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Mediatización(es): Conversaciones teóricas entre Europa y América Latina

Carlos A. Scolari, José Luis Fernández, Joan R. Rodriguez-Amat (eds.)

Bogotá: Programa de medios y comunicación para América Latina y el Caribe Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2024), 229 pp.

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Ética de la comunicación ambiental y del cambio climático

María Teresa Mercado, María Gemma Teso (eds.)

Madrid: Tecnos (2024), 448 pp.

"Desde una aproximación ética, reconocidos profesionales con amplia experiencia en los medios y en organismos, como la Oficina Española de Cambio Climático o la Agencia Estatal de Meteorología, profesores doctores de catorce universidades, entre ellos una decena de investigadores del Observator ... more

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Vulnerabilidad y comunicación social: Fragilidad humana en la esfera pública
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Hugo Aznar, Rodrigo Fidel Rodríguez Borges (eds.)

Madrid: Tecnos (2024), 423 pp.

"Este manual es una obra colectiva escrita por numerosos profesionales del periodismo, cada uno espeaializado en una materia, que tratan de explicar la mejor manera de comunicar temas de gran actualidad. En esta ocasión tratan el tema de la vulnerabilidad de distintos grupos, como puede ser la vuln ... more

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AI Ethics and Higher Education: Good Practice and Guidance for Educators, Learners, and Institutions

Erin Green, Divya Singh, Roland Chia (eds.)

Geneva: Globethics.net (2022), 318 pp.

"Artificial intelligence (AI) is exerting unprecedented pressure on the global higher educational landscape in transforming recruitment processes, subverting traditional pedagogy, and creating new research and institutional opportunities. These technologies require contextual and global ethical anal ... 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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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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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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Los retos del comunicador católico
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Rafael Ortega, Álvaro de la Torre Gil (coord.)

Madrid: CEU Ediciones (2017), 211 pp.

"Este libro es un interesante ejercicio colectivo de responsabilidad. Y digo responsabilidad porque con él, los periodistas asociados en la UCIPE están abordando una reflexión amplia y necesaria sobre las profesiones de la comunicación, su sentido desde un punto de vista cristiano, y el mejor mo ... more

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Periodismo y democracia en el entorno digital

Madrid: Sociedad Española de Periodística (SEP) (2016), 164 pp.

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La comunicación en mutación: Remix de discursos

Adriana Amado, Omar Rincón (eds.)

Bogotá: Centro de Competencia en Comunicación para América Latina Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2013), 198 pp.

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Comunicación educativa

Leonela Cucurella (ed.)

Quito: Abya-Yala (1999), 159 pp.

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Los lenguajes de la radio

José Luis Fernández

Buenos Aires: Atuel (1994), 111 pp.