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Global Media and Information Literacy Assessment Framework: Country Readiness and Competencies
Key Guidance

Paris: UNESCO (2013), 158 pp.

"The UNESCO Global Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Assessment Framework is a practical tool developed by UNESCO to assist its Member States in monitoring the extent to which investments in an enabling environment are required to support the development of and competencies in Media and Informati ... more

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Rethinking the Public Sphere Through Transnationalizing Processes: Europe and Beyond

Armando Salvatore, Oliver Schmidtle, Hans-Jörg Trenz (ed.)

Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2013), xvi, 296 pp.

"This book discusses the extent to which the theoretical relevance and analytical rigor of the concept of the public sphere is affected (or undermined) by current processes of transnationalization. The contributions address fundamental questions concerning the viability of a socially and politically ... more

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Youth Culture and Mobiles

Gerard Goggin

Mobile Media & Communication, volume 1, issue 1 (2013), pp. 83-88

"The category of youth has been a strategically important focus in the development of mobile communication and media research. This paper reviews the themes and findings of the first phase of youth and mobile phone research, followed by a phase of new work just underway on youth and mobile media and ... more

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Look Beyond the Obvious: The Blueprint for Media Strategies in Africa

Nielsen (2013), 13 pp.

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Food Marketing, Children, and Obesity in Chile: Evidence and Challenges for Regulation

Rodrigo Uribe, Alejandra Fuentes-García

Communication Research Trends, volume 32, issue 2 (2013), pp. 14-18

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Medienpädagogik: Ein Studienbuch zur Einführung

Daniel Süss, Claudia Lampert, Christine W. Wijnen

Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2., überarb. und aktual. Aufl. (2013), 278 pp.

"Dieses Buch führt ein in das interdisziplinäre Feld der Medienpädagogik. Es stellt die Dimensionen, Modelle und Theorien vor, welche empirischen Studien und angewandten Projekten zugrunde liegen. Die Entwicklung der Medienpädagogik wird historisch und im internationalen Vergleich aufgezeigt. Me ... more

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Research Methods for Memory Studies

Emily Keightley, Michael Pickering (eds.)

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2013), vi, 256 pp.

"This guide provides students and researchers with a clear set of outlines and discussions of particular methods of research in memory studies. It offers not only expert appraisals of a range of techniques, approaches and perspectives in memory studies, but also focuses on key questions of methodolo ... more

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Favela Digital: O Outro Lado da Tecnologia

David Nemer

Vitoria: GSA Grafica e Editora (2013), 128 pp.

"The idea for this book came up during the fieldwork I did in Vitória, Brazil for my doctoral dissertation. My research aims to understand the experience of marginalized people in community technology centers and how this experience informs the ways we think about what constitutes “empowerment” ... more

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Media Use in Bamako, Mali 2013

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG);Gallup (2013), 2 pp.

"Bamako adults are avid news users; 92.5% say they receive news from television, radio, the Internet or newspapers at least once a week; 78.4% report they receive news from these sources at least once a day. Mobile phone, radio, and television ownership is widespread in Bamako. Nine in 10 Bamako adu ... more

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The "Social Tsunami": Media Coverage of Child Abuse in Malaysia's English-Language Newspapers in 2010

Sara Niner, Yarina Ahmad, Denise Cuthbert

Media, Culture & Society, volume 35, issue 4 (2013), pp. 435-453

"Since the early 1990s, Malaysian society has displayed a deepening concern over steady increases in reported cases of child abuse in the country. For many Malaysians, knowledge of this issue comes from the mainstream media. This research analyses media coverage of child abuse in two mainstream Engl ... more

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Upstairs Downstairs: Communication Contradictions Around Two African Refugee Camps

Ullamaija Kivikuru

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 5, issue 1 (2013), pp. 35-51

"This article describes and analyses the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) communication policy in the current world environment where a variety of well-doers attempt to pursue attention. The analysis is reflected against the results of focus group interviews with Congolese women ... more

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"SMART" Photovoice Agricultural Consultation: Increasing Rwandan Women Farmers' Active Participation in Development

Myriam Gervais, Lysanne Rivard

Development in Practice, volume 23, issue 4 (2013), pp. 496-510

"Through two case studies, this paper evaluates the value of the feminist visual methodology Photovoice as an interactive consultation tool with rural Rwandan women working in agriculture. This exploratory study suggests that it is possible, through an adapted Photovoice process, to engage and empow ... more

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Digital Ethnography: Anthropology, Narrative, and New Media

Natalie M. Underberg, Elayne Zorn

Austin: University of Texas Press (2013), x, 117 pp.

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News Consumption Behavior of Young Adults in Malaysia

Karen Sabina Freeman

International Journal of Social Science and Humanity, volume 3, issue 2 (2013), pp. 121-124

"News consumption has been undergoing massive changes due to advances of digitization. In this context, analyzing readers’ consumption behavior is pertinent. This study explores the news consumption behavior of young adults in Malaysia. The methodology is based on a quantitative survey of college ... more

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Broadcasting Change: Radio Talk Shows, Education and Women’s Empowerment in Senegal

Fanta Diamanka

Ohio: Ohio University, Patton College of Education, Doctoral Thesis (2013), 473 pp.

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Memory, Conflict and New Media: Web Wars in Post-Socialist States

Ellen Rutten, Julie Fedor, Vera Zvereva (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2013), xv, 265 pp.

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Social Media and Elections in Asia-Pacific: The Growing Power of the Youth Vote

Alastair Carthew, Simon Winkelmann (eds.)

Singapore: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2013), 164 pp.

"Undoubtedly, politicians have awoken to the political power of social media and it will be increasingly adopted as a mainstream means of information distribution and communications as voters and young people are becoming more politically active in a number of the jurisdictions surveyed in this book ... more