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"This book develops a nuanced decolonial critique that calls for the decolonization of media and communication studies in Africa and the Global South. Last Moyo argues that the academic project in African Media Studies and other non-Western regions continues to be shaped by Western modernity's histo ... more

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Media Activist Research Ethics: Global Approaches to Negotiating Power in Social Justice Research

Sandra Jeppesen, Paola Sartoretto (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xxiii, 276 pp.

"This book maps complex ethical dilemmas in social justice research practices in media and communication. Contributors critically analyse power dynamics that arise when building equitable research relations with media activists, social movements, and cultural producers, considering issues of access, ... more

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In 80 Büchern um die Welt: Katalog zur Ausstellung kirchenhistorischer Bestände in der Missionsbibliothek und katholischen Dokumentationsstelle mikado in Aachen

Thomas Richter, Michael Drummen (eds.)

Aachen: Missio;mikado - Missionsbibliothek und katholischen Dokumentationsstelle;Missionswissenschaftliches Institut Missio (2020), 270 pp.

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Sharing the Burden of Stories from the Tutsi Genocide. Rwanda: Écrire par Devoir de Mémoire

Anna-Marie de Beer

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xii, 300 pp.

"This book deals with literary representations of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Its focus is a transnational, polyphonic writing project entitled Rwanda: écrire par devoir de mémoire (Rwanda: Writing by Duty of Memory), undertaken in 1998 by a group of nine African authors. Anna-Marie ... more

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The Arab Archive: Mediated Memories and Digital Flows

Donatella Della Ratta, Kay Dickinson, Sune Haugbolle (eds.)

Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2020), 134 pp.

"As the revolutions across the Arab world that came to a head in 2011 devolved into civil war and military coup, representation and history acquired a renewed and contested urgency. The capacities of the internet have enabled sharing and archiving in an unprecedented fashion. Yet, at the same time, ... more

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Alternative Expressions of Citizen Voices: The Protest Song and Popular Engagements with the Mozambican State

Anésio Manhiça, Alex Shankland, Kátia Taela, Euclides Gonçalves, Catija Maivasse, Mariz Tadros

Brighton, UK: Institute of Development Studies (IDS) (2020), 51 pp.

"The discussion is based on an analysis of 46 protest songs, interviews with musicians, music producers and event promoters as well as field interviews and observations among audiences at selected popular music concerts and public workshops in Maputo city. Secondary data were drawn from radio broadc ... more

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Understanding Video Games: The Essential Introduction

Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen, Jonas Heide Smith, Susana Pajares Tosca

New York; London: Routledge, 4th ed. (2020), xiii, 399 pp.

"In this new edition of the pioneering text, students learn to assess the major theories used to analyze games, such as ludology and narratology, and gain familiarity with the commercial and organizational aspects of the game industry. Drawing from historical and contemporary examples, the student-f ... more

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Keywords for India: A Conceptual Lexicon for the 21st Century

Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Peter Ronald DeSouza (eds.)

London et al.: Bloomsbury Academic (2020), xv, 468 pp.

"This book highlights key words for modern India in everyday usage as well as in scholarly contexts. Encompassing over 250 key words across a wide range of topics, including aesthetics and ceremony, gender, technology and economics, past memories and future imaginaries, these entries introduce some ... more

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Media Stereotypes: From Ageism to Xenophobia

Andrew C. Billings, Scott Parrott (eds.)

New York: Peter Lang (2020), viii, 296 pp.

"When we think about the "pictures in our heads" that media create and perpetuate, what images are we truly referencing? Issues of media stereotypes and representation (both past and present) are crucial to advancing media literacy. 'Media Stereotypes: From Ageism to Xenophobia' becomes one-stop sho ... more

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Perspectives from the Global Entertainment & Media Outlook 2020–2024. Pulling the future forward: The entertainment and media industry reconfigures amid recovery

Werner Ballhaus, Wilson Chow et al.

PwC (2020), 24 pp.

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Love and Resistance in the Films of Mai Masri

Victoria Brittain

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xxxii, 144 pp.

"This book covers Mai Masri’s three decades documenting iconic moments of Palestinian and Lebanese linked history. Her films, unique for giving agency to her subjects, tell much about the untold, unseen people, namely women and children, who lived these experiences of war and occupation. Former Le ... more

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Jemen: Der vergessene Krieg

Said AlDailami

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2020), 261 pp.

"Said AlDailami untersucht die tiefen Konfliktlinien entlang von konfessionellen, regionalen und tribalen Zugehörigkeiten sowie wirtschaftlichen Interessen, um auszuloten, wie und wann Frieden möglich werden könnte. Zahlreiche äußere Mächte – wie Saudi-Arabien, die Vereinigten Arabischen Emi ... more

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Publikationsberatung an Universitäten: Ein Praxisleitfaden zum Aufbau publikationsunterstützender Services

Karin Lackner, Lisa Schilhan, Christian Kaier (eds.)

Bielefeld: transcript (2020), 396 pp.

"Dieser Band ist als Praxisleitfaden für Personen und Institutionen konzipiert, die eine Stelle zur Publikationsberatung auf- und ausbauen möchten. Während der erste Teil des Bandes verschiedene Aspekte des wissenschaftlichen Publizierens thematisiert, die im Rahmen der Publikationsberatung relev ... more

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Die visuelle Kultur der Migration: Geschichte, Ästhetik und Polyzentrierung des Migrationskinos

Ömer Alkin

Bielefeld: transcript (2020), 628 pp.

"Worin besteht eine visuelle Kultur der Migration? Ömer Alkin liefert hierfür die erste umfassende Geschichte und Analyse des ›deutsch-türkischen Kinos‹. Mit seinem Konzept der »Polyzentrierung« macht er die populären Yesilçam-Filme aus der Türkei in der Historie des Genres sichtbar und ... more

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Contemporary Women Filmmakers in Myanmar: Reflections on a Visit in February 2019

Valentina Vitali

Bioscope, volume 11, issue 1 (2020), pp. 78-91

"Existing accounts of Myanmar’s film industry available to English speakers are more than twenty years out of date. Opening with a brief overview of cinema in Myanmar since 2000, this article is based on a recent visit to the Myanmar Motion Picture Development Department and the Yangon Film School ... more

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History in Games: Contingencies of an Authentic Past

Martin Lorber, Felix Zimmermann (eds.)

Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2020), 280 pp.

"Where do we end up when we enter the time machine that is the digital game? One axiomatic truth of historical research is that the past is the time-space that eludes human intervention. Every account made of the past is therefore only an approximation. But how is it that strolling through ancient A ... more

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Indigenous Research Methodologies

Bagele Chilisa

Los Angeles et al.: Sage, 2nd ed. (2020), xxiv, 368 pp.

"Author Bagele Chilisa updates her groundbreaking textbook to give a new generation of scholars a crucial foundation in indigenous methods, methodologies, and epistemologies. Addressing the increasing emphasis in the classroom and in the field to sensitize researchers and students to diverse perspec ... more

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Visualität und Zugehörigkeit: Deutsche Selbst- und Fremdbilder in der Berichterstattung über Migration, Flucht und Integration

Sebastian Lemme

Bielefeld: transcript (2020), 300 pp.