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Millennials en Latinoamérica: Una perspectiva desde Ecuador

Antoni Gutiérrez-Rubí

Madrid; Barcelona: Fundación Telefónica;Ariel (2016), xi, 124 pp.

"El estudio se ocupa de analizar la relación de los millenials con la tecnología desde diferentes ámbitos de interés de su cotidianidad, como el trabajo, la educación, el acceso a la información o las actividades de ocio, y presenta una serie de retos y oportunidades alrededor de cada uno de e ... more

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Ethnic Media, Conflict, and the Nation-State: Kurdish Broadcasting in Turkey and Europe and Mediated Nationhood

Kevin Smets

Media, Culture & Society, volume 38, issue 5 (2016), pp. 738-754

"Drawing on fieldwork among Kurdish broadcasters in Turkey and Europe, this article shows how ethnic media mediate nationhood in a conflict context. Despite rising interest in the media-nationhood nexus, and the expansion of studies on ethnic media, little is known about ethnic media in conflicts in ... more

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Use of Mobile Phones by the Rural Poor: Gender Perspectives from Selected Asian Countries

Gerard Sylvester (ed.)

Bangkok: FAO;LIRNEasia;International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2016), xii, 51 pp.

"A qualitative study was conducted in Indonesia and Sri Lanka to understand the varied perceptions on the use and ownership of mobile phones [...] The study was conducted amongst four groups of people (urban men, urban women, rural men, and rural women) in each of two countries. The study found that ... more

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Ctrl + Z: The Right to be Forgotten

Meg Leta Jones

New York; London: New York University Press (2016), xiii, 269 pp.

"The central thesis of Crtl+Z is that a digital right to be forgotten is an innovative idea with a lot of possibilities and potential. The idea simply needs to be opened up, reframed, and restructured. The extreme options currently on the table limit the many ways to think about digital redemption a ... more

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Advocacy Campaign for the Rights of People with Disabilities: A Participatory Action Research Within a Community-Based Rehabilitation Project in Maharashtra, India

Atul Jaiswal, Shikha Gupta

Disability, CBR & Inclusive Development, volume 27, issue 4 (2016), pp. 76-92

"This paper aimed to demonstrate how participatory action research (PAR) within a Community-based Rehabilitation (CBR) project facilitated community participation to advocate for the rights of people with visual impairment. An advocacy campaign, led by the local people with and without disabilities, ... more

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Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form

Hillary L. Chute

Cambridge, Mass.; London: Belknap Press;Harvard University Press (2016), 359 pp.

"In hard-hitting accounts of Auschwitz, Bosnia, Palestine, and Hiroshima's Ground Zero, comics display a stunning capacity to bear witness to trauma. Investigating how hand-drawn comics has come of age as a serious medium for engaging history, Disaster Drawn explores the ways graphic narratives by d ... more

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Elderly People's Choice of Media and Their Perceived State of Loneliness

Erdem Öngün, Feride Zeynep Güder

Online Journal of Communication and Media Technologies, volume 6, issue 1 (2016), pp. 35-47

"This study aims at finding the relationship between elderly people’s perceived state of loneliness and their choice of (old and/or new) media instruments. The sample of the study consists of randomly selected 300 elderly people over 60 who reside in rest homes in two different cities, Hatay and � ... more

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Memory Studies: A Brief Concept Paper

Tanja Bosch

Media, Conflict and Democratisation (MeCoDEM) (2016), 9 pp.

"The paper presents: A discussion of the methods used in memory studies, explaining how attention to questions of methodology has been limited in memory studies because much research has been more concerned with theoretical issues. The paper reflects on the methods from oral history, as well as othe ... more

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Social Inequalities, Media, and Communication: Theory and Roots

Jan Servaes, Toks Oyedemi (eds.)

Lanham et al.: Lexington Books (2016), xxxix, 272 pp.

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Religion and Global Media: Impact of Arabic TV Channels on Lowland Eritrean Youth

Indira S. Mannar, Vijayalakshmi Peddiboyina

Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, volume 9, issue 2 (2016), pp. 221-236

"Satellite TV channels from the Middle East started beaming into Eritrea from 1996, and the Eritrean youth are avid consumers of the global messages from across the borders. Following an in-depth interview method as a research technique, using an unstructured, openended questionnaire, the present st ... more

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Linguapax Review 2016: Digital Media and Language Revitalisation

Linguapax (2016), 66 pp.

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Social Media in Industrial China

Xinyuan Wang

London: UCL Press;University College London (2016), xiii, 222 pp.

"Described as the biggest migration in human history, an estimated 250 million Chinese people have left their villages in recent decades to live and work in urban areas. Xinyuan Wang spent 15 months living among a community of these migrants in a small factory town in southeast China to track their ... more

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Miradas propias: Pueblos indígenas, comunicación y medios en la sociedad global

Claudia Magallanes Blanco, José Manuel Ramos Rodríguez

San Andrés de Cholula, Puebla, México; Quito: Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla;CIESPAL;Universidad Politécnica Salesiana (2016), 251 pp.

"El libro de Claudia Magallanes y José Manuel Ramos es fundamental para el debate sobre medios de comunicación indígena. Contiene el aporte colectivo de once capítulos, en los cuales autores de diferentes comunidades académicas ensayan nuevas perspectivas metodológicas de investigación. El te ... more

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Assessing Russia’s Influence in its Periphery

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG);Gallup (2016), 40 slides

"Russian speakers in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania rank Kremlin-backed media as the least trustworthy among international, Russian Federation and domestic news sources, according to research presented by the Broadcasting Board of Governors. In addition, only those survey respondents who considered R ... more

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Educomunicação: Formação pastoral na cultura digital

Helena Corazza

São Paulo: Paulinas (2016), 167 pp.

"Esta obra pretende contribuir com a Educação para a Comunicação, Educomunicação, voltada à pastoral e ao ambiente educativo. A Educomunicação reúne os conceitos de educação e de comunicação embasados nos valores humanos e cidadãos, sendo o comprometimento social e de transformação ... more

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Interactive Radio Program Report: An Integrated Approach to Addressing the Issue of Youth Depression in Malawi and Tanzania

Heather Gilberds, Adena Brown, Mark Leclair

Ottawa: Farm Radio International (2016), 23 pp.

"Here we discuss a unique and innovative radio-based approach to improving mental health literacy and creating a demand for mental health services—part of a larger project called 'An Integrated Approach to Addressing the Issue of Youth Depression in Malawi and Tanzania'. Grounded in theories of so ... cial and behavior change communication and edutainment, and leveraging participatory methodologies, Farm Radio International and partners Teen Mental Health and Farm Radio Trust in Malawi worked with local radio broadcasters in Malawi and Tanzania to design and deliver weekly, interactive youth radio shows about mental health. Ongoing engagement with the content, and deliberation over the messages, was facilitated through SMS feedback mechanisms, and mobile polls and quizzes delivered through the radio stations, along with school-based radio listening clubs that met weekly to listen to the programs and discuss the themes in a group. Over the course of the 45-month project, the radio shows gained immense popularity, in large part because they talked about issues that are important to youth, and incorporated the language youth use and music they prefer. The programs attracted an average of 500,000 listeners each week, and received tens of thousands of text messages and Facebook posts by young people giving feedback, telling the radio hosts about what topics they would like to hear about, and asking questions about mental health or requesting to be connected with a mental health expert. The impact of the radio was measured according to whether and to what extent the interactive media programs play a role in triggering or facilitating drivers of the process of change. These drivers include bringing about improvements in knowledge and attitudes, mobilizing a social movement, and facilitating greater social and public support to put mental health on the agenda as a topic of conversation, grounded in new understandings and new knowledge. Our findings demonstrate that an interactive radio campaign can have a marked effect on improving knowledge, decreasing stigma, and increasing demand for mental health services among youth in sub-Saharan Africa. Youth who listened to the radio programs fare better than their peers in understanding the signs and symptoms of mental health disorders and in knowing where to go if they or someone they know needs help. Further, interactive radio programs can have a direct impact on reducing stigmatizing attitudes, frequently recognized as a crucial element in promoting improved access to care." (Executive summary) more

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Young Citizens in South Africa: A Paradox of Engagement with Politics and the Media

Vanessa Malila, Marietjie Oelofsen

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 8, issue 2 (2016), pp. 187-203

"In 2014, South Africa’s democracy turned 20. Just like the young democracy is learning to find its feet, young citizens are negotiating the unknown territory of full citizenship rights while confronting a ‘totally different world than that of their parents’. Whether their parents were black a ... more

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Bring Back the Audience: A Discussion of the Lack of Audience Research in the Field of Media Development

Martin Scott, Christoph Dietz

Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 6, issue 2 (2016), 7 pp.

"This paper strives to highlight the significant lack of audience research in the field of media development and the consequences of this gap – both for project design and policy making – but also for broader efforts to integrate media into governance debates. Whilst this lack of evidence has be ... more

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Block Her Entry, Keep Her Down and Push Her Out: Gender Discrimination and Women Journalists in the Arab World

Jad P. Melki, Sarah E. Mallat

Journalism Studies, volume 17, issue 1 (2016), pp. 57-79

"This study examines why female journalists in an Arab country continue to be marginalized. It hypothesized that a set of interrelated factors, pertaining to gender discrimination, sexual harassment, and the lack of a legally and socially enabling environment, work together to systematically discour ... more

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Medienbildung und Teilhabegerechtigkeit: Impulse der Publizistischen Kommission der Deutschen Bischofskonferenz zu den Herausforderungen der Digitalisierung

Bonn: Deutsche Bischofskonferenz (2016), 30 pp.

"Eine umfassende Medienbildung ermöglicht es, die Prinzipien der katholischen Soziallehre auch in Bezug auf digitale Medien wahrzunehmen. Einzelne wie gesellschaftliche Gruppen können so zu einem souveränen Umgang mit Phänomenen der Digitalisierung wie mit digitalen Medien befähigt werden. Medi ... more