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NoC Special Online Session on Covid-19 - April 24 - Use of data to counter public health - Singapore, South Korea, Brazil, Israel

by Celina Beatriz

Dear Colleagues, Collaborators, and Friends, We hope this email finds you well. Given the COVID-19 public health crisis that affects so many of us around the globe, we thought it might be time for us to share experiences and resources that might inform our responses and strategies as Centers but also as individual members of the academic community. In collaboration with the NoC, we would like to invite you to be part of an interactive online discussion on how countries are using *data and apps as part of their strategies to counter the public health crisis caused by Covid-19 *taking place this *Friday, April 24th, at 9AM ET / 10AM Rio / 4PM Israel/ 9PM Singapore / 10PM South Korea*. We will hear from our colleagues in *Singapore *(Malavika - DAH), *Brazil *(Carlos Affonso Souza - ITS), I*srael* (Eldar Haber – Haifa Center for Law & Technology) and *South Korea *(K.S. Park – Open Net Korea) who will talk about the measures these countries are adopting using data to counter the Covid-19 crisis. We will host the meeting via Zoom, the details are included in this RSVP form <https://itsrio2.typeform.com/to/JTGSvN>. Please share this opportunity also with your colleagues at the Center as we aim for a robust number of participants. Looking forward to seeing you all on Friday. Be well, Celina, Carlos, Sandra, Amar and Urs -- *Celina M.A. Bottino* *Diretora de Projetos* *Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade do Rio de Janeiro (ITS)* https://www.facebook.com/ITSriodejaneiro itsrio.org +55 21 3486-0390

April 22, 2020

New Book: De-Westernizing Visual Communication and Cultures

by Maria Faust M.A.

We would like to announce a recent publication from NOMOS Publishing, which we hope will be of interest. Thomas Herdin, Maria Faust, Guo-Ming Chen (Hrsg.) De-Westernizing Visual Communication and Cultures Perspectives from the Global South 1. Auflage 2020, ISBN print: 978-3-8487-6577-5 [Titel anhand dieser ISBN in Citavi-Projekt übernehmen] , ISBN online: 978-3-7489-0693-3 [Titel anhand dieser ISBN in Citavi-Projekt übernehmen] , https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748906933 [Titel anhand dieser DOI in Citavi-Projekt übernehmen] Reihe: Interkulturelle und transkulturelle Kommunikation | Intercultural and Transcultural Communication <https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/buchreihe/B001073800/interkulturelle-und-tran…>, Bd. 3 This edited volume gives voice to pluralised avenues from visual communication and cultural studies regarding the Global South and beyond, including examples from China, India, Cambodia, Brazil, Mexico and numerous other countries. Defining visual communication and culture as an umbrella term that encompasses imagery studies, the moving image and non-verbal visual communication, the first three chapters of the book describe de-Westernisation discourse as a way to strengthen emic research and the Global South as both a geographical concept and, even more so, a category of diversity and pluralism. The subsequent regional case study-based chapters draw on various emic theories and methodologies and find a complex arrangement of visuality between sociocultural and sociopolitical practices and institutions. This book targets a wide range of scholars: academics with expertise in (regional) visual studies as well as researchers, students and practitioners working on the Global South and de-Westernisation. *With contributions by* Jan Bajec, Sarah Corona Berkin, Ivana Beveridge, Birgit Breninger, Guo-Ming Chen, Uttaran Dutta, Maria Amália Vargas Façanha, Maria Faust, Hiroko Hara, Thomas Herdin, Thomas Kaltenbacher, Fan Liang, Xin Lu, C.S.H.N.Murthy, Ana Karina de Oliveira Nascimento, Simeona Petkova, Radmila Radojevic, Renata Wojtczak -- Maria Faust M.A. Doctoral Candidate UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG Institute for Communication and Media Studies https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Maria_Faust2 https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-faust-6a158837/

April 3, 2020