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Countdown to Brazil’s 2018 Elections, Part 1: Polarization, ‘Fake News,’ and Fact Checking

By Luisa Fenizola • Translation by Anna Jönsson • February 22, 2018

Clique aqui para Português This is the first article in an ongoing series on the Brazilian electoral political scene in 2018. The year of 2018 promises to be intense for Brazilian politics, with concrete impacts […]

*Highlight

Broken Connection Part 3: Right to the Internet and Internet for Rights

By data_labe, Escola de Jornalismo Énois • Translation by Desirée Poets • February 7, 2018

Clique aqui para Português This is the third article in a four-part series on Internet access in favelas and urban peripheries in Brazil. Don’t miss parts one and two. For the entire original article in Portuguese […]

#CommunityMedia

Broken Connection Part 2: Polygons of Disconnection

By data_labe, Escola de Jornalismo Énois • Translation by Cheyne Bull, Desirée Poets • February 1, 2018

Clique aqui para Português This is the second article in a four-part series on Internet access access in favelas and urban peripheries in Brazil. Don’t miss part one here. For the entire original article in Portuguese […]

#CommunityMedia

Broken Connection Part 1: When There Is No Internet Access

By data_labe, Escola de Jornalismo Énois • Translation by Desirée Poets • January 22, 2018

Clique aqui para Português This is the first article in a four-part series on Internet access in favelas and urban peripheries in Brazil. For the entire original article in Portuguese by Escola de Jornalismo Énois and data_labe published […]

*Highlight

Anitta’s Global Hit ‘Vai Malandra’ Music Video In Context: Favela Funk and Passinho

By Lucy McMahon • January 17, 2018

Clique aqui para Português The December sun beats down on a vividly painted school playground, where several teenagers are going through the fast steps of a passinho phrase. They pause to teach each other, to […]

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