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"Hispano-Lusophone" Community Media: Identity, Cultural Politics and Difference
Barcelona: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2018), 216 pp.
Tejiendo nuestra historia: Investigación de la comunicación en América Latina
México, DF: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) (2018), 364 pp.
"Reúne los relatos sobre el devenir de la investigación en comunicación en América Latina que se presentaron en el coloquio homónimo el cual, dirigido a participantes del XIII Congreso de la Asociación Latinoamericana de Investigadores de la Comunicación, se realizó en la UNAM en octubre de
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Historias e historietas: Representaciones de la historia en el cómic latinoamericano actual
Madrid; Frankfurt am Main: Iberoamericana; Vervuert (2018), 258 pp.
"Con el presente volumen quisimos reunir trabajos que presentan diversos aspectos tanto de la producción historietística en la América hispanohablante, como de la representación de la Historia en este medio. Tan diversos como los países son los cómics aquí analizados, lo cual demuestra a nues
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"The 43 country reports included in this year’s Global Information Society Watch (GISWatch) capture the different experiences and approaches in setting up community networks across the globe. They show that key ideas, such as participatory governance systems, community ownership and skills transfe
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News Media Coverage of Environmental Challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean: Mediating Demand, Degradation and Development
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xiii, 195 pp.
"This edited collection provides a unique survey of the ways in which news media organizations across Latin America and the Caribbean cover global, regional and local environmental issues and challenges. There is growing recognition within academia, governments, industries, NGOs and civil society ab
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"Surgieron entre 2001 y 2017, y ya son 14 los medios que toman relevancia dentro y fuera de la Isla. La mayoría de sus equipos no rebasa una docena de empleados, muchas veces voluntarios. Todos estos medios tienen periodistas que trabajan desde La Habana, pero el 50% tiene oficinas o redacciones en
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Visualising Facebook: A Comparative Perspective
London: UCL Press (2017), ix, 224 pp.
"Why do women respond so differently to becoming a mother in England from the way they do in Trinidad? How are values such as carnival and suburbia expressed visually? Based on an examination of over 20,000 images, the authors argue that phenomena such as selfies and memes must be analysed in their
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Beyond the Hype: Mobile Phones and the Web to Improve Agricultural Value Chains
Wageningen: Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) (2017), 16 pp.
"CTA’s ICT4Ag project (2014–15) enabled seven organisations in Africa and the Caribbean to develop, test and promote information services for smallscale farmers and fishers, traders and lobbying groups. Key recommendations: Understanding users’ needs requires intensive interaction with potenti
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Análisis del desarrollo mediático en República Dominicana: Basado en la aplicación de los indicadores de desarrollo mediático de la UNESCO
Paris; La Habana: UNESCO (2017), 203 pp.
"Este libro presenta y analiza el estado de los medios de comunicación y del ejercicio periodístico en la República Dominicana. Es el resultado de un proceso de investigación que abarcó dos encuestas nacionales: una en 1,200 hogares de todo el territorio nacional para medir el grado de credibil
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Social Media in Trinidad: Values and Visibility
London: UCL Press (2017), xiv, 236 pp.
"Drawing on 15 months of ethnographic research in one of the most under-developed regions in the Caribbean island of Trinidad, this book describes the uses and consequences of social media for its residents. Jolynna Sinanan argues that this semi-urban town is a place in-between: somewhere city dwell
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Comics & Memory in Latin America
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press (2017), vi, 262 pp.
"Latin American comics and graphic novels have a unique history of addressing controversial political, cultural, and social issues. This volume presents new perspectives on how comics on and from Latin America both view and express memory formation on major historical events and processes. The contr
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Discursos mediáticos sobre la diferencia en América Latina y el Caribe
Barcelona: Editorial UOC (2017), 214 pp.
Media Interventions as Humanitarian Action
"This chapter aims to introduce the concept of an information intervention as an example of humanitarian action. Typically associated negatively with government efforts to incite conflict and tension, two case studies are explored-Haiti and Syria-to better understand how state-led information interv
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Last Station Before Hell: United Nations Peacekeepers
"The article discusses the film 'Last Station Before Hell' by Pierre-Olivier François. United Nations' Peacekeepers known as the Blue Helmets, are often the subject of criticism and negative press reports. Most notably they have been blamed for transmitting cholera to the victims of the earthquake
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Community Radio Rehabilitation Project, Haiti 2017
Internews (2017), 5 pp.
"Internews’ Humanitarian Information Service in Haiti, which ran from October 2016 to February 2017, was a DFID funded humanitarian project with the goal to improve the quality of timely and actionable information exchanges with Haitian communities affected by Hurricane Matthew. Internews’ two-w
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Freedom on the Net 2017: Manipulating Social Media to Undermine Democracy
Deep Insights
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
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Emergent Voices and Evolving Agendas: Writing Realities in Cuba’s New Media Landscape
Philadelphia, PA: Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) (2017), 25 pp.
"This paper aims to understand the motivations, decision-making processes, and missions of the producers of new Cuban media using interviews with journalists recruited from the wider group of twenty non-governmental publications. In ten semi-structured interviews, participants described their person
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Creative Economy Outlook and Country Profiles: Trends in International Trade in Creative Industries
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) (2016), vii, 161 pp.
"International trade in creative industries showed sustained growth in the last decade. The global market for traded creative goods and services totaled a record $547billion in 2012, as compared to $302 billion in 2003. Exports from developing countries, led by Asian countries, were growing faster t
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Cuba’s Parallel Worlds: Digital Media Crosses the Divide
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2016), 25 pp.
"For many years, the media development conversation regarding Cuba has largely focused on the country’s harsh censorship practices and other restrictions on freedom of expression. Those concerns remain. But with the opening of relations with the United States over the past two years, the conversat
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Journalism in a Small Place: Making Caribbean News Relevant, Comprehensive, and Independent
Calgary: University of Calgary Press (2016), xxv, 267 pp.
"Juliette Storr traces the history of news media, from its inception under British colonial rule to its development in the post-independence period, uncovering the political, economic, social, and technological factors driving current trends in Caribbean journalism. Interviews with journalists, edit
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