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Bridging the Gender Gap: Mobile Access and Usage in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Connected Women 2015

Shireen Santosham, Dominica Lindsey

GSMA;Altai Consulting (2015), 128 pp.

"Women on average are 14% less likely to own a mobile phone than men, which translates into 200 million fewer women than men owning mobile phones. Women in South Asia are 38% less likely to own a phone than men, highlighting that the gender gap in mobile phone ownership is wider in certain parts of ... more

Cómo mantenernos seguros/as contra la explotación sexual en internet: Una guía para los/as jóvenes

Stephanie Delaney (ed.)

Bangkok: ECPAT International (2015), 28 pp.

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Journalism, Audiences and Diaspora

Ola Ogunyemi (ed.)

Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2015), xix, 256 pp.

"This collection takes the study of diasporic communication beyond the level of simply praising its existence, to offering critical engagements and analysis with the systems of journalistic production, process and consumption practices as they relate to people who are living outside the borders of t ... more

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Violations Against Female Journalists in the West Bank and Gaza Strip

Ghazi Bani Odeh

Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) (2015), 25 pp.

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Alltag und Medien: Mediatisierung in der arabischen Welt

Ines Braune

In: Arabische Medien

Carola Richter; Asiem El Difraoui (eds.)

Konstanz; München: UVK (2015), pp. 75-86

"Beide Beispiele, das der Frauen im ländlichen Ägypten und das der jungen Menschen in Marokko zeigen, inwiefern sozialer und medialer Wandel im Alltag neue Medienpraktiken und damit neue Handlungsoptionen eröffnen, die bestehende Machtmuster wie patriarchale Dominanz und geografische Marginalisie ... more

Estereotipos de la mujer andina en los programas de humor de la TV peruana

Luis R. Alarcón

Lima: Consejo Consultivo de Radio y Televisión (CONCORTV) (2015), 56 pp.

"Los estereotipos que de la mujer andina se tienen a partir de los programas de humor de la TV peruana son negativos básicamente por la fisonomía física (en general, poco atractiva, descuidada y hasta sucia) y la fisonomía intelectual (habilidad y entendimiento limitados, instrucción baja o nul ... more

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Owning the issues of crime and immigration: The relation between immigration and crime news and anti-immigrant voting in 11 countries

Bjorn Burscher, van Spanje, Joost, Claes H. de Vreese

Electoral Studies, volume 38 (2015), pp. 59-69

"It is still not well understood how the media affect anti-immigrant party voting. In this paper, we argue and demonstrate empirically that mere exposure to immigration- and crime-related news is positively related to the likelihood that a voter casts a vote for an anti-immigrant party. On the basis ... more

Mediennutzung und Lebenswelten: Ergebnisse der ARD/ZDF-Langzeitstudie Massenkommunikation

Bernhard Engel, Lothar Mai

Media Perspektiven, issue 10 (2015), pp. 427-441

"Radio und Fernsehen sind unverändert die Leitmedien in allen Lebenswelten. Sie bleiben die meistgenutzten Medien in allen Milieus. Das Internet hat in den avantgardistischen Milieus der Performer und des expeditiven Milieus die höchste Reichweite. Tageszeitungen erreichen diese Milieus nur noch i ... more

Unboxing Television in Contemporary Indonesia

Yanuar Nugroho, Dwitri Amalia, Leonardus K. Nugraha, Fajri Siregar, Klara Esti, Dinita Andriani Putri

Jakarta: Centre for Innovation Policy and Governance (CIPG) (2015), xxiii, 210 pp.

"Having spent some time in the living rooms of 12 families across Greater Jakarta, West Java and East Nusa Tenggara, we found that audience has their own ways of consuming media and capacity to reflect on the content they are served. This capacity differs varyingly, fundamentally depending on three ... more

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Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa: Mediating Conflict in the Twenty-First Century
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Winston Mano (ed.)

London: Tauris (2015), xviii,347 pp.

"In today's Africa racism and ethnicity have been implicated in serious conflicts - from Egypt to Mali to South Africa - that have cost lives and undermined efforts to achieve national cohesion and meaningful development. Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa sets about rethinking the role of me ... more

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La participación de la audiencia en la televisión: De la audiencia activa a la social

Natalia Quintas Froufe, Ana González Neira (coord.)

Madrid: Asociación para la Investigación de Medios de Comunicación (AIMC) (2015), 166 pp.

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Ibero-American Observatory of Television Fiction Obitel 2015: Gender Relations in Television Fiction

Maria Immacolata Vassallo de Lopes, Guillermo Orozco Gómez (eds.)

Porto Alegre: Sulina;Globo Comunicação e Participações (2015), 526 pp.

"In 2014, Mexico, Brazil, Portugal, Colombia and Argentina, in that order, were the top five countries in the production of national fiction hours. Once again, Brazil and Mexico, despite the drop suffered by the latter, continued to be the largest producers of fiction in the Ibero-American region. I ... more

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Trauma and Public Memory

Jane Goodall, Christopher Lee (eds.)

Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2015), xii, 231 pp.

"This collection of essays and interviews offers perspectives on traumatic experience from the social and public side of the equation. Like other books in the Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies Series, it is concerned with redressing the balance of public memory through a focus on what has been negle ... more

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Women's Cinema, World Cinema: Projecting Contemporary Feminisms

Patricia White

Durham: Duke University Press (2015), ix, 270 pp.

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Children and Media: A Global Perspective

Dafna Lemish

West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell (2015), xiv, 278 pp.

"Taking a global and interdisciplinary approach, Children and Media explores the role of modern media, including the internet, television, mobile media and video games, in the development of children, adolescents, and childhood. Primer to global issues and core research into children and the media i ... more

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Journalism and Human Rights: How Demographics Drive Media Coverage

John C. Pollock (ed.)

Lodon et al.: Routledge (2015), 166 pp.

"This book is the first collection of original research to explore links between demographics and media coverage of emerging human rights issues. It covers cross-national reporting on human trafficking, HIV/AIDS, water contamination, and child labour; and same-sex marriage, Guantanamo detainee right ... more

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Study on the Effects of New Information Technologies on the Abuse and Exploitation of Children

Vienna: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) (2015), xi, 60 pp.

"In enhancing the fight against ICT-facilitated child abuse and exploitation, governments and national authorities may focus on a child protection approach that fully respects human rights; on ensuring that legislation keeps pace with technological innovation; on recruiting, training and maintaining ... more