The volume brings together scholars from across the Americas to address the complex evolution of political and policy media spaces as they are studied from a range of perspectives.
Sponsored by the Brazil-U.S. Colloquium on Communication Studies of the Brazilian Society for Interdisciplinary Studies in Communication and the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS), this volume of Studies in Media and Communications is entitled Geo Spaces of Communication Research.
The volume brings together scholars from across the Americas to address the complex evolution of political and policy media spaces as they are studied from a range of perspectives. The volume probes how media and digital tech are transforming how individuals, groups, and societies communicate within and across social worlds, as well as how emergent methodologies are evolving to keep pace with these phenomena.
Chapter
1. Problematizing Communication Research in the Public Sphere;
Katia Moles, Laura Robinson, Sonia Virginia Moreira, and Jeremy Schulz
Section
1. Political and Policy Media Spaces
Chapter
2. Small Internet Providers as Agents: Internalizing Digital
Infrastructure in Brazil; Sonia V. Moreira, Nélia R. Del Bianco, and Cézar F.
Martins
Chapter
3. An Analysis of Bolsonaro and Trump's Social Media: Agenda Setting
in Presidential Campaigns in Brazil and the U.S.; Élida Borges Rodrigues
Gomes and Tatiana Monteiro Reis
Chapter
4. A Disaster After the Disaster: A Comparative Framing Analysis of
the Samarco Dam Collapse; Julianna M. Trammel
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5. Digital Participation of Left-Wing Activists in Brazil: Cultural
Events, Mobilization, and Networked Protest; Julien Figeac, Nathalie Paton,
Angelina Peralva, Arthur Coelho Bezerra, Héloļse Prévost, Pierre Ratinaud,
and Tristan Salord
Section
2. Communication Research and Journalism
Chapter
6. Local and Regional Journalism in the Interior of Brazil: Contexts,
Developments, and Emergent Themes; Jacqueline da Silva Deolindo
Chapter
7. On the Role of Redundancy in the Popularization of Science: An
Analysis of Brazilian Journalistic Texts on Covid-19; Margarethe Born
Steinberger-Elias
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8. Reshaping Journalism Practices through Collaboration: An Analysis
of Three Collaborative Projects in the Americas; Lucia Mesquita, Gabriela
Gruszynski Sanseverino, Mathias Felipe de Lima Santos, and Giuliander Carpes
da Silva
Section
3. Communication Research Methods
Chapter
9. In the field in Brazil and the USA: Doing Ethnography in
Communication; Aline Maia
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10. Visualizations as Evidence in the Arts, Humanities, and Social
Sciences; Jeremy Schulz, Laura Robinson, and Katia Moles
Laura Robinson is Professor of Sociology at Santa Clara University, USA.
Katia Moles is a Social Ethicist of Technology in the School of Engineering at Santa Clara University, USA.
Sonia Virginia Moreira is Professor of the Graduate Program in Communication at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Jeremy Schulz is Researcher at the UC Berkeley Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, USA.
