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This book focuses on the migrations and metamorphoses of black bodies, practices, and discourses around the Atlantic, particularly with regard to current issues such as questions of identity, political and human rights, cosmopolitics, and mnemo-history.
The popularization of the Internet, due in larger part to the advent of multifunctional cell phones, poses new challenges for health professionals, patients, and caregivers as well as creates new possibilities for all of us. This comprehensive volume analyzes how this social phenomenon is transforming long-established healthcare practices and perceptions in a country with one of the highest numbers of Internet users: Brazil. After an opening text that analyzes the Internet and E-Health Care as a field of study, the book comprises six parts. The first part introduces the emergence and development of the internet in Brazil, its pioneering experience in internet governance, digital inclusion, a...
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Cover note: Revisd edition including commentary on the 2002 World Cup.
Chronicles the first decades of an informal lottery called the jogo do bicho, or animal game, which originated in Rio de Janeiro in 1892, and remains popular in Brazil today.
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Ao explorar as interfaces entre Comunicação e covid-19, o livro contribui para reflexão sobre as disputas de sentidos em torno da pandemia e trabalha os afetos como importantes chaves de leitura do fenômeno. Dentre as temáticas abordadas, destacam-se: o contexto político e as lógicas neoliberais articuladas ao enfrentamento da covid-19; afetos e subjetividades em relação à experiência da doença e do isolamento social; e os modos pelos quais religião e os marcadores sociais da diferença impactaram as concepções de risco relacionadas à pandemia.
No other national stereotype in the world is so closely tied with a sport, as Brazil is with football. The five-time world champions have constructed their national identity around this sport. Perhaps for this reason it’s no wonder that there are many Brazilian social scientists doing research on this theme. The first part of this volume is dedicated to the history of Brazilian football. The main question is how did football become so popular in the country? It also looks at other interesting historical developments in Brazilian football history up to this day. The second part considers current phenomena, especially the place of Brazilian football in a globalized world: What are the conseq...
Com a participação de 33 autores e autoras brasileiras e estrangeiras, com grande atuação no campo da comunicação e em outras áreas do conhecimento, este livro, composto por 20 capítulos, propõe uma análise crítica e apurada do cenário e dos desdobramentos sociais, políticos, científicos, ambientais, territoriais, culturais e humanitários da pandemia da Covid-19, no Brasil e em outros países, na perspectiva da comunicação, em seus diversos campos: comunicação de riscos; comunicação ambiental, comunicação científica; comunicação e saúde, comunicação política, comunicação comunitária, jornalismo humanitário e de paz, comunicação e linguagem; semiótica, comunicação e relações internacionais.