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Schulbuchinhalte inklusiv gestalten: Religion, Gender und Kultur im Fokus

Paris; Braunschweig: UNESCO;Georg-Eckert-Institut - Leibniz Institut für internationale Schulbuchforschung (2018), 29 pp.

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Conflict and Controversy in Small Cinemas

Janina Falkowska, Krzysztof Loska (eds.)

Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang (2018), 268 pp.

"This book examines small cinemas and their presentation of society in times of crisis and conflict from an interdisciplinary and intercultural point of view. The authors concentrate on economic, social and political challenges and point to new phenomena which have been exposed by film directors. Th ... more

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Hören, Sehen, Staunen: Kulturgeschichte des mündlichen Erzählens

Johannes Merkel

Hildesheim; Zürich; New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 2. überarb. und erw. Aufl. (2018), 598 pp.

"Beim Stichwort „mündliches Erzählen“ denkt man hierzulande vor allem an „Märchen“, kurze und wundersame Erzählungen der Landbevölkerung vergangener Zeiten. Tatsächlich aber kannten alle Kulturen raffinierte Erzählkünste, die häufig auch Schriftliteratur und Theater inspirierten. Au ... more

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Can Machine Learning Help Us Measure the Trustworthiness of News?

Samhir Vasdev

Washington, DC: IREX (2018), 34 pp.

"IREX partnered with Lore.Ai to test whether machine learning software can automatically detect news articles that contains journalists’ own opinions. This matters because impartial, fact-based news is a powerful indicator for the quality of media and the vibrancy of an information ecosystem. A te ... more

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Cine-Ethiopia: The History and Politics of Film in the Horn of Africa

Michael Wolf Thomas, Alessandro Jedlowski, Aboneh Ashagrie (eds.)

East Lansing: Michigan State University Press (2018), xx, 295 pp.

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Human Rights, Social Movements and Activism in Contemporary Latin American Cinema

Mariana Cunha, Antônio Márcio da Silva (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xi, 265 pp.

"[This book] reflects on the extent to which films can play an active role in denouncing human rights abuses and exposing the struggle for visibility of different social movements and minorities. This collection explores Latin American cinema’s representations of human rights violators and oppress ... more

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Manual de planificación de medios: Todo lo que hay que saber para planificar correctamente los medios

María Angeles Gonzalez Lobo, Enrique Carrero López, Gerardo Mariñas González

Madrid: ESIC Editorial, 6th ed. (2018), 622 pp.

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Negotiating Dissidence: The Pioneering Women of Arab Documentary

Stefanie Van de Peer

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2018), vii, 238 pp.

"In spite of harsh censorship, conservative morals and a lack of investment, women documentarists in the Arab world have found ways to subtly negotiate dissidence in their films, something that is becoming more apparent since the ‘Arab Revolutions’. In this book, Stefanie Van de Peer traces the ... more

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La comunicazione secondo il pensiero di Pierpaolo Donati: Una prospettiva relazionale nell’analisi del processo della comunicazione umana

Ana Cristina Montoya

Roma: Università Pontificia Salesiana, Facoltà di Scienze della Comunicazione Sociale, Dissertazione per il Dottorato (2018), 268 pp.

"In sintesi, ogni azione comunicativa è preceduta da una relazione sociale, che la rende esplicita, che può influire su di essa e, a sua volta, può modificare quella relazione e farne emergere un’altra, si sia coscienti o meno. Da ciò si comprende che in una società come quella contemporanea, ... more

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Ibero-American Observatory of Television Fiction Obitel 2018: Ibero-American TV Fiction on Video on Demand Platforms
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Maria Immacolata Vassallo de Lopes, Guillermo Orozco Gómez (eds.)

Porto Alegre: Sulina;Globo Comunicação e Participações (2018), 410 pp.

"This Yearbook is divided into three parts. The first is an introduction chapter, containing a comparative synthesis of fiction in the Obitel countries. This comparison is made from a quantitative and qualitative point of view, which makes possible to observe the development of fiction in each count ... ry, highlighting their main productions, as well as the theme of the year. The second part consists in 11 chapters, one for each country, with an internal structure of fixed topics, but with new additions every year. The sections that compound each chapter are the following: 1) Country’s audiovisual context: this section presents general information about the audiovisual sector regarding the production of television fiction, such as history, trends and relevant events. 2) Analysis of premiere fictions: it is made through quantitative tables that show specific data about national and Ibero-American TV fictions released in each country. In this section the ten most watched titles of the year are highlighted. Since 2017, the Yearbook also brings the five most watched national productions of the year in an effort to enhance and deepen the issue of national identities in each country. 3) Transmedia reception: this section presents and exemplifies what channels offer to the audience fiction on the internet, as well the description of the audience’s behavior when watching, consuming and interacting with their fictions through websites, social networks and other platforms. 4) Highlights of the year: the most important productions not only in terms of audience (rating), but also for their sociocultural impact and for generating innovation in television fiction production or reception. 5) Theme of the year, which this year is Ibero-American TV fiction on video on demand platforms. This theme converges with the interests of Obitel, which for years has been following the trajectory of Ibero-American television fiction by rapidly changing scenarios. Multiple screens, transmissions, new formats, pay TV, UGC, among other topics, have been monitored and analyzed theoretically by each Obitel country research group. In this Yearbook, the proposal is to discuss production on video on demand platforms (VoD), addressing new forms of distribution and consumption. The objective was to verify the panorama of VoD production and consumption in the Obitel countries and the presence of national fiction on these platforms. In order to do so, we attempted to identify the reconfigurations that are occurring in the television scenario of each country in the face of new platforms of production, distribution and audiovisual consumption. Such reconfigurations take place from production to reception, from narrative forms to business models, to debates on legislation and regulation." (Pages 21-22) more

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Cambodia 2040: Culture and Society

Sok Udom Deth, Bradley J. Murg, Virak Ou, Michael Renfrew (eds.)

Future Forum;Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2018), ix, 224 pp.

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African Cinema on Demand? The Politics of Online Distribution and the Case of the African Film Library

Alexander Fisher

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 10, issue 3 (2018), pp. 239-250

"This article considers the impact of online distribution on the long-term availability and preservation of African cinema. It examines the case of Electronic Media Network’s (M-Net) African Film Library (AFL), a video-on-demand (VOD) library of classic African films that was launched in 2012, but ... more

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Pretty Liar: Television, Language, and Gender in Wartime Lebanon

Natalie Khazaal

Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press (2018), 325 pp.

"Pretty Liar" explores the rise of language and gender politics on Lebanese television to tell the untold story of the co-evolution of Lebanese television and its audiences and how the civil war of 1975-1991 affected that co-evolution. The shift in public interest in television has been widely ackno ... more

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Die Ursprünge des Kinos in Kamerun: Bewertung und Produktion der ersten deutschen Filme

Marie Nadege Tsogo Momo

Goethe-Institut (2018), 6 pp.

"Das Ziel dieses Artikels ist es: 1) den Kontext der Einführung des Kinos in Kamerun zu beschreiben und 2) die Produktion und Nutzung deutscher Kinofilme in Kamerun zu erfassen und zu analysieren. Wir werden uns insbesondere mit der Frage der Entstehung des Kinos in Kamerun während der deutschen K ... more

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Experiences in Oral History: Contemporary Witness Interviews in Archive Organizations and Historical Research

Berlin: Heinrich Böll Stiftung (2018), 64 pp.

"The overall aim of the workshop was to promote discussion among the archives on their respective practices, to reflect on the practice of interviewing with the involved historians and, last but not least, to find ways to make better use of the interviews available in the archives [...] The first pa ... more

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Religion, Media, and Marginality in Modern Africa

Felicitas Becker, Joel Cabrita, Marie Rodet (eds.)

Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press (2018), ix, 320 pp.

"Religion, Media, and Marginality in Modern Africa is one of the first volumes to put new media and old media into significant conversation with one another, and also offers a rare comparison between Christianity and Islam in Africa. The contributors find many previously unacknowledged correspondenc ... more

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The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality: Understanding Social and Cultural Complexity

Alena Ledeneva (ed.)

London: UCL Press (2018), 2 vols.

"The informal practices revealed in this book include emotion-driven exchanges (from gifts or favours to tribute for services), values-based practices of solidarity and belonging enacting multiple identities, interest-driven know-how (from informal welfare to informal employment and entrepreneurship ... more

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Global Photographies: Memory – History – Archives

Sissy Helff, Stefanie Michels (eds.)

Bielefeld: transcript (2018), 208 pp.

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Marshall McLuhan Today: His Predictions on the Media in a Digital Age According to Robert K. Logan, Paul Levinson and Paul Grosswiler

John Owoicho Okpotu

Rome: Salesian Pontifical University, Faculty of Sciences of Social Communication, Doctoral Thesis (2018), 248 pp.

"The study is divided into five chapters. Chapter one begins with the biography of the principal author of our study, Marshall McLuhan. It discusses those who influenced him and presents his methodology of writing. Chapter two consist of two parts. The first part explains his key concepts while the ... more

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Mapping Research in Gender and Digital Technology

Anri van der Spuy, Namita Aavriti

Association for Progressive Communications (APC);International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2018), 147 pp.

"Increasing number of reports, initiatives and efforts are focused on addressing women’s ability to enjoy universal, acceptable, affordable, unconditional, open, meaningful and/or equal access to information, the internet and ICTs. These include, but are not limited to, the recent work of civil so ... more

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