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Media Ownership Monitor Brazil

Reporters Without Borders; Intervozes (2017), 925 pp.
"Power in Brazil means family business, both traditionally and to this very day. Dynasties of landowners known as “Colonels” extend their territorial claims to the airwaves, combining economic and political interests with tight control of public opinion. Neither digital technology and the rise o ... more
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E o verbo se fez rede: Religiosidades em reconstrução no ambiente digital

Moisés Sbardelotto
São Paulo: Paulinas (2017), 400 pp.
"O ambiente digital emerge como um novo lócus religioso e teológico. Formam-se novas modalidades de percepção, de experiência e de expressão do "sagrado" em novos ambientes comunicacionais. E as práticas sociais no ambiente on-line, a partir de lógicas midiáticas, complexificam o fenômeno ... more
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Freedom on the Net 2017: Manipulating Social Media to Undermine Democracy
Deep Insights

Sanja Kelly, Mai Truong, Adrian Shahbaz, Madeline Earp, Jessica White (eds.)
Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2017), 1060 pp.
"Governments around the world have dramatically increased their efforts to manipulate information on social media over the past year. The Chinese and Russian regimes pioneered the use of surreptitious methods to distort online discussions and suppress dissent more than a decade ago, but the practice ... more
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Audience Research in Media Development: Overview, Case Studies, and Lessons Learned
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Dennis Reineck, Laura Schneider, Christoph Spurk
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2017), 49 pp.
"This publication takes a look at current developments in the field of audience research in media development and presents three case studies testing innovative methods that can be of use for research, monitoring, and evaluation. They are meant as an orientation and inspirational source for future p ... more
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Veracruz: Journalists and the State of Fear

Artur Lara Romeu, Balbina Flores Martínez et al.
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‘The Communal’ in School and Indigenous Radio: Evidence from the North of Argentina

Francesca Belotti, Emilse Siares
Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 15, issue 2 (2017), pp. 211-226
"The Argentinian Law 26.522 on Audiovisual Communication Services (currently under reform) aimed at democratizing the media arena by recognizing multiple actors such as community broadcasters, school and indigenous media, among others. According to the legal classification, community broadcasters we ... more
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Combatting Cultural ‘nerve Gas’: Maintaining Traditional Media and Culture Through Local Media Production in Australia, Canada and Mexico

Ian Watson
Journal of Alternative and Community Media, volume 2 (2017), pp. 1-13
"In Australia in the 1980s, large numbers of remote Indigenous radio stations were established due to a perception that the introduction of ‘mainstream’ satellite programming in remote areas would act as a form of cultural ‘nerve gas’ (Remedio, 2012: 295) that would threaten ‘the very isol ... more
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Shifting the South African Media Diversity Debate from the Stick to the Carrot: Lessons from Scandinavia, Latin America and West Africa
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Julia Plessing
African Journalism Studies, volume 38, issue 1 (2017), pp. 66-84
"More than 20 years into democracy, the South African media landscape, although free and moderately pluralistic, still does not represent fairly the diversity of viewpoints held in the country. Yet, the South African media debate on transformation has been dominated by the ANC’s continued focus on ... more
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International Handbook of Media Literacy Education
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Belinha S. De Abreu, Paul Mihailidis, Alice Y. L. Lee, Jad Melki, Julian McDougall (eds.)
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 ... more
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Educomunicação: Um diálogo criativo com a pedagogia de Dom Bosco. O estudo de caso junto à Rede Salesiana de Escolas, na América Latina

Antonia Alves Pereira
Porto Alegre: Editora Fi (2017), 248 pp.
"A obra é resultado de dissertação de mestrado em Ciências da Comunicação defendido na Universidade de São Paulo (USP) em 2012, a obra contextualiza as práticas educativas salesianas a partir do paradigma da educomunicação. A pesquisa foi orientada pelo professor Ismar de Oliveira Soares, ... more
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Projekt zur dualen Journalistenausbildung II: ProPeriodismo II. Duale Ausbildung für einen Qualitätsjournalismus

La Paz: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2017), 2 pp.
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Dazwischenfunken: Aktivismus in Freien Radios

iz3w, issue 360 (2017), pp. D1-D26
"Weltweit ist das Radio das Medium, das die meisten Menschen erreicht. In Europa verliert der Hörfunk zwar an Zuhörerschaft, aber gerade in Ländern des Südens sind Radiostationen ein sehr wichtiges Mittel der Kommunikation. Eine südafrikanische Universität entwickelte jüngst ein Spracherkennu ... more
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Comunicación, subalternidad y género: Experiencias comunicativas comunitarias de mujeres afrodescendientes e indígenas en América Latina

Maria Cruz Tornay Marquez
Sevilla: Universidad de Sevilla, Doctoral Thesis (2017), 421 pp.
"En esta investigación se analizan las potencialidades del acceso al ejercicio del derecho a la comunicación a través de radios comunitarias en América Latina por parte de mujeres afrodescendientes e indígenas, poblaciones históricamente excluidas del acceso y representación en los medios de ... more
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Perspectives from the Global Entertainment and Media Outlook 2017–2021: Curtain Up! User Experience Takes Center Stage

Price Waterhouse Coopers (pwc) (2017), 40 pp.
"To thrive in a marketplace that is increasingly competitive, slower-growing, and dependent on personal recommendations, companies must develop strategies that engage, grow, and monetize their most valuable customers — i.e., their fans. To do so, they must combine excellent content with breadth an ... more
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Assessment of Media Development in Bolivia: Based on UNESCO's Media Development Indicators

Erick Torrico Villanueva, Sandra Villegas Taborga
Paris: UNESCO (2017), 105 pp.
"The UNESCO’s Media Development Indicators study (MDI) in Bolivia made a comprehensive media diagnosis as a democratic discourse platform, current laws related to Communication and Journalism, and the Constitutional warranties to freedom of expression for citizen and journalists. However, private ... more
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"Popular Culture" in a Changing Brazil

Edson Farias, Bianca Freire-Medeiros
In: The Routledge Companion to Global Popular Culture
Toby Miller (ed.)
New York; London: Routledge (2017), pp. 510-518
"Throughout the last century, the idea of popular culture in Brazil was intertwined with matters affecting the nation and national identity – symbols and practices that in combination became representative emblems of the essence of the country. However, there is a structural ambiguity that pervade ... more
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Defending Journalism: How National Mechanisms Can Protect Journalists and Address the Issue of Impunity. A Comparative Analysis of Practices in Seven Countries
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Elisabeth Witchel, Esben Q. Harboe (eds.)
International Media Support (IMS) (2017), 250 pp.
"The research documents how, despite immense ongoing challenges, in Afghanistan, Iraq, Nepal and Pakistan, some important advances have been made to develop joint structures and innovative approaches to defend the practice of journalism. It examines the long road Colombia has followed in the establi ... more
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Pressefreiheit in Mexiko: Kampf um ein Grundrecht

Jana Flörchinger
Berlin: Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung (2017), 25 pp.
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Journalistic Performance in Latin America: A Comparative Study of Professional Roles in News Content

Claudia Mellado, Mireya Márquez-Ramírez, Jacques Mick, Martìn Oller Alonso, Dasniel Olivera
Journalism, volume 18, issue 9 (2017), pp. 1087-1106
"Comparative research across the world has shown that nation-level variables are strong predictors of professional roles in journalism. There is, however, still insufficient comparative research about three key issues: cross-national comparison of journalistic role performance, exploration of how - ... more
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Beyond the Stereotypes? Images of Boys and Girls, and Their Consequences
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Dafna Lemish, Maya Götz (eds.)
Göteborg: Nordicom; International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media (2017), 254 pp.