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This guide is intended to be a one-stop starting point to guide you on the research proposal assignment for Community Media in Latin America (Joy Hayes, Spring 2013).
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"Los pollitos dicen pio pio", Santiago, Chile (August 2011).  Source: Lisa Gardinier.

 

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