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Comunicación y ciudadanías
Bogotá: Ediciones Desde Abajo; FES Comunicación (2018), 203 pp.
"En este texto se reúnen reflexiones e investigaciones que tienen, de una u otra manera, su mirada puesta en la ciudadanía. Intentando que la comunicación nos permita ver el bosque y que sepamos qué papel debemos jugar en esta realidad acelerada para construir ciudadanías activas e influyentes.
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African Digital Media Review (3)
African Journalism Studies, volume 39, issue 1 (2018), pp. 1-128
Civic Media Practice: Identification and Evaluation of Media and Technology That Facilitates Democratic Process
MaxArthur Foundation (2018), 34 pp.
"Based on over 40 interviews with practitioners, this report identifies “civic media practice” as media and technology used to facilitate democratic process. It focuses specifically on those practitioners using media tools to form relationships and build trust - a practice that sometimes runs co
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Appropriating Technology for Accountability: Messages from 'Making All Voices Count'
Brighton: Institute of Development Studies (IDS) (2018), 30 pp.
"The most important messages on the roles technologies can play in enabling citizen voice and accountable and responsive governance are: 1. Not all voices can be expressed via technologies. 2. Technologies can play decisive roles in improving services where the problem is a lack of planning data or
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Lobbying for life: Violence against the press and the public interest
"This chapter investigates the relationship between civic networking coalitions and public interest communication, and an opportunity to explore how the coalitions produce 'public interest-forming practices'. It examines the ability of civic networking coalitions to act and, next, to investigate whi
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Managing for Sustainable Journalism Under Authoritarianism: Innovative Business Models Aimed at Good Practice
In: What is Sustainable Journalism? Integrating the Environmental, Social, and Economic Challenges of Journalism
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2018), pp. 295-313
"Entrepreneurship and innovation are currently high on the media industry agenda, but focus has so far been mostly on the economic sustainability of new ventures. Considering the repressive political climate in Egypt, Naomi Sakr explores the tension between economic growth and the ethical, democrati
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Youth-Led Communication for Social Change: Empowerment, Citizen Media, and Cultures of Governance in Northern Ghana
Development in Practice, volume 28, issue 3 (2018), pp. 400-413
"This article critically assesses the possibilities and limitations of strategic communication initiatives to enhance cultures of governance among youth in Northern Ghana. The analysis is embedded within contemporary debates about communication and social change, with particular focus upon dynamics
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Análisis y relatos de experiencias de comunicación participativa en radios comunitarias en India
Commons: Revista de Comunicación y Ciudadanía Digital, volume 6, issue 2 (2017), pp. 54-77
"Desde una perspectiva crítica de la comunicación para el desarrollo y el cambio social y tomando como referencia una nueva mirada a la Comunicología de la Liberación definida por Luis Ramiro Beltrán (1981), esta presentación analiza experiencias y modelos de comunicación horizontal de radios
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Twinning Social Memory and Social Imaginary: Challenges for East African Media Policies
African Journalism Studies, volume 38, issue 3-4 (2017), pp. 50-73
"The article discusses the significance of the past in the planning of media policies in two neighbouring countries in Africa, namely Kenya and Tanzania. The theoretical frame is composed of four concepts: social imaginary, collective memory, domestication, and liminality. The scrutiny starts from t
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Media and Citizenship: Between Marginalisation and Participation
Cape Town, South Africa: HSRC Press (2017), xi, 241 pp.
"Media and Citizenship challenges some assumptions about the relationship between the media and democracy in highly unequal societies like South Africa. In a post-apartheid society where an enfranchised majority is still unable to fundamentally practise their citizenship and experiences marginalisat
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Formation of Citizenship Through Radio Talk Participation in Kenya
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 9, issue 1 (2017), pp. 181-194
"This article aims at investigating the relationship between the concept of mediated citizenship and participation through radio talk deliberation. It intends to offer an analysis of the content mediated through public discourses by determining the way in which participants draw their identities thr
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International Handbook of Media Literacy Education
Deep Insights
New York; London: Routledge (2017), xiii, 415 pp.
"At the forefront in its field, this Handbook examines the theoretical, conceptual, pedagogical and methodological development of media literacy education and research around the world. Building on traditional media literacy frameworks in critical analysis, evaluation, and assessment, it incorporate
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"This study highlights the recent phenomenon of online social movements in Vietnam having some characteristics of the ‘horizontal networks’ and ‘mass self-communication’ conceptualised by theorist Manuel Castells. My arguments are developed on the basis of an analysis of original research in
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Technoliberalism and the End of Participatory Culture in the United States
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2017), ix, 217 pp.
"This new book examines whether television can be used as a tool not just for capitalism, but for democracy. Throughout television’s history, activists have attempted to access it for that very reason. New technologies—cable, satellite, and the internet—provided brief openings for amateur and
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New Media and Chinese Society
Puchong, Selangor (SG): Springer (2017), xvii, 290 pp.
The Audience-Centred Approach to Media Policymaking: A Critical Analysis of the South African Press Freedom Commission as a Participatory Process of Review
African Journalism Studies, volume 38, issue 3-4 (2017), pp. 74-99
"This article presents and makes a case for the audience-Centred approach to media policymaking and research, and situates this discussion within the South African revision of the regulatory mechanism for the press. In South Africa the press accountability mechanism, the Press Council of South Afric
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Can Media Interventions Reduce Gender Gaps in Political Participation After Civil War? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Rural Liberia
Washington, DC: World Bank (2017), 16 pp.
"Five weeks prior to the 2011 general election in Liberia, women in randomly selected villages were allocated radios and organized into groups to listen regularly to radio programs on the electoral process broadcast by the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL). The field experiment was designed
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Citizen Journalism and Democratisation of Mainstream Media in Rwanda
African Journalism Studies, volume 38, issue 2 (2017), pp. 178-197
"This paper explores the role that citizen journalism is playing in democratising the mainstream media in Rwanda. Through in-depth interviews with journalists from two radio stations and by using the public sphere theory as a theoretical framework, this research sought to answer the question as to w
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