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Global Pop: Das Buch zur Weltmusik

Claus Leggewie (ed.)

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Lizenzausg. (2017), 392 pp.

"Der Begriff "Weltmusik" war in den 1980er Jahren die gängige Beschreibung für Musikstile, die aus westlicher Perspektive "exotisch" wirkten. Er stand für unterschiedlichste musikalische Traditionen, die oftmals nicht viel mehr gemein hatten, als dass sie plötzlich für den westlichen Markt inte ... more

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De la "Radio banane" à La Voix de la révolution: L'expérience radiophonique en Guinée

Bangaly Camara

Paris: L'Harmattan (2017), 132 pp.

"L’expérience radiophonique en Guinée a connu trois grandes périodes. Lors de la première, de 1950 à 1955, la radio était au service de la métropole, afin de servir les intérêts exclusifs des planteurs européens, franco-syriens et franco-libanais. Elle donnait des informations sur le mou ... more

La télévision ivoirienne (RTI) de 1963 à 2011: Média de développement ou instrument du pouvoir?

Issa Yeresso Sangaré

Paris: L'Harmattan (2017), 223 pp.

"Plus d'un demi-siècle après sa création sous Félix Houphouët-Boigny, la RTI a-t-elle atteint l'objectif fixé au départ, renforcer la cohésion sociale, positionner le pays sur la scène internationale et promouvoir le développement ? A-t-elle été un organe de développement souhaité, où ... more

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Madgermanes

Birgit Weyhe

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Lizenzausg. (2017), 236 pp.

"Vor allem aus wirtschaftlichen Erwägungen heraus warb die DDR Ende der 1970er Jahre tausende Vertragsarbeiter aus Mosambik an. Die jungen Frauen und Männer aus dem vom Bürgerkrieg zerrissenen sozialistischen Bruderstaat, die voller Hoffnung auf eine gute Ausbildung nach Deutschland kamen, hatten ... more

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Handbuch Popkultur

Thomas Hecken, Marcus S. Kleiner (eds.)

Stuttgart: Metzler (2017), vi, 375 pp.

"Das Handbuch begründet Popkultur als inter- und transdisziplinäres Forschungsfeld sowie als eigenständige Wissenschaftsdisziplin. Es informiert in über 60 Beiträgen über die wichtigsten Erscheinungsformen und Diskurszusammenhänge der Popkultur und unterscheidet diese grundsätzlich von denen ... more

Favela Media Activism: Counterpublics for Human Rights in Brazil

Leonardo Custódio

Lanham: Lexington Books (2017), 227 pp.

"Leonardo Custódio provides multifaceted analyses of how favela youth engage in individual and collective media activist initiatives despite social class constraints and neoliberal imperatives in their everyday life. This book details processes experienced by young favela residents while becoming i ... more

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Site internet: Audit et stratégie

Sébastien Rouquette (ed.)

Bruxelles: De Boeck (2017), 208 pp.

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Secondary Data Sources

Anne Garbutt, Alison Napier, Vera Scholz, Nigel Simister

INTRAC (2017), 2 pp.

"Sometimes, information is used for planning, monitoring or evaluation that has previously been collected by other people or organisations for their own purposes. This is known as secondary data. There are many potential sources of secondary data. Secondary data can be used at any stage of a project ... more

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The Trauma Graphic Novel

Andrés Romero-Jódar

New York; London: Routledge (2017), x, 179 pp.

"The end of the twentieth century and the turn of the new millennium witnessed an unprecedented flood of traumatic narratives and testimonies of suffering in literature and the arts. Graphic novels, free at last from long decades of stern censorship, helped explore these topics by developing a new s ... more

Celebrity Culture and the Entertainment Industry in Asia: Use of Celebrity and its Influence on Society, Culture and Communication

Vivienne Leung, Kimmy Cheng, Tommy Tse (eds.)

Bristol; Chicago: intellect (2017), x, 189 pp.

"Offering a rare insight into the world of celebrity and media in China and beyond, Celebrity Culture and the Entertainment Industry in Asia deconstructs the dynamics of “stardom” and celebrity endorsement in East Asia, and examines its impact on marketing communications and media. Through first ... more

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La fabrique des classiques africains: Écrivains d'Afrique subsaharienne francophone (1960-2012)

Claire Ducournau

Paris: CNRS Éditions (2017), 442 pp.

"Comment une œuvre littéraire accède-t-elle au rang de « classique » lorsque son auteur est issu d’Afrique subsaharienne francophone, l’une des zones les plus déshéritées du monde selon les standards culturels internationaux ? Si les noms de Léopold Sédar Senghor et d’Ahmadou Kouroum ... more

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Handbuch Postkolonialismus und Literatur

Dirk Göttsche, Axel Dunker, Gabriele Dürbeck (eds.)

Stuttgart: Metzler (2017), ix, 459 pp.

"Das Handbuch bietet erstmals einen umfassenden interdisziplinären Überblick über die postkoloniale Theorie und Forschung in den Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften. Es verbindet die Einführung in das Thema mit einer kritischen Zwischenbilanz zu diesem internationalen Forschungsfeld. Auf einen T ... more

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The Dignity of the Gypsies

Christine Turnauer

Karl-Markus Gauß; Siva Prasad; Franz Salm; Georg Sporschill (Contrib.)

Berlin: Hatje Cantz (2017), 273 pp.

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Report on the Situation of Cartoonists Worldwide 2016/2017

Cartooning for Peace (2017), 57 pp.

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Division in the Land of ‘the Unspoken’: Examining Journalistic Practice in Contemporary New Caledonia

Marie M’Balla-Ndi

MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research, volume 33, issue 62 (2017), pp. 52-71

"While the Kanaks’ pro-independence protests against French settlers have been extensively documented in the global media and academic literature, another protest – more subtle and diffused, but deeply embedded – is now taking place in New Caledonia (South Pacific) to decide whether to remain ... more

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Mobile Gaming in Asia: Politics, Culture and Emerging Technologies

Dal Yong Jin (ed.)

Dordrecht: Springer (2017), vi, 247 pp.

"This book analyzes mobile gaming in the Asian context and looks into a hitherto neglected focus of inquiry - a localized mobile landscape, with particular reference to young Asians' engagement with mobile gaming. This edition focuses not only on the remarkable success of local mobile games, but als ... more

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Communication, Social Movements, and Collective Action: Toward a New Research Agenda in Communication for Development and Social Change

Rafael Obregón, Thomas Tufte

Journal of Communication, volume 67, issue 5 (2017), pp. 635-645

"The growing emphasis on collective action raises new questions for research and practice in communication for development and social change. What actors drive processes of collective action? What are the communication features of their interventions? What type of social change processes do they enh ... more

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Constructs of Development from Inside the Development Communication Syllabi

Jonalou S. Labor

International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies, volume 13, issue 2 (2017), pp. 23-44

"Discourses of development in academic institutions must be thoroughly investigated. Using a set of Development Communication (DevCom) syllabi and the theories of Xu Xiaoge (2009) and Arturo Escobar (1995), this paper qualitatively investigated on the nature and process of the constructed discourse ... more