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Justicia algorítmica en América Latina y el Caribe: Investigación, políticas públicas y ética de la inteligencia artificial

Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO); CIESPAL; UNESCO (2026), 105 pp.

"El volumen reúne los policy briefs elaborados en el marco de la convocatoria Justicia Algorítmica. Una inteligencia artificial ética para América Latina y el Caribe, lanzada conjuntamente por UNESCO Ecuador y el Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO), en el marco de una colaborac ... ión intensa, sostenida y productiva que ambas instituciones han consolidado en los últimos años. A ella se sumó El Centro Internacional de Estudios Superiores de Comunicación para América Latina, CIESPAL, responsable de la edición del libro en alianza con CLACSO y UNESCO, reafirmando la convicción de que la cooperación interinstitucional regional constituye un instrumento fundamental para pensar críticamente la tecnología, fortalecer la cultura democrática y promover políticas públicas capaces de atender a los grupos más vulnerables. Los trabajos seleccionados y aquí publicados son el resultado de un proceso riguroso, sistemático y situado: se recibieron 35 postulaciones, evaluadas en primera instancia por un Comité Internacional integrado por nueve especialistas provenientes de Ecuador, Argentina, Brasil y Francia. Posteriormente, UNESCO y CLACSO realizaron la revisión final atendiendo a la calidad técnica y científica, la coherencia metodológica, la consistencia del plan de trabajo y la pertinencia de los temas en relación con la Recomendación sobre la Ética de la IA y el equilibrio regional. El proceso concluyó con la selección de cinco propuestas, varias de ellas con participación de investigadoras e investigadores con trabajo en y sobre Ecuador. Los policy briefs que conforman este libro abordan problemas urgentes de la agenda regional sobre IA. Uno de los núcleos críticos es la transformación del trabajo y la desigualdad digital, un fenómeno particularmente agudo en América Latina y el Caribe, donde históricas brechas educativas, económicas y territoriales se ven amplificadas por una automatización que concentra oportunidades en sectores altamente especializados y desplaza tareas tradicionalmente realizadas por trabajadores menos calificados. La región enfrenta una doble asimetría: la del acceso desigual a tecnologías avanzadas y la de las capacidades necesarias para utilizarlas de modo significativo, reproduciendo patrones de exclusión que atraviesan género, etnia y condición socioeconómica. Otro foco central es la privacidad y la vigilancia algorítmica, ámbitos donde los riesgos son crecientes. La implementación de sistemas opacos —las conocidas “cajas negras” algorítmicas— que procesan datos personales a gran escala ha generado nuevas formas de discriminación, como el racismo algorítmico, sesgos de género, o modelos predictivos que penalizan a grupos históricamente vulnerados. Los casos de identificación errónea en sistemas de reconocimiento facial o la clasificación automatizada de supuestos “riesgos sociales” muestran que, sin marcos éticos y normativos sólidos, la IA puede reforzar desigualdades en vez de corregirlas." (Introducción, páginas 8-9) more

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Communicating Sustainable Development Goals in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Muhammad Jameel Yusha'u

Palgrave Macmillan (2026), xlvii, 523 pp.

"This book is the first scholarly work dedicated to examining the complex relationship between artificial intelligence and communicating the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Moving beyond techno-optimist narratives, the book advances a critical theoretical intervention: the AI Sustainability Exclus ... more

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New Forms of Civic Resistance and Activism

Tine Munk, Elliot Doornbos, Ian Mahoney

London; New York: Routledge (2026), xx, 279 pp.

"This interdisciplinary collection examines how contemporary movements are reshaping political, social, and environmental landscapes through both online and offline means, including creative expression and grassroots mobilisation. Analysing non-violent activism, political resistance, mobilisation, r ... more

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Comunicación organizacional latinoamericana

Larissa Conceição dos Santos, Margarida Maria Krohling Kunsch (coord.)

Quito: CIESPAL (2026), 403 pp.

"La obra ofrece una visión panorámica del campo de la Comunicación Organizacional en Latinoamérica, a partir de las miradas de 18 referentes en el tema, que aportan sus reflexiones acerca de los avances y desafíos a la investigación en la región, así como, las características locales, cultu ... more

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De Gruyter Handbook of Media and Social Change in the Global South

Kehbuma Langmia (ed.)

Berlin: De Gruyter (2026), xii, 564 pp.

"The birth of the newspapers, radio and television in the 19th century brought various interconnected social, behavioral and cultural changes in the lives of the colonizer and the colonized in the economically ‘developing’ nations. Then in the 20th century and now the 21st century, the birth of ... more

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World Happiness Report 2026: Happiness and Social Media

John F. Helliwell, Richard Layard, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Lara B. Aknin, Shun Wang (eds.)

Oxford: University of Oxford, Wellbeing Research Centre (2026), 268 pp.

"TRENDS IN GLOBAL HAPPINESS • Nordic countries lead the happiness rankings once again. Finland is still in a group of one at the top, followed by a group of three: Iceland, Denmark, and Costa Rica. Sweden and Norway complete the top six, followed by the Netherlands, Israel, Luxembourg, and Switze ... rland to round out the top ten. Costa Rica’s rise to 4th marks the highest ever ranking for a Latin American country. • Looking at changes in happiness from the 2006–2010 base period to 2023–2025, nearly twice as many countries have had significant gains (79) than significant losses (41), among the 136 countries ranked. • Within that period, most of the 21 countries that have gained a point or more on the 0–10 life evaluation scale are in Central and Eastern Europe, reflecting the convergence in European happiness levels that has been clear for more than a decade. Most of the eight countries with drops of more than one point are in or near zones of major conflict. • In general, most Western industrial countries are now less happy than they were between 2005 and 2010. Fifteen of them have had significant drops, compared to four with significant increases. • In a ranking of happiness changes for under-25s, the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand (the NANZ region) rank between 122 and 133 in the list of 136 countries. • In eight of the ten global regions shown in Figure 2.2 (covering roughly 90% of the world’s population), those in the youngest age group have higher life evaluations now than in 2006–2010, either in absolute terms or relative to those over 25. Youth wellbeing has only fallen in the NANZ countries and Western Europe, both absolutely and relative to adults. • Negative emotions are becoming more common in all global regions. They are less frequent for the young, except for NANZ, where the increases, relative to other regions, were in sadness. Worry rose more broadly for the young, while the frequency of anger fell everywhere, for young and old alike. • Positive emotions continue to be twice as frequent as negative emotions. In all regions, they are higher for those born recently than for their elders, except for NANZ, where that gap has closed in recent years. HAPPINESS AND SOCIAL MEDIA • Life satisfaction is highest at low rates of social media use and lower at higher rates of use, according to data from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) covering seven internet activities for 15-year-old students in 47 countries (but not the NANZ countries, unfortunately). • Internet activities fall into two groups. Communications, news, learning, and content creation are associated with higher life satisfaction. Social media, gaming, and browsing for fun are associated with lower life evaluations. • All internet activities are associated with lower life satisfaction at very high rates of use, especially for girls and for those in the UK and Ireland, the two English-speaking countries in PISA. • Data from Latin America reveal that the type of platform is crucial. Platforms designed to facilitate social connections show a clear positive association with happiness, whereas those driven by algorithmically curated content tend to demonstrate a negative association at high rates of use. • When combined, the PISA and Gallup data show significantly higher youth wellbeing in countries that spend more time using the internet for communication, and insignificantly lower youth wellbeing in countries with higher average hours of social media use. Latin American countries combine high levels 6 World Happiness Report 2026 of social media use with high youth wellbeing, while English-speaking countries show lower youth wellbeing than their fairly typical patterns of internet use can explain. • The prevalence and use patterns for social media are similar in all countries, but their links to life evaluations are stronger in English- speaking countries and Western Europe. These differences do not account for the large drops in youth wellbeing in these countries, however. Much, no doubt, depends on how social media is used and the broader social and economic context. • When school belonging goes from low (10th percentile) to high (90th percentile), the life satisfaction gains for girls in the UK and Ireland are four times greater than social media use going from high (90th percentile) to low (10th percentile). In PISA’s 47-country global sample, the belonging effect is six times larger. This should be relevant when policy options are being considered. SOCIAL MEDIA IS HARMING ADOLESCENTS AT A SCALE LARGE ENOUGH TO CAUSE CHANGES AT THE POPULATION LEVEL • Is social media use reasonably safe for children and adolescents? We call this the “product safety question”, and we present seven lines of evidence showing that the answer is no. • The evidence of harm is found in: 1) surveys of young people; 2) surveys of parents, teachers, and clinicians; 3) contents from corporate documents; 4) findings from cross-sectional studies; 5) findings from longitudinal studies; 6) findings from social media reduction experiments; and 7) findings from natural experiments. • We show there is now overwhelming evidence of severe and widespread direct harms (such as cyberbullying and sextortion), and compelling evidence of troubling indirect harms (such as depression). Furthermore, we show that the harms and risks to individual users are so diverse and vast in scope that they justify the view that social media is causing harm at a population level. • We further argue that when these lines of evidence are considered alongside the timing, scope, and cross-national trends in adolescent wellbeing and mental health, they can help answer a second question: was the rapid adoption of always-available social media by adolescents in the early 2010s a substantial contributor to the population-level increases in mental illness that emerged by the mid 2010s in many Western nations? We call this the “historical trends question”. We draw on our findings about the vast scale of harm uncovered while answering the product safety question to argue that the answer to the historical trends question is “yes”. (Executive summary, pages 6-7) more

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Island in the Net: Digital Culture in Post-Castro Cuba
Deep Insights

Steffen Köhn

Princeton University Press (2026), xii, 242 pp.

"Until just a few years ago, Cuba was one of the least-connected countries in the world. But as digital technology has become increasingly available, Cubans have found inventive ways to work around such remaining barriers as slow speeds, high costs, and inadequate infrastructure. In Island in the Ne ... more

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Media Travels: Toward an Atlas of Global Media

Juan Llamas-Rodriguez (ed.)

Amherst College Press (2025), viii, 200 pp.

"Through careful and informed analysis, these eleven accessibly written chapters illustrate the particularities of different media practices and situate them within social, historical, and geographical contexts. Examples range from South African video games to Korean TV series popular in Latin Ameri ... more

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Digital Communication for Agricultural and Rural Development: Participatory Practices in a Post-COVID Age

Ataharul Chowdhury, Gordon A. Gow (eds.)

Oxford: Routledge (2025), xx, 293 pp.

"This volume presents insights on the challenges of digital communication and participation in agricultural and rural development. The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed that digital technology and mediated participation is more important and essential in managing ongoing communication for development p ... more

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Journalism under Duress: Worlds of Journalism Study Report (Wave 3: 2021–2025)
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Thomas Hanitzsch, Folker Hanusch, Corinna Lauerer, Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova (eds.)

Munich: Ludwig-Maximilian Universität (LMU), WJS Center (2025), 371 pp.

"This report presents findings from the third wave of the Worlds of Journalism Study (WJS3), conducted between 2021 and 2025. In this iteration, we focused on journalists’ perceptions of risk and uncertainty in their profession and sought to identify key factors that shape how journalists navigate ... more

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Die klandestine Zeitschrift Diáspora(s)

Natascha Rempel

Berlin: De Gruyter (2025), xviii, 387 pp.

"Angelehnt an rezente Entwicklungen in der Zeitschriftenforschung bedient sich die vorliegende Publikation eines mixed-methods-Ansatzes, um das kubanische Intellektuellenprojekt und dessen gleichnamige Zeitschrift, Diáspora(s) 1997–2002, als Netzwerk und Textnetz zu erfassen. In der kubanischen , ... more

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Ondas Cubanas: Las Singularidades de una Radio Inigualable

Tito Balesteros López, Juan Carlos Roque García

Roque Libros (2025), 140 pp.

"Adentrarse en el fascinante mundo de la radio cubana, es habitar un medio que ha evolucionado y se ha adaptado a lo largo de las décadas, marcando una diferencia única en América Latina y el Caribe. Este libro revela las particularidades de su programación, la estructura que define su sonido y ... more

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The Routledge Handbook of Political Communication in Ibero-America

Andreu Casero Ripollés, Paulo Carlos López López (eds.)

London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group (2025), xvii, 497 pp.

"The Routledge Handbook of Political Communication in Ibero-America addresses the relationship between communication, politics and digital technologies in Latin American and the Iberian Peninsula, a geographical space linked by social, cultural and linguistic aspects. In recent years, digital media ... more

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State of digital development and trends in the Americas region: Challenges and opportunities

Geneva: ITU (2025), v, 51 pp.

"This publication provides an in-depth look at digital development across the region, revealing both substantial progress and areas where challenges persist. Internet use is widespread, with nearly nine in ten people online. In a milestone achievement, the Americas is the only region to have fully b ... more

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Los YO narrativos: Relatos de poder en Latam-Caribe
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Omar Rincón, Daiana Bruzzone, Luisa Uribe (eds.)

Bogotá: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), FES Comunicación; Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO) (2025), 287

"La gran batalla cultural es entre yopitalismo (libertad total para los negocios y el individuo) y democracia (bienestar social y trabajo por lo colectivo). El debate político es entonces entre un capitalismo que propone un individualismo de tener dinero para consumir y exhibir y una democracia que ... propone promover derechos para todos. La derecha dice que la democracia no sirve cuando ellos no ganan elecciones, el Estado no sirve pero se lo apropian para sus negocios, que los políticos y las élites progres lucran solo para ellos y nos imponen sus reglas morales. “Zurdos” los llama Milei, “virus mental woke” los nombra Musk, e “izquierdopatía” dice en Colombia la política de derechas María Fernanda Cabal. Todos defienden una fe: “¡Viva el YOpitalismo!”. Y esto ha llevado a que el sentido común sea que los políticos, los progres y la democracia son el enemigo. El resultado es que habitamos un momento político tóxico, indignación, polarización, donde triunfan los yo celebrities de hombres muy arrogantes (Milei, Bukele, Trump, Musk…) que no son el pueblo, que son especiales y únicos, superhéroes que guían al pueblo y lo convierten en hordas de fans y seguidores; que juegan muy bien en las redes digitales y en la coolture, esa cultura del pasarla bien, en modo fluido, habitando la euforia del consumo. Su éxito está en que producen espectáculo y emociones para la gente (a la que desprecian) y los periodistas (a quienes odian), pero gente y periodistas los aman e idolatran. Su discurso es hiperpersonalizado, violento, polémico, popularizante, tribalista. Por eso, creemos que si no los explicamos como “personajes” narrativos y sujetos estéticos no podremos hacer sentido de sus prácticas, no sabremos cómo debemos luchar contra sus egos y performances. Este libro nace de este argumento, mas que desde las razones y argumentos modernos, a estos “personajes” hay que entrarles en la lucha comunicativa y cultural desde lo narrativo y estético. Y eso es así porque la política, lo cultural y la democracia no tienen que ver con “realidades” o “hechos” o “razones”, sino con percepciones, emociones y sentido comunes. Para dar de cómo es que operan estas narrativas del poder en América Latina y Caribe les presentamos un mapa con algunos de los casos más resonantes de la región -claro que no son los únicos, sin embargo “para muestra sobra un botón”-. En la primera parte encontramos los textos que dan cuenta de narrativas presidenciales -actuales y recientes, a elección de las/os autores de cada país-; luego, encontramos el análisis de narrativas que se corresponden con voces influyentes (tanto o más que las gobernantes) como son las de la justicia, la legislatura, organizaciones populares o candidatos; y finalmente encontramos un apartado que da cuenta de narrativas superpoderosas: las tecnológicas, las feministas, las indígenas, los movilizaciones sociales que se cuelan en todos las demás prácticas y discursos de la comunicación política contemporánea." (El contexto, páginas 8-9) more

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State-Sponsored Disinformation Around the Globe: How Politicians Deceive their Citizens

Martin Echeverría Victoria, Sara Garcia Santamaria, Daniel C. Hallin (eds.)

Oxford: Routledge (2025), xiii, 336 pp.

"This book explores the pervasive and globalised trajectory of domestic disinformation. It describes specific operations and general apparatuses of disinformation that are sponsored by the State institutions in several countries around the world, such as governments, political parties, and politicia ... more

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Shaping Film Festivals in a Changing World: Practice and Methods

Dorota Ostrowska, Tamara Falicov (eds.)

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2025), 304 pp.

"This volume is a collective attempt on the part of a community of academics, film festival curators, and archivists to come to terms with practical and intellectual challenges of the pandemic and post-pandemic realities affecting cultures of film festivals. The collection draws contours of critical ... more

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Telecommunication networks and infrastructure resilience assessment in Haiti

Gregory Domond

Geneva: ITU (2024), xii, 96 pp.

[.] the report examines three pivotal areas of assessment. First, there was an evaluation of the damage to Haiti’s networks and infrastructure after the 2021 earthquake, along with the restoration of telecommunication services. Second, the assessment focused on Haiti’s country-level resilience, ... more