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Does Gender Determine Journalists’ Professional Views? A Reassessment Based on Cross-National Evidence

Thomas Hanitzsch, Folker Hanusch
European Journal of Communication, volume 27, issue 3 (2012), pp. 257-277
"Research into journalism and gender to date has found somewhat contradictory evidence as to the ways in which women and men practice journalism. Some scholars claim that women have inherently different concepts and practices of journalism and that this has led to a feminization of journalism, other ... more
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The Performance of Vernacular Radio Stations in Kenya: Monitoring Report

Nairobi: Media Council of Kenya; Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2012), viii, 33 pp.
"The Media Council of Kenya (MCK), the statutory body established under the Media Act 2007 that regulates media and advances professionalism of the media in Kenya, monitored a set of ten vernacular radio stations in September/October 2011 in order to assess their current performance. The study looke ... more
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Raising the Civil Dead: Prisoners and Community Radio

Heather Anderson
New York: Peter Lang (2012), 275 pp.
"Internationally, radio that operates for, or by, prisoners exists almost exclusively within the community radio context. Little has been documented about the genre so far. Raising the Civil Dead seeks to address this lack of information. It examines prisoners' radio as citizens' media, connecting d ... more
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Home of Hope: Voicings, Whiteness, and the Technological Gaze

Yahui Zhang, Radhika Gajjala, Sean Watkins
Journal of Communication Inquiry, volume 36, issue 3 (2012), pp. 202-221
"This article is an attempt to explore the issues of online representations of orphans in China and India in the intersection of power, voice, and placement. Textual and visual representations of orphans at www.homeofhopeindia.org and www.homeofhope.org are analyzed using the theoretical frameworks ... more
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Informe sobre el uso de las tecnologías de información y comunicación (TIC) en la educación para personas con discapacidad

Pilar Samaniego, Sanna-Mari Laitamo, Estela Valerio, Cristina Francisco
Quito: UNESCO; Trust for the Americas (2012), 78 pp.
"Significant progress has been made in regional agreements, providing a suitable frame of reference for a social approach to the care model. Although adjustments are required to harmonize domestic norms with international referents, much remains to be done for educational norms in the regions to ado ... more
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Bollyworld Neukölln: MigrantInnen und Hindi-Filme in Deutschland

Florian Krauß
Konstanz; München: UVK (2012), 312 pp.
»Bollyworld Neukölln« ist nicht nur die erste umfassende Studie zum Hindi-Kino in Deutschland, die spezifische, inoffizielle und migrantische Rezeptionswege mitberücksichtigt, sondern zeigt auch neue empirische Perspektiven auf Migranten und Medien auf. Anstatt MigrantInnen unreflektiert nach be ... more
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If They Really Wanted To, They Would: The Press Discourse of Integration of the European Roma, 1990–2006

Adina Schneeweis
International Communication Gazette, volume 74, issue 7 (2012), pp. 673-689
"This study explores the solidification of the discourse of integration of the Gypsy/Roma in the European press following the fall of Communism. A discourse analysis focuses on the British and Romanian press between 1990 and 2006, and it suggests that, in the midst of opening of EU borders and talks ... more
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Niñez y adolescencia en la prensa paraguaya: Informe de monitoreo de medios 2010 - 2011

Asunción: Agencia Global de Noticias (2012), 54 pp.
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Intégration de l'approche "genre" dans la formation au journalisme des pays du Maghreb: Adaptation de la version francophone des Modèles de cursus de l'UNESCO pour la formation au journalisme

Estelle Lebel
Rabat: UNESCO (2012), 112 pp.
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Pedagogies of Media and Information Literacies

Suvi Tuominen, Sirkku Kotilainen
Moscow: UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (2012), 139 pp.
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Migrantinnen in den Medien: Darstellungen in der Presse und ihre Rezeption

Margreth Lünenborg, Katharina Fritsche, Annika Bach
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2012), 176 pp.
"In der medialen Repräsentation von Migrantinnen überwiegt das Klischee des hilfsbedürftigen, weiblichen Opfers, das dem Rollenmodell der westlichen, emanzipierten Frau gegenübergestellt wird [...] Die Lokalpresse mit alltagsweltlichen Bezügen einerseits, die Boulevardmedien mit Fokus auf Berü ... more
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Communitys bei Zwölf- bis 29-Jährigen: Private Kommunikation und öffentliche Interaktion. Einen Analyse am Beispiel ausgewählter Medienangebote

Walter Klingler, Andreas Vlašic, Frank Widmayer
Media Perspektiven, issue 9 (2012), pp. 433-444
"Die Nutzung von Communitys hat längst Einzug in den Alltag Jugendlicher und junger Erwachsener gefunden. 85 Prozent der Zwölf- bis 29-Jährigen nutzen zumindest gelegentlich die Angebote von Social Networks, 51 Prozent tun dies täglich. Dies belegen die Ergebnisse der JIM-Studie (Jugend, Informa ... more
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Sociologies of Voice and Language: Radio Broadcasting and the Ethnic Imperative

Brilliant Mhlanga
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 4, issue 2 (2012), pp. 209-226
"This article will argue that the conversational approach used by Munghana Lonene FM (ML FM) of mixing music and talk in Tsonga encourages the creation of a sociological natal affiliation; a form of 'we' feeling that translates into notions of ownership and belonging and empowerment. By re-establish ... more
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Memory and Political Change

Aleida Assmann, Linda Shortt (eds.)
Basingstoke et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xviii, 223 pp.
"Examining the role of memory in the transition from totalitarian to democratic systems, this book makes an important contribution to memory studies. It explores memory as a medium of and impediment to change, looking at memory's biological, cultural, narrative and socio-psychological dimensions." ( ... more
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Ser migrante en el Chile de hoy: Encuesta 2012

Santiago de Chile: Fundación Superación de la Pobreza; Universidad Diego Portales, Escuela de Periodismo (2012), 42 pp.
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Real World: Empowering Representations of Women through Film

Tessa Lewin
IDS Bulletin (Institute of Development Studies), volume 43, issue 5 (2012), pp. 110-116
"This article makes an argument for the added value of the use of documentary film in development research communication. It draws broadly on the specific experience of the Real World film scheme developed by the Pathways of Women’s Empowerment Research Programme Consortium and Creative England, t ... more
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Changing Focus: Exploring Images of Women and Empowerment in Egypt

Kristina Hallez
IDS Bulletin (Institute of Development Studies), volume 43, issue 5 (2012), pp. 104-109
"In moving away from prescriptive one-way communications exercises, participatory development communications use better strategies to engage communities and capture nuance. This article examines a communications case study in Egypt: a photography competition aimed at understanding how local photogra ... more
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Digital Storytelling in Bangladesh: Experiences, Challenges and Possibilities

Samia A. Rahim
IDS Bulletin (Institute of Development Studies), volume 43, issue 5 (2012), pp. 98-103
"This article reflects on a digital storytelling project undertaken for research, communication, and advocacy purposes in Bangladesh. The project trained young women from different regions of the country to make digital stories about their everyday struggles and journeys of personal growth. Excerpts ... more
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Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples

Linda Tuhiwai Smith
London; New York: Zed Books, 2nd ed. (2012), xv, 240 pp.
"To the colonized, the term 'research' is conflated with European colonialism; the ways in which academic research has been implicated in the throes of imperialism remains a painful memory. This essential volume explores intersections of imperialism and research - specifically, the ways in which imp ... more
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Zimbabwean Diaspora Politics and the Power of Laughter: Humour as a Tool for Political Communication, Criticism and Protest

Jenny Kuhlmann
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 4, issue 3 (2012), pp. 295-314
"Zimbabwean journalists and civil society activists in the diaspora have employed humour not merely to mock or ridicule but to conscientize people, and to raise attention for and awareness of the situation in Zimbabwe, including the social, economic and political realities and everyday life concerns ... more