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Thanks to websites and social media platforms, conspiracy theories are able to reach a wider audience today than ever before. Such theories both fascinate and alarm critical thinkers because they challenge media consumers of all ages to hone their media literacy skills. This volume introduces the basic critical thinking concepts needed in order to evaluate the credibility of conspiracy theories, such as those surrounding the September 11 terrorist...
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Treinta entrevistas a personajes como Juan Rulfo, Juan José Arreola, José Luis Cuevas, Vicente Leñero, Elías Nandino, Juan Soriano, Alicia Alonso y Consuelo Velázquez, elegidas de entre cientos de conversaciones y grabaciones para la radio, la prensa o la televisión realizadas a lo largo de tres décadas de periodismo cultural.
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A lo largo de su primer siglo de vida, la industria audiovisual ha consolidado su saber-hacer (know-how) al ritmo de una doble dinámica: por un lado, un aprendizaje autodidacto, intuitivo, basado en la acumulación de experiencia y, por otro lado, un aprendizaje por emulación, adaptando el modus operandi de otras actividades empresariales basadas en la producción en serie.
Este último es el caso de la dirección o gestión de proyectos (project...
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At a time when sustainability is on everyone's lips, this volume is one of the first to offer an overview of sustainability and communication issues-including community mobilization, information technologies, gender and social norms, mass media, interpersonal communication, and integrated communication approaches-from a development and social change perspective. Drawing on contemporary theories of communication as well as real-world examples from...
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Joshua Wong was born in Hong Kong less than one year before China took back control of the city from the United Kingdom. While the handover was peaceful, Hong Kong's citizens lost their right to fully democratic elections. Joshua's leadership as an activist came to international attention in 2014, during pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong. The protest became known as the Umbrella Movement. Although Joshua and his student organization called Scholarism...
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Most Canadians are city dwellers, a fact often unacknowledged by twentieth-century Canadian films, with their preference for themes of wilderness survival or rural life. Modernist Canadian films tend to support what film scholar Jim Leach calls "the nationalist-realist project," a documentary style that emphasizes the exoticism and mythos of the land. Over the past several decades, however, the hegemony of Anglo-centrism has been challenged by francophone...
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Facebook, Google, and other major internet companies track clicks and use that data to provide personalized content. More and more, each person encounters a unique online world, what some experts call a "web of one." This essential resource explores what filter bubbles are and how they work. It looks at the potential downsides of filter bubbles, such as deepening political divides and the rise of confirmation bias. It offers helpful advice about how...
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This book represents voices of resistance from across the globe to document the communicative processes, practices, and frameworks through which neoliberal global policies are currently being defied. Based on examples, case studies, and ethnographic reports, Voices of Resistance serves as a space for engaging various perspectives from the global margins in dialogue. The emphasis of the book is on the core idea that creating spaces for listening to...
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When first published, Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media made history with its radical view of the effects of electronic communications upon man and life in the twentieth century. This edition of McLuhan's best-known book both enhances its accessibility to a general audience and provides the full critical apparatus necessary for scholars. In Terrence Gordon's own words, "McLuhan is in full flight already in the introduction, challenging us to...
30) Recognizing Bias
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The news media has long functioned as the American Fourth Estate, at its best correcting abuses of power in government and business, and at its worst amplifying the biases of reporters and publishers and promoting them as "truth." The explosion of new forms of media in the twenty-first century, coupled with new professional standards, advertising models, and technologies, has made it harder than ever to identify bias, let alone do anything about it....
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Este ensayo procura recuperar, pensando en los estudiantes pero tambièn interrogando a los investigadores, la dmensión seminal de un libro que demuestra en cada lectura su capacidad para generar interrogantes. Es esta cualidad la que lo vuelve imperecedero. No se trata aquí de ofrecer un camino sin esfuerzos, sino de ofrecer herramientas para transitar por los escarpados senderos de una obra densa en su tejido intertextual, sofisticada en su andamiaje...
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Writers have represented 9/11 and its aftermath with varying degrees of success. In Out of the Blue, Kristiaan Versluys focuses on novels that move beyond patriotic clichés and cheap sensationalism and provide new insights into the emotional and ethical impact of these traumatic events& mdash;and what it means to depict them. Versluys focuses on Don DeLillo's Falling Man, Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers, Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely...
33) From NWICO to WSIS: 30 Years of Communication Geopolitics: Actors and Flows, Structures and Divides
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Two major regulatory activities have framed global media policies since World War II: the New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO) and the more recent World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). Through extensive research and testimonies from those involved, this book presents an in-depth account from the 1970s to today of the major issues concerning information flow in international geopolitics, including a look at the negotiations...
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Co-edited by acclaimed media scholar Robert W. McChesney, the book features chapters by Bill Moyers, FCC Commissioner Michael Copps, Rep. Bernie Sanders, and Newspaper Guild president Linda Foley, among many others. With the American political landscape dominated by the influence of big business, the timing of The Future of Media could hardly be more precipitous. Endlessly pressured by lobbyists payrolled by corporate broadcasters, Congress is poised...
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Sociopaths are pervasive in contemporary television, from highbrow drama all the way down to cartoons, and of course the news as well. From the scheming Eric Cartman of South Parkto the seductive imposter Don Draper of Mad Men, cold and ruthless characters captivate us, making us wish that we could be, so effective and successful. Yet, why should we admire characters, who get ahead by being amoral and uncaring? In his follow-up to Awkwardness, Adam...
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The writing focuses on the responsibility media has in today's society. Too frequently, the accuracy, reliability and validity of media stories is questioned. As noted in the introduction, what is the public to believe, and what guidelines are available to weigh what is or is not true? Solid, factual reporting is freely mixed with opinions. It goes on to say that clearly the book is not designed as an unwarranted attack on conventional or tabloid...
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Pantallas, ecosistema de medios, TV, redes sociales, convergencia, transmedia, meta-medio, culturas participativas, nube, experiencias, consumo, ciudadanía, audiencias, usuarios y dispositivos móviles, entre otros elementos, constituyen la atmósfera de la era digital en la que se desenvuelve este libro.
Auscultando el presente, oteando el pasado, vislumbrando el futuro, los autores de esta obra analizan la metamorfosis de la TV en el nuevo escenario...
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¿Qué sucede cuando tu comunidad o familia normaliza el abuso y la violación? ¿Cómo enfrentar que se prioricen problemas como la escasez de maestros, comisarios, médicos o dirigentes por encima de tus derechos y dignidad?
Distintos lugares de la selva peruana evidencian las respuestas. Indiana, Mazán y Puinahua, en Loreto, y Nieva, en Amazonas, son cuatro distritos del Perú donde denunciar una violación sexual representa una traición a la...
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La Comunicación Responsable exige de las personas competencias, habilidades, conocimientos y actitudes éticas para que se logren aprendizajes, saberes, prácticas, contextos y responsabilidades más humanas, sustentables, cooperativas y armónicas que deriven en un mejor actuar personal, institucional, profesional, me- diático y gubernamental. Un liderazgo ético basado en una comunicación responsable, sin duda, derivará en una mejor ciudadanía,...
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Streaming headlines, round-the-clock broadcasts--we live in a world of twenty-four hour news. But lately, most of what we read and hear is either negative, biased, or both. Cutting through the gloomy reports and liberal slant are Dennis Keegan and David West with their brand new book, Reality Check: The Unreported Good News About America. Contrary to what the cynical reporters and politicians say, Keegan and West prove that America is still a shining...
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