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Development Practitioners in Action

Linje Manyozo

Rugby: Practical Action Publishing (2023), 160 pp.

"What does a development practitioner look like? Located within deliberative development paradigms, this book addresses this question by examining some of the key attributes, behaviours and character dispositions of development practitioners. Such mentality and behaviours enable development practiti ... more

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Bridging the AI Language Gap in Africa and Beyond

Kira Schacht

Deutsche Welle (2023)

"AI tools, from ChatGPT to Google Translate, are useless to billions of people in the Global South who don't work in western languages. Researchers and startups from Africa and other parts of the world are changing that." (Introduction)

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Reflections on the International Association for Media and Communication Research: Many Voices, One Forum

Jörg Becker, Robin Mansell (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xxxvii, 558 pp.

"Established in 1957, the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) has facilitated international exchanges and research collaborations among academics, journalists, and other practitioners, addressing media and communication problems and influencing theory and practice ... more

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Communications in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire: A Critical History

Burçe Çelik

Champaign: University of Illinois Press (2023), 287 pp.

"The history of communications in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey contradicts the widespread belief that communications is a byproduct of modern capitalism and other Western forces. Burçe Çelik uses a decolonial perspective to analyze the historical commodification and militarization of communicatio ... more

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Clemencia Rodríguez, Amparo Marroquín Parducci, Omar Rincón (eds.)

Bogotá: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), FES Comunicación (2023), 318 pp.

"Este libro es la continuación de una provocación y el saldo de una deuda pendiente con nombres, países y regiones que no estuvieron en el primer tomo. 20 autoras, un especial Caribe y la mirada latina sobre Canadá y Estados Unidos son las paradas del recorrido. 20 escrituras y tonos diversos do ... more

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Nueva mirada sobre Venezuela: Reflexiones para construir una visión compartida

Katharina Wegner, Manuel Zapata (coord.)

Caracas: Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB);Fundación Centro Gumilla (2023), 258 pp.

"El libro que tiene en sus manos empieza con una perspectiva cristiana de la realidad venezolana, para después mirar el contexto latinoamericano y mundial. Sigue un panorama amplio del desarrollo político de la democracia en Venezuela, desde el modelo modernizador del siglo XX hasta el proyecto bo ... more

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Transnational Convergence of East Asian Pop Culture

Seok-Kyeong Hong, Dal Yong Jin (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2023), 238 pp.

"This book observes and analyses transnational interactions of East Asian pop culture and current cultural practices, comparing them to the production and consumption of Western popular culture and providing a theoretical discussion regarding the specific paradigm of East Asian pop culture. Drawing ... more

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Radio

Kathryn McDonald, Hugh Chignell (eds.)

London: Bloomsbury Academic (2023), xiv, 554 pp.

"The Bloomsbury Handbook of Radio presents exciting new research on radio and audio, including broadcasting and podcasting. Since the birth of radio studies as a distinct subject in the 1990s, it has matured into a second wave of inquiry and scholarship. As broadcast radio has partly given way to po ... more

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Teaching with Games: Formative Gaming in Religion, Philosophy and Ethics

Tim Hutchings

Gamevironments, issue 19 (2023), 205 pp.

"This special issue explores the power of games to shape worldviews, share perspectives, develop religious identities and provoke ethical reflection. Contributors bring together ideas from classrooms of philosophy and religious studies with case studies fromreligious communities and companies engage ... more

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Perspectives from the Global Entertainment & Media Outlook 2023–2027: Resetting expectations, refocusing inward and recharging growth

Werner Ballhaus, Wilson Chow, Emmanuelle Rivet et al.

PwC (2023), 29 pp.

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Critical Gaps and Implications of Risk Communication in the Global Agreements SFDRR, SDGs, and UNFCCC: 3 Select Case Studies from Urban Areas of Tropics in South Asia

Shabana Khan, Jyoti Mishra

Natural Hazards, issue 111 (2022), pp. 2559-2577

"There has been a consistent rise in urban disasters, particularly in developing countries located in tropical areas. Among various challenges of disaster risk management and climate change impacts, it is noted that most residents are poorly informed about their risk exposure or apposite response. T ... more

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Ibero-American Observatory of Television Fiction Obitel 2022: Transformations in the Seriality of Ibero-American Television Fiction in Times of Streaming
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Maria Immacolata Vassallo de Lopes, Juan Piñon, Catarina Duff Burnay, Rosario Sánchez Vilela (eds.)

Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Universidad Católica de Chile (2022), 382 pp.

"In some of the countries, to a greater extent Spain and the Hispanic USA, fiction consistently occupies at least 40% of the programming time. This occurs in countries that, due to income levels, should be those with a higher degree of access to other sources of fiction audiovisual content, such as ... more

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Radios africaines en ligne et promotion des langues locales : Une équation pas si simple à résoudre

Etienne Damome

ESSACHESS: Journal for Communication Studies, volume 15, issue 1(29) (2022), pp. 103-129

"La radio est le moyen de communication qui se centre le plus sur la langue et celui qui le mieux la fait vivre. C’est pour cette raison que la multiplication des stations de radio, notamment dans les territoires les plus reculés du monde, constitue une chance pour la survie des langues locales. ... more

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The Linguistic Dimensions of Gukurahundi in Zimbabwe

Busani Maseko, Dion Nkomo

In: Memory and Erasure: Gukurahundi and the Culture of Violence in Zimbabwe

Mandlenkosi Mpofu; Percy F. Makombe (eds.)

Harare: Weaver Press (2022), pp. 81-95

"This chapter explored the linguistic dimensions of Gukurahundi to show the centrality of language before, during and after the genocide. We drew on online testimonies from survivors and statements from government officials as well as visible language planning and language practices in the post-Guku ... more

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Digitale Bildkulturen: GIFs, Memes, Modebilder, Body-Bilder und Gesichtserkennung

Annekathrin Kohout, Wolfgang Ullrich (eds.)

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2022), 397 pp.

"Annekathrin Kohout und Wolfgang Ullrich versammeln Beiträge, die sich verschiedenen Aspekten der zeitgenössischen visuellen Kultur widmen: Was zeichnet die Kommunikation über Memes aus, und warum sind sie so beliebt? Wie funktionieren GIFs, und wie haben sich das Dateiformat und seine Nutzung ü ... more

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The Routledge Handbook of Scientific Communication

Cristina Hanganu-Bresch, Michael J. Zerbe, Gabriel Cutrufello, Stefania Maci (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2022), xix, 441 pp.

"The Routledge Handbook of Scientific Communication scrutinizes what we value, prioritize, and grapple with in science as highlighted by the rhetorical choices of scientists, students, educators, science gatekeepers, and lay commentators. Drawing on contributions from leading thinkers in the field, ... more

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CANnual Report 2022: Trend Radar. The Latest in Advertising, Media and Consumer Behavior in Central and Eastern Europe

WeCAN Communications (2022), 125 pp.

"The CANnual Report 2022 follows a slightly different editorial concept than before. Since 2016, the publication featured one central topic which all creative agencies wrote about. This year however, weCAN experts write about twelve of the hottest topics in communication across the region. Five of t ... more

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Mujeres de la comunicación México

Claudia Magallanes Blanco, Paola Ricaurte Quijano (eds.)

México: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), Programa de medios y comunicación para América Latina y el Caribe (2022), 250 pp.

"Las 23 historias de vida y profesionales contenidas en este libro reflejan la riqueza y multiplicidad de abordajes y temas que la comunicación como disciplina permite investigar, así como algunas de las necesidades pendientes de abordar. En la diversidad también hay elementos compartidos que nos ... more

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The Covid-19 Pandemic as a Challenge for Media and Communication Studies

Katarzyna Kopecka-Piech, Bartlomiej Lódzki (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2022), xvi, 238 pp.

"The book answers two interrelated questions: how media and communication reality changed during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, and how media and communication were effectively studied during this time. The book presents changes in media and communication in three areas: media production, ... more

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Methods in Practice: Studying Children and Youth Online

Sirkku Kotilainen (ed.)

University of Tampere (2022), 59 pp.

"This publication is about actual cases of making the research on digital cultures of children and young which can be of help in the methodological sense. Hopefully, the cases as reflective narratives of already implemented studies, can help the reader to avoid pitfalls on the way of studying childr ... more

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