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El quehacer del periodista se ha modificado sustancialmente. Los materiales periodísticos impresos, televisivos o radiofónicos se producen hoy de manera completamente distinta a la de hace años. Las tecnologías de la comunicación y de la información posibilitaron que se redujera el tiempo y el espacio, lo que ha reducido el tiempo de reflexión y de investigación. El periodismo en línea, en tiempo real, los blogs y las herramientas de las redes sociales digitales constituyen innovaciones en las rutinas profesionales. Pero ¿cómo observa el profesional de la información esos cambios? ¿Qué piensa el periodista sobre su propio trabajo y sobre el periodismo en general? ¿Cómo la actividad laboral le organiza su vida? ¿Qué tipo de consumidor mediático es el periodista?
This book presents selected international research on journalism and safety with a focus on digital threats against journalists and their professional practices. It offers an overview of ongoing developments in the field of journalism and safety from diverse regions around the world. From various theoretical, conceptual and empirical perspectives, the chapters address the escalating global concern of pervasive phenomena such as cyber-surveillance, orchestrated attacks, trolling and online harassment and underscore the precariousness of journalists' work in various geographical locations. A section of the book examines the safety conditions of female journalists, focusing on their responses t...
Beginning with Number 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and research underway in specialized areas.
This volume showcases the vibrancy of the study of digital journalism in Latin America. It includes an inquiry into journalists’ perceptions of media companies’ policies regarding social media use; a survey of investigative reporters; an examination of the interaction between traditional broadcast journalists and online news teams in two television stations in Colombia; research on modes of news consumption on Facebook and WhatsApp in Costa Rica and Chile; and a study of the institutionalization of independent journalism in Brazil. The methods employed by the contributors include surveys, in-depth interviews, eye tracking, and participant observation. These texts reveal differences acros...
Big Tech has sold us the illusion that artificial intelligence is a frictionless technology that will bring wealth and prosperity to humanity. But hidden beneath this smooth surface lies the grim reality of a precarious global workforce of millions that labour under often appalling conditions to make AI possible. Feeding the Machine presents an urgent, riveting investigation of the intricate network of organisations that maintain this exploitative system, revealing the untold truth of AI. Based on hundreds of interviews and thousands of hours of fieldwork over more than a decade, this book shows us the lives of the workers often deliberately concealed from view and the systems of power that determine their future. It shows how AI is an extraction machine that churns through ever-larger datasets and feeds off humanity’s labour and collective intelligence to power its algorithms. Feeding the Machine is a call to arms against this exploitative system and details what we need to do, individually and collectively, to fight for a more just digital future.
The Digital Continent investigates what the impact of the growth of digital work in Africa means for workers. The volume draws on a year-long field study conducted in South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, and Uganda to provide one of the first empirical studies on the topic.
This book examines the emergence of alternative forms of news reporting in Brazil with a focus on progressive not-for-profit initiatives. In combining different genres of non-commercial journalism, this study allows us to better understand the potential of alternative news producers in times of continuing technological shifts and their efforts to diversify the news production. Sarmento explores a range of significant questions, including: what does it mean to practice “alternative” journalism? To what extent do non-mainstream practices subvert the taxonomy of news values? Do alternative journalists adhere to or reject journalism’s core values? And, more specifically, as more and more j...
Pensar o contemporâneo exige uma capacidade de antecipação. Pensar, no caso, significa utilizar todos os meios disponíveis para tentar explicar (procedimento lógico-racional) e compreender (empatia) os fenômenos e acontecimento. Pensa melhor quem pesquisa, levanta novos dados, dialoga com a realidade, formula hipóteses, questiona, analisa e ousa desvelar o que se esconde diante de todos. Pensa-se melhor ainda quando se adota uma perspectiva transdisciplinar. Este livro, reunião de textos articulados a partir de um elemento de unificação, os impactos e aprendizados da pandemia de Covid-19 na perspectiva dos relacionamentos organizacionais, amplia uma importante brecha nas reflexões sobre o tema. Em tempos sombrios, quando se precisa mais do que nunca de ciência, iluminismo e conhecimento, esta obra honra organizadores, autores e academia. Leitura obrigatória.
Meios e Audiências IV dá continuidade à análise sistemática da produção discente – mestrado e doutorado – da área de comunicação, visando traçar o estado da arte dos estudos de consumo e recepção midiática no país. Esse volume abrange a produção realizada entre 2016 e 2020 e propõe uma agenda para os próximos anos.
"Como tecemos os significados cotidianos? Como somos tecidos por eles? Este livro revela como os algoritmos, ao se entrelaçarem à vida cotidiana das pessoas, atuam como mediadores culturais. Um estudo de recepção é o ponto de partida para Kérley Winques apresentar uma abordagem pioneira sobre os processos de uso e apropriação da tecnologia, com uma releitura do Mapa das Mediações, de Martín-Barbero, redesenhando no contexto das interações simbólicas no ambiente tecnológico. Com uma mirada corajosa, precisa e muito clara, Winques apresenta o "Mapa das Mediações Algorítmicas", no qual analisa de que forma os sujeitos experimentam suas relações cotidianas, decisões e interações nas plataformas digitais. Retrato de um momento histórico delicado, este livro é uma importante contribuição para entender o impacto dos algoritmos na vida em sociedade." Raquel Ritter Longhi