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Pretty Liar: Television, Language, and Gender in Wartime Lebanon

Natalie Khazaal
Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press (2018), 325 pp.
"Pretty Liar" explores the rise of language and gender politics on Lebanese television to tell the untold story of the co-evolution of Lebanese television and its audiences and how the civil war of 1975-1991 affected that co-evolution. The shift in public interest in television has been widely ackno ... more
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Nirbhaya, New Media and Digital Gender Activism

Adrija Dey
Bingley: Emerald Publishing (2018), xiii, 232 pp.
"This title centres around digital gender activism focusing on the implications that the phenomenon of online gender activism has for politics, society, culture and gender relations/dynamics. On December 16th, 2012, Jyoti Singh, a female psychotherapy student from New Delhi was raped by six men in a ... more
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From Media to Buen Vivir: Latin American Approaches to Indigenous Communication

Carlos Arcila Calderón, Alejandro Barranquero, Eva González Tanco
Communication Theory, volume 28, issue 2 (2018), pp. 180-201
"This article synthesizes the theoretical developments concerning Latin American indigenous communication formulated in the last decade (2005–2015). By conducting a review of the main theoretical frameworks that have deepened the issue, we observe a gradual progression from the dominance of extern ... more
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Public Trust in Journalism: An Annotated Bibliography

E. McKewon
Sydney: University of Technology, Centre for Media Transition (2018), 77 pp.
"Part 1: Public Opinion Polls and Surveys, contains references to recent public opinion polls and surveys that measure public trust in journalism across dozens of countries and geopolitical regions including Australia, Africa, Asia, China, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and North America. Pa ... more
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Methods for Studying Video Games and Religion

Vít Sisler, Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, Xenia Zeiler (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2018), xviii, 221 pp.
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Who Speaks for the Past? Social Media, Social Memory, and the Production of Historical Knowledge in Contemporary China

Jun Liu
International Journal of Communication, volume 12 (2018), pp. 1675-1695
"This study explores the influence of social media on the (re)formation of social memory and the production of historical knowledge in society. It takes several contested debates over historical events and figures on Weibo, one of the most widely used social media, as the case to investigate how soc ... more
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Digital Inclusion: An International Comparative Analysis

Massimo Ragnedda, Bruce Mutsvairo, Gerard Goggin (eds.)
Lanham: Lexington Books (2018), xx, 223 pp.
"The volume examines the risks and opportunities of a digital society characterized by the increasing importance of knowledge and by the incessant rise and pervasiveness of information and communication technologies (ICTs). At a global level, the pivotal role of ICTs has made it necessary to rethink ... more
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Creative and Lucrative Da'wa: The Visual Culture of Instagram Amongst Female Muslim Youth in Indonesia

EF Nisa
Asiascape: Digital Asia, volume 5, issue 1-2 (2018), pp. 68-99
"Social media have become part of the private and public lifestyles of youth globally. Drawing on both online and offline research in Indonesia, this article focuses on the use of Instagram by Indonesian Muslim youth. It analyzes how religious messages uploaded on Instagram through posts and caption ... more
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How Effective is Communication in the Rohingya Refugee Response? An Evaluation of the Common Service for Community Engagement and Accountability

Nicola Bailey, Mahmuda Hoque, Katherine Michie, Fuad Ur Rabbi
London: BBC Media Action (2018), 30 pp.
"A survey, conducted in July 2018, interviewed 750 people from the Rohingya community and 750 people from the host community (local Bangladeshi citizens) about how they access information, what they think of the information and how they communicate with aid providers. The survey tracked how perceive ... more
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Humanitarian Feedback Mechanisms in the Rohingya Response, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh

Stijn Aelbers, Viviane Lucia Fluck, Jyoti Rahaman
Internews (2018), 53 pp.
"Since August 2017 over 671,000 people (mostly Rohingya) have crossed the border from Myanmar to Bangladesh to escape violence in Rakhine State. There are now more than one million Rohingya refugees staying in campsites along the Bangladeshi side of the border. In September 2017 Internews conducted ... more
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Media Coverage of Child Rights Issues in Uganda: The Case of 'The New Vision'

Ivan Ashaba, Marlon Agaba
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 10, issue 2 (2018), pp. 149-168
"Despite having a robust child protection framework and a burgeoning media, child rights abuse still occurs in Uganda. This takes the form of child neglect, defilement, torture, trafficking. The researchers set out to investigate media coverage of child rights issues in Uganda. A triangulation of me ... more
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Indigenous Knowledge for Climate Change Assessment and Adaptation

Douglas Nakashima, Igor Krupnik, Jennifer T. Rubis (eds.)
Cambridge; Paris: Cambridge University Press; UNESCO (2018), xx, 298 pp.
"This unique transdisciplinary publication is the result of collaboration between UNESCO’s Local and Indigenous Knowledge Systems (LINKS) programme, the United Nations University’s Traditional Knowledge Initiative, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and other organizations. Ch ... more
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Die neuen Verbraucher: Wie digitale Informationsangebote für Geflüchtete das Ankommen erleichtern können. Praxisleitfaden

Berlin: iRights (2018), 84 pp.
"Digitaler Verbraucherschutz hilft, Menschen zu erreichen, die sich nicht professionell mit dem Thema beschäftigen und niedrigschwellige, gut verständliche Verbraucherinformationen benötigen. Hier können fremdsprachige Angebote, aber auch Angebote in einfachem Deutsch einen Zugang ermöglichen. ... more
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TrollBusters: Fighting Online Harassment of Women Journalists

Michelle Ferrier, Nisha Garud-Patkar
In: Mediating Misogyny: Gender, Technology, and Harassment
Jacqueline Ryan Vickery, Tracy Everbach (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), pp. 311-332
"For women journalists, online harassment may result in emotional stress and may require legal and technological remedies to mitigate the damage caused to their identity and reputation. Perpetrators can use a combination of online and offline attacks that threaten the employment and safety of journa ... more
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Negotiating Dissidence: The Pioneering Women of Arab Documentary

Stefanie Van de Peer
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2018), vii, 238 pp.
"In spite of harsh censorship, conservative morals and a lack of investment, women documentarists in the Arab world have found ways to subtly negotiate dissidence in their films, something that is becoming more apparent since the ‘Arab Revolutions’. In this book, Stefanie Van de Peer traces the ... more
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Youth-Led Communication for Social Change: Empowerment, Citizen Media, and Cultures of Governance in Northern Ghana

Lise Grauenkaer, Thomas Tufte
Development in Practice, volume 28, issue 3 (2018), pp. 400-413
"This article critically assesses the possibilities and limitations of strategic communication initiatives to enhance cultures of governance among youth in Northern Ghana. The analysis is embedded within contemporary debates about communication and social change, with particular focus upon dynamics ... more
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The Representation of Immigration in Brazilian Online News Reporting

Heri Pontes
London: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Media@LSE (2018), 29 pp.
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The Age Gap in Religion Around the World: By Several Measures, Young Adults Tend to be Less Religious Than Their Elders

Pew Research Center (2018), 96 pp.
"Although the age gap in religious commitment is larger in some nations than in others, it occurs in many different economic and social contexts – in developing countries as well as advanced industrial economies, in Muslim-majority nations as well as predominantly Christian states, and in societie ... more
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Comunicar y educar en el mundo que viene

Roberto Aparici, David García Marín
Barcelona: Gedisa, 2da ed. ampliada (2018), 266 pp.
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Information Needs Assessment: Gao, Mali

Lucas Destrijckes et al.
Washington, DC et al.: Internews (2018), 63 pp.
"This study analyses if people on the move in the northeastern region of Mali, more specifically in the city of Gao, have accurate information at their disposal. It maps information needs and habits of migrant communities in Gao to better understand how these individuals and communities receive info ... more