The COVID-19 pandemic put a double challenge on Peruvian universities’ agenda: on the one hand, rethinking their material processes based on the online experience and, on the other hand, deconstructing the instrumentalization ...

This chapter gives an overview of Peruvian Regional Cinema, which the authors broadly define as filmmaking that takes place outside of Lima and is a low-budget cinema with artisanal forms of production and distribution ...

This chapter analyses the connections between the Ayacuchean film Bullying maldito, la historia de María Marimacha [Damned Bullying, the Story of María Marimacha] (Mélinton Eusebio, 2015), American horror and B-series ...

The short film is the area of cinematographic activity that has allowed Peruvian filmmakers to practice their craft. Each year, more than a hundred short films are produced in various regions of the country. These films ...

Much has been done to formalize miners in Peru; since its inception in 2006 the Ministry of Environment passed laws to align mining policies with international standards. However, the combination of the necessity to have ...

There are several reasons that explain why community and citizens’ media are so widespread and popular in Latin America. This chapter offers a series of short vignettes set in Colombia that describe the intricate processes ...

There is great diversity of educommunication experiences in Peru, projects and programmes that cover both traditional media and new digital media. However, its sustainability is precarious due to lack of resources, in the ...

This chapter presents an overview of the state of media education in Latin America. It begins with a historical contextualisation and proceeds to analyse five dimensions: socio-political context, regulatory framework, ...

After more than two decades of research on technological interventions in the transition to information societies, the burgeoning of mobile phones in developing countries has shifted the information and communication ...

Media consumption today takes on first order meanings that we can challenge, understand and clarify. This is where the audience learns to believe in watchdogging and vice versa. Citizen watchdog groups (Veedurias) attempt ...