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Inflection Point: Impact, Threats, and Sustainability. A Study of Latin American Digital Media Entrepreneurs
Deep Insights
SembraMedia; Omidyar Network (2017), 68 pp.
"The main finding of this study is that digital media entrepreneurs are deeply transforming the way that journalism is conducted and consumed in Latin America. They are not just producing news — they are generators of change, promoting better laws, defending human rights, exposing corruption, and
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Violence against journalists in the Northern Triangle of Central America
Media Asia, volume 44 (2017), pp. 61-65
"José Luis Benítez provides an overview of the safety situation in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador." (Abstract)
Medien - Frauen - Perspektiven
Weltzeit (Deutsche Welle), issue 3 (2017), pp. 10-29
Transborder Media Spaces: Ayuujk Videomaking Between Mexico and the US
New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2017), xvii, 336 pp.
"Transborder Media Spaces offers a new perspective on how media forms like photography, video, radio, television, and the Internet have been appropriated by Mexican indigenous people in the light of transnational migration and ethnopolitical movements. In producing and consuming self-determined medi
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Innovative Journalism in Latin America
Austin, Tex.: Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas; Open Society Foundations (2017), 86 pp.
"This e-book was first published in Spanish on April 23, 2017 on the occassion of the 10th Ibero-American Colloquium for Digital Journalism organized by the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas at Austin. The book compiles reports from the series “Innovative Jour
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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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Global and Domestic Networks Advancing Prospects for Institutional and Social Change: The Collective Action Response to Violence Against Journalists
Journalism and Communication Monographs, volume 19, issue 2 (2017), pp. 84-152
"Violence against journalists has emerged as a global human rights issue as the number of those killed in the profession has steadily risen in the new millennium. This research utilized a collective action framework, applying an adapted qualitative network model to examine organizational mobilizatio
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La concentración infocomunicacional en América Latina 2000-2015: Nuevos medios y tecnologías, menos actores
Deep Insights
Bernal: Universidad Nacional de Quilmes; Observacom (2017), 228 pp.
"Hasta 2014, eran cinco los principales grupos que operaban en la región con capacidad de liderazgo y expansión más allá de las fronteras geográficas y de sectorización industrial: en orden de importancia a partir de su facturación, se trataba de Telefónica, América Móvil, Globo, Televisa
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Voces de rebeldía: Mujeres, radios comunitarias, movimiento social. una mirada desde la experiencia
Puebla: Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla, Master Thesis (2017), 123 pp.
"La emergencia de las radios comunitarias se da al interior de un proceso comunitario y colectivo de toma de conciencia de las agresiones institucionales por parte del Estado; de los intentos de despojo del territorio por parte de empresas trasnacionales, de la desinformación de los medios comercia
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Radios, redes e internet para la transformación social
Quito: Ediciones CIESPAL (2017), 286 pp.
"En el “Seminario Latinoamericano: Internet, Redes Sociales y Radios Comunitarias” se busco conjuntamente entre académicos, activistas de medios, comunicadores comunitarios y gestores culturales, exponer una gran diversidad de reflexiones acerca del estado de la comunicación en la región desd
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Violence, co-optation and corruption: Risks for the exercise of journalism and freedom of expression in Mexico
In: Beyond the Drug War in Mexico: Human Rights, the Public Sphere and Justice
London; New York: Routledge (2017), pp. 97-110
"Freedom of expression is a cornerstone of democratic society and essential for the formation of an informed public opinion. A society that is not well informed is never totally free. This chapter examines the interplay of external and internal risks on press freedom in five Mexican states. The conc
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Culture and Crisis Communication: Transboundary Cases from Nonwestern Perspectives
New York: Wiley (2017), xxix, 376 pp.
"Culture and Crisis Communication presents an examination of how politics, culture, religion, and other social issues affect crisis communication and management in nonwestern countries. From intense human tragedy to the follies of the rich, the chapters examine how companies, organizations, news out
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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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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
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Internet: Smarte neue Welt
welt-sichten, issue 12 (2017), pp. 12-42
"Digitale Medien verbreiten sich über die Welt: Auch in Madagaskar verwenden Kinder Handys. In Kenia nutzt die Regierungspartei in Wahlkämpfen bereits die gleichen Datenanalysen, die in den USA Donald Trump geholfen haben, Präsident zu werden. Und in der Wirtschaft bewirken Daten und Internet-Pla
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Combatting Cultural ‘nerve Gas’: Maintaining Traditional Media and Culture Through Local Media Production in Australia, Canada and Mexico
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
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Activismo en red y multitudes conectadas: Comunicación y acción en la era de Internet
Barcelona; México, DF: Icaria; Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Xochimilco (2017), 254 pp.
"El uso lúdico y libertario de las tecnologías digitales, iniciado por los primeros programadores y hacktivistas, se ha profundizado en las últimas décadas a partir de experiencias concretas que sorprenden en su irrupción y que contrastan con el desarrollo de estrategias tecnológicas para el c
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Liberation Technology in El Salvador: Re-Appropriating Social Media Among Alternative Media Projects
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2017), xvii, 214 pp.
"This ethnographic study explores how four alternative media projects in El Salvador integrated digital technologies-particularly social media-into their practices, and whether incorporating these technologies affected citizen participation not only in the media production process, but in a broader
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Punto de inflexión: Impacto, amenazas y sustentabilidad. Estudio de emprendedores de medios digitales latinoamericanos
Deep Insights
SembraMedia; Omidyar Network (2017), 68 pp.
"Este estudio es el primer estudio exhaustivo sobre el impacto que tienen emprendedores de medios digitales, los riesgos a los que se enfrentan, y si ha surgido un modelo de negocio viable para el periodismo digital independiente y de calidad. Para llevar a cabo esta investigación, SembraMedia, con
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