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Soap Operas and Fertility: Evidence from Brazil

Eliana La Ferrara, Alberto Chong, Suzanne Duryea
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) (2008), 45 pp.
"What are the effects of television, and of role models portrayed in TV programs, on individual behavior? We focus on fertility choices in Brazil, a country where soap operas (novelas) portray families that are much smaller than in reality. We exploit differences in the timing of entry into differen ... more
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Abrojos: Manual de periodismo y comunicación para el trabajo comunitario
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Emanuel Gall, Eva Fontdevila, Rodrigo Campos Alvo
Tucumán (AR): Ministerio de Desarrollo Social de la Provincia de Tucumán, Proyecto La Escuela en la Radio (2008), 109 pp.
"[...] este libro les tiene que servir para emprender nuevos proyectos en sus vidas de todos los días: hacer una revista con amigos, inventar un nuevo programa de radio que puedan proponer en la radio comunitaria de los lugares dónde viven y ¿por qué no? en una radio de las grandes, las que se c ... more
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Voces de mujeres: Historias de vida en primera persona

Comunicación y Pobreza (2008), 70 pp.
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Drugs, Thugs, and Divas: Telenovelas and Narco-Dramas in Latin America

O. Hugo Benavides
Austin: University of Texas Press (2008), x, 245 pp.
"In this first comprehensive analysis of telenovelas and narco-dramas, Hugo Benavides assesses the dynamic role of melodrama in creating meaningful cultural images to explain why these genres have become so successful while more elite cultural productions are declining in popularity. Benavides offer ... more
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World Press Trends 2008

Paris: World Association of Newspapers (WAN) (2008), 966 pp.
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Responsabilidad de la prensa con el desarrollo: Hay tanto por hacer! Monitoreo de medios peruanos

Rosa María Alfaro Moreno (ed.)
Lima: Veeduría Ciudadana de la Comunicación Social (2008), 50 pp.
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Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering

Ronald Deibert, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, Jonathan Zittrain (eds.)
Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press (2008), 449 pp.
"Internet filtering takes place in at least forty states worldwide including many countries in Asia and the Middle East and North Africa. This publication examines the political, legal, social, and cultural contexts of Internet filtering in these states from a variety of perspectives. The six introd ... more
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Mídia e cultura popular: História, taxionomia e metodologia da folkcomunicação

José Marques de Melo
São Paulo: Paulus (2008), 236 pp.
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Participatory Development Communication (PDC): Rhetoric or Reality? The Analysis of Community-Based Level Interventions in Latin America and Africa with Dialogue and Empowerment as Intended Outcomes

Soledad Muñiz
Reading, UK: University of Reading, Master Thesis (2008), 170 pp.
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Economia política da comunicação: Estratégias e desafios no capitalismo global

Carlos Alberto Gianotti (ed.)
São Leopoldo: Editora Unisinos (2008), 267 pp.
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“Nada tira, nada envolve, nada completa”: Leituras em recepção do discurso midiático religioso

Antônio Fausto Neto
Revista Famecos, issue 36 (2008), pp. 98-104
"Examina-se aspectos do funcionamento da midiatização do telediscurso religioso no Brasil, a partir de sua apropriação por telefiéis (católicos e evangélicos), mediante estratégias discursivas. Chama-se atenção para novas formas de relações entre atores sociais e práticas midiáticas, d ... more
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Financiamiento, distribución y márketing del cine peruano

Augusto Tamayo, Nathalie Hendrickx
Lima: Universidad de Lima, Fondo Editorial (2008), 111 pp.
"El presente libro es el resultado de la investigación realizada a partir de la formulación de la pregunta: ¿Qué factores determinan, condicionan o limitan la producción de cine peruano y su distribución y exhibición en el Perú y en el mundo?, que se hizo a diversos agentes especializados en ... more
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Humanitarian Crises and Intervention: Reassessing the Impact of Mass Media
Deep Insights

Walter C. Soderlund, E. Donald Briggs, Kai Hildebrandt, Abdel Salam Sidhamed
Sterling: Kumarian Press (2008), xiv, 335 pp.
"This book takes a unique and comprehensive look at how the international community, led by the US, responded to ten humanitarian crises of the last decade and how major media outlets played a role in influencing (or failing to influence) action. Crises examined include Liberia, East Timor, Somalia, ... more
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Church Communications Through Diocesan Websites: A Model of Analysis

Daniel Arasa
Rome: EDUSC (2008), 455 pp.
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Sin rastro, imágenes para construir memoria

Bogotá: Fundación Dos Mundos; Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) (2008), 125 pp.
"Este libro es una selección de imágenes del Concurso Nacional de Fotografía sobre Desaparición Forzada 'Sin Rastro." (Página 1)
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Global Bollywood

Anandam P. Kavoori, Aswin Punathambekar (eds.)
New York; London: New York University Press (2008), vi, 314 pp.
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Pop Culture with a Purpose! Using Edutainment Media for Social Change

Virginia Lacayo, Arvind Singhal
The Hague: Oxfam Novib (2008), 53 pp.
"This publication focuses on unique communication-centered approaches to social change and introduces basic concepts, strategies and theories supporting edutainment strategies to foster social change and social movement building. It provides examples of how the organizations have used edutainment st ... more
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Le rôle politique de la presse au Brésil: De l'élection à la réélection de Lula

Giancarlo Summa
Paris: Éditions de l'IHEAL (2008), 197 pp.
"Le président brésilien Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva n’a jamais eu de relations faciles avec la presse de son pays. Cette dernière a en effet appuyé, en grande majorité, le coup d’État qui a mené à la dictature militaire (1964-1985), et mis, depuis le rétablissement de la démocratie, tou ... more
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Governance Reform Under Real World Conditions: Citizens, Stakeholders, and Voice

Sina Odugbemi, Thomas Jacobson (eds.)
Washington, DC: World Bank (2008), xxi, 525 pp.
"This book is a contribution to efforts to improve governance systems around the world, particularly in developing countries. It offers a range of innovative approaches and techniques for dealing with the most important nontechnical challenges that prevent many of those efforts from being successful ... more
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The Economic Contribution of Copyright-Based Industries in Colombia

Alberto Castañeda Cordy, Rafael Cubillos López, Armando Sarmiento López, Jaime Vallecilla Gordillo
Geneva: World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) (2008), 87 pp.
"The total value added of the copyright-based industries in Colombia reached Col$9.5 millions of millions in 2005 (approximately 4,800 million US dollars) from Col$5.7 millions of millions in 2000. As a percentage of GDP, the CBI represented an average of 3.3 per cent throughout the period. In real ... more