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"How do memories circulate transnationally and to what effect? How to understand the enduring role of national memories and their simultaneous reconfiguration under globalization? Challenging the methodological nationalism that has until recently dominated the study of memory and heritage, this book ... more

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Children, ICT and Development: Capturing the Potential, Meeting the Challenges

Dorothea Kleine, David Hollow, Sammia Poveda

London; Florence: University of London, ICT4D Centre at Royal Holloway;Jigsaw Consult;UNICEF Office of Research (2014), viii, 62 pp.

"The pioneering research process consisted of a review of relevant literature and in-depth interviews with 35 experts in the field connecting ICT4D with child-focused development, thus providing one of the most comprehensive overviews of the subject to date. The literature review focuses on the topi ... more

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Arab TV-Audiences: Negotiating Religion and Identity

Ehab Galal (ed.)

Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang (2014), 150 pp.

"Today the relations between Arab audiences and Arab media are characterised by pluralism and fragmentation. More than a thousand Arab satellite TV channels alongside other new media platforms are offering all kinds of programming. Religion has also found a vital place as a topic in mainstream media ... more

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Programa sobre el derecho de las personas a ser escuchadas: Guía de aprendizaje

Adrienne Hopkins, Stephanie Debere et al.

Oxfam (2014), 120 pp.

"Por su propia naturaleza, trabajar eficazmente por el derecho de las personas a ser escuchadas es una tarea compleja y multidimensional, y requiere acciones a diferentes niveles y sectores, valiéndonos de diversas estrategias. El objetivo de esta guía es orientar nuestro trabajo y hacer hincapié ... more

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Contemporary Media Use in Russia

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG);Gallup (2014), 40 slides

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More or Less Equal: How Digital Platforms Can Help Advance Communication Rights

Philip Lee, Dafne Sabanes Plou (eds.)

Geneva: Globethics.net (2014), 158 pp.

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Media Survey Findings: Nationwide National Opinion Survey, Wave III, September 2014

Internews (2014), 36 pp.

Key findings include: 35% of people interviewed had family members working outside of Nepal; 86% of households had a working mobile phone (92.5% in urban; 84.3% in rural areas); 49% had a working television (79.5% in urban; 42.3% in rural areas); 45% a working radio (46.1% in urban; 45.3% in rural a ... more

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The Handbook of Media Audiences

Virginia Nightingale (ed.)

Malden, Mass. et al.: Wiley Blackwell (2014), xiii, 540 pp.

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Behinderung und Medien

Communicatio Socialis, volume 47, issue 1 (2014), pp. 4-71

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Estudio cuantitativo sobre consumo televisivo y radial en niños, niñas y adolescentes

Lima: Ministerio de Transportes y Comunicaciones (2014), 43 pp.

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Beyond State-Centric Frameworks: Transversal Media and the Stateless in the Burmese Borderlands

Lisa Brooten

In: Global Communication: New Agendas in Communication

Karin Gwinn Wilkins; Joseph D. Straubhaar; Shanti Kumar (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2014), pp. 142-162

"Transversal dissent by communities whose actions and identities are no longer primarily state centric but, rather, have shifted to cross identity boundaries is one of the most important developments for understanding how politics is being transformed today. Burmese media groups, political activists ... more

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Contemporary Media Use in Turkey

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG);Gallup (2014), 2 pp.

"Nationally, Turkish media consumers fall into three basic groups: About half (48.0%) tend to only watch TV news; about one-third (32.0%) mostly watch TV and use the Internet to get news, and two in 10 (20.0%) are “super users” who get news from a variety of media platforms. Super-users are more ... more

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Global Citizenship in a Digital World

Sherri Hope Culver, Paulette Kerr (eds.)

Göteborg: International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media;Nordicom (2014), 404 pp.

"We are pleased to be sharing with you the second yearbook on media and information literacy and intercultural dialogue. The first MILID Yearbook was published in June 2013 [...] The theme of the 2014 Yearbook is Global Citizenship in a Digital World. Global citizenship assumes ease of participation ... more

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Meanings of Audiences: Comparative Discourses

Richard Butsch, Sonia Livingstone (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2014), xi, 206 pp.

"With essays on audiences in ancient Greece, early modern Germany, Soviet and post-Soviet Russia, Zimbabwe, contemporary Egypt, Bengali India, China, Taiwan, and immigrant diaspora in Belgium, each chapter examines the ways in which audiences are embedded in discourses of power, representation, and ... more

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Türkisches Fernsehen in Deutschland: Narrenfreiheit und mangelnde Medienaufsicht

Çiçek Bacik

Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann (2014), 205 pp.

"Ethnische Medien in Deutschland befinden sich in einer Nischenökonomie und sind aufgrund der mangelnden Einbindung in den deutschen Medienmarkt informellen Strukturen unterworfen. Die Schattenwirtschaft der ethnischen Medien in Deutschland mündet demzufolge in einen Schlamassel. Diese Studie befa ... more

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Indonesian Women’s Blog Formats from Tanah Betawi to Serambi Mekah: Women Blogger’s Choices of Technical Features

Endah Triastuti

International Communication Gazette, volume 76, issue 4-5 (2014), pp. 407-424

"Drawing on the critiques of the active/passive dichotomy and using an ethnographic approach, this article looks at the forms of Indonesian women’s engagement in a convergent media world through blogging. We examine the technical, personalized authoring tools Indonesian women use in their blogging ... more

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Perception Management: Deterring Potential Migrants Through Information Campaigns

Charles Heller

Global Media and Communication, volume 10, issue 3 (2014), pp. 303-318

"How are images used in the aim of governing migration? This article probes this question through the example of the International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) information campaigns (ICs) in Cameroon, through which it seeks to ‘manage the perception’ of potential illegal(ized) migrants t ... more

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Media Analysis of Albino Killings in Tanzania: A Social Work and Human Rights Perspective

Jean Burke, Theresa J. Kaijage, Johannes John-Langba

Ethics and Social Welfare, volume 8, issue 2 (2014), pp. 117-134

"Murders of people with albinism are a recently emerging human rights issue in Africa, particularly Tanzania. Thus far, public debates about albino killings in Tanzania and other African countries have been dominated by media reports rather than academic writing. This paper presents the findings of ... more

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Youth-Generated Media

Joe F. Khalil

In: The Handbook of Development Communication and Social Change

Karin Gwinn Wilkins; Thomas Tufte; Rafael Obregón (eds.)

Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2014), pp. 439-452

"This chapter debates the relationship between youth and media by focusing on communication for social change and gives readers a sense of the history, development, and central concepts of youth-generated media. It offers a comprehensive framework for understanding young people's self-expressive art ... more