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Rose Ferrell, Rosanne Welch (eds.)

Bristol: Intellect (2025), 658 pp.

"This volume, Shaping Global Cultures through Screenwriting: Women Who Write Our Worlds, tells stories of women who have worked with and within communities to bring the communities’ stories to life through screenwriting. In gathering these examples, we asked for stories that achieved some level ... of impact for the communities. Impact was considered across a number of indices. We wanted to show that attitudes have shifted, policies have been rewritten and the life experiences and ranges of possibility for some have changed for the better as a result of women’s work. We hope to show through our stories that film can change lives; that sharing stories matters; and that women are everywhere, using their skills in screen production for the good of many. In her excellent book, Women in the International Film Industry: Policy Practice and Power, Susan Liddy (2020) offers ‘a wide-ranging, critical assessment of practice, policy and progress’ to establish the range and scale of gender inequality that currently exists in the world of screen production. She quotes O’Neill and Domingo (2015) to point out that social, economic and political conditions vary, and ‘combine in different ways to enable or constrain women’s agency and leadership’ in screen production (Liddy 2020: 1). In contrast, our book approaches the same problem from the opposite perspective: we seek to correlate the ‘policy, practice and power’ (Liddy 2020) with the actual work of women screenwriters. Our aim is to point out what women screenwriters, creators and filmmakers are doing in disparate corners of the world, and how their effort is positively impacting communities, shaping culture and creating change. We argue that, despite the fact that women screenwriters are underrepresented in leadership roles in film industries worldwide, the impact of their films remains visible and palpable. We provide evidence that, as women step into the roles of screenwriter, filmmaker and collaborator, using known and emerging technologies, formats and genres under the broad scope of ‘screen production’, they raise the voices of other women and other communities. This volume shows the impact of women’s voices in creating real change for the communities whose stories are told through the topics and themes of these women’s screen works. Not least, this volume seeks to celebrate these women and their communities and bring awareness of that impact to broader communities worldwide." (Introduction, page 1) more

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Online Disinformation in Brazil: A Typology of Discursive Action of Harmful Political Content on WhatsApp and Facebook

Tatiana Dourado, Victor Piaia, Viktor Chagas, Dalby Dienstbach, Marco Aurelio Ruediger, Eurico Matos, João Guilherme Bastos dos Santos

International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 2685-2709

"This article investigates harmful political content in public WhatsApp and Facebook groups of the radical Right in Brazil. Considering harmful political content as that which generates direct damage to the quality, reasonableness, and plurality of public discussion, we investigate the enunciative a ... more

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Mujeres de la comunicación Ecuador

Vanessa Vanegas Toala, Julia Ortega Almeida (eds.)

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

"En el primer eje -Memoria de la otra Comunicación- se compilan los aportes de mujeres que tempranamente trabajaron en experie ncias de comunicación alternativa, mujeres fundantes en la teoría y la praxis de la comunicación para el cambio social y que nos abrieron las puertas heredándonos el ca ... more

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Mapping the Media and Communication Landscape of Central Asia: An Anthology of Emerging and Contemporary Issues

Elira Turdubaeva, Evangelia Papoutsaki (eds.)

Lexington Books (2023), xiii, 365 pp.

"Central Asian post-independence media and communication industries, professional practices, education, persisting and evolving values, and traditions remain critically understudied with a notable scarcity of research and scholarly publications on the complex and increasingly changing communicative ... more

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Guía para seguir comunicándonos ante bloqueos de internet

Tatiana Avendaño, Jacobo Nájera

Digital Defenders Partnership (2022), 62 pp.

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Pistas para investigar las rutas de la corrupción

Juan David Laverde Palma, Ignacio Gómez Gómez, Tatiana Cristina Velásquez Archibold et al.

Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2022), 213 pp.

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Photographing Central Asia: From the Periphery of the Russian Empire to Global Presence

Svetlana Gorshenina, Sergei Abashin, Bruno De Cordier, Tatiana Saburova (eds.)

Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter (2022), viii, 431 pp.

"The aim of this volume is to interpret photography as a specific tool that reifies reality, subjectively frames it, and fits it into various political, ideological, commercial, scientific, and artistic contexts. Without reducing the entire argument to the binary of ‘photography and power’, the ... more

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Mujeres de la comunicación Bolivia

Vania Sandoval Arenas, Rigliana Portugal Escobar, Sandra Villegas Taborga (eds.)

La Paz: Programa de medios y comunicación para América Latina y el Caribe Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES); Asociación Boliviana de Investigadores de la Comunicación (ABOIC) (2022), 205 pp.

"La trayectoria y los aportes de 27 mujeres que han estudiado la comunicación en Bolivia están condensados en este libro que forma parte de la colección de Mujeres de la Comunicación de FES Comunicación en la región. El presente volumen está dividido en dos partes; la primera presenta a diez ... more

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Dez anos da lei de acesso à informação: Limites, perspectivas e desafios

Elen Geraldes, Alessandra Durante, Barros Dirlene, Gabriela Kaya et al.

São Paulo: Intercom – Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Comunicação (2022), 260 pp.

"Este livro surge em defesa da Lei de Acesso às Informações Públicas, que completa dez anos da entrada em vigor em 16 de maio de 2022. A Lei 12.527/11 ou LAI, como é conhecida, é inegavelmente um instrumento importante para a promoção da participação e da cidadania para a constituição de ... more

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Whistleblowing for Change: Exposing Systems of Power and Injustice

Tatiana Bazzichelli (ed.)

Bielefeld: transcript (2021), 376 pp.

"The courageous acts of whistleblowing that inspired the world over the past few years have changed our perception of surveillance and control in today's information society. But what are the wider effects of whistleblowing as an act of dissent on politics, society, and the arts? How does it contrib ... more

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Disinformation in the Brazilian pre-election context: Probing the content, spread and implications of fake news about Lula da Silva

Tatiana Dourado, Susana Salgado

Communication Review, volume 24, issue 4 (2021), pp. 297-319

"This research scrutinizes the content, spread, and implications of disinformation in Brazil’s 2018 pre-election period. It focuses specifically on the most widely shared fake news about Lula da Silva and links these with the preexisting polarization and political radicalization, ascertaining the ... more

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Gender Approaches to Cybersecurity: Design, Defence and Response

Katharine Millar, James Shires, Tatiana Tropina

United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) (2021), 70 pp.

"This report outlines the relevance of gender norms to cybersecurity. It draws on existing research, supplemented by stakeholder and expert interviews, to assess gender-based differences in the social roles and interaction of women, men and non-binary people of all ages reflected in the distribution ... more

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The Public Sphere in Russia Between Authoritarianism and Liberation

Tatiana Weiser, Greg Yudin (eds.)

Javnost: The Public, volume 27, issue 1 (2020), pp. 2-96

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Artificial Intelligence: Media and Information Literacy, Human Rights and Freedom of Expression

Igor Shnurenko, Murovana, Tatiana, Ibrahim Kushchu

Moscow; Hove (UK): UNESCO; Next Minds (2020), 117 pp.

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El medioambiente, un desafío periodístico: Pistas para investigar y narrar historias socioambientales

Claudia Villa García, Carlos Tapia Caicedo, Tatiana Pardo Ibarra, Angélica Cuevas Guarnizo, Antonio Paz Cardona, Natalia Borrero Morales

Bogotá: Consejo de Redacción; Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2020), 251 pp.

"La supervivencia de la especie humana y de incontables especies animales y vegetales depende de transformar el sistema financiero, decenas de prácticas culturales y gran parte de nuestros hábitos. El periodismo ha hecho eco de las alarmas de la ciencia, pero parece no haber logrado transmitir el ... more

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Regulación para combatir la desinformación: Estudio de ocho casos internacionales y recomendaciones para un enfoque democrático

João Brant, João Guilherme Bastos dos Santos, Tatiana Dourado, Marina Pita

Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2020), 32 pp.

"El análisis revela los desafíos al proceso de construcción de soluciones reguladoras que protejan derechos y sean efectivas para promover el acceso a información confiable. La desinformación está profundamente entrelazada con los procesos políticos y sociales, y no es posible pensar en soluc ... more

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Lügen, Hass und Desinformation: Lateinamerika in postfaktischen Zeiten

Perspectivas (Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung), issue 6 (2020), 36 pp.

"In Lateinamerika haben Politiker wie Bolsonaro in Brasilien oder Bukele in El Salvador die Präsidentschaftswahlen nicht zuletzt durch ihre Abgrenzung vom politischen Establishment gewonnen, ungeachtet dessen, dass auch sie schon lange zu diesem von ihnen so diskreditierten Politikbetrieb gehören. ... more

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Mapeando la comunicación comunitaria: Cartografías de la información, de experiencias de comunicación y de liderazgos comunitarios en Cali-Colombia

Fanny Patricia Franco Chávez (ed.)

Cali: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (2020), 131 pp.

"Uno de los aspectos a destacar de este libro, es la coautoría entre académicos, investigadores, profesionales de la comunicación, líderes comunitarios y estudiantes universitarios. Lo cual, concreta un movimiento epistemológico descolonizador en términos de participación, apostándole a la c ... more

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Universalism in Public Service Media

Philip Savage, Mercedes Medina, Gregory Ferrell Lowe (eds.)

Nordicom (2020), 226 pp.

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Cultura, comunicación y crimen organizado en México

Günther Maihold (ed.)

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 ... more