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A History of Digital Media: An Intermedia and Global Perspective

Gabriele Balbi, Paolo Magaudda

New York; London: Routledge (2018), xiii, 281 pp.

"From the punch card calculating machine to the personal computer to the iPhone and more, this in-depth text offers a comprehensive introduction to digital media history for students and scholars across media and communication studies, providing an overview of the main turning points in digital medi ... more

Children’s Screen Content in an Era of Forced Migration: Facilitating Arab-European Dialogue. Prix Jeunesse International, Munich. Workshop Briefing 3: Drama, Storytelling, Empathy

Jeanette Steemers, Naomi Sakr, C. Singer

London: King's College (2018), 26 pp.

"This briefing summarises the proceedings of the third workshop in a project to stimulate dialogue between European and Arab stakeholders about European screen content for young children of Arab heritage who are living in Europe through forced migration." (Page 28)

La radio en Afrique au XXIe siècle: Mutations et enjeux

Étienne Damome (dir.)

RadioMorphoses, issue 3 (2018), pp. 2-79

"Introduite dès les années 1930 sur les terres africaines et durablement ancrée au lendemain de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, la radio s’est peu à peu adaptée à l’environnement culturel, social et politique africain. Ses évolutions successives ont suivi la courbe des mutations culturelles ... more

Access to Online Resources: A Guide for the Modern Librarian

Kristina Botyriute

Springer (2018), 42 pp.

"According to Gartner IT Glossary (2012), "identity and access management (lAM) is the security discipline that enabled the right individuals to access the right resources at the right times for the right reasons." Simply put, it is making sure your users are who they say they are and only have acce ... more

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Lectores, editores y cultura impresa en Colombia, siglos XVI-XXI

Diana Paola Guzmán Méndez, Paula Andrea Marín Colorado, Juan David Murillo Sandoval, Miguel Ángel Pineda Cupa (eds.)

Bogotá: Editorial Utadeo;Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe (CERLALC) (2018), 496 pp.

"Las contribuciones reunidas en este volumen buscan dar un paso en el esfuerzo por exami-nar las condiciones y problemas que han rodeado y rodean la producción, circulación y usos del libro en un país poco conocedor de su historia libresca y editorial. Los textos reconstruyen diversos momentos en ... more

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For the Attention of African Media Scholars: An Introduction to Critical Discourse Analysis

Muhammad Jameel Yusha'u

In: The Palgrave Handbook of Media and Communication Research in Africa

Bruce Mutsvairo (ed.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), pp. 465-482

"What this chapter does is to see critical disourse analysis (CDA) as a method of critical enquiry in communication research that is beyond traditional academic analysis. The chapter looks at CDA as a Western-originated paradigm of social enquiry with a difference. As I will discuss in subsequent se ... more

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Trends in Radio Research: Diversity, Innovation and Policies

J. Ignacio Gallego, Manuel Fernández Sande, Nieves Limón (eds.)

Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2018), xii, 364 pp.

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Manual de edición: Guía para estos tiempos revueltos
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Manuel Gil, Martín Gómez

Arequipa (PE): La Travesía;Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe (CERLALC) (2018), 203 pp.

"Este Manual de edición busca guiar a todos los interesados a lo largo del proceso que conduce a la publicación de un libro tanto impreso como digital, desde el momento de su concepción hasta su venta. Manuel Gil y Martín Gómez analizan las similitudes y diferencias entre las cadenas de valor a ... more

16. Afrika Film Festival Köln, 13.-23. September 2018. Fokus: Innerafrikanische Migration

Köln: FilmInitiativ Köln (2018), 134 pp.

"The 16th Afrika Film Festival Köln will present 75 new films from Africa – with a wider focus on migration within Africa Let’s start with some numbers: there are currently 68 million displaced people worldwide, most of whom now reside in countries bordering their homelands. The wide range of r ... more

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Western Missionaries and Origins of the Modern Chinese Press

Yuntao Zhang

In: Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media

Gary D. Rawnsley; Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2018), pp. 67-78

"For over a thousand years, Chinese journalism was dominated by the official gazette called DiBao (Peking Gazette). This organ of the imperial state comprised edicts, news of government appointments and court affairs, and served a small privileged readership. It was not until 1815 that what could be ... more

Syrien, mon amour: Das syrische Filmerbe von 1974 bis heute

Tina Fuchs

Karlsruhe: Kinemathek Karlsruhe (2018), 31 pp.

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An Applied Data Justice Framework: Analysing Datafication and Marginalised Communities in Cities of the Global South

Richard Heeks, Satyarupa Shekhar

Manchester: Centre for Development Informatics (2018), 25 pp.

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Glaubwürdigkeit in Politik, Medien und Gesellschaft: 10 Bausteine für die schulische und außerschulische politische Bildung

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2018), 112 pp.

"Auf Glaubwürdigkeit und Vertrauen, auch auf die Allgemeingültigkeit grundlegender und verbindlicher Wertvorstellungen, gründet sich allerdings das Zusammenleben in der menschlichen Gesellschaft. Wo verbreitet Misstrauen herrscht, ist ein konstruktives Miteinander kaum noch möglich. Wenn Misstra ... more

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Roots of the New Arab Film

Roy Armes

Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2018), xix, 292 pp.

"Roots of the New Arab Film deals with the generation of filmmakers from across North Africa and the Middle East who created an international awareness of Arab film from the mid-1980s onwards. These seminal filmmakers experienced the moment of national independence first-hand in their youth and reta ... more

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Buchmarkt China (2018)

Peking: Buchinformationszentrum (BIZ) Peking (2018), 20 pp.

#DigitalDeceit: The Technologies Behind Precision Propaganda on the Internet

Dipayan Ghosh, Ben Scott

New America (2018), 37 pp.

"This analysis of digital advertising technology and its relevance to disinformation online is designed to broaden the focus in the current public debate beyond Russian operatives buying ads on social media. The problem is much bigger than that and the issues of concern are more diverse. Our analysi ... more

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Prisioneros del cine: 50 películas sobre la privación de libertad

Pablo Mérida

Barcelona: Editorial UOC (2018), 212 pp.

"El cine de cárceles ha desarrollado un lenguaje propio, casi como si de un género se tratase. Y lo ha hecho para presentarse ante la audiencia con muy diferentes intenciones: desde denunciar un sistema penal con serias imperfecciones a relatar historias de superación, pasando por descubrir injus ... more

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Here and There: (re)situating Latin America in International Communication Theory

Florencia Enghel, Martín Becerra

Communication Theory, volume 28 (2018), pp. 111-130

"Since their origins in the late 1950s, Latin American communication studies have become increasingly institutionalized and thematically diverse. This evolution, however, has circulated to a limited extent beyond borders, as noted by North American scholars in the 1990s. Attentive to this problem, t ... more