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"Drawing on the thought of Max Weber, in particular his theory of stratification, this book engages with the question of whether the digital divide simply extends traditional forms of inequality, or whether it also includes new forms of social exclusion, or perhaps manifests counter-trends that alle ... more

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The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography

Larissa Hjorth, Heather A. Horst, Anne Galloway, Genevieve Bell (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2017), xxiv, 494 pp.

"With the increase of digital and networked media in everyday life, researchers have increasingly turned their gaze to the symbolic and cultural elements of technologies. From studying online game communities, locative and social media to YouTube and mobile media, ethnographic approaches to digital ... more

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Wir und die Anderen? Eine Analyse der Bildberichterstattung deutschsprachiger Printmedien zu den Themen Flucht, Migration und Integration

Margreth Lünenborg, Tanja Maier

Gütersloh: Bertelsmann Stiftung (2017), 100 pp.

"Diese Studie analysiert die Bildberichterstattung in Tageszeitungen und Magazinen zu den Themen »Flucht« und »Migration« anhand ausgewählter Ereignisse. Welche Bilder von Geflüchteten, von Migrantinnen und Migranten werden uns in deutschen Printmedien gezeigt, welche bleiben ungesehen? Wer wi ... more

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An Ethnographic Approach to Low-Income Youth's Engagement in Communication for Social Change

Leonardo Custódio

Commons: Revista de Comunicación y Ciudadanía Digital, volume 6, issue 1 (2017), pp. 113-129

"This article presents an ethnographic approach to how low-income Brazilians of impoverished urban areas have engaged in community journalism and media activism. Exploring empirical materials collected during a seven-year research process (2009-2016), the article has two main objectives. One is to a ... more

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Discriminación hacia las mujeres y su representación en medios de comunicación

Jorge Andrés Díaz Londoño, Ana Paola Martínez S., Fernanda L. Espinoza Jiménez et al.

Consejo de Regulación y Desarrollo de la Información y Comunicación (CORDICOM) (2017), 414 pp.

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Discursos mediáticos sobre la diferencia en América Latina y el Caribe

Tânia Hoff, Doris E. Martínez (eds.)

Barcelona: Editorial UOC (2017), 214 pp.

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Media, Youth and Radicalization: The Role of Media and Digital Literacy in Countering Violent Extremism

Jad Melki

Beirut: Lebanese American University (LAU), Institute of Media Research and Training (IMRT);Media and Digital Literacy Acedemy of Beirut (MDLAB) (2017), 14 pp.

"This preliminary technical report examines the relationship between media uses of Lebanese youth and their potential attraction to extremism—broadly conceived. The study focuses on school students aged 14 to 18 and their teachers. It is based on 16 focus groups distributed across the country and ... more

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Media Consumption in Turkey

Benjamin Ryan, William Bell

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG);Gallup (2017), 46 slides

"Turks still have a large number of media outlets available to them, though press freedom is increasingly circumscribed. A significant portion of the population – especially among the better educated – express some degree of dissatisfaction with Turkish media. No single media outlet enjoys clear ... more

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Understanding Information & Communication Needs: A Study with Disaster Prone Communities in Riverine and Coastal Areas

Network for Information, Response And Preparedness Activities on Disaster (NIRAPAD) (2017), 44 pp.

"Critical gaps in the exchange of humanitarian information include:i) the range of humanitarian messages currently disseminated meets only a part of the communities’ needs [in riverine and coastal areas of Bangladesh], ii) certain messages are ambiguous and people get very limited guidance on how ... more

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Turn Up the Volume: Empowering Women Through Media. Lessons from BBC Media Action’s Governance Programming

Josephine Casserly

London: BBC Media Action (2017), 26 pp.

"This practice briefing sets out what BBC Media Action has learned about how media can provide a platform for both men and women to hold their leaders to account, while empowering them to participate in their own communities. Unpicking the challenges faced and the solutions found, it will bring toge ... more

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Implementing constitutional language provisions through the Indigenous Language Publishing Programme

Jana Möller, Beth le Roux

South African Journal of African Language, volume 37, issue 2 (2017), pp. 203-209

"The trade publishing sector in South Africa produces books primarily in English and Afrikaans, which is not representative of the spread of languages spoken in the country. In particular, there are very few books published for general readers in the local African languages. The Indigenous Language ... more

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Mobile Selves: Race, Migration, and Belonging in Peru and the U.S.

Ulla D. Berg

New York; London: New York University Press, paperback ed. (2017), xv, 304 pp.

"Berg examines the conditions under which Peruvians of rural and working-class origins leave the central highlands to migrate to the United States. Migrants often create new portrayals of themselves to overcome the class and racial biases that they had faced in their home country, as well as to cont ... more

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Reporting Bad News: Negotiating the Boundaries Between Intrusion and Fair Representation in Media Coverage of Death

Sallyanne Duncan, Jacki Newton

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2017), xii, 223 pp.

"Much has been written about disasters and large-scale tragedies, but this research concentrates on individual loss and the relationship between journalist and vulnerable interviewee. While much discussion in this area is negative, focusing on the ethics of intrusion and journalists who act insensit ... more

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Methodology: Using digital media for youth engagement and active citizenship

Youth e-Perspectives on Migration Project;Media Actie Kuregem - Stad (MAKS);Telecentre Europe;Telecentar (2017), 97 pp.

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Sexual and Reproductive Health Toolkit 2017
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Children’s Radio Foundation (CRF) (2017), 205 pp.

"We trust this guide will support you in creating exciting and impactful content for the airwaves and community outreach activities around young people’s sexual and reproductive health and rights. We have compiled this guide based on our experience and learning in our youth radio projects across S ... more

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Combatting Cultural ‘nerve Gas’: Maintaining Traditional Media and Culture Through Local Media Production in Australia, Canada and Mexico

Ian Watson

Journal of Alternative and Community Media, volume 2 (2017), pp. 1-13

"In Australia in the 1980s, large numbers of remote Indigenous radio stations were established due to a perception that the introduction of ‘mainstream’ satellite programming in remote areas would act as a form of cultural ‘nerve gas’ (Remedio, 2012: 295) that would threaten ‘the very isol ... more

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Women in Media: The Nepalese Perspective

K. C. Prakriti

International Journal of Social, Political and Economic Research, volume 4, issue 1 (2017), pp. 33-38

"A journalist is a person who involves in activities such as writing/ reporting for newspapers, magazines or on news websites in order to be published/ broadcasted. The journalists have social responsibility i.e. objective reporting. Media is the "Fourth Estate" and journalists are the watchdogs of ... more

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The Routledge Companion to Comics

Frank Bramlett, Roy Cook, Aaron Meskin (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2017), xvi, 455 pp.

"This cutting-edge handbook brings together an international roster of scholars to examine many facets of comics and graphic novels. Contributor essays provide authoritative, up-to-date overviews of the major topics and questions within comic studies, offering readers a truly global approach to unde ... more

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Childcare Workers, Global Migration and Digital Media

Youna Kim

Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge (2017), x, 204 pp.

"This book explores the transnational mobility, everyday life and digital media use of childcare workers living and working abroad. Focusing specifically on Filipina, Indonesian, and Sri Lankan nannies in Europe, it offers insights as to the causes and implications of women’s mobility, using data ... more

Sexual and Reproductive Health Toolkit 2017 Key Guidance

Sexual and Reproductive Health Toolkit 2017
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