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Roderick Graham, Stephan G. Humer, Claire Seungeun Lee, Veronika Nagy (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2025), xxvii, 765 pp.

"Covering a wide range of different online platforms, including social media sites and chatrooms, this volume is a comprehensive exploration of the current state of sociological and criminological scholarship focused on online deviance. Understanding deviance broadly, the handbook acknowledges both ... more

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Mujeres de la comunicación Chile

Ana María Castillo, Paula Flores-Aguilar, Isabel Pavez (eds.)

Bogotá: Programa de medios y comunicación para América Latina y el Caribe Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2024), 353 pp.

"[Las editoras de este libro lo describen como] un tejido que hila la reflexión colectiva sobre lo que a ellas les hubiese gustado encontrar en su camino como mujeres estudiantes, docentes e investigadoras de la Comunicación. Se trata de un tejido que, a cuatro hilos, teje las historias de 23 muje ... more

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Religião, democracia e a extrema direita

Ana Paula Miranda, Camila Rocha, Esther Solano et al.

Rio de Janeiro: Heinrich Böll Stiftung (2023), 79 pp.

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Religion auf Instagram: Analysen und Perspektiven

Viera Pirker, Paula Paschke (eds.)

Freiburg et al.: Herder (2023), 390 pp.

"Neben großen Themen wie Beauty, Kochen und Katzen haben sich wachsende Nischen für religiöse Kommunikation im digitalen Raum etabliert. Instagram, das heißt heute auch: gelebte Religion, Bibel, Spiritualität, Kirchenpolitik, Seelsorge und Bildung. Der Band gibt Einblick in die Entwicklung von ... more

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La alfabetización mediática y digital en el curriculum: Propuestas didácticas transformadoras

Rosa García-Ruiz (ed.)

Madrid: Dykinson (2023), 185 pp.

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Mujeres de la comunicación Argentina

Alejandra García Vargas, Nancy Díaz Larrañaga, Larisa Kejval (eds.)

Buenos Aires: Programa de medios y comunicación para América Latina y el Caribe Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2022), 378 pp.

"Sin necesidad de seguir secuencia alguna, los capítulos son una puerta de entrada para conocer la particular trayectoria y los específicos aportes de cada una de las autoras antologizadas. Pero, además de invitar a la singular riqueza de cada recorrido, el libro que aquí presentamos también pu ... more

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Comunicação e ciência: Reflexões sobre a desinformação

Nair Prata, Sônia Jaconi, Rodrigo Gabrioti, Genio Nascimento, Hendryo André, Silvio Simão de Matos (eds.)

São Paulo: Intercom – Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Comunicação (2022), 476 pp.

"Como indica o título do livro há em seus 21 textos diversos cenários que se apresentam em torno daquilo que conceitualmente é definido como “desinformação”, ou seja, reflexões sobre o nosso tempo concomitante de vida em que se dá crédito a teorias absurdas, se reescreve o passado a par ... more

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COVID-19 from the Margins: Pandemic Invisibilities, Policies and Resistance in the Datafied Society

Stefania Milan, Emiliano Treré, Silvia Masiero (eds.)

Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2021), 279 pp.

"In the first pandemic of the datafied society, the disempowered were denied a voice in the heavily quantified mainstream narrative. Featuring stories of invisibility, injustice, hope and resistance, this book gives voice to communities at the margins in the Global South and beyond. The multilingual ... more

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Handbook of Communication for Development and Social Change
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Jan Servaes (ed.)

Singapore: Springer (2020), 2 vols.

"The book contains 85 chapters written by persons who have been on those frontlines of communication and development [...] A variety of case studies appear in the book. For example, Kriss Barker and Fatou Jah – in a chapter titled “Entertainment-Education in Radio: Three Case Studies from Africa ... ” – explore in detail projects in Nigeria, Burundi and Burkina Faso that used a communication intervention approach advanced by the Population Media Center. Other chapters in the Handbook take the reader to Spain, Kenya, South Africa, Kazakhstan, and beyond. Song Shi examines “ICTs and Modernization in China,” revealing that assumptions and theories of the modernization paradigm have significantly influenced the policies and projects on ICT4D in contemporary China. And, Song Shi writes, discussion on the potential of other approaches in ICT4D in China has also emerged among scholars. Hina Ayaz discusses the “Multiplicity Approach in Participatory Communication” in Pakistan – wherein the country adopted the Global Polio Eradication Initiative – only to run into negative perceptions and banning of polio vaccinations. However, a shift to a more successful approach, grounded in UNICEF’s social mobilization and communityinvolvement communication strategy, brought significant success. While many of the Handbook case studies incorporate participation as a significant development factor, they also address a wide range of social and political issues including, for example, civic engagement, sexual harassment, empowerment, and community voices. In addition to an abundance of case studies from around the world, the Handbook delves into various research methods that are being used to understand and design communication for development and social change interventions [...] Handbook editor Jan Servaes' own chapter (with Rico Lie), “Key Concepts, Disciplines, and Fields in Communication for Development and Social Change ” identifies five clusters of concepts and practices that are evident in the field today and which determine the activities and approaches in communication for sustainable development and social change interventions: The clusters are (1) a normative cluster of concepts; (2) a cluster of concepts that sets an important context for communication activities for development; (3) a cluster of strategic and methodological concepts; (4) a cluster of concepts that relate to methods, techniques, and tools; and (5) a cluster of concepts that addresses the practices of advocacy, (participatory) monitoring and evaluation, and impact assessment. The authors extend their discussion into three subdivisions: (1) health communication, (2) agricultural extension and rural communication, and (3) environmental communication (including climate change communication). This leads the reader into issues related to (1) right to communicate; (2) education and learning; (3) innovation, science, and technology; (4) natural resource management; (5) food security; (6) poverty reduction; (7) peace and conflict; (8) children and youth, women, and senior citizens; and (9) tourism. Some of the forerunners of development communication have not been forgotten. In “Daniel Lerner and the Origins of Development Communication”, Hemant Shah links Lerner’s 1958 book Passing of Traditional Society to today’s modernization and faith in technology to solve social problems. Also contributing to the foundation of this field is Paulo Freire who contributed much to idea that participation should be a vital part of the development dialogue. Ana Fernández-Aballí Altamirano’s chapter on "The Importance of Paulo Freire to Communication for Development and Social Change" highlights his main work Pedagogy of the Oppressed as a "before-and-after" in the fields of education, research, and communication, initially in Latin America and later in both North and South. Particularly in the case of development communication and communication for social change, the author stresses, Freire’s work had a definitive impact ..." (Review by Royal Donald Colle, Journal of Development Communication, vol. 30 (2), page 92-94) more

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Ética jornalística e pandemia: Entrevistas com especialistas

Florianópolis: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC); Observatório da Ética Jornalística (2020), 134 pp.

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From Start to Success: A Handbook for Digital Media Entrepreneurs
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Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2020), 83 pp.

"This media viability handbook is unique in that it has been written by media startups themselves and presents the learnings of 21 digital pioneers including the Philippines' Rappler, Egypt's Mada Masr and Animal Politico in Mexico. The pages are filled with tips and information these media startups ... more

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Comunicación, sociedad y salud en contexto de pandemia
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Chasqui: Revista Latinoamericana de Comunicación (Quito), issue 145 (2020), pp. 41-300

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Narrativas de paz, voces y sonidos: Análisis de la paz en Colombia, desde la comunicación

J. Ignacio Chaves Gil, Beatriz E. Múnera B., Gabriel Alberto Ruiz Romero (coord.)

Bogotá: Ediciones Desde Abajo; Revista Latina de Comunicación Social; Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2020), 247 pp.

"La violencia armada tiene también una dimensión narrativa, acaso tan devastadora como su dimensión física. No sólo destruye vidas y altera relaciones, sino que su ejercicio –especialmente cuando es sistemático– quiebra la propia posibilidad de otra narrativa que logre articular algún sen ... more

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Redes sociales y ciudadanía: Hacia un mundo ciberconectado y empoderado
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Ignacio Aguaded, Arantxa Vizcaíno-Verdú (eds.)

Huelva: Grupo Comunicar Ediciones; Alfamed (2020), 847 pp.

"Esta es una obra miscelánea que se adentra, desde múltiples perspectivas, en las interacciones entre educación y comunicación por medio de la influencia global de las redes sociales. En un contexto hiperconectado, pero no necesariamente ‘empoderado,’ resulta esencial la formación en compet ... more

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Niños, niñas y adolescentes en medios de comunicación: Construcción de estereotipos en prensa escrita y televisión en Chile

Ana María Ojeda Retamales, Paula Walker Cárdenas (eds.)

Santiago de Chile: UNICEF (2019), 241 pp.

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100 años de la radio
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Revista Argentina de Comunicación (RAC), volume 7, issue 10 (2019), 495 pp.

"Este número especialmente dedicado a la radio, a sus públicos, las experiencias locales, comunitarias, tiene la característica de visibilizar la pasión de varias generaciones. La RAC también, moviliza para mostrar un objeto vivo en el campo de investigación de la comunicación en sus múltipl ... more

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Comunicación, cultura de paz e igualdad: Tejiendo ciudadanía comunicativa

Claudia Cecilia Flores Pérez, Alex Iván Arévalo Salinas, Alejandro Barranquero Carretero (eds.)

Zacatecas, México: Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas “Francisco García Salinas” (2019), 173 pp.

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Narrativas de paz, voces y sonidos: Análisis de la paz en Colombia, desde la comunicación

J. Ignacio Chaves Gil, Beatriz E. Múnera B., Gabriel Alberto Ruiz Romero (coord.)

Bogotá: Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios (Uniminuto) (2019), 277 pp.

"Los artículos del CAC162 “Narrativas de paz: voces y sonidos” surgen de la mesa de debate homónima presentada en el marco del X Congreso Internacional Latina de Comunicación Social, realizado en la Universidad de La Laguna (Tenerife) en 2018. Nueve textos sobre los retos que afrontan dichas ... more