>From: "ALAI" <info@alainet.org>
>Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 13:38:06 -0500
>Subject: New book: Communication in Movement
>
>Communication in Movement
>ALAI
>
>“Communication in Movement”, a new publication of ALAI
>(Agencia Latinoamericana de Información), examines the
>complex relations between social movements and
>communication.
>
>In the last decade, Latin America has seen the emergence
>of social and citizen movements dedicated to building
>alternatives to the neoliberal order. One of the central
>goals they have set is to appropriate and democratize
>communication. This work explores that process,
>scrutinizing the experiences of the organizations
>involved in outstanding social and citizen coordinating
>bodies and networks of the continent.
>
>One of the characteristics of these networks is their
>commitment to joint endeavors, as a means of capacity
>building. An expression of this phenomenon is the "Minga
>Informativa de Movimientos Sociales" (Social Movements
>Information Pool), sustained by the Latin American
>Coordination of Rural Organizations (CLOC/Via Campesina),
>the Continental Front of Community Organizations (FCOC),
>The Women Transforming the Economy Network (REMTE), the
>Cry of the Excluded, the Assembly of Caribbean Peoples,
>the LGBT South-South Dialogue and the Indigenous Liaison.
>
>A first overview of this process had already been
>undertaken in 2000-2001, which was published under the
>title "Social Movements on the Net". The new publication
>goes into greater depth on the experience of
>organizations such as the Landless Workers' Movement (MST)
>of Brazil, the rural organizations ANAMURI of Chile and
>ATC of Nicaragua, the indigenous organization CONAIE of
>Ecuador, among others. It deals with issues such as
>movements and networked communication, the challenges and
>difficulties of appropriating new information and
>communication technologies (ICTs), the repercussions in
>organizational terms, for processing information and for
>training; the positions movements adopt towards the media,
>building their own media (both written and broadcast) and
>the foray into cyberspace, underlining the experience of
>the Social Movements Information Pool. Through all these
>themes, a cross-cutting issue stands out, which are the
>signposts that point to definitions of communications
>policy and strategies.
>
>
>“Communication in Movement”
>Authors: Osvaldo León, Sally Burch, Eduardo Tamayo G.
>ALAI, Quito, 164 páginas, 2005
>(Abbreviated version of the Spanish publication:
>"Comunicación en Movimiento", ALAI 2005.)
>
>Information and orders:
>http://www.alainet.org/publica/comm_mov/en/
>Telf: (593 2) 2505074
>Fax: (593 2) 2505073
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