a scarcity of first-hand information about his career. This situation raises a question: how did Guzmán become a public figure without having public exposure? This communicative phenomenon is possib
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Los desafíos a las televisiones en América Latina: Cultura política, comunicación pública e innovación
Bogotá: Universidad de los Andes; Universidad Nacional de Colombia (2021), x, 390 pp.
"Pensar la relevancia de la televisión hoy significa abordar los desafíos democráticos que ella enfrenta respecto a las coyunturas políticas, el contexto de convergencia mediática, el papel de los medios públicos y los procesos de innovación y ruptura en la ficción y en los géneros informat
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Cultura, comunicación y crimen organizado en México
Berlin: Verlag Walter Frey Edition Tranvía (2020), 399 pp.
"Desde el inicio de la “Guerra del Narco” en diciembre del año 2006 hasta nuestros días México está sufriendo el embate de la violencia y de la inseguridad con altos niveles de homicidios, muertes de periodistas y civiles en una lucha de diferentes actores violentos entre sí y el Estado. Lo
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Pablo Escobar and Colombian Narcoculture
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
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Prime-Time Narcos: The Mafia and Gender in Colombian Television
Feminist Media Studies, volume 19, issue 3 (2019), pp. 348-363
"Through a content analysis of 532 programs screened on various national television networks in Colombia, this paper examines portrayals of women in the country’s narconovelas, fictional series derived from the telenovela genre that resonate forcefully with the public. We do so in order to gain a
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#meinung #macht #digital #plattformkapitalismus
ila, issue 426 (2019), pp. 4-40
"WhatsApp und Facebook werden auch in Lateinamerika massiv genutzt, vor allem aufgrund ihres vermeintlich kostenlosen Charakters. Auch dort wird das Problem der rechten Meinungsmache und der Fake News diskutiert, denn die Tatsache, dass sich die Leute heute vor allem über Werbeplattformen informier
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Online Activism in Latin America
New York; London: Routledge (2019), ix, 317 pp.
¿Por qué amamos a Pablo Escobar? Cómo Netflix revivió al narcotraficante más famoso del mundo
Barcelona: Editorial UOC (2018), 249 pp.
"Los ensayos del libro analizan el éxito de la serie Narcos desde una perspectiva crítica. Explican la popularización de la misma, su estrategia de publicidad retorcida o su poco éxito en Colombia. Y también su juego entre el realismo mágico y los «retazos» de la realidad colombiana. El libr
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Report on the Feature Documentary Film 'The Opium War': Focusing on the Director's Point of View
Seoul: Master Thesis Multimedia and Film Gradutate School of Advanced Imaging Science Chung-Ang University (2018), xi, 82 pp.
"The main purpose of this report is to analyze the documentary feature film called 'The Opium War' based on the civilians' antidrug movement in the author's home place, Myanmar's Kachin state. The film mainly focuses on the antidrug movement 'Pat Jasan' organized by Myanmar civilians and which liter
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Telenovelas en el mundo latino
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Lima: Universidad del Pacífico (2018), 215 pp.
"El presente libro ofrece una visión general de fácil comprensión sobre la historia de la telenovela en América Latina. Las telenovelas, una variedad aparte de series televisivas que se originan en América Latina, involucran temas clave de raza, clase, identidad sexual y violencia, entretejiend
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Mindful Communication for Sustainable Development: Perspectives from Asia
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New Delhi et al.: Sage (2018), xiv, 353 pp.
"The model of journalism we practice in Asia is an adversarial one driven by conflict reporting, a model we have borrowed from the West. This book is an outcome of a project implemented by the Faculty of Communication Arts of Chulalongkorn University and funded by the International Program for the D
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Telenovelas
Hispanorama, issue 157 (2017), pp. 8-47
"Die Bedeutung von Telenovelas für die „Populärkultur" ist schon seit geraumer Zeit in den Fokus der insbesondere lateinamerikanistischen Forschung gerückt, maßgeblich zunächst von dem spanisch-kolumbianischen Medien- und Kulturwissenschaftler Jesus Martin-Barbero in den 1980er Jahren. Sein A
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Suenan Ondas de Paz! Ondas ciudadanas que transforman
Bogotá: Cantoyaco Red de Emisoras Comunitarias del Putumayo; Grupo Comunicarte (2016), 56 pp.
Medios a la vista 3: Análisis sobre el derecho a la información y la comunicación y el periodismo en Bolivia 2012-2013
La Paz: Fundación UNIR; Observatorio Nacional de Medios (ONADEM) (2014), 258 pp.
"Los diecinueve textos que conforman el libro se articulan en torno a siete temáticas: 1) Percepciones sobre el DIC y los medios, 2) Ética, 3) Estructuras de contenido, 4) Coberturas noticiosas, 5) Agresiones a periodistas, 6) Acceso a la Información Pública, y 7) Estado, medios y normativa. Su
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La comunicación en mutación: Remix de discursos
Bogotá: Centro de Competencia en Comunicación para América Latina Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2013), 198 pp.
Cobertura informativa de la violencia en México
Global Media Journal - México, volume 8, issue 15 (2011), 16 pp.
"El análisis del impacto de la violencia en los medios de comunicación no es nuevo. Quizás lo sea la naturaleza de los actos violentos, y la forma en la que tenemos acceso a ellos actualmente. Algunos elementos del contexto en los que se produce la violencia han cambiado, lo mismo que la concepci
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Paraguay: Journalists Alone Facing Trafficking
Paris: Reporters Without Borders (2011), 11 pp.
The Primetime War on Drugs & Terror: An Analysis of Depictions of the War on Terror and the War on Drugs in Popular Primetime Television Programs
Norman Lear Center; Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism (2011), 33 pp.