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Changes in Patterns of Contemporary China’s Radio: Programs - Helping Each Other in Beijing: A Case Study

Lu Cao, Wei Meng
In: Radio Evolution: Conference Proceedings
Madalena Oliveira, Pedro Portela, Luís António Santos (eds.)
Braga: University of Minho, Communication and Society Research Centre (2012), pp. 229-238
"Great changes have been taken place in the patterns of China’s radio programs since 1980s. Its role has changed from the government’s “propaganda tool” to meet the multiple needs of the radio listeners; its profit mode somehow has varied from full national funding to making profit independe ... more
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Middle East Conflict 2.0: Israelis and Palestinians Between Virtual Conflict and Online Peace

Judith Daemberg
KAS International Reports, issue 11 (2012), pp. 6-20
"The ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is increasingly being played out in parallel on the internet. Recently, a great deal of media attention has been devoted to a series of spectacular hacker attacks that caused dozens of Israeli and Palestinian websites to crash, including thos ... more
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Tabloid TV in Zambia: A Reception Study of Lusaka Viewers of Muvi TV News

Herman Wasserman, Loisa Mbatha
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 4, issue 3 (2012), pp. 277-293
"The tabloid news genre has been chastized for depoliticizing its public by causing cynicism about the democratic process and lowering the standards of rational public discourse. Counter-arguments point to the alternative public sphere offered by popular media such as ‘tabloid TV’ which is the f ... more
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Muslims and New Media in West Africa: Pathways to God

Dorothea E. Schulz
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2012), xviii, 306 pp.
"Although Islam is not new to West Africa, new patterns of domestic economies, the promise of political liberalization, and the proliferation of new media have led to increased scrutiny of Islam in the public sphere. Dorothea E. Schulz shows how new media have created religious communities that are ... more
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Media Use in Zimbabwe 2012: Rise in Satellite Ownership, Internet Use

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG); Gallup (2012), 33 slides
"The notion that Zimbabwe is a radio-only market is outdated. With the strong growth in TV and New Media in urban areas, a multi-platform approach is needed to reach different demographics." (Conclusions, page 33)
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Guidelines for the Application of the Rome Charter: A Working Tool for Accurate Media Coverage on Migration and Asylum

Anna Meli (ed.)
Rome: Associazione Carta di Roma (2012), 23 pp.
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I Got It! What Children Get Out of an Educational Programme: Reception of a Co-Production from 9 Southeast Asian Countries for 9 Southeast Asian Countries

Maya Götz, Judith Schwarz
Televizion, issue 25 (2012), pp. 23-25
"An study among 1,564 children from Cambodia, Thailand, and the Philippines tested the increase of knowledge among viewers of the Southeast Asian programme "I Got It". Initiated by why the Goethe Institutes in Southeast Asia, this first regional knowledge programme for children was produced in 9 Asi ... more
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The Tunisian diaspora: Between “digital riots” and web activism

Teresa Graziano
Paris: Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (2012), 21 pp.
"This article deals with the increasing connections among the Tunisian diaspora and its homeland provided by a widespread use of the social Web. The main aim is to evaluate to what extent the Tunisian diaspora has contributed to a wider diffusion of cyberactivism concerning legitimate claims for dem ... more
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Arab Women in Arab News: Old Stereotypes and New Media

Amal Al-Malki, David Kaufer, Suguru Ishizaki, Kira Dreher
Doha: Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing (2012), xxvi, 466 pp.
"There is a vast scholarly literature tracing western stereotypes of Arab women from medieval times to the present. From 1800, the dominant western stereotype of Arab women depicts them as passive and oppressed. Thirty years of social science media research in the west has shown that media images of ... more
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Measuring Community Radio Audiences

Lawrie Hallett
In: Radio Evolution: Conference Proceedings
Madalena Oliveira, Pedro Portela, Luís António Santos (eds.)
Braga: University of Minho, Communication and Society Research Centre (2012), pp. 377-386
"This paper will use the example of the approach taken by UK Community Radio station, 'Future Radio' to obtain both quantitative data primarily through street surveys and qualitative data through on-line questionnaires, exploring why the station felt such research to be both necessary and beneficial ... more
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Community Radio and Gender: Towards an Inclusive Public Sphere

Kanchan K. Malik, Daniela Bandelli
Brisbane: Paper presented at the India Media Symposium: Public Spheres, the Media & Social Change in India (2012), 20 pp.
"Gender is a significant dimension in community radio (CR) initiatives that are seeking to deploy communication technologies for social change in general and empowerment of women in particular. CR not only provides an opportunity for women’s access to information, but, more significantly, also all ... more
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Crónica migrante 2011

Bogotá: Organización Internacional para las Migraciones (OIM) (2012), 57 pp.
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Indigenous Voices in Asia-Pacific: Identifying the Information and Communication Needs of Indigenous Peoples
Deep Insights

Bangkok: UNDP (2012), 64 pp.
"The current report presents the highlights of five country assessments that were undertaken to identify the communication and information needs of indigenous peoples. The starting point for this regional initiative was that access to information and communication avenues have an empowering element, ... more
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Reinforcement or Reactance? Examining the Effect of an Explicit Persuasive Appeal Following an Entertainment-Education Narrative

Emily Moyer-Gusé, Parul Jaion, Adrienne H. Chung
Journal of Communication, volume 62, issue 6 (2012), pp. 1010-1027
"Entertainment-education interventions frequently include an explicit persuasive appeal, such as an epilogue, at their conclusion. This may help to overcome potential limitations of narrative persuasion by highlighting and clarifying the underlying message. Despite this potential, an explicit persua ... more
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Citizen Access to Information in Papua New Guinea

Klara Debeljak, Joe Bonnell
InterMedia Europe; ABC International Development (2012), 71 pp.
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Abya-Yala y el retorno del conocimiento de los pueblos

Leonela Cucurella, Carlos Vallejo
In: La presencia salesiana en Ecuador: Perspectivas históricas y sociales
Lola Vázquez, Juan Fernando Regalado, Blas Garzón, Víctor Hugo Torres, José E. Juncosa (coord.)
Quito: Sociedad Salesiana en el Ecuador; Universidad Politécnica Salesiana; Abya-Yala (2012), pp. 705-726
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Comunicación para una ciudadanía integral e intercultural: Memoria de los seminarios

La Paz: UNIR; Observatorio Nacional de Medios (ONADEM) (2012), 321 pp.
"El primer capítulo, 'Interculturalidad y comunicación intercultural', aborda fundamentos teóricos y debates contemporáneos sobre el tema; el segundo, 'Comunicación intercultural en Bolivia hoy', trata sobre la construcción pendiente - no extenta de contradicciones - sobre la interculturalidad ... more
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Rich Digital Media as a Tool in Post-Conflict Truth and Reconciliation

Michael L. Best, William J. Long, John Etherto
Media, War & Conflict, volume 4, issue 3 (2012), pp. 231-249
"Modern rich digital media (such as interactive systems with audio and video as well as text) have not been robustly deployed as a tool in the processes of peace-building, healing and reconciliation in nations emerging from civil conflict. This article studies the use of rich digital media in Liberi ... more
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Resource Kit for Gender-Ethical Journalism and Media-House Policy. Book 2: Practical Resources

Sarah Macharia, Pamela Morinière (eds.)
Toronto: World Association for Christian Communication (WACC); International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (2012), 66 pp.
"This learning resource kit aims to provide an answer to the current gender gap in news content and lack of existing self-regulatory mechanisms to confront gender bias. It is organised in two books that may be read independently of each other. Book 2 will be of interest to media practitioners – jo ... more
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Mediating the Boundaries: Second-Generation Korean American Adolescents’ Use of Transnational Korean Media as Markers of Social Boundaries

David C. Oh
International Communication Gazette, volume 74, issue 3 (2012), pp. 258-276
"This article builds on media use scholarship by focusing on an understudied population, second-generation Korean American adolescents, and their use of transnational media. The primary findings are that second-generation Korean Americans use transnational media as cultural resources through which t ... more