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Journalists in El Salvador
Worlds of Journalism Study (2017), 6 pp.
"With regards to professional role orientations, journalists in El Salvador found it most important to report things as they are, to monitor and scrutinize political leaders, to educate the audience, and to let people express their views. The relevance of these roles was fairly undisputed among the
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Free Basics in Real Life: Six Case Studies on Facebook’s Internet “on Ramp” Initiative from Africa, Asia and Latin America
Amsterdam: Global Voices (2017), 35 pp.
According to the executive summary "Facebook’s Free Basics program aims to help bridge the digital divide through a mobile-based platform that allows users to connect to a handful of online services free of charge [...] This paper highlights the following findings: Language: Free Basics does not m
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Community Networks: The Internet by the People, for the People. Official Outcome of the UN IGF Dynamic Coalition on Community Connectivity
Deep Insights
Rio de Janeiro: Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro da Fundação Getulio Vargas (2017), 244 pp.
"This volume is structured in two sections exploring benefits, challenges and opportunities for community networks and analysing a series of community network case studies and forward-looking proposals, from which useful recommendations can be drawn. As a conclusion, this book includes the updated v
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Adjusting the Lens: Community and Collaborative Video in Mexico
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press (2017), 273 pp.
Pressefreiheit in Mexiko: Kampf um ein Grundrecht
Berlin: Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung (2017), 25 pp.
How Unsafe Contexts and Overlapping Risks Influence Journalism Practice: Evidence from a survey of Mexican journalists
In: The Assault on Journalism. Building Knowledge to Protect Freedom of Expression
Göteborg: Nordicom (2017), pp. 303-318
"Journalists in many countries work in contexts of continuous risk, but few empirical studies identify how these conditions influence practice or measure the relative influence of different kinds of risk. This study asks a national sample of Mexican journalists to report use of several measures to a
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Veracruz: Journalists and the State of Fear
Paris: Reporters Without Borders (2017), 35 pp.
Professionalism under threat of violence: Journalism, reflexivity, and the potential for collective professional autonomy in northern Mexico
Journalism Studies, volume 17, issue 6 (2016), pp. 684-702
"Mexico is one of the most dangerous places in the world for journalists, as more than 100 journalists have been murdered between 2000 and 2014, with almost half of those killed in the country's northern states. Through an analysis of in-depth interviews with journalists in northern Mexico, this qua
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The Praxis of Social Inequality in Media: A Global Perspective
Lanham et al.: Lexington Books (2016), xxiv, 269 pp.
" This volume contains chapters by an international array of scholars and provides case studies from various countries with critical empirical analysis of social inequalities and how they shape media narratives and experiences. The topics examined here include poverty in the media in Britain and Tur
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Freedom on the Net 2016. Silencing the Messenger: Communication Apps Under Pressure
Deep Insights
Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2016), 1021 pp.
"Internet freedom has declined for the sixth consecutive year, with more governments than ever before targeting social media and communication apps as a means of halting the rapid dissemination of information, particularly during antigovernment protests. Public-facing social media platforms like Fac
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Manual de telefonía celular comunitaria: Conectando al siguiente billón
Key Guides
México, DF: Redes por la Diversidad, Equidad y Sustentabilidad (2016), 57 pp.
"En 2013 inició operaciones la primera red de Telefonía Celular Comunitaria indígena en la comunidad Villa Talea de Castro en la Sierra Norte del estado de Oaxaca, en un esquema de red privada y utilizando un segmento del espectro atribuido a uso libre. En 2014, la entonces llamada Comisión Fede
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Photography in Latin America: Images and Identities Across Time and Space
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2016), 242 pp.
"Historical photographs taken in Latin America have now become key sites for memory politics, ethnographic imagination, and the negotiation of identity. This volume opens up a set of questions relating to the contemporaneous agency of images as well as their current appropriation via new technologie
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El poder y las sombras: Hacia el equilibrio político-mediático
Lima: Fondo Editorial del Congreso del Perú (2016), 660 pp.
"Los medios, ante la debilidad de los partidos e instituciones, lideran opinión y se tornan en inductores del pensamiento público, incluso contrapesando el poder de los gobiernos. ¿Cómo encontrar el equilibrio en un escenario tan violentamente polarizado en el que los dos extremos pretenden impo
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Media Sustainability Index 2016: The Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Nicaragua
Washington, DC: IREX (2016), 12 pp.
"The media landscape in Nicaragua has suffered substantial setbacks in recent years since President Daniel Ortega assumed power in 2007. With his government having taken hold, the number of independent media has shrunk, access to public information has become scarce, and a new governmental communica
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El periodismo por los periodistas: Perfiles profesionales en las democracias de América Latina
Buenos Aires: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS); Centro para la Información Ciudadana (infociudadana) (2016), 176 pp.
"La descripción del perfil laboral y los roles profesionales de los periodistas de Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador y México aporta evidencias de ciertas tendencias que ayudan a entender en qué consiste ser periodista en América Latina. Dentro del marco del proyecto World
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How Does Media Influence Social Norms? A Field Experiment on the Role of Common Knowledge
New York: New York University, Department of Politics; UNESCO (2016), 28 pp.
"How does media influence beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors? We know surprisingly little about this influence and I argue that two mechanisms account for its impact. Media provides new information that persuades individuals to accept it (individual channel), but also, media informs listeners about w
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Mexican Journalism, Still in the Line of Fire
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2016), 9 pp.
"Sadly, attacks on journalists in Mexico are nothing new. In April 2012, CIMA published a report detailing the violence against the media and recommending steps that the Mexican government could take in order to remedy the situation. The government of Mexico did enact some measures to protect journa
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Ciberperiodismo en Iberoamérica
Madrid; Barcelona: Fundación Telefónica; Ariel (2016), xxxiv, 441 pp.
"Ciberperiodismo en Iberoamérica relata los veinte primeros años (1995-2014) del periodismo digital en veintidós países: todos los de América Latina, además de España y Portugal. Con abundantes estadísticas, referencias históricas inéditas y curiosas imágenes rescatadas del pasado, este l
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